In Stalin's view, the motherland of Socialism was surrounded on the outside by ruthless capitalists and threatened from within by class enemies and counter-revolutionaries.
The coup and suppression of the original revolutionary issues stirred up the people, who were readying themselves to fight the counterrevolutionary movement.
Antoinette was one of the first victims of the revolutionary Terror, a dark period during which 17,000 nobles and counter-revolutionaries were indiscriminately killed.
Then came the Reign of Terror, during which radicals in possession of the convention executed in large numbers counter-revolutionists and those suspected of sympathy with the monarchy.
And then it mixes with the reality of the situation, where he's going to be very much punished for being anti-revolutionary, a writer, and especially a gay person.
A search for the leader's uncle and former mentor, Jang Sung-taek who was executed last week found only one article in which he's vilified as a traitor and counterrevolutionary.