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Yup, they do. As if it couldn't have been done in a more human way. :-(
I'm NOT proud of my country's (France) revolution either. It was really bloody and horrible. I won't get into details because there are young teens here but the guillotine was a gracious death compared to other stuff.
Moreover it was a "bourgeois" revolution. The leaders did not care about the people. Had the aristocrats agreed to give the "bourgeois" the same privileges they would never have wanted to "help" the poor. I won't even mention that the average age at death was even lower after the revolution, and that the bourgeois didn't feel a moral and religious responsability towards the people, contrary to the aristocrats (in theory, not all of them were good of course).
I also hate the way they gave new, stupid, awful names to cities, and to people (!!), and that going to church/synagogue or wearing like a religious person could bring you to the guillotine.

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I'll stop here, sorry for the vent... But I wanted people not to idealize the French revolution...