Posted on 09/28/2006 11:59:35 AM PDT by sergey1973
Yes, it was Yeltsin who ordered the house where execution took place demolished. He was a loyal Communist Party apparatchik and he tried his best to prove his Communist credentials to his bosses.
Radzinski's books are no more than fiction. A.B. Martirosyan is more serious author. In "Conspiracy of marshals" he mentions causes and authors of Russian revolution.
English relatives of Nikolay II denied to give shelter to him and his family, so there were no place in the world to save himself from bolsheviks. Jews revenged him for pogroms.
I can't find anything about this book by this author on the internet, nor Amazon. Source?
It makes you wonder; if the Revolution and WW I didn't occur, would Russia eventually have turned into a constitutional monarchy or something similar to that of Germany or Austria-Hungary at the time. I believe that Russia was creeping ever so slowly towards some kind of democracy.
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