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Stargazer99

(3,426 posts) Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:09 AM 15 hrs ago

In the 1700,s the French had a solution to the wealthy, it might get to that point

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In the 1700,s the French had a solution to the wealthy, it might get to that point (Original Post) Stargazer99 15 hrs ago OP

The vast majority of people executed in the French Revolution were poor and middle class. WhiskeyGrinder 15 hrs ago #1

The so-called Reign of Terror in France was an example of revolutionary terrorism, Ocelot II 15 hrs ago #2

Revolutions ._. 15 hrs ago #3

silly, glaringly misinformed and unhistorical, with an added dash of just plain 'offensive' stopdiggin 14 hrs ago #4

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,217 posts)

1. The vast majority of people executed in the French Revolution were poor and middle class.

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Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:16 AM

15 hrs ago

Ocelot II

(128,922 posts)

2. The so-called Reign of Terror in France was an example of revolutionary terrorism,

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:27 AM

15 hrs ago

"the institutionalized application of force to counter-revolutionaries," like the Cultural Revolution in China and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. The French Revolution was a lot messier than the American one. Not all of those revolutionaries were good guys.