Status Updates From The Romanov Rescue

"He planted those seeds of thought in their minds with all the right intentions. But a thought-seed's success depends on the type of soil in which it is planted.

It was then that I learned...that the tyranny of the many is no different than the tyranny of the few. It is the same tyranny that these men supposedly detested."

"Before, I had status but no responsibility, no power. Now, I feel as if responsibility---for things I've not done, did not know of, had no say in---hangs above me like the blade of a guillotine. I still don't have power and now I don't even have status. Except maybe that of a pawn, and everyone knows what happens to those... We've been on display our whole lives, but that was different. If we had any illusions, gone

" 'The Russian soldier is docile, quiet, and unassuming; he is also innately brave. It's not him, not the Russian soldier; it's the Bolsheviks who have ruined him, at least for the nonce.'

Perhaps he eats enough for four, but he thinks enough for four thousand. He's a bargain.

Let the rest *be* Poles, allies if at all possible, but happy to be themselves and not *ersatz* pseudo, and deeply unhappy Germans."