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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They let PuYi live because he was literally too pathetic to kill and just keeping him around allowed for living proof of how weak and corrupted the Qing dynasty had become towards its end. That and House Aisin-Gioro had like 29k members while the Romanovs were on the verge of inbreeding themselves to extinction already.

What people feared would happen had the Romanovs been allowed to live was also exactly what happened to PuYi. The Japanese used him as a puppet in the Northeast.