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They say it about revolutions, too, as if the Soviets and China were uniquely bad for purging their enemies after their respective civil wars. The US chased all the British supporters out of the country and the ones they could catch were tarred + feathered, drawn + quartered, or hanged. The French decapitated people by the hundreds. Charles I was executed at the end of the English Civil War. The only reason there weren't purges in Japan after the Satsuma Rebellion was because the rebels were all killed down to the last man in battle and the ones who weren't committed seppuku.
China sending the former Emperor to be re-educated was mild in comparison while the Soviets were incredibly restrained when dealing with their royal family.