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Khodynka Tragedy

• ImaCake 7y ago
  A bit of a submission statement: I've been thinking about this in relation to the political fallout from the Australian bushfires. A lot of people are blaming the current prime minister for the fires that have devestated Australia to an extent we have never seen before. I don't think the prime minister is to blame, but much like the last Tsar of Russia he has played a truly terrible PR campaign which has allowed people to pin the blame on him.
  • ChrisMarshallNY 7y ago
    That kind of attitude had rather tough consequences for the Russian royals, a couple of decades later. Thanks for sharing this. I had not heard of it.
  • deepsun 7y ago
    I think it's ok to blame leaders for such things. That will make them foresee and prevent those from happening, knowing they will be blamed.
• Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago
  In 1907, famous Russian poet Balmont wrote prophetic lines about the tzar [0] (roughly translated by me): "Who started reign with Khodynka, Will end up stepping on the block" [0]: https://ru.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%88_%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C_(%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82)/1907_(%D0%A1%D0%9E) https://ru.m.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%88_%D1%86%D...