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Edit: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
We now have literal “Soviets were godless barbarians” arguments. The revolution is never perfect enough, is it? Wish there was a time machine to send people back to moralize about doing what needs to be done and Christian moral goodness to the leaders of a nascent revolution being ruthlessly attacked on all sides. I’m going to reserve my tears for the thousands of dead Jews and millions of starving and dying peasants.
Maybe we can have a struggle session over dead teenage Nazis from WWII next time.
- I don't like this. While it was probably necesarry to kill the royal family to avoid a counter-revolution or a government-in-exile, that does not mean we should make death, murder or the fear of those about to be murdered into something to laugh at.
  Yes the Tzar was a murderous bastard encouraging pogroms and generally just a guy who got off easy, this photo doesn't really convey that to me. It seems like it's just laughing at something awful that happened to a family. Did the family deserve it? Yes. That doesn't mean we should make the act into something funny. Violence is necessary, but it shouldn't be glorified.
  I don't think it's a black & white thing, but this image crosses my line anyway. Feels wrong.
  
  I also don't like it, mostly because i fuckin hate wojak and every one of these images is incredibly ugly.
  
  While it was probably necesarry to kill the royal family to avoid a counter-revolution
  Gestures broadly at the Russian Civil War that happened anyway.
  Here's a rule for those of you at home, don't machine gun kids.
  
  Ah it's about that... Yeah death for me will always be a last resort. Because if it's glorified then we will be no better. We use death as a last ditch to resolve Contradictions.
- The Russian Civil War ended when the Bolsheviks depicted the Whites as the cringe wojak and themselves as the Chad wojak.
- At first I wasn't going to upvote but I have to give props for kicking off a struggle session over the Romanovs
  
  Tune in next week for the Hexbear pity parade for veterans
  
  Would you look at the time?

People always go on about Soviet art and Soviet architecture but one aspect of Soviet innovation that gets constantly overlooked is Soviet interior design, with Yakov Yurovsky being the progenitor of what I'd call Soviet deconstructivist interior design.
Truly Yurovsky is an unsung pioneer of this interior design movement.

While we're doing Ipatiev House memes, here's this one:
(It's much funnier if you know what King George V looks like)

- Did not know we had this emote lmao

You tankies want to give us real leftists bad drywall? No wonder communism has never worked

i dont get it
- It's the wall in the basement where the Romanovs were shot. ::: spoiler spoiler The pun being basically transphobes get the wall :::
  
  ah i havent seen this picture before
- I think it's a reference to "getting the wall" aka summary execution aka one of the great crimes against humanity perpetrated by revolutionaries in the past that is cause for understandable distrust among leftist non-communists especially, anarchists like myself, whose philosophical comrades were among the murdered.
  OP, please don't go there. We're better than that and don't have to repeat the tragedies of the past.
  EDIT: To try to reduce the friendly fire, I did not recognize that this image was from the Romanovs.
  
  You think it was bad that the tzar got Merced? While it's sad that his children got killed, it was also politically expedient. We've seen time and time again that allowing the royal line to continue is just begging for counter-revolution or the occurrence of a government-in-exile. The tzar and his family benefitted from a system (which they maintained themselves) that killed children daily. The royal family encouraged pogroms.
  While the murder of the inheritors of the Romanov line is regrettable, it is in no way some "great crime".
  
  I think the quote from Mark Twain about the two reigns of terror fits in this context as well.
  “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.”
  How many trans people have suffered unnecessarily due to transphobes, how many have died? How many cultures have been destroyed because Europeans came in and enforced a gender binary where there wasn't one before? We don't keep track of every single trans person murdered, we don't keep track of the misery of starvation and poverty of trans folks, we don't keep track of every time a trans person is looked past for employment. If we take the protection of minorities seriously we need to look at these instances and act accordingly and make sure they can't do any more harm. And before you say reeducation, how many of these people have been educated but decided to ignore it because it's a conspiracy of groomers, or they just don't care about the scientific evidence and will just continue to hate it because it's against their religion. What do we do with these people that refuse to change?
  
  Go fuck yourself, seriously, get the fuck out of here
  one of the great crimes against humanity
  Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?
  Fuck off you liberal scumbag
  
  An anarchist having sympathy for one of the bloodiest regimes of the 19th and early 20th century makes absolutely no sense
  Is this a bit?
  
  When our turn comes etc etc