Was the Reign of Terror really as bad as contemporary histories

Hitler, Stain, and Mao make it look like child's play.

Robespierre imposed press censorship and instituted laws that enabled him to send thousands to their deaths without trial.

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including himself

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Well, it yielded some interesting results, that's for sure.

The French revolution is the year zero for a unique type of terroristic ideological project which has, in the intervening two centuries, seen bodies piled high.

That project is the creation of the new man, and the utopian society. It is a common seam that unites all the nutjobs>>1476518

This project has provided moral license to it's adherents in a way that no previous religious belief has provided, and so the carnage wrought under it's various incarnations is correspondingly unprecedented.

Look at some of the scarey posts on here; even now you have people justifying the extinguishing of a population because they didn't hold the right ideas.