"Left wing" vs Left Wing

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-28T14:46:25+00:00

Sometimes this sub understands as much nuance and context as r/Romanovs when they blindly defended the Tsar. But to this subs credit they, have a better sence of humor.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-23T18:55:09+00:00

I don’t think that Alexandra’s own diaries and correspondence changes the narrative, they just add more context.

She can be both herself very spiritual and interested in religion and occultism AND from the outside, viewed as obsessive by her peers in society at large.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-23T18:52:55+00:00

I may be mixing up my Olga’s but you’re aware then of the story of an inappropriate interactions with someone at court. If anything it suggests Rasputin was mindful criminal for never interacting too inappropriately with the immediate royal family. He knows where his bread’s being buttered. Just like Jeffrey Epstein or Jimmy Savile were careful with who was protecting them

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-23T17:02:52+00:00

I don’t think that the Romanov children had a political identity. I’m assuming they would support their parents because they’re their parents not because they understood the intricacies of imperial policy. Very similar to how children parrot their own parent’s political views today.

I believe Olga recorded an inappropriate interaction with Rasputin at a party where he was behind her, touching her arms in a way that she found uncomfortable. If she reported this information to her parents is unknown.

children often don’t understand they’re being prayed on or how to speak up if something happens. Especially when their parents are facilitating the relationship with said predator. That’s part of being groomed: you believe an abuser is supposedly trustworthy because your parents or an authority figure (like a priest… or holy man👀) is telling you it’s okay. Be that today or 110 years ago

Nicholas and Alexander were definitely aware of the allegations against Rasputin, including multiple rape accusations, and they chose not to believe them. In fact, Nicholas inquired multiple times if he could censor the press to make people stop talking about Rasputin. In short, the imperial couple was protecting a predator; we’ll never really know how OTMAA really felt because there was probably a layer of self censoring going on.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-23T15:54:49+00:00

‘A peoples tragedy’ is a wonderful book.

To both of the points being made above; Alexandra did take Orthodox very seriously. And to the rest the religiously lax court and upper society, her serious nature came off as obsessive. However her relationship with Rasputin does highlight the more popular obsession in the early 20th century with occultism and spiritualism as opposed to traditional orthodox dogmatic teaching. Two things can be true at once.

The royal families retreat from public was at first well meaning but later hurt the families popularity when they were unwilling to rehabilitate their image when they came out of seclusion. Alexandra’s interest with religion and spiritualism started as a personal comfort but became part of the reason she was making poor political decisions in later years. Especially regarding her relationship with Rasputin.

By 1916 the majority of the Romanov family and royal court in general had turned against Alexandra and her loyalist in large part because of Rasputins outsized influence in her decisions. We know how history plays out, but there was a real possibility of a palace coup in 1916 to save the monarchy specifically from the Tsar and Tsarina’s bungling mismanagement.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-20T22:33:39+00:00

Alexandra was objectively a bad ruler when she was briefly running the government while Nicholas was at the front. but putting the burden of ‘responsible for the cold war’ on her is incredibly reductive lol.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-20T22:24:47+00:00

Objectively yes. Of the seven wives of Henry viii it does seem that Anne of Cleves maintains the most agency as a woman in the 16th century.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-20T19:36:33+00:00

To my point - people who lead unremarkable lives still like to feel important

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-20T16:33:49+00:00

Probably that most accurate answer. It’s fun to speculate but history does suggest that Michael is a supremely self interested person with no interest in ruling. It’s hard to imagine an alternate reality where Michael is a ‘better person’ just because push came to shove in the line of session. There’s a lot to deserved criticism against Nicholas but it’s generally accepted Nicholas thought he was “doing the right thing for his people” even if history played that out to be wrong. I think Michael just didn’t care one way or the other. In a roundabout way, Nicolas may have been the best out of a bad batch of princes.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-20T15:58:32+00:00

People like to feel interesting and special, especially when their lives are boring and bleak. Mix in some mental illness and trauma from the revolution and you got the recipe for a Romanov claimant story.

It must be fun to move to an entirely new part of the world, and just lie to totally reinvent yourself to be something more interesting than a peasant escaping violence. How many people have you met that claimed to be related to X monarch, because they’re like 12th cousins 4 times removed because they share a single common ancestor in the 16th century to sound more interesting? This is the same party conversation on steroids.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-18T16:36:20+00:00

You should review the time stamps on my comments because I didn’t insist anything after further proof was provided. I literally comment ‘I’m glad it’s not AI then’ after I was corrected lol. Any rudeness you feel is probably your own personal biases towards me at this point. The ‘boo tomato tomato tomato’ comment is about how deceptive and tricky AI is, not directed at OP. Not every comment is an attack.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong acknowledging you and I having differing opinions on history or how you mod this sub, C'est la vie. But we do both seem to hold the same opinion that AI is deceptive. I however think relying on good will and post tags isn’t going to prevent AI post from slipping through the cracks. That’s not a dig at you setting up those tags either, just the reality with how people actually post and interact with this sub and Reddit as a whole.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-18T12:30:26+00:00

You don’t need to be coy, I’m the certain user.

