It was a civil war and the Tsarist forces killed thousands of women and children. Focusing on these is a beautiful example of “propaganda is about where you’re looking, not what you’re seeing”
To be clear, killing children sucks and it’s not surprising that these ones are focused on because they’re children that have well documented names and faces and time&place&method of death.
But war is messy and always involves doing some shit that sucks. It is arguable that killing the children was the least bad option (compared to letting them live and risking the chance that they serve as a figurehead to rally around and ultimately either extend the war or, at worst, cause the reinstitution of the monarchy) but even if we decide that such risk was minimal and they should’ve been spared, then it’s just one shitty thing compared to millions of similarly shitty things by their opposition.
It doesn’t hurt to acknowledge that sometimes people fuck up and sometimes shit happens in war that isn’t justifiable, even with otherwise good people.
and it’s not surprising that these ones are focused on because they’re children that have well documented names and faces and time&place&method of death.
And/or because the Red Army killed them, while the thousands and more that died at the hands of the Tsardom are forgotten, like how people use Laika as a symbol of Soviet cruelty while ignoring the countless animals killed in the US space program.
Not to mention that the nobility spent the preceding millennia and a half offing each other in the most horrific ways possible, including children (the princes in the tower, for example). So libs pearl-clutching over the Romanovs while ignoring all that history is telling.
It was a civil war and the Tsarist forces killed thousands of women and children. Focusing on these is a beautiful example of “propaganda is about where you’re looking, not what you’re seeing”
To be clear, killing children sucks and it’s not surprising that these ones are focused on because they’re children that have well documented names and faces and time&place&method of death.
But war is messy and always involves doing some shit that sucks. It is arguable that killing the children was the least bad option (compared to letting them live and risking the chance that they serve as a figurehead to rally around and ultimately either extend the war or, at worst, cause the reinstitution of the monarchy) but even if we decide that such risk was minimal and they should’ve been spared, then it’s just one shitty thing compared to millions of similarly shitty things by their opposition.
It doesn’t hurt to acknowledge that sometimes people fuck up and sometimes shit happens in war that isn’t justifiable, even with otherwise good people.
And/or because the Red Army killed them, while the thousands and more that died at the hands of the Tsardom are forgotten, like how people use Laika as a symbol of Soviet cruelty while ignoring the countless animals killed in the US space program.
Not to mention that the nobility spent the preceding millennia and a half offing each other in the most horrific ways possible, including children (the princes in the tower, for example). So libs pearl-clutching over the Romanovs while ignoring all that history is telling.