Posted on 07/24/2018 4:35:04 AM PDT by marshmallow
In so many words, my take is that’s exactly who he’s blaming. “Foreign ideas” equals “Karl Marx” equals “Jews”. Never underestimate how deeply Antisemitism runs in Europe still.
“The Czar’s family was not allowed to flee to Britain, because of potential bad PR for the royal family, is what I’ve read.”
There was also a plan to have them exiled to Canada (which was part of the British Empire), but it never got beyond the discussion stage. Actually, going to Canada made quite a bit of sense, when one thinks about it.
I am sure that Lenin and company had nothing to do with it, huh KirillIdiot!?
You, of course, mean Nikki, Georgie and Willie. That is how they addressed each other in private.
The first chapters of “The Guns of August” is quite revealing.
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