I wonder if she cries the same tears for the hundreds of people killed during his coronation (he sure as hell didn’t), the thousands he had murdered and exiled during his reign, or the over a million Russians who were slaughtered in The Great Imperialist War which he took personal command of?
What am I saying, of course she doesn’t give a singular shit about the untold millions who suffered and died under him and his family. Those were just peasants, peons, plebs, and below her (and the tsar’s) notice. At best they are numbers and statistics to her. This is why I come down on the side of being fine. It’s a fraction of the atrocities commited so these fucking ghouls can live in the lap of luxury. How anyone can sympathize with these monsters is beyond me, especially if they’re claiming to have studied them for a decade
Oh that’s why I said she claimed to have studied lol, at best it sounds like she stared at a picture of her great-grandparents estate that was appropriated by the Bolsheviks while playing Anastasia on repeat in the background
THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves
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I wonder if she cries the same tears for the hundreds of people killed during his coronation (he sure as hell didn’t), the thousands he had murdered and exiled during his reign, or the over a million Russians who were slaughtered in The Great Imperialist War which he took personal command of?
What am I saying, of course she doesn’t give a singular shit about the untold millions who suffered and died under him and his family. Those were just peasants, peons, plebs, and below her (and the tsar’s) notice. At best they are numbers and statistics to her. This is why I come down on the side of
being fine. It’s a fraction of the atrocities commited so these fucking ghouls can live in the lap of luxury. How anyone can sympathize with these monsters is beyond me, especially if they’re claiming to have studied them for a decade
More likely fawned over the romantic myth of benevolent disney princesses for a decade
Oh that’s why I said she claimed to have studied lol, at best it sounds like she stared at a picture of her great-grandparents estate that was appropriated by the Bolsheviks while playing Anastasia on repeat in the background
Exactly.
Finished This Book a week ago, this is the first book of twain’s that i’ve read, pleasantly surprised ngl.