I believe there's a TL in the ASB section called "Red Tide" where the SI enacts policies instead of transplanting tech.
I think that there is ASB TL where writer is isoted to Nicholas' mind.
I believe there's a TL in the ASB section called "Red Tide" where the SI enacts policies instead of transplanting tech.
I guess I'm rather hostile to Nicholas and Alexandra, but their sheer, appalling incompetence brought so much destruction to the world. And it is a case like "if only the Germans would have come as liberators to the USSR in 1941" - as if they would have, they would not have been led by genocidal maniacs in the first place. Nicholas II couldn'ẗ have managed a post office in Archangel, so how could he have managed (as the autocrat) a huge semi-medieval, multinational empire during an unprecedented world war?
edit: a blog post of mine about this particular historical grievance:
http://stockholmslender.blogspot.fi/2013/06/long-live-february-revolution.html
To be fair, it's not like Nicholas II and Alexandra inherited a well-oiled machine and ran it into the ground. They were placed in charge of a massively dysfunctional empire - a mess that was inherited all the way from Peter "the Great" and had been festering and further complicating itself for centuries. Even a genius ruler would have been hard pressed trying to fix that. And while there's no denying their total incompetence, I don't remember anything to suggest they were personally "cruel" and "hateful"?