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People tend to hand wave away the massive cost in human lives it's historically taken to replace a regime with a more "enlightened" one.
The decades following the overthrow of Charles I of England, Louis XVI of France, Nicholas II of Russia, or Wilhelm II of Germany were not good ones.
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People tend to hand wave away the massive cost in human lives it's historically taken to replace a regime with a more "enlightened" one.
The decades following the overthrow of Charles I of England, Louis XVI of France, Nicholas II of Russia, or Wilhelm II of Germany were not good ones.