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Stargazer99

(3,426 posts) Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:09 AM 5 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 5 hrs ago OP

The vast majority of people executed in the French Revolution were poor and middle class. WhiskeyGrinder 5 hrs ago #1

The so-called Reign of Terror in France was an example of revolutionary terrorism, Ocelot II 5 hrs ago #2

Revolutions ._. 5 hrs ago #3

silly, glaringly misinformed and unhistorical, with an added dash of just plain 'offensive' stopdiggin 5 hrs ago #4

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,216 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

5 hrs ago

Ocelot II

(128,918 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

5 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.