And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Tsar Nicolas II and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna. They look quite displeased.
Flip that. He was not ruthless enough. If he'd unleashed the secret police half as bad as Lenin he'd been safe. His biggest mistake was taking control of the army personally. He became responsible for their failures.
Time-traveller also told him Schlieffen Plan wouldn't work. Time-traveller told him "X E cute Lenin, don't deport him". No one listens to time-traveller.
POV: no one believes the time-traveler when you tell them they're in danger.
ReplyDeleteProof that absolute power doesn't guarantee happiness.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if he'd treated people nicer.
Flip that. He was not ruthless enough.
DeleteIf he'd unleashed the secret police half as bad as Lenin he'd been safe.
His biggest mistake was taking control of the army personally. He became responsible for their failures.
Dumb bastard got his whole family killed because of his ego.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't his ego, it was the Bolsheviks.
DeleteCould have been avoided if he had just listen to
Deletehis cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm.
The Kaiser told him in 1912 what was coming.
Time-traveller also told him Schlieffen Plan wouldn't work. Time-traveller told him "X E cute Lenin, don't deport him". No one listens to time-traveller.
DeleteFAFO
DeleteProbably lost the tennis game.
ReplyDeleteNot the saddest part of their lives