[ SECRET POST #2897 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2897 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Simply for good PR. I mean, the provisional government after the Revolution was a democratic republic. As my mother puts it, if Russia had just stopped there it would have saved the whole country from a century of awful. The Royals, particularly the girls, were world-renowned. I'm in the midst of a book that compares them to Princess Diana. Widely photographed, admired, romanticized. To do something as heinous as to shoot these children or rip them away from their notoriously loving parents would have been a huge blow to the new country's image. Mercy was what they could have shown and been respected for it.

Unfortunately the Bolsheviks came in and their view was more in line with getting the world to respect them by being as ruthless as possible.

[(Anonymous)]

That is a very modern view to take.

[(Anonymous)]

Strictly speaking, 100 years isn't that long ago. I mean, I find it difficult to look at the Romanov photos because they just seem so real and human, making faces for the camera half the time. When they died the world had photographs and telegraphs, suffragettes, corporations, airplanes, etc. A lot of stuff that we'd consider pretty modern.

[(Anonymous)]

Recognizable technology /=modern attitudes or social conventions.

[(Anonymous)]

Modern attitudes and social conventions didn't spring out of thin air without a lot of ground work laid in the generations that came before. It may not have been universally accepted or even widely known, but they were there.