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2021-10-07 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Romanov wedding - will there be a monarchy in Russia?

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Posted by badanov 2021-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 ...On the other hand, why not?

Consider -
*Russia has traditionally had an autocratic form of government, which for whatever reason seems to suit them.
*Vlad knows he can't stay there forever, and he knows perfectly well that he's not the most popular guy in the world.
But royalty of any stripe tends to be well liked. Imagine a nationalist Russia, buoyed up by a new constitutional monarchy (with Putin as the ~~Red~~ Gray Eminence)led by Czar Gyorgi I and buttressed by the Orthodox Church. The people will probably love it, the foreign press will have new royals to play with, and Vlad gets to keep running the place while a young, constitutional, and respectable monarch is out front smiling.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-10-07 06:16|| 2021-10-07 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 European "traditionalists" are planning a restoration of the Russian monarchy?!? The last time I checked they had a tough time organizing a 400 person convention in the Upper Midlands!

Posted by Secret Master 2021-10-07 10:44|| 2021-10-07 10:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia should stick to having an oligarchy like we do.

Posted by Matt 2021-10-07 12:32|| 2021-10-07 12:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Royal families tend to inbreed which eventually leads to madness. I wouldn't go there.

Posted by jpal 2021-10-07 12:41|| 2021-10-07 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 The historical reasons for royal inbreeding are obsolete now.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-10-07 12:44|| 2021-10-07 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 the foreign press will have new royals to play with

Well, that's it then. Let's do it! Get Oprah on the phone!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-10-07 13:38|| 2021-10-07 13:38|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Mike has the shortest line between 2 points. What the Hell, they already have an autocrat. But one way or the other, I lived long enough to see the Soviet Union GONE, and not simply bleeding demised like the parrot but so gone there was a Romanov prince married in a cathedral in St Petersburg.

Posted by Cesare 2021-10-07 15:42|| 2021-10-07 15:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Who gets to play Rasputin?

Posted by KBK 2021-10-07 19:33|| 2021-10-07 19:33|| Front Page Top

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