To: Leaning Right
According to the historian Paul Kennedy, Tsar Nicholas II was a Potemkin village in person. But it is still shameful that he was not allowed to leave Russia after his abdication. Even the Kaiser was allowed to live out his life in exile.
To: Verginius Rufus; C19fan
His wife was an anti-social, neurotic who relied heavily on the fraudulent starets Rasputin. I do think that if not for her influence Nicholas II would have been more sociable, handled things better, but also less likely to make choices that he couldn't foresee the consequences of. As a ruler, his isolation was fatal to his reign.
6 posted on
05/05/2015 6:47:21 AM PDT by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: Verginius Rufus
Difference between what happened in Germany vs what happened in Russia. In Russia the Communist took over. In Germany, the navy mutinied, the infrastructure collapsed, but, the core of civilization remained.
That, and the Russian tradition of killing off Tzars that were unpopular, that’s the reason.
10 posted on
05/05/2015 9:27:20 AM PDT by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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