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Massacre of the Russian royals: Horrific last hours of a dynasty
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 19th July 2008 | Zoe Brennan

Posted on 07/18/2008 6:29:16 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick

Bayonetted and shot by drunken assassins, the slaughter of the Russian royal family shook the world. Now a new book reveals in compelling detail the horrifying final days of the Romanovs.

As the light faded, a train halted in the siding near the remote railway station of Lyubinskaya on the Trans-Siberian railway line.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Russia; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: assassination; godsgravesglyphs; romanovs; romanovstsar; royals
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To: arbee4bush

Same here, I read everything about the Romanov’s as a teen. I always felt Rasputin had way too much influence on the Czarina and ultimately the family.

My heart broke at the brutality of their treatment and their deaths....I do not think I can read this new book....


41 posted on 07/18/2008 7:56:26 PM PDT by Kimmers
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To: Bender2

Yes, if whoever becomes POTUS promotes amnesty and perks for illegal aliens, it will be horrible for this country.


42 posted on 07/18/2008 7:56:59 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Kimmers

My College History professor blamed her for the fall of the Romanovs.


43 posted on 07/18/2008 7:59:44 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg
Are there any politicians that you actually respect?
44 posted on 07/18/2008 8:01:57 PM PDT by FightThePower! (Fight the powers that be!)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
There will be a documentary Tues nite on Nat’l Geo - I think at 10 est
45 posted on 07/18/2008 8:09:20 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a large number of electrons were terrible agitated)
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To: Jim Noble

“communists are liberals who mean it...”

and nasty scu&bags, one and all.

IMHO


46 posted on 07/18/2008 8:17:04 PM PDT by ripley
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To: Dante3; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ..
Re: Yes, if whoever becomes POTUS promotes amnesty and perks for illegal aliens, it will be horrible for this country.

If you are stupid enough to believe that John McCain would be a worse choice for POTUS than nObama, then enjoy watching this nation surrender to terror. Hold your hand up high when the dead and dying from the radioactive ruins of NYC and DC ask who let this happen?

Pudknockers like you are totally without any honor or common sense. And, Dante3, you certainly live up to your namesake in you believe it is better to rule in hell, than it is to serve in heaven.

Have at it, old sport! You earned it.

47 posted on 07/18/2008 8:17:31 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Jim Noble
If you asked a lib in private what he'd like to do with conservative Christians, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Republicans and even the Bush twins.... you'd find out that most of us would be lined up against the wall.

Same as it ever was..... same as it ever was....

48 posted on 07/18/2008 8:34:40 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: maine-iac7
There will be a documentary Tues nite on Nat’l Geo - I think at 10 est

Really? It'll go like this:

Man-made global warming melted the Russian permafrost and caused the people to starve and riot and the tsar to abdicate.

I refuse to watch National Gore-ographic, that bunch of jerk posers.

49 posted on 07/18/2008 8:42:46 PM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: Jim Noble

“liberals are communists without total power.

Communists are liberals who mean it.”

During the 30s there was an actual saying that went: “Communists are Liberals who are in a hurry”. Oddly enough the Liberals, who spent the 30s, 40s, and part of the 50s doing everything they could to justify and cover up for Stalin, no longer use that phrase. I have no idea why.


50 posted on 07/18/2008 8:46:52 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Perhaps if he’d accepted the Duma, Nicholas II could have carried on as a constitutional monarch. But his grandfather Alexander II, freed the serfs, and for his trouble got his leg blown off by an assassin’s bomb in St. Petersburg.

R.I.P. Romanov family. You lost an empire, but gained the Kingdom of Heaven.

May the deeds of the foul worm, V.I. Lenin, tool of the Devil, mass murderer of innocent millions, be remembered until the end of the world.


51 posted on 07/18/2008 8:47:15 PM PDT by Judges Gone Wild (Judges are not above the Constitution. Remove them when they violate it.)
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To: Dick Vomer

I came to that same conclusion years ago.


52 posted on 07/18/2008 8:53:21 PM PDT by redstateconfidential (If you are the smartest person in the room,you are hanging out with the wrong people.)
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To: Sherman Logan

It’s happening incrementally via the tyranny of the Supreme Court.
How many of the rights in the Bill of Rights still exist? Kelo killed the 5th Amendment. Do the American people know how to recognize a Communist? Millions are going to vote for one — B.H.O.


53 posted on 07/18/2008 9:04:42 PM PDT by Judges Gone Wild (Judges are not above the Constitution. Remove them when they violate it.)
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To: Sherman Logan
What makes the leftists dangerous is that they think there are indeed millions eager to follow them.
54 posted on 07/18/2008 9:06:59 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: Kimmers
Regicide. The Bolsheviks dared not let any live.
55 posted on 07/18/2008 9:08:22 PM PDT by YHAOS
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To: ripley

“liberals are communists without total power.”

Be careful what you say.

They may soon have it...
Here.

- John


56 posted on 07/18/2008 9:16:33 PM PDT by Fishrrman
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To: FightThePower!
I hope our leaders in Washington today meet the same fate.

Unlike you, I do NOT want to see our leaders lose to Communists. Why don't you go to one of the Bolshevik websites, like the Obama campaign or DU?

57 posted on 07/18/2008 9:18:11 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Sherman Logan
For an American president, right or left, to “take over” and dump the Constitution would require at minimum hundreds of thousands and more likely tens of millions of willing followers, appropriately placed in the power structure, especially the military. I don’t see these people out there.

Yet FReepers have recently been calling for weakening of the Constitution...one of the very protections against the takeover by any one faction. (In one stunning example, it's often those who are afraid of a Islamist takeover that call for such a counterproductive move.)

58 posted on 07/18/2008 9:21:13 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Robwin

Of course, they had a great internal split when Stalin’s atrocities could no longer be denied...many turned strongly away from Communism, while others covered.


59 posted on 07/18/2008 9:23:00 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Perdogg
My College History professor blamed her for the fall of the Romanovs.

Well, she was a focal point, but you could also fault Nick II for standing by his woman.

60 posted on 07/18/2008 9:25:36 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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