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I don't like killing kids, or anyone for that matter. It's not the kids fault. I'm not crazy about killing Nick 2 and Alexandra either. It's sad when death is unavoidable. I'm not a socialist because I want to kill, I'm a socialist because I want people to be liberated.

But that's my ideals. The Russian revolutionary movement was NFA. Read Chernychevsky! A viable movement dedicated to killing tsars had been working tirelessly for 70+ years, and Alexander 2 got got. Guess who didn't get an assassin's bullet? 13 year old Nick 2, Alexander's grandson. And what was Nick 2's rule like? It was absolute and total terror. He and Alexandra were objectively monstrous and maniacal, deranged, sadistic and spiteful. They sent enemies of the state to the front lines of ww1, a war they were losing on purpose, in order to terrify and eliminate all opposition. Lenin's bro was murdered by the tsar, countless peasants, women, children had their lives destroyed in every which way. Bloody Sunday in 1905 taught the Russian masses everything they needed to know about their monarchy.

I don't want to say the whole royal family needed to die. But historical circumstances have allowed me to keep my hands clean, which wasnt the condition of the Russian masses, especially the soldiers. When Jack Reed entered the Winter Palace, described in his book Ten Days that Shook the World, Russian soldiers almost killed him! But despite the tense conditions, all in all, the Oct 1917 revolution was practically bloodless, an absolute miracle considering everything that had to happen to make it possible. But just because it was nearly abloodless doesn't mean the soldiers didnt have a hair trigger from decades of hellish world war. The revolution ended the most vast, devastating, and bloody war that had happened up to that point, inspiring and instructing generations of revolutionaries all over the world to engage in political struggle rather than adventurism.

I don't like it, but I understand it in those circumstances. Royal bloodlines are an objective historical condition that had to be eliminated. That doesn't mean killing children, but to the soldiers that did the deed, that was a risk that couldn't be taken. The Bolsheviks were the only faction who could have seized power in October, because they were the only faction not falling all over themselves to give Kornilov a mandate for martial law and mass murder in order to restore the monarchy. The Bolsheviks barely made it out of the civil war, and if they had not, and one of those kids ascended to the tsar, then all those soldiers sent to the front lines to die, all their ancestors, families and communities who starved and suffered under the monarchy, would have suffered and died for nothing.

It's easy (and politically expedient) to denounce killing kids, and doing so inevitably makes enemies horrified by the brutality of it. Millions of children end up dead for being on the wrong side of power, and that is sad and understandably repulsive. The Russian revolution is punctuated by unavoidable tragedy. Perhaps the murder of the royal family was an omen portending the unavoidable and senseless disasters that would befall many Russians in the coming years, the battle for Kronstadt a particularly chilling example. Those soldiers were heroes of the revolution, the children were a liability. One hates to weigh any life against another, and arbitrary value judgements are antithetical to Marxism.

But weighed against decades of mass suffering, driven by the depravity and idiocy of the royal family, the most authentic response I can muster is a reluctant shrug. If Nick 2 and Alexandra wanted to preserve their children's lives, then they shouldn't have been such fucking monsters.