How the fuck did Puyi avoid the Death Penalty for his ww2 war crimes?
>Be Puyi
>Emperor of China from age 12 to 18
>Got Ousted from his throne by Maoist commies at age 18.
>Teamed up with Japan during WW2 and became Emperor of China (Manchuria) again.
>Ordered his Chinese army to kill chinese people.
>Lose WW2
>Worked as a Janitor, street cleaner, gardener, librarian, and teacher in Communist China after WW2 ended instead of getting executed for his war crimes.
>wtf?.how did Puyi escape from the death penalty? Did the Maoist communists learn from the Russian Revolution that killing monarchs and the royal family is counterproductive?

>>213042740 (OP)
wtf the communists had a more humanitarian & forgiving view of the world than the regular laymens that just scream for bloodshows? craaaaaaaazy

>Did the Maoist communists learn from the Russian Revolution that killing monarchs and the royal family is counterproductive?
Yes
It was also a sort of bragging right for the Chinks, that they weren't so petty as to brutally murder their former oppressor after he could no longer pose any threat to them. Useful propaganda fodder for the upcoming Sino-Soviet Split
But yes also to the first point, the murder of the Romanovs was quite unpopular even with pretty hardcore Soviet officials, summarily executing a family is very bad optics no matter how blue their blood is

because during both of his periods of ""rule"" he was such a stupid, helpless puppet and generally pitiful person that even the most braindead communist nosepickers knew that and didn't really bear a grudge against him. It's not like he was hated by the people for his crimes, nobody ever formed an angry mob to beat him to death when he was scraping shit off sidewalks