dzheremi
Coptic Orthodox non-Egyptian
- Aug 27, 2014
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Yesterday I watched "Grandpa was an Emperor", a very interesting recent documentary following the great-granddaughter of Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia before a communist takeover ended that country's ancient monarchy in the early 1970s. The granddaughter herself was not terribly interesting (she mostly repeats "I wasn't aware of all that had gone on when my grandpa was deposed" in various ways, which makes sense, since she was 11 years old at the time and had been sent away to boarding school in England once it became obvious that the communists were going to take out as much of her family as they could get ahold of), but the brief historical sketch others provide of life in the early days of the Derg regime headed by Mengistu Hailemariam was pretty interesting, if horrific. Anyone who thinks that communism is a good thing or would be good if it were tried again or whatever should familiarize themselves with how things went down in Ethiopia. The monarchy's time may have come, but that doesn't mean that what replaced it was really better just because it was technically less autocratic (sort of).
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, especially the battle scenes (which of course was most of the movies). Did the books nonstop though once upon a time.
