["leftist" tumblr user who makes guillotine jokes at Jeff Bezos and has "eat the rich" in their bio voice]: It was so heartless what the communists did to the romanovs, ruthless and senseless political violence is never okay
#it is so hard being a history nerd when I don't give a shit about those fucking kids#first of all the only actual kid was alexei. the others were already adults#second of all idk man I care so much more about the millions of children born into slavery under romanov rule#shall I remind everyone that a romanov made slavery legal? that it took over 200 years to be abolished?#and that abolition didn't mean jack shit because the freed slaves had no money or land and often had to stay with their masters?#and that the romanovs following alexander 2 actively made it hard for working class children to get an education and move up in the world??#I know I just sat a russian history exam two months ago so all this is fresh on my mind but ffs come on#why does it feel like I'm the only one who knows this stuff?? the only one who cares???#Anastasia did irreversible damage to the western perception of the romanovs and no one is willing to reexamine their world view#and I loved that movie as a kid and still listen to the soundtrack. but good god#I almost wish it had never been made because of the consequences of it#I mean come on. it explicitly showed that revolutionaries storming the winter palace were AIDED BY DEMONS UNLOCKING THE GATE#'oh since the revolution our lives have been so gray' DO YOU REALLY THINK THE AVERAGE PERSON'S LIFE WAS BLOODY AMAZING UNDER THE MONARCHY#ugh… y'all went so far with your red scare bullshit that you turned into monarchist bootlickers#I once saw someone say that the only russians western leftists will ever care about is those damn romanov kids#and I stand by that bc it's true#you go so far with your hatred of communism and russian people that you sooner feel sympathy for a monarch than the common people#also the last romanovs weren't even russian. they were german and english and french and whatever else#so it's not even russian people that westerners would care about#on that note. if the bolsheviks are so damn evil. why did all the european monarchs related to the romanovs refuse to help them?#they were alive for a good year after the 1917 revolution. plenty of time to get them to England or wherever else#but no yeah it's the communists that are evil#I just woke up so idk maybe this is all incomprehensible. but there's nothing quite like long political rants first thing in the morning#but I will say that I live maybe 5-ish kilometres away from where the ipatiev house once stood and it's the only thing my city's known for#on that note WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A CHURCH THERE NOW. WHY THE FUCK ARE THE ROMANOVS SAINTS#THEY DID NOTHING TO DESERVE FUCKING SAINTHOOD EXCEPT DIE. SHOULD WE MAKE EVERY PERSON WHO'S EVER EXISTED A SAINT JUST BECAUSE THEY DIED#that pisses me off to no end. but I'm gonna stop ranting now before I get a headache#I haven't even eaten breakfast yet lmao#maybe that's why I'm extra pissy. aside from the fact I'm 100% right#as always 😁
