• chlooooooooooooo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 years ago

    no lol, she deserved what she got just like every unrepentant royal does

    the closest to sympathy i get for royals is feeling bad that the romanov children had to be executed, but that was a matter of pragmatism rather than justice

    • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      3 years ago

      Yeah maybe the Romanov children could have just kept alive like that dude from China son of the Emperor.

      • chlooooooooooooo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        3 years ago

        perhaps, but it was an ongoing civil war where leaving one of them alive could have led to them being captured by the Whites which would have been a huge boon and rallying point for the disunited White movement. with Puyi it was different because the right KMT were republicans too and would have probably executed Puyi, especially since he had been a collaborator of the highest order with the Japanese. if he’d been captured by the enemy then it wouldn’t have been potentially disastrous for the CPC in the way that capture of a Romanov by the Whites would have been for the Bolsheviks

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        3 years ago

        Henry Puyi was one of the weakest leaders of the 20th century. He had no will of his own and went whichever way the wind blew. He was such a loser he couldn’t even get a girlfriend. They took him to a girls’ high school where he picked one of the girls to be empress. He ended up not only serving the Japanese, but ended up sweeping the streets (the lowest possible occupation) after China’s revolution. He didn’t even have the sense to escape to a comfortable retirement like any tyrant.

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          3 years ago

          The little I’ve read about him suggests that he genuinely repented and was quite happy to live the life of an ordinary citizens.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      3 years ago

      The last emperor of China lived out a decade as a civilian under Chinese Communist rule. It is very possible that the Romanov children could have enjoyed the same fate. Either way, it isn’t as though the western powers were shy about funneling money and weapons to the White Army during the 1920s or the German Nationalists during the 1930s or various anti-Communist European factions indefinitely.

      Hell, Americans were chomping at the bit to embrace a legion of Anastasia imposters well into the 1990s when FOX Animation Studio decided to climb aboard the revisionist train and plant its own knife in the back of the USSR.

      Killing the Romanov kids did exactly dick-all to help the Soviet movement.