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I recall reading that as they marched the family to the execution chamber several of the guards insisted on molesting or feeling up some of the Romanov women. That they were to be executed then and there was also a surprise to the family, perhaps even in the room itself.
Ridiculous. I am Anastasia.
for later
Czar Nicholas II and his family are recognized as holy martyrs by the Orthodox Church!
Many tens of thousands of Bolsheviks immigrated to the USA after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Those Bolsheviks heirs that supported the murder of the Czar and his family are now running the democrat party.
I say again, they ruthlessly murdered the 4 girls and son, and they want to do the same to Trump and his family.
Many of these filthy evil scumbags are employed by MSNBC. Remember this when they attempt to once again take out Trump. Joe Scarborough and his adulterous wife are very high on the list. /spit
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-analysis-confirms-authenticity-remains-attributed-romanovs-180969674/
The new findings are the latest development in a tangled dispute over the remains of the Romanovs, whose downfall was nigh after Nicholas II was forced to abdicate the throne in the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Radical Bolsheviks took power and formed a provisional government, and the tsar, his wife, Alexandra and their five children were imprisoned in the city of Yekaterinburg.
In 1918, civil war broke out between the communist government’s Red Army and the anti-Bolshevik White Army. As the White Army advanced on Yekaterinburg, local authorities were ordered to prevent the rescue of the Romanovs, and in the early hours of July 17, the family was executed by firing squad. Those who remained alive after the bullets stopped flying were stabbed to death.
The Romanovs’ bodies were thrown down a mineshaft, only to be retrieved, burned and buried near a cart track. The remains of Nicholas, Alexandra and three of their daughters— Anastasia, Olga and Tatiana—were found in 1979, though the bodies were only exhumed in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, according to the AFP. As Tom Parfitt of the Times reports, DNA testing carried out at the time confirmed that the remains were authentic.
There is a related story, that there were some moans and groans from the mineshaft. The "guards" (according to one of them, the witness for this last info), tossed a few grenades into the mineshaft.
Another related story, says that acid was dumped upon the victims.
...which effect would be attributed to Rasputin's "powers".
My father told me an interesting story once involving the Romanovs and the future of this country. But first, a little bit of background. My grandfather escaped from Russia (technically, from what is now Ukraine, though he always called it Russia because that is how he was raised.) in mid-1923 as a very young adult. He had one brother here in the US, but the rest of his family was in Russia. Our family is Jewish, and as a result, my grandfather had no good feelings whatsoever toward the very anti-Semitic Romanov Dynasty. Fast forward about 30 years to the early 1950s. My father was an older teen, and on this particular occasion, all of the “alta kockers” (old men) from the old country were having their normal weekend get together, this time at my grandfather’s house, to play cards, eat, smoke, drink (mainly vodka, of course, they were Russians after all) and commiserate about the state of the world.
Here’s where the story gets interesting. At one point during the afternoon, the topic turned to world affairs. These were men who still had family trapped behind the Iron Curtain, whom they couldn’t contact due to Stalin’s terror, which was still enforced, if just a bit more subtly than in the 1930s. They had a healthy fear of the brutality and effectiveness of the Bolshevik regime, even being 5,000 miles away. Someone commented that if we weren’t careful, we would lose to the relentless power of the Soviet Union and end up Communist just like Russia did. My father (who was undoubtedly there to grab some food and drink) heard this and started laughing. My grandfather turned to him and asked him why he was laughing (and not a little of that had to do with the fact that he was from the younger generation, and it was expected that he would be seen and not heard, let alone be disrespectful to guests, even at his age). My father said, “don’t you guys know, the United States is the richest and most powerful nation that the world has ever seen. Nobody can touch us, why are you guys worried about the Communists coming here?“
Well, my grandfather wasn’t amused, and said, “Sit down, sonny boy. Let me tell you something. When I was 11 years old, there was a celebration all across Russia for the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Imagine, across 11 time zones from the border of Germany, all the way to the border with the United States on the other end of the world, nearly 200 million people. The Romanovs were forever - my grandfather’s grandfather’s grandfather couldn’t have remembered a time without the Romanovs ruling Russia, that’s how permanent they were. But five years later, the Czar was deposed and the year after that he and his entire family were murdered in cold blood. It turns out that the Czar wasn’t forever. And that is your lesson for this country: you can appear to be invincible on one day, and on the next day you are a shadow of your former self or you are dead. Nothing and no one is forever - never forget that!“
Let’s just say that as much as I miss both my father and grandfather, I am glad that neither of them has had to witness or experience what this country is going through right now. It might have taken a bit longer than those old men in that room in the early 1950s thought it would, but we have let down our guard, we are no longer the richest and most powerful nation on the planet, and we have been thoroughly infiltrated by the virus of Communism in every part of our society. I seriously wonder if I will live to see here what my grandfather ran away from 100 years ago in Russia, though of course I hope and pray that is not the case, that the people of this country wake up and restore our Republic. Nonetheless, we are not headed in the right direction at all , and I fear very greatly for the future of my children and the entire country.