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When did I claim it was?

This you, buddy?

I would say that the Romanov are the party who are largely responsible for the deaths during the revolution. Some kind of revolution was going to happen in Russia, and just reducing all the blame on Lenin ignores the context of the actual fractious nature of the revolution.

I think that’s a reductionist view of the times.

"It's reductionist to view the party which kicked off the civil war by couping the democratically elected government as kicking off the civil war 😭😭😭😭😭"

Does boot leather really taste that good?

They didn’t majic their way into power….. They had an awful lot of miserable people with generations of anger behind them. Why did those people support the Bolsheviks?

Did you not fucking read the comment you're replying to?

By vague platitudes and the promise of power to the Soviets; a promise they immediately reneged on?

I don’t really think we’re getting anywhere, especially when you are busy tilting at strawman arguments. I never said I supported the Bolsheviks revolution against the provincial government, just that I understand how it could happen, and that the environment created by generations of Romanov rule is largely to blame.

lmao. You know that your comments are still up and readable, right?

Your argument quite literally started with "You can't really blame the Bolsheviks for the civil war, and besides, the government they rebelled against was no saint!", and when it was pointed out that the Bolsheviks were to blame for the civil war in the most literal, direct sense of causing a civil war, and that the government they actually rebelled against was the provisional government that actually rebelled against the Romanovs, you balk and try to backtrack.

Fuck off, tankie.