Opinion of the execution of the Romanovs

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The executions of Nicholas and Alexandra were lean FEs (I mean, not really, since they're still executions, but within that context); the executions of their children and several of their servants--somehow that part gets left out of most of the more tendentious narratives surrounding the event, of all ideological stripes--were massive HEs. The idea that children deserve to be killed because of who their parents are, and servants because of who their employers are, comes from a profoundly, terribly atavistic thought process, even if one does try to rationalize it on leftist grounds.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's worth noting that even the people who actually killed the Romanovs weren't as uncritically thrilled about it as TNF and, apparently, oakvale seem to be...