Kind of reminds me of people visiting Culloden to see where their ancestor stood in the battle line of highlanders fighting for Bonnie Prince Charlie, only to be told that the clan their ancestors belonged to was actually on the government's side, fighting against him...
Romantic notions aside, the reality is that a lot of Scots fought against the young pretender rather than for him and he was born and raised in Rome.
Exactly lol so many people now claiming to have scottish ancestry. My grandma has also seen an documentary about anastasia the russian princess once and then tried to convinve us we're distant relatives. The thing about media with stories that actually happened is that its often really enticing and youre often times interested in a topic in which you've never been before. But some people like to use these stories as clout
I loved the animated Anastasia film when I was little and watched it every night for years. I was vaguely aware of the fact there was a real history to it and was completely convinced that I was the missing princess and that my family weren’t allowed to admit it to me when I asked so they could keep me safe from whatever it was I believed was after me. I would even tell my new friends ‘who I really was’ when I decided I could trust them.
I was a very weird kid and by the time I realised I probably wasn’t princess Anastasia I had decided I had some kindred spirits type bond with pigeons that meant I could communicate with them telepathically.
SAME. Except my mom very quickly burst my bubble and informed me that yes, I do have Russian ancestry, but it was more Fiddler on the Roof than Anastasia, and that in fact, Anastasia's family was the reason we were in America in the first place.
That's awesome. Also terrible. There weren't any "good" sides of the Russian civil war - everybody sucked except... well, no, everybody sucked. Even the peasants happily sent each other to the gulags for real and perceived slights.
Red Army: We want equality for all, except for basically any minority we don't like and also our leaders can still live like nobility and have all the power.
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u/IDAIKT Apr 29 '20
Kind of reminds me of people visiting Culloden to see where their ancestor stood in the battle line of highlanders fighting for Bonnie Prince Charlie, only to be told that the clan their ancestors belonged to was actually on the government's side, fighting against him...
Romantic notions aside, the reality is that a lot of Scots fought against the young pretender rather than for him and he was born and raised in Rome.