Russia Struggles to Mourn the Romanovs 100 Years On

Moscow Times ^ | Jul 2018 | Ala Creciun Graff

[PGR88]

How do you “struggle” to mourn something?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Pretty sad what happened to them. They weren't evil people, and there was no need to execute them.

I think of the miracle of our American Revolution, and its lack of vindictiveness and bloody political retribution. That's truly unique in the history of revolutionary change.

The crop of evil left wing Americans we have now, had they the opportunity, would make Robespierre, Lenin, and Pol Pot look like kindergarten teachers.
 

[Red Badger]

[tbw2]

I give Russia points for welcoming up to 15,000 Boer/Afrikanner farmers that the West has mostly ignored.

[Mears]

It certainly was a good looking family.

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[fireman15]

My wife does not actually like to talk about it, but she is closely related to the Romanovs and was named after Queen Alexandria. She has a rare bone disorder that was common in royalty related to all of the interbreeding. Her condition was the subject of a paper which was the doctoral thesis of a physical therapist that she once went to.

[dfwgator]

not presented as conflicting forces in a battle in which one order defeated another. Rather, tsars, Bolsheviks and later communists, are seen as a succession of “greats.”

You know, the Russians get it right.

We here in the West are obsessed with trying to put past history into a modern context, and it doesn't work. We just end up destroying our culture in the process. The Russians aren't making that mistake.

[Red Badger]

Not only were they executed, but their bodies were dismembered and scattered.

Their maids and other servants were executed in the basement as well.

Those who survived the first round of volleys were systematically executed with a bullet to the head...............

[Rebelbase]

“I think of the miracle of our American Revolution, and its lack of vindictiveness and bloody political retribution”

Disagree. Read up on partisan warfare in NC/SC.

[Mears]

I read Massie’s books when they were 1st published——time for some re-reading.

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[dfwgator]

The Doctor was offered the chance to survive if he chose to join the Bolsheviks, but he refused.

[Red Badger]

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a8072/russian-tsar-execution/

[Snickering Hound]

[Biggirl]

What is keeping the American left at bay is that many Americans are ARMED.

[SpaceBar]

How do you “struggle” to mourn something?

A peculiar word choice by the author which suggests apathy or indifference, but the USSR made even thinking such things illegal, and effectively scrubbed their 'history' for 70 years. Much damage was done to the Russian collective memory and we see the result in an AIDS, drug and crime infested country. I doubt they long for the good old days of being tossed into lubyanka prison never to be heard from again.

[SkyDancer]

Czarina 1895

[Guenevere]

The young Romanov son was a hemophiliac, I understand.

[Buckeye McFrog]

We here in the West are obsessed with trying to put past history into a modern context, and it doesn't work. We just end up destroying our culture in the process.

Exhibit A: The Stephen Foster Memorial Statue here in his hometown of Pittsburgh being torn-down because the imagery in his songs was "racist".

Foster lived from 1826 to 1864. I dare say NOBODY alive at that time held what we would consider racially enlightened attitudes in 2018.

[elcid1970]

“I give Russia points for welcoming up to 15,000 Boer/Afrikaner farmers...”

Wow! Didn’t know that! Why aren’t we doing the same? All we get are more Muslim savages.

Russians are surely welcoming Afrikaners as their fellow whites, given their huge Muslim problem in Chechnya & Central Asia.

But there’s nothing inconsistent about Russians admiring both Tsars & Red dictators. Both were authoritarian forms of rule, which Russians seem to prefer to democracy.