• Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    She’s part of the exact same fascist soup. But there is a very big tendency to assume innocence on the part of spouses, including on the left.

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        8 months ago

        The difference is that people were blaming Alexandra before they were blaming Nicholas. The whole “Bad boyars good tsar” attitude meant that she absorbed a lot of the flack for bad decisions made by the royal household. Also she was German during a time of a war against Germany.

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            8 months ago

            The actual Russian Romanovs died out with Anna Ivanova, but I feel like after 200 years (Now 300) you’re no longer an immigrant. Although the people who support(ed) the Romanovs would likely disagree.