Imagine how much global suffering could have been spared if tsar Nicholas II managed Russia competently and no communist revolution took place due to a discontent people. What a massive butterfly effect of suffering his shitty rule caused, one of humankind’s greatest tragedies.
>>16879291>if tsar Nicholas II managed Russia competentlyA king never rules alone, even absolute monarchs have advisors. And Nicky's advisors were generally very incompetent. Much destruction could have been avoided had he been instructed to seek compromise with the Japanese, for instance.The only good minister (Stolypin) was assassinated before he could do much, by some stupid revolutionary who didn't realise he was helping destroy the country, not saving itAlso, picrel should have accepted the crown while making it clear that he would have been a super-constitutional monarch, instead of rejecting it and plunging Russia into a legitimacy crisis. With just that one move, he hurt the country just as much as Nicky's cabinet had in years
>>16879291first he would not have had to push for war with the germans over serbia
>>16880341>by some stupid revolutionary who didn't realise he was helping destroy the country, not saving itRevolutionaries generally believe you have to destroy the country and rebuild from the rubble. Destroying rather than saving is the entire point.
Things were going just fine after the year stepped down until Lenin and his psychos showed up
I think Russia should have become part of the Austro-Hungarian and German Empires and a ceasefire should have been called rather than the Armistice in the favor of the Allies being signed
>>16880348>first he would not have had to push for war with the germans over serbiaHe was a cousin with British king, after all. And they both wanted Germany destroyed as they thought that Britain can't honestly beat any continental high achieving countries - such as Germany or Russia.So they decided to destroy both.
>>16880424Russia was a massive and last independent empire that was left standing . Before all those Habsburgs, Merovingians, Karolingians, "Romanovs", "Windsors" or whatever other names that they hide behind in every new country that they occupy decided to destroy it.
>>16879291i aint going to bat for ol nick but being a russian sucked before, during and after his reign and nothing would have changed that.
>>16879291>communist revolution took place due to a discontent people.*due to german funding and exiled powerless commie leaders they sent back into russia.FTFY.
>>16881938And jewish funding from usa
>>16879291Stolypin was the only chance
>>16880341>A king never rules alone, even absolute monarchs have advisors. And Nicky's advisors were generally very incompetentNo. Nicky is responsible. Nicky HAD competent advisors and he kept firing them. He fired Witte, and he drove Stolypin to suicidality by constantly overruling all his ideas and reverting his changes, and Kokovtsov was undermined at every turn.
>ITT coping reactionaries
>>16880341>A king never rules alone, even absolute monarchs have advisors. And Nicky's advisors were generally very incompetent.Maybe because Nicky thought it's god's will for him to hold all power, and ministers or councils holding power is a sun and demonic. He opposed them even as they were working hard to prop him up.
>>16881198????
>>16879291~1900 monarchs let other people do all the country-running. Absentee Emperors let world war 1 and communism happen
>>16880341Did the transitions lack of legitimacy actually matter though?
>>16884058Nicholas' problem was if anything that he wasn't absent enough
>>16881938The socialist Mensheviks were still extremely popular if there was no Lenin. Russians generally disliked the czar and viewed him as a cuck puppet retarding the countries progress.
>>16885532The SRs were the most popular party by a pretty significant margin. The Mensheviks had some popularity but they were a secondary party to the SRs before February and by October they had been totally eclipsed by the Bolsheviks.Agrarian socialism was the most popular ideology at the time in Russia, and that's just fact.
>>16885517Wei wu Wei / conscious NEETism vindicated once more
>>16879291>Imagine how much global suffering could have been spared if tsar Nicholas II managed Russia competently and no communist revolution took place due to a discontent people.Most likely not much, sadly. Best case scenario the Cold War happens anyway and America violently and murderously conquers the world and maintains colonialism. Worst case scenario Germany wins ww2 and all of humanity is wiped out in a nuclear holocaust.
>>16879291blame the Germans for sending Lenin to Russia
>>16881191Yeah, and he was also cousins with the Kaiser. WW1 was a slapfight between Queen Victoria's grandchildren.>>16882191There wasn't any at all until after the Russian Civil War was heading to its conclusion. America was very much against the USSR and so were the capitalists.
>>16879291He a good boy, dindu nuffin. It's boyars who were bad.
