so all the people that have fled North Korea and have recounted their own stories are just full of BS? I find that hard to believe. https://t.co/WbNsuSjPK0— Becca Theadore M.A. (@bexrexdoesit) March 9, 2022
okay so how do you defend your boys and Stalin? I'm curious because as a historian it's very hard to praise them
A small excerpt from Robespierre on 3rd of December 1792 in the National Convention:
Citizens,
The Assembly has ben led, without realizing it, far from the real question. There is no trial to be held here. Louis is not a defendant. You are not judges. You are not, you cannot be anything but statesmen and representatives of the nation. You have no sentence to pronounce for or against a man, but a measure of public salvation to implement, an act of national providence to perform. A dethroned king, in the Republic, is good for only two uses: either to trouble the peace of the state and threaten liberty, or to affirm both of these at the same time. Now I maintain that the character of your deliberation so far runs directly counter to that goal. In fact, what is the decision that sound policy prescires to consolidate the nascent Republic? It is to engrave contempt for royalty deeply on peoples’ hearts and dumbfound all the kings supporters. [...]
Louis was king, and the Republic is founded: the famous question you are considering is settled by those words alone. Louis was dethroned by his crimes; Louis denounced the French people as rebellious; to chastise it he called on the arms of his fellow tyrants; victory and the people decided that he was the rebellious one: therefore Louis cannot be judged; either he is already condemned or the Republic is not acquitted. Proposing to put Louis on trial, in whatever way that could be done, would be to regress towards royal and constitutional despotism; it is a counter-revolutionary idea, for it means putting the revolution itself in contention. In fact, if Louis can still be put on trial, then he can be acquitted; he may be innocent; what am I saying! He is presumed to be innocent until he has been tried. But if Louis is acquitted, if Louis can be presumed innocent, what becomes of the revolution? [...]
We have been so long stooped under its yokes that we have some difficulty in raising ourselves to the eternal principles of reason; anything that refers to the sacred source of all law seems to us to take on an illegal character, and the very order of nature seems to us a disorder. [...]
When a nation has been forced to resort to the right of insurrection, it returns to the state of nature in relation to the tyrant.
How can the tyrant invoke the social pact? He has annihilated it.
In "Robespierre Virtue and Terror", Verso Book, 2007
“There were two ‘Reigns of Terror,’ if we would but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other 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 guillotine, 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.”
– Mark Twain, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE IMPERIAL FAMILY?
This argument lends well to the execution of Nicky but not of the girls.
There’s always
Weighing the cumulative crimes of regimes and revolutions in hindsight is hardly justification for any individual atrocity.
Shouldn’t have made their line of succession hereditary
They didn't.
Whoops looks like you’re right
:lets-fucking-go:
Damn that slaps
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