Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-1293767-20131027034506/@comment-5106672-20140119010335

Mewiet wrote: WillowRed wrote: But PLEASE Anastasia was a real person, and not a myth. And she died not even a hundred years ago She was a real person, but her secret survival was a myth. Yep, but the whole Romanovs affair is still a somewhat sensitive topic in the former USSR countries, with older people of regarding them as a living (dead) symbol of the nobles' oppression on the poor (my mom was kinda annoyed that I listen to a band called The Romanovs until she found out they play amazing music), anti-sovietic people seeing them as martyrs of the regime, the ortodox church turning them into saints for that reason aaaaand so on. Really, it's politics, better not to dig into that stuff. It would be like digging out Marie Antoinette and turning her into a fairytale character, except the whole ordeal has happened not even a century ago. Just unnecessary controversy, imo.