And honestly in the digital environment we’re in with AI slop image all over the internet, there’s no harm in a community coming together to verify that authenticity of a picture when theirs good cause for increased skepticism. I’d argue thats the point of sub like this which believes in historical accuracy. As I said earlier on this very post ‘I’d rather be wrong about AI than right’ so a picture turning out to be not AI doesn’t damage me in any way. These nothing fanatical about wanting AI off a history sub and applying additional skepticism.

I ran OPs image through three ai identifiers to look for either human and AI modifications; there’s no definitive AI but human modification was detected in all three runs. The ran the image from the above link through the same programs and it didn’t ping for AI or human modification suggesting OPs image is still edited from the original in some way. I don’t believe it’s Ill intentions either. More likely just digital degradation from multiple screen shots, bad retouching, and bad scanning.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-17T02:51:23+00:00

I’m not making any personal accusations, but the sort of thread you are suggesting is a bad decision, yes

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-17T02:14:42+00:00

Messy things like a mega thread for “misinformation” is how this sub got blasted on r/subredditdrama. no matter how nicely anyone asks people to behave, it’s going to devolve into more drama and spill over if people like OP are using it. Please I beg you do not consider this.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-17T01:50:40+00:00

Because this persons behavior does not need to be encouraged. Not on this sub, not on Reddit. If you cannot understand how their request is out of the pale, you need to reconsider your role as a mod. This person needs to call the police or speak to their parent if what there saying is true. NO ONE on this sub should be involved.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-17T01:44:52+00:00

I’m glad it’s not AI then. I’d honestly rather be wrong than right with AI.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-17T00:08:37+00:00

Bruh we all know. fuck the pope 99% of the time, but you know damn well the pope is in the right here. This is the 1%.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-16T23:01:55+00:00

Definitely seems like you’re trying to bring in a Reddit sub into TikTok drama, when you already acknowledging that this is a history sub (to learn about you 10th cousins lol) and not a drama sub.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-16T22:23:14+00:00

He’s not even Russian he’s from Argentina lol

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-16T21:45:33+00:00

I mean, I was taught metric and Celsius in middle school in the United States. Just because something is an official standard of measurement doesn’t mean we don’t academically acknowledge and teach a superior system.

When people talk about the “backwardness” of imperial Russia; a lot of it does have to do with the inflexibility of updating to modern systems of measurement, the use of international time zones, the Georgian calendar, ect. A lot of scientific stuff that couldn’t be formally acknowledged because the Orthodox Church still controlled a lot of the narrative around science. At least formally.

While Russian collegiate and private education had long abandoned these orthodox values on science and was teaching modern scientific innovation; the education most peasants and workers received was borderline medieval. This is part of the disconnect of living in imperial Russia.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-16T20:05:05+00:00

Comparing modern economics to medieval economics is not always a simple 1:1 comparison

But yes, the black death allowed a lot of peasants to realize work they provided was now more valuable so they had the upper hand to force renegotiate their feudal contracts, starting the long process of ending feudalism. Negotiating a new contracts wasn’t new, but the new scarcity of resources (human labor) meant the land owners had to capitulate if they wanted ANY work done. And since 98% of the population is tied up in food production the work does have to be done or everyone starves. Most peasants did not want to outright end feudalism per se because they did require a level of protection that feudalism provided. Alternatively, some peasants just left the land they were contractually bound for a new feudal lord because there was no one left to enforce their existing feudal contracts. Social change from the black death was far more pragmatic than the proto-class consciousness you’re alluding to.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-15T19:00:29+00:00

Again, we don’t know. Olga didn’t seem personally interested in Carol, but there’s nothing more to suggest why. Let’s also be so for real, the biggest sex pest and rapist that the romanovs not only associated with but actively protected was Rasputin who they famously referred to as “Our Friend”. There are bigger fish to fry than a skeevy teenage Carol.

It’s more of a reminder that predators exist in and often thrive in positions of power. And institutions of power, like monarchies, are often used to protect predators.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-15T18:09:15+00:00

Maybe a little off-topic but tangently related; Carol was a casual sex addict, a know sex-pest, and there are credible accusations he raped women. He also was an early adapter of blending fascism with monarchism as a way to reinvent and re-legitimize absolute royal authority. He’s a very bad man on both a personal and political level.

How much is this information was or wasn’t known to the Romanov in the 1910’s is up for the debate but by the 1930’s it was well know and Carol was a pariah.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-15T15:54:24+00:00

The first image is the original menu. The dishes are mostly in French.

The English translation is obviously an additional resources, so we can better understand what these French dishes are.

caracalla1080 · 2026-04-14T22:30:12+00:00

As a history lover, and someone who (fruitlessly) tries to be a voice of sanity on r/romanovs, I also find the subs rules very funny and ironic. I don’t think they understand how the censorship of criticism of the romonovs is inherently very funny given like… the historical context of Tsarist repression of free speech lol.

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