[ WP ] The hero was killed , the princess was sacrificed , and the evil king rules the land . For the average citizen , though , things have taken a turn for the better .

They taught us in school that it had all been for the better, and really it had. I was n't old enough to have been there in the thick of it. I was n't there when the royals were overthrown in the dead of winter and *he* took over. Maybe *he* is too ominous, but his name throughout the lands are spoken nearly only in whispers now, on the streets. 
 
 Then again, so are those of the royal family. All of them are merely whispered about. There are loyalists, there are people who support the new regime. It's been decades - almost a century since the thick of it. 
 
 But our country is better. The King is evil, yes. *King, * again, might be an overstatement of a word. A man who took the throne from another, who in turn had taken the throne from another. A game of thrones without the royal aspect, a leader who ruled the country. 
 
 At first everything had been much worse. Our currency went to crap. My mom tells me stories about the days when she would wake up at dawn and take me and my brother to the line at the market so we could have enough for everyone to eat. My mother tells me sometimes there was n't enough when we reached the end of the line, and we would go hungry. My brother was five, and I was three. I do n't really remember, but my brother speaks of it sometimes after he's had too much to drink. 
 
 Compared to other countries maybe we're still not as good. But we have n't been here long. The *King*, despite his flaws - despite the hatred of the world - helped our economy. Helped classism. Helped the every day citizen. We still have a long way to go with human rights and poverty and living conditions. 
 
 But in general, the death of the Romanovs was not a tragedy. 
 
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