[bobjam]

While it is awful what the Communists did to these people and millions like them, it is important to remember that the Romanov Dynasty was a dictatorship vested with absolute power just like the Bolsheviks. The Revolution of 1917 simply replaced one regime with another.

[laconic]

The slime Yurovsky toured Russia giving speeches to children’s “Pioneer” camps about how proud he was as a Bolshevik to have killed the family and describing the murders in detail.

[Wolfie]

The Revolution of 1917 simply replaced one regime with another.

That's the end result of any Revolution.

[Monterrosa-24]

“...the Romanov Dynasty was a dictatorship vested with absolute power just like the Bolsheviks...”

That is not true. The last czar never had the power of Stalin. And by the time of the October Revolution it was a Duma and Kerensky that were being overthrown. The Czar and Kerensky were both teddy bears compared to Lenin and Stalin.

[wildbill]

The Tsar was simply a remaining vestige of the absolute monarchy or emperor that had been the rule in most countries for millienia.

Comparing a traditional political system of absolute authority to the brutality of the Communists who slaughtered and starved millions of innocents in a supposedly more enlightened regime and age is hardly fair and balanced.

[VOA]

it is important to remember that the Romanov Dynasty was a dictatorship
vested with absolute power just like the Bolsheviks

I've not investigated this...but some documentaries at least
leave the impression that the Romanovs (as the ruling dynasty)
were almost invested with religious power.

IIRC, one documentary said that the average Russian (serf?)
viewed the ruling Russian sovereign was someone holding power
given by G-d Almighty.

Which probably would account for why the Romanovs took it on
the nose after Russia folded on the eastern front in WWI.

I suppose to the average Russian that meant that the Romanovs were
either illegitimate rulers and/or the Russian royal dynasty system
was a totally bogus construct.

[Centurion2000]

While it is awful what the Communists did to these people and millions like them, it is important to remember that the Romanov Dynasty was a dictatorship vested with absolute power just like the Bolsheviks. The Revolution of 1917 simply replaced one regime with another

Not entirely true. The Russian Orthodox Church was a stabilizing institution during the Tsars' reigns.