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With Bolsheviks in Russia and Jacobins in France, revolutions prove to be equally suicidal

Pravda - On July 17 Russia celebrated the 90th anniversary since the murder of the last Russian czar and his family. Three days before that, on July 14, France pompously celebrated Bastille Day as the start of the French Revolution. Almost 150 years passed between these two events, although they do have a lot in common. The Romanovs surprisingly repeated the fate of the Bourbon dynasty, whereas Russia repeated the fate of the French Revolution.

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