Posted on 12/05/2010 6:45:55 PM PST by decimon
I don’t deny that Nicholas and Alexandra were genuinely religious and good family people. It is just that their incompetence brought on the great disasters of the 20th century. From taking over leadership of the Army (at 500 miles away from the front), to dismissing the most talented government leaders on the whims of a crazy mystic, to hiring the most bizarre people (selecting someone named “Boris Sturmer” as PM when you’re losing millions to the German Army) they made one horrendous decision after another. I admit, they and Russia were treated very badly by their allies in WW1, whose bacon they saved repeatedly.
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