Eh. The Tsar Nicholas was pretty hated by the time of his abdication. Had a white warlord rescued him, they wouldn't have restored him, rather just used him to help themselves be Tsar.
Likewise there were not shortage of noble whites to make Tsar with the family gone, had the Bolsheviks been less successful.
I'm team better scenario would have been trial and execution for Nicholas. Rehabilitation for the rest (under close scrutiny in Siberia).
From memory it is debated how much Moscow knew and at what point they gave their permission. The whole Civil War was a mess and the fog of war was dense.
Yeah I've worrying that.
Thanks I wasn't sure if would but then I was thinking about everything going on globally and the off chance the reactionaries tried to ban it here and remembered fuck I was born in a different country.
Mirthlessly laughing because I realised tonight I can't change the gender markers on my birth certificate even though my state in Australia would let me because I was born in a foreign country I don't even have citizenship to, my parents were just working there.
Best I can do is like an update of details certificate.
I've been thinking about RuPaul's Drag race recently and basically 2 points that might be connected or coincidence.
Firstly you never fucking hear Cishets talking about it anymore. Like a few years back it was a thing they would always bring up when someone was gay or trans (unfortunately). Despite it being on it's 17th season and having like 20 something international spin-offs. Like that's not necessarily a bad thing, except...
Secondly the show has done a real 180 on how shitty and transphobic it was. RuPaul still sucks for fracking and other reasons (but he's only on like 3 of the shows, and no one watches to see him phone it in each week), but he's basically recanted most of the transphobic shit he said. Each season has multiple trans women or non binary performers, even one trans man has competed. The top finalists of later seasons are frequently trans, several trans women/femmes have won the show (mainline and spin-offs).
The most recent show had enormous representation in Lexi Love who was/is a complete train wreck (but still a top 4 finalist). Drag Race Canada this most recent season had Jaylene Tyme a two-Spirit First Nations and Métis Indigenous trans woman, who was a sixties scoop survivor (Canadian stolen generation equivalent).
It's lib/idealist AF but this quote from Vulture is still pretty true.
But something else that is true is that there is no other program on TV, period, on which a convicted felon can come and be celebrated for his love of his gay, drag-queen son. I also can’t remember the last time I saw a transphobic mother work so hard to overcome her biases and reconnect with the daughter she threw out of the house. Even Sam Star’s mother, a deeply southern woman who has a fearsome dedication to her child, is a revolutionary figure right now. The world is terrible, corporations around the country are dropping queer people left and right, but Drag Race still exists. It’s nice.
And guess circling back around to my first point, the show got better about trans people, and then it sort of dropped off the public's radar.
These guys suck and are being hypocrites to save money.
Interestingly the catholic stance on abortion is relatively new from the 19th century. Prior to that abortion was considered the better alternative to infanticide.
The 90s cartoon which is quite good, issues mentioned elsewhere aside, renewed a lot of interest in Tintin.
So I think Tintin in the Congo was released in English more for collectors, it's still often absent from collected editions or the back cover of single books.
Like Destination Moon, Explorers on the Moon, The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Sharks, Tintin in Tibet and the Castafiore Emerald are all back to back. That's such a good run all in a ten year period.
yes
I mean the best situation is if you can do a Puyi like the Chinese, if only so fuckers aren't complaining a century later.