I think it's a reference to "getting the wall" aka summary execution aka one of the great crimes against humanity perpetrated by revolutionaries in the past that is cause for understandable distrust among leftist non-communists especially, anarchists like myself, whose philosophical comrades were among the murdered.

OP, please don't go there. We're better than that and don't have to repeat the tragedies of the past.

EDIT: To try to reduce the friendly fire, I did not recognize that this image was from the Romanovs.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

You think it was bad that the tzar got Merced? While it's sad that his children got killed, it was also politically expedient. We've seen time and time again that allowing the royal line to continue is just begging for counter-revolution or the occurrence of a government-in-exile. The tzar and his family benefitted from a system (which they maintained themselves) that killed children daily. The royal family encouraged pogroms.
While the murder of the inheritors of the Romanov line is regrettable, it is in no way some "great crime".

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Only two of them were actually children too (13 and 17)

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