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The Romanovs being murder was entirely justified, it was not done out of nowhere, it was in response to a civil war threatening to reinstate tsarism. Once people see that the "god-given rulers" can be slaughtered with a musket, they stop looking so "god-given".
A lot of Kulak deaths took place not through direct violence, but through the dangers of deportation, as hundreds of thousands of them were deported to "new" lands in the east. Then again, life expectancy at the time was 30 years of age, so I guess starvation and disease were absolutely not exclusive to kulaks.
Justified? Certainly.
Practical? Only given the specific conditions in front of the the guards.
The best outcome? Not necessarily. The Puyi method is far more effective in the achievement of communism, in the long term.
Plenty of kulak deaths were through direct violence, but justified nonetheless. Plenty of them hoarded or even burned their own harvests to spite their new and, to them, unwelcome system. The system responded proportionally.
The Puyi method could be applied because not even the Kuomintang wanted the dynastic emperor back, that's the difference. China had rid itself of dynastical emperors decades before the triumph of communism, that's why they could afford to do the Puyi method.
What is the Puyi method?
Puyi was the last emperor of China. When Japan invaded China he sold out, and approved whatever orders they put in front of him. After the war he was captured, forced to see the damage he had done and talk to the relatives of the people he had executed, etc. He apologised and was given a new job as a gardener. He was clumsy (since he was used to other people doing everything for him) but tried to learn gardening. He met and married an 'ordinary' woman - a nurse, if I remember correctly. Many years later he confessed that he was happier as a gardener than he had been as the emperor.
Emperor Puyi wasn't executed, he was stripped of all titles and property and integrated into the proles
Rehabilitation. Puyi was the last emperor of China
Pretty much this. When the CPC took over they reeducated Puyi, the last Emperor of China. They informed him of the things that had been done under his reign, some of which he wasn't even aware of, most of which he was completely detached from. In the end I believe he was a gardener and custodian, which ended up being oddly liberating for him.
It's not talked about much, partially because of the number of people who suffer significantly more on the other end of it, but it can be argued that privilege is inherently abusive. It gives people a highly distorted view of the world, such that when it inevitably crumbles people under its influence can find themselves unable to function properly. Puyi had servants all his life and even literally wiping his ass, so when he was brought to reality he had difficulty adjusting and performing even basic functions.