Just reposting this excellent point from lemmygrad

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[–] 53 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

Edit: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

We now have literal “Soviets were godless barbarians” arguments. The revolution is never perfect enough, is it? Wish there was a time machine to send people back to moralize about doing what needs to be done and Christian moral goodness to the leaders of a nascent revolution being ruthlessly attacked on all sides. I’m going to reserve my tears for the thousands of dead Jews and millions of starving and dying peasants.

Maybe we can have a struggle session over dead teenage Nazis from WWII next time.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (72 children)

    I don't like this. While it was probably necesarry to kill the royal family to avoid a counter-revolution or a government-in-exile, that does not mean we should make death, murder or the fear of those about to be murdered into something to laugh at.
    Yes the Tzar was a murderous bastard encouraging pogroms and generally just a guy who got off easy, this photo doesn't really convey that to me. It seems like it's just laughing at something awful that happened to a family. Did the family deserve it? Yes. That doesn't mean we should make the act into something funny. Violence is necessary, but it shouldn't be glorified.
    I don't think it's a black & white thing, but this image crosses my line anyway. Feels wrong.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    At first I wasn't going to upvote but I have to give props for kicking off a struggle session over the Romanovs lenin-laugh

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    [–] 36 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    People always go on about Soviet art and Soviet architecture but one aspect of Soviet innovation that gets constantly overlooked is Soviet interior design, with Yakov Yurovsky being the progenitor of what I'd call Soviet deconstructivist interior design.

    Truly Yurovsky is an unsung pioneer of this interior design movement.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago

    While we're doing Ipatiev House memes, here's this one:

    (It's much funnier if you know what King George V looks like)

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    You tankies want to give us real leftists bad drywall? No wonder communism has never worked

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