[PGR88]

How do you “struggle” to mourn something?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Pretty sad what happened to them. They weren't evil people, and there was no need to execute them.

I think of the miracle of our American Revolution, and its lack of vindictiveness and bloody political retribution. That's truly unique in the history of revolutionary change.

The crop of evil left wing Americans we have now, had they the opportunity, would make Robespierre, Lenin, and Pol Pot look like kindergarten teachers.
 

[Red Badger]

[tbw2]

I give Russia points for welcoming up to 15,000 Boer/Afrikanner farmers that the West has mostly ignored.

[fireman15]

My wife does not actually like to talk about it, but she is closely related to the Romanovs and was named after Queen Alexandria. She has a rare bone disorder that was common in royalty related to all of the interbreeding. Her condition was the subject of a paper which was the doctoral thesis of a physical therapist that she once went to.

[dfwgator]

not presented as conflicting forces in a battle in which one order defeated another. Rather, tsars, Bolsheviks and later communists, are seen as a succession of “greats.”

You know, the Russians get it right.

We here in the West are obsessed with trying to put past history into a modern context, and it doesn't work. We just end up destroying our culture in the process. The Russians aren't making that mistake.

[Snickering Hound]

[SkyDancer]

Czarina 1895

[gattaca]

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[dfwgator]

As tragic as it was, you can’t deny from the Bolshevik-perspective, executing the Royal Family was a smart move. It took a lot of wind out of the sails of the Whites, who wanted to restore the Monarchy. It wasn’t personal, it was business.

[I want the USA back]

Murdered, not executed.

[GOP Poet]

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