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These people soaked the rich.
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First they soaked them, then they imprisoned them, then they killed them and their entire families.
Once -that- was accomplished, they set about destroying religious freedom in the Vendee, converting all churches into State-run propaganda organs, destroying hostile press, and "liquidating" those deemed "enemies of the people" by a bunch of Terrorists (seriously; they -invented- the word and used it to describe -themselves-) led by a sociopathic lawyer from Arras with a fondness for small boys and the world's worst choice in friends.
Then, when all this was accomplished, what did they get in return for fifteen years of bloodshed, repression, and
Terreur?
Napoleon, twice.
Holding up the
Enragees and the Committee for Public Safety as an example of anything other than the prototype for every tyrannical left-statist government since is a grave error, IMO. And that's not even getting into the morality of "soaking" anyone, rich or poor.