Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Circa 1914
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna circa 1916
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
Nicholas II of Russia
“massacre of the russian royals...”
liberals are communists without total power.
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I believe it was Condi Rice (but I’m probably wrong) who said, “The Russians never miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity.”
The stupid Russians killed the Tsar and his family for not being sensitive enough to the plight of the peasants. In return they got Stalin.... Good move geniuses!
So Ronald the Great causes the Soviet Union to collapsy and the stupid Russians end up with.... Vladimir Putin! Good move geniuses!
Never forget why we don’t want communism in America or anywhere else in the world.
"Poor Tsarina...punished with all those babies... The assassins were just helping her out and got a little carried away..."
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The children were innocents.
Mom and Pop were not.
Many millions of people died from 1914 to 1918. Decisions made by the Tsar, heavily influenced by his wife, were a major contributor to those deaths.
He was not an evil man, but he was an utter disaster for Russia and the world. You can make an excellent case that had Nick been a better politician Communism and Nazism would never have arisen, which between them killed well over 100M people.
Mom and Pop deserved their fate far more than most of the people who died as a result of their decisions. It’s just too bad his first cousin and close friend Willy didn’t suffer the same fate.
I would like to add another Duranty quote, not in his dispatches, which is reported in a memoir by Zara Witkin, a Los Angeles architect, who lived in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. ("An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934," University of California Press ). The memoirist describes an evening during which the Moscow correspondents were discussing how to get out the story about the Stalin-made Russian famine. To get around the censorship, the UP's Eugene Lyons was telephoning the dire news of the famine to his New York office but the was ordered to stop because it was antagonizing the Kremlin. Ralph Barnes, the New York Herald Tribune reporter, turned to Duranty and asked him what he was going to write. Duranty replied:Nothing. What are a few million dead Russians in a situation like this? Quite unimportant. This is just an incident in the sweeping historical changes here. I think the entire matter is exaggerated.
And this was at a time when peasants in Ukraine were dying of starvation at the rate of 25,000 a day.
In his masterwork about Stalin's imposed famine on Ukraine, "Harvest of Sorrow," Robert Conquest has written:
As one of the best known correspondents in the world for one of the best known newspapers in the world, Mr. Duranty's denial that there was a famine was accepted as gospel. Thus Mr. Duranty gulled not only the readers of the New York Times but because of the newspaper's prestige, he influenced the thinking of countless thousands of other readers about the character of Josef Stalin and the Soviet regime. And he certainly influenced the newly-elected President Roosevelt to recognize the Soviet Union.
What is so awful about Duranty is that Times top brass suspected that Duranty was writing Stalinist propaganda, but did nothing. In her exposé "Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty, the New York Times's man in Moscow," S.J. Taylor makes it clear that Carr Van Anda, the managing editor, Frederick T. Birchall, an assistant managing editor, and Edwin L. James, the later managing editor, were troubled with Duranty's Moscow reporting but did nothing about it. Birchall recommended that Duranty be replaced but, says Taylor, "the recommendation fell by the wayside."
It was Duranty who made the remark about the necessity of breaking eggs to make an omelet. Now the media has eggs on its face from the Obamlet. Bring on the youth guard and the new cultural revolution. After the sloppy execution of the ancien régime à la Raila Odinga and the Christian-burners.
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Thanks for the post; pics. Educational.
I hope our leaders in Washington today meet the same fate.
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.
DoD Lab Helps to Resolve Century-Old Russian Mystery [Tsar Survivors]
DefenseLink (DoD News) | July 15, 2008 | Fred Baker
Posted on 07/15/2008 12:59:18 PM PDT by PurpleMan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045925/posts
King George V of England was a cousin of the Czar. Arrangements were made to bring the family to England. One view is that George V took cold feet and thought that some insurrection might take place in his own country. This I find hard to believe that such a problem would have evolved.
The blame was promptly laid on Lloyd George, British Prime Minister. This, after the horror of the massacre. I believe that evidence has since exonerated Lloyd George.
Of course, once the Bolsheviks were in power, such a safe conduct for the Royal family would be virtually impossible.
O, the wonders of Communism. Paradise.
I just read that long article - great read. I’m going to buy the book in my next assault on Amazon.