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Remains may be children of last czar
Yahoo ^ | 9/28 | Mike Eckel

Posted on 09/28/2007 5:47:14 PM PDT by darkangel82

MOSCOW - There is a "high degree of probability" that bone fragments found recently near the Russian city of Yekaterinburg are those of a daughter and son of the last czar, forensics experts said Friday.

If confirmed, the find would fill in a missing chapter in the story of the doomed Romanovs, who were killed after the violent 1917 Bolshevik Revolution ushered in more than 70 years of Communist rule.

The fragments were found by archaeologists in a burned field near the Ural Mountains city where Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children were held prisoner by the Bolsheviks and then shot in 1918. The discovery was announced in August.

"Investigators have made a preliminary conclusion that there is a high degree of probability that the bones ... belong to the Crown Prince Alexei and Princess Maria," said Vladimir Gromov, deputy forensic chief in the Sverdlovsk region, in televised remarks. "I want to emphasize, though, that this conclusion has a deeply preliminary character."

Alexei, 13, was the heir to the Russian throne.

Federal forensic investigator Vladimir Solovyev said that conclusions were based on "anthropological and dental" tests, and he warned that the genetic tests would be difficult since the fragments were burned and badly damaged.

NTV television said in August that along with the remains archaeologists found shards of a ceramic container of sulfuric acid as well as nails, metal strips from a wooden box, and bullets of various caliber.

Prosecutors have said they would reopen an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the royal family, a decision that suggested the government was taking the discovery seriously.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Russia; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: anastasia; bolshevik; communist; czarnicholas; genealogy; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; regicide; romanovs; royals; workersparadise
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1 posted on 09/28/2007 5:47:16 PM PDT by darkangel82
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Effin' commies killing children. Despicable.
2 posted on 09/28/2007 5:52:35 PM PDT by PeterFinn (Do not wish ill for your enemies, plan it.)
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To: PeterFinn

I wonder what the new Russian Czar will have to say about it?


3 posted on 09/28/2007 5:54:38 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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To: PeterFinn

They set off 90 years of worldwide terror, and all because nothing was done to stop them.


4 posted on 09/28/2007 5:54:52 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: PeterFinn

We’ll have to take things away from you for the common good...


5 posted on 09/28/2007 5:55:09 PM PDT by varyouga ("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Putin? Nothing, he wishes the USSR was still around.


6 posted on 09/28/2007 5:56:55 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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To: darkangel82
And they may be gearin' up again.


7 posted on 09/28/2007 5:57:10 PM PDT by bannie
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To: darkangel82

I wonder how many murders commited in the US in 1917 could forensic investigators find the remains of?


8 posted on 09/28/2007 6:06:31 PM PDT by fso301
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To: darkangel82

bolshi bump.


9 posted on 09/28/2007 6:11:06 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: darkangel82
The executions of the Tsar's family was brutal beyond belief. They were herded into a cellar and shot down by a firing squad at point blank range. The Tsaritsa was still moving and groaning -- remember he was hemophiliac and the slightest bump could cause agonizing bleeding -- so one of the guard's put his rifle into the young boy's ear and pulled the trigger.

It was typical of the brutality and paranoia that came to mark "The People's Revolution."

10 posted on 09/28/2007 6:17:52 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: darkangel82

Communists muder innocent children.

I’m curious how well they slept at night.


11 posted on 09/28/2007 6:21:28 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: darkangel82
and all because nothing was done to stop them.

A historically inaccurate statement. The British, Canadians, Italians, Americans, Japanese and even a few French all intervened in the Russian Civil War 1918 - 1920.

A quick search shows 416 Americans killed in action, 359 wounded.

12 posted on 09/28/2007 6:25:55 PM PDT by PAR35
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The British, Canadians, Italians, Americans, Japanese and even a few French all intervened in the Russian Civil War 1918 - 1920

The picture of American troops in Vladivostok I had never seen. Was only familiar with Archangel.

13 posted on 09/28/2007 6:41:32 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG?


14 posted on 09/28/2007 6:47:51 PM PDT by Carilisa (In the Heart of Big Snow Country)
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To: varyouga
A quote from Lenin and from Hillary Clinton.
15 posted on 09/28/2007 7:07:24 PM PDT by fish hawk (The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
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To: PeterFinn

“Effin’ commies killing children. Despicable.”

“To make an omelet, you have to break some eggs.”
—attributed (aphocryphally) to Lenin


16 posted on 09/28/2007 7:13:42 PM PDT by VOA
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Oh, plenty was done to stop them. It’s simply that the Whites and the West lost that war.


17 posted on 09/28/2007 7:33:27 PM PDT by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven.)
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18 posted on 09/28/2007 11:05:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 12, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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