Thanks wikipedia! (But seriously though wtf is up with this article)

  • cum_drinker69 [any]
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    4 years ago

    Nicholas was reviled by Soviet historians and state propaganda as a callous tyrant who persecuted his own people and sent countless soldiers to their deaths in pointless conflicts. More recent assessments Revisionist monarchist bootlickers have characterized him as a well-intentioned, hardworking ruler who nonetheless proved unable to handle the challenges facing his nation.

  • scraeming [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Isn't even the gentlest honest evaluation of Nicolas II that he had basically zero interest in ruling effectively and let the police run roughshod over the citizens, because he was more obsessed with his family than being a good leader?

    • Padacuw [any]
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      4 years ago

      Well, thats the Nicolas II I was taught in school at least.

    • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There is actually a kernel of truth in that, but it just shows how monstrous Jefferson was: he was opposed to the continued importation of slaves because he bred them. "I consider the labor of a breeding woman as no object, and that a child raised every two years is of more profit than the crop of the best laboring man."

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Check out the Wikipedia entry for the Ukrainian famine. So obviously an op, it basically takes the side of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi "historians" rather than the broad global consensus among academic historians.

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Mike Duncan said he was the worst aspects of every failed ruler on his show combined into one person

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ah the Russo Japanese War... the Russians were losing badly and the Tsar had the greatest idea ever!

    Send the bulk of the Baltic Fleet to the Pacific to aid what's left of the Russian Pacific Fleet, break through the Japanese defenses and resume the war. They assembled the fleet and the sailors were literally peasants who never saw the sea in their entire lives, morale was low and the Anarchists were a constant problem on the ships, on their way they almost went to war with the UK because they shot up a number of British fishing boats. The new squadron was utterly massacred by the Japanese in what is known as the Battle of Tsushima after traveling around the world FOR MONTHS. The Tsar is the main responsible here, he personally ordered the fleet to assemble and sail for Vladivostok, he did it out of literally personal pride, he couldn't just "lose against the Japanese"...

    He deserved every shot he took in 1918.

    • Janked [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I edited Parenti's wikipedia entry because someone had written that he discussed the "downfall" of Communism, when the term he uses is the "overthrow" of Communism.

      Could have been an honest mistake, but... :curious-marx:

    • Padacuw [any]
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      4 years ago

      Oh really? I suppose if you refuse to share power with anyone you would have to do a fair share of busywork yourself.

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Well intentioned", sure. Vague enough that it's hard to argue with that. Hardworking? Absolutely not. Disinterested at best, complete goober at worst.

  • cilantrofellow [any]
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    4 years ago

    I mean... if you had a child with a debilitating illness, wouldn't you do everything in your power to immiserate the peasantry?