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19546619 No.19546619 [Reply] [Original]

>completely skips over the execution of the Romanovs
lmao Miéville is such a pussy

>> No.19546624
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19546624

>You can't kill your enemies' children! Why? Because... because you just can't, ok?

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>>19546619
I remember when I used to be a leftist and even leftists seemed to dislike this self titled Marxist.
But anyway, yeah, being a communist and glossing over parts of history you don’t like seem to go hand in hand.

>> No.19546640

>>19546634
>and even leftists seemed to dislike this self titled Marxist.
No one likes Trots.

>> No.19546685

>>19546619
Write your own. Why would that even matter? Does the book focus on other executions? Did you need the blood or do you think he’s trying to sugarcoat it?
Did you even read it? (This has to be asked nowadays)

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>>19546640
This comic book disagrees

>> No.19546801

>>19546685
>Do you think he’s trying to sugarcoat it?
Yes.

>> No.19547918

>>19546801
Incorrect, Mieville is a cringe Trot who ends the book with an epilogue complaining about the "brutality" and "excesses" of the regime

>> No.19548006

>>19546624
Also, they tracked down one of his aunts some years later and literally threw her down a well.

>> No.19548038

>>19548006
What the fuck are you talking about? Olga Alexandrovna and Maria Alexandrovna both died of old age in Canada and Switzerland respectively

>> No.19548774

>write fantasy novel
>get angry that people like it and want you to write more
What the fuck is his problem?

>> No.19548844

>>19548038
I'm talking about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Elisabeth_of_Hesse_and_by_Rhine_(1864%E2%80%931918)

>> No.19548851

>>19548774
>All books should have sequels
What the fuck is your problem?

>> No.19548853

>>19546619
I cannot take seriously a man named 'China'

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>>19546624
So true

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>>19548853
What about a man named China who lifts and also wears an earring?

>> No.19549200

good. their execution wasn’t even a footnote in the civil war

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>>19546619
Is Richard Pipes a good/better place to start?

>> No.19549329

>>19549285
ten days that shook the world

>> No.19549991

>>19549285
No. He’s an idiot and his writing is extremely uncomfy. Rex Wade and/or Sheila Fitzpatrick. And yes, Ten Days is fun.