Posted on 07/15/2008 12:59:18 PM PDT by PurpleMan
I appreciated the sarcasm.
Because quite frankly... as far as I can see, there was nothing great about Nicolas II. He was an inept ruler that allowed communism to take over the country.
He was regarded as the 3rd richest person in history. Wasn't his advisor Rasputin? The only thing that sticks out is this tsar was a martyr...
Why would an average Russian give a rat's hiney about him?
“Nothing the Tsars ever did, or thought of, remotely compared with that. “
St Petersburgh was built on a swamp with pilings every 10’
It is said that one serf died for every piling that was driven into the ground.
The Tsars were responsible for over a million brutal deaths.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP12.HTM
Russia is morally bankrupt - always was and will be into the forseeable future.
Yep, he sure did and now we have our very own 'Lenin' running for the presidency of the USA.
He sure did, that is why my family ended up in Poland and because of Hitler are no more. My father's father, his wife and 3 children immigrated to the USA in 1931.
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