I’ll start, I missed the outdoor cats struggle session so i don’t know what its deal was except a vague idea that outdoor cats were bad, so I’ve let my two cats stay being outdoor cats because I feel bad locking them inside, like I want to give them some experience of freedom to go where they please so they can live more fulfilling lives

Edit: also kruschev is imo a lot better than most hexbear users give him credit for

  • SimulatedLiberalism [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    This was only possible because by the time the Chinese communists took power, there hasn’t been an emperor in China for 37 years. That means if you were born in the year of the Chinese revolution in 1911, by the time the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949, you would already be 38 years old probably with teenage kids of your own already. You and your kids have practically lived your entire lives without an emperor.

    If you think about how the Russian revolution happened, the situation was far more precarious because there was an immediate connection to the memory of living under the Tsar, and there were forces that would want to restore the imperial rule. In this case, would it be possible to rehabilitate the Romanov family?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, in the case of the Romanov family, other countries were foaming at the mouth for an excuse to invade the USSR. Restoring the old royal family was one of the justifications.

      It’s hard to restore a royal family if the entirety of them are dead.