Comments by "SymphonyBrahms" (@SymphonyBrahms) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. Thank goodness they don't refer to Sophie as a commoner, like so many documentaries do. She was not a commoner. She was the daughter of a count, so she was a countess. But despite being royal, she wasn't royal enough for the Austrian court. In order to marry an Austrian heir to the throne, you had to be descended from a king or an emperor. Since she was not, she was looked down upon by the Emperor Franz Joseph. The old snob treated her very badly.
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  2.  @IvanIvanov-gu6mw  Kerensky wasn't Jewish. And Stalin wasn't Slavic. Also, Stalin was a monster and a murderer.
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  3. Nicholas was not a grandchild of Queen Victoria. His wife was her granddaughter.
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  4. The Austrians declared war on Serbia. Russia declared war on Austria. Germany declared war on Russia. England and France declared war on Germany and Austria. And the world blew up.
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  5.  @bosman5803  Trotsky said that Lenin knew and approved of the executions. Trotsky asked, "The children too?", and Lenin replied that all of the Romanovs needed to be eliminated.
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  6. He called his brother King George VI "The Toy Soldier" and he called Queen Elizabeth II "Shirley Temple".
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  7. Nicholas didn't order the guards to shoot the demonstrators. He was not even there when it happened. And he was horrified when he found out about it.
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  8.  @caligulalonghbottom2629  After Edward abdicated the throne and wasn't king anymore. he was made an officer in the British army and sent to France. He worked in a division there that housed secret documents. He leaked some of those documents to the Nazis and they used them to fight against the British. Read a book about his involvement with the Nazis after he abdicated.
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  9. I believe it. The nurse testified that she wasn't there. And the daughter wasn't there.
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  10. Thank goodness they don't refer to Sophie as a commoner, like so many documentaries do. She was not a commoner. She was the daughter of a count, so she was a countess. But despite being royal, she wasn't royal enough for the Austrian court. In order to marry an Austrian heir to the throne, you had to be descended from a king or an emperor. Since she was not, she was looked down upon by the Emperor Franz Joseph. The old snob treated her very badly.
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  11. How gruesome.
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  12. A lot of people that he murdered would have been glad.
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  13. He was in exile in Switzerland, not Poland.
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  14. There is speculation that he and Noel Coward had been lovers.
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  15. The Romanov family was such a tragic story.
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  16.  @chickkye7009  Including the innocent children? Shame on you.
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  17. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were not founding fathers. They were traitors to the U.S.A.
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  18. There is absolutely no proof of that.
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  19. The war was popular in Russia at first. But by 1916 the Russian losses were so great that it actually backfired on Tsar Nicholas. The millions of Russians lost in the war was one of the reasons for the first Russian Revolution.
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  20. The Emperor Franz Joseph was much happier with Karl as his successor than he was with Franz Ferdinand.
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  21. Conspiracy theories are nonsense.
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  22. The Russian men were lining up to volunteer. Until millions of them were slaughtered. That's one reason that the government fell. Because the tsar wouldn't withdraw from the war.
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  23. None of that is true.
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  24. Rasputin was never Alexandra's lover. That was a rumor started by the aristocrats who didn't like her.
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  25. How gruesome.
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  26. Rudolf was all that they had in common. After Rudolf killed himself, Sisi drifted away and travelled most of the time. I believe that she was assassinated while on a trip to Switzerland.
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  27. What the heck are rambling on about?
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  28. Serbia agreed to all of the conditions of the ultimatum. And Austria invaded them anyway.
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  29. The Austrian constitution forbids any Hapsburg from ever again ruling the country. Austria is a democratic country with a president and a parliament.
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  30. They grew up, got married, and had children. Their descendants are still living. But they would never be emperors, since Austria now has a constitution which forbids royal rulers. It is now a republic with an elected president. Emperor Karl, from 1916 to 1918, was the last emperor of Austria.
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  31. It was a coincidence with a terrible aftermath. World War I.
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  32. Had the Axis powers won WW2, a lot of people would have been executed and democracy would have been crushed. That "alternate" history book is so full of crap that it's eyeballs are brown.
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  33. And then he met Mary Vetsera and it all came crashing down.
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  34. The Romanovs were reluctantly supporting parliamentary government through the formation of the Duma. They were led to it kicking and screaming because of the events of 1905 which weakened the image of the tsar with the people of Russia.
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  35. Too bad that Rudolf killed himself, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, and Karl was deposed.
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  36. They don't really look alike.
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  37. Franz Joseph was Franz Ferdinand's uncle, not his father. Franz Joseph's only son, Prince Rudolf, killed himself in 1889.
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  38. If Queen Victoria knew the trouble that her grandsons would start, she would have paddled all three of their butts.
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  39. It's all just bastard Communism.
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  40. Except that Sisi got to be the queen, and Diana never did.
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  41. She was the worst prime minister that the U.K. ever had. And the old cow was in office for 11 interminable years.
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  42.  @miriamhavard7621  You don't know that.
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  43.  @deprogramm  Orange man very bad!
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  44. They actually didn't allow divorced people to marry, but they allowed annulments. Henry VIII didn't get a divorce. He got an annulment. The Catholic Church also allows annulments.
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  45.  @Ugly_German_Truths  Elizabeth is a great queen. She is the opposite of Edward the Unready.
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  46. He tried to stop the war and make peace, but he was unsuccessful. He has descendants living.
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  47. How is life in The Twilight Zone, buddy?
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  48. The sad thing is that Serbia agreed to the demands. But Austria invaded them anyway.
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  49. The Crown is heavily fictionalized.
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  50.  @jessikaalejandro8603  Yes, she is.
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