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What about the terror itself?

那么恐怖活动本身又如何呢
The interpretations of the terror basically have gone like this.

对此种行为有两种阐释方式
One, it was sort of a bloodletting

一是为维护自身既得利益
by the very poor of their social betters.

而进行的血腥杀戮活动
Well, that's pretty much nonsense.

这个基本上就是胡扯
Secondly, that it's a reflex action to save the republic.

二是一种拯救共和国的本能反应
That makes more sense, basically,

基本上更有说服力
and somebody in the 1930s,

二十世纪三十年代
before there was really quantitative history, went to look.

在量化历史研究产生之前
A guy called Donald Greer said,

一个叫唐纳·德格里尔人说
"Let's look at the victims of the terror."

"看看恐怖政策的受害者"
What he finds fits into where we started,

他的观点正是我们开始说到的