• Square Singer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    The issue is that power and money corrupt.

    The man in power won’t be giving it up voluntarily. So you join the revolution, and follow a charismatic leader into a civil war. You win and in the end you find out, you have been backing Napoleon and now he’s the one chopping off heads.

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      1 year ago

      Napoleon wasnt all that bad of a choice to back though. His decisions did a lot of lasting good.

      Having backed Robespierre though must have made a lot of people feel really silly about themselves.

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        1 year ago

        Napoléon certainly got a lot more people killed than Robespierre.

        He was a military genius but the battle he fought still had a lot of blood from French and other. Millions of dead for nothing but some little man glory.

        Only 30 000 died because of the terror