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Real Communism
Tsar Nicholas II and his family.
Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the massacre of the Tsar and his family. A sad day, but as Lenin once said: you can’t make an omelette without shooting terrified little girls, then stabbing them repeatedly before shooting them again in the head, to make sure. For the sake of The People.
We’re always told that the Soviet Union wasn’t really Communism, that it was corrupted by Stalin. Communism is a pure thing, idealistic, with only the best interests of everyone at heart. Well, the murder of the Royal Family seems to have occurred before the “corruption” set in, and I doubt you’d find Communists more pure of heart than the Ural Regional Soviet of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Government.
But we can’t disparage Communism, lest the wonderful idea of the enlightened collective –– gently directed, at first, until the wisdom of the people achieves its own consciousness — cease to be a shining goal. So here’s quartz.com‘s description of the event:
Russia’s last tsar, his wife, and their five children were murdered amid the tumult of the Bolshevik revolution 100 years ago today (July 17).
Amid the tumult.
One of those things that just … happened in the chaos of the times. When you have a lot of tumult, well, stuff happens. Somehow.
It would be inconvenient to note that Communism is born in killing, thrives in killing, exceeds at killing, and depends on killing. But that wasn’t real Communism! Really? In 1919, newborn and pure, not even that was Communism?
By all means, make the argument: tell me that a system of human and economic relations cooked up by some hairy unemployed guy with goat-strength BO scribbling in the public library got it right, and everyone who saw in his words the means to power got it wrong.
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Thanks! My point was mostly about the “amid the tumult” phrasing, as a way of demonstrating the hesitance some have when they confront what the Communists did.
Having nine decades of murder and even worse oppression. There is a kind of nobility in trying but failing to do the right thing. Not even trying is the worse crime.
While he was in power could his murder have been justified, sure. After he stepped down and brought in a transitional Government, which he did not seek to undermine, there was no justification for his death. It was straight up murder a criminal and evil act.
Crystal clear no.
Communism under Stalin was nationalists the Internationalist character of it was a front designed to aid Russian interests alone. Stalin’s Russia was more complete form of National Socialism at home if what you mean by Socialism is that the government is in full control of the economy. Fascists tended to preserve some capitalism and have vast but still somewhat curtailed social control, but only compared to Stalin’s Russia.
Yea, that was kinda the point.
As they say about the dead lawyers, “Well, it’s a good start.”
Though it is interesting to note that God doesn’t seem to be a collectivist.
Huh. He actually did know where the bodies were buried.
I’m not sure which “he” you mean, but according to Robert K. Massie’s book, The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, it was not a simple matter to find the remains, and when they were found, to verify that they were really the Romanovs.
Not to mention a sickly adolescent boy who would’ve died of hemophilia…
Like any other secret, this one was probably difficult to keep. To kill an entire family and their servants it would probably have to be done at one time. If 10 people were required to eliminate them in one night that would mean, not counting those who gave they order a hundred people would know within a very short period of time of their execution. That 100 people would in turn tell a 100 more, and so on. Even with purges there would be a certain amount of people that knew the order was given, and carried out. Knowing the exact location of the burial might have been more difficult.
If each of the ten that carried out the order told one person, then 20 would know, then 40, then 60, and so on.