Posted on 04/19/2015 5:17:33 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Which describes the current version of Russia (Putingrad), China, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil or a dozen other former communist countries.
And America is starting to look more like this every year.
Heard this on Judge Jeannie last evening, she even resembles Lois Lerner...these are crimes against the people aren't they? ..... I also believe 'drug folks have become part of this government'. Sic 'em O'Reilly
Republicans, who were elected to stop Obama, are complicit in his destruction of the nation.
There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats anymore.
Excellent points.
Greenfield knows his progressive 'professor' types...
This is a great one.... be sure to come back to it.
Brilliant.
Daniel is a genius. He does a fantastic job of explaining things.
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I agree...I would not want to have been in his Jewell-encrusted shoes.
And he died for his faith, which is a lot more than a lot of us will be called to do.
As Maine Mariner pointed out above, Russia was modernizing with some success in the late 19th century. However, the Czar was in many ways frozen in time. For example, one book I read said that Nicholas’s teachers were not allowed to ask him questions to see how he understood what he was taught. That would have encroached on his royal dignity.
I would describe Nicholas II as dutiful, devout, kind, and courageous. However, he would have needed to be a very different person - original, creative, decisive, open to all possibilities - in order to have a chance of succeeding during World War I and later.
I think as more things are uncovered, History will be kinder to Nicolas.
The information that has emerged since the fall of the Soviet Union has improved the reputation of the Romanovs, I think.
Fun fact: Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov, a first cousin of Czar Nicholas’s, was a long-time boyfriend of the designer Coco Chanel. He was one of the noblemen who murdered Grigory Rasputin.
I am fascinated by that era of history...have you read “Nicholas and Alexandra”? It has a lot of his and “Sunny’s” personal correspondence and is quite insightful.
I’m looking in my library catalog to see if I can find the books I read over the last several years.
One was “The Last Tsar,” by Edvard Radzinsky.
Another was “Alix and Nicky : the passion of the last tsar and tsarina” by Virginia Rounding.
They really loved each other, and their children as well.
My mother had “Nicholas and Alexandra” sitting around the living room when I was a young girl: I remember dusting it! I have no idea if she ever read it; it could have been a gift. She prefers fiction to histories, in general.
They were a very loving couple and devoted parents, although she was quite a flake in a lot of ways. Still, they both - and all their children - showed the right stuff when things fell apart. The stories of Nicholas cutting wood and making repairs with Alexei, when they were in custody, are very touching.
Yes. And they were believers up to the very end. The Russian Orthodox Church has recently canonized them because of this. If staring down the barrel of a gun couldn’t get them to recant, then I have no doubt that they were, indeed, saints.
They’d have been murdered anyway. Their only chance of survival was to have left Russia before they were arrested. I don’t think they would have, even if they had known what would happen. Nicholas had a religious conception of himself as the father of the Russian people.
I am sure they would have been murdered anyway. No doubt.
But still, people will say anything when they are staring death in the face.
Good point. I’m sure you’ve seen the famous, possibly apocryphal, anecdote about a church service in (fill in country undergoing turmoil). Armed men from (militia or revolutionary group X) burst into the church and announce, “We’re going to shoot everyone who’s a Christian. Counting to ten ... one, two ...”.
Many of the congregants hastily leave the church, but some remain. Then the gunmen lay down their weapons, approach the remnant of the congregation, and say, “We’re Christians, too. We don’t trust anyone to worship with us unless they’re ready to die for Christ.”
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