"a vicious brutal dictator who deserved to be overthrown As vicious as Lenin and Stalin? I think not...buut I could be wrong. Please cite evidence for this.
Even so, he is a Martyr."
I can't cite such evidence.
But you don't need to be as bad as Stalin to deserve to be overthrown and in any case the people get to choose thier leaders and leaders who won't leave when the people want them out have to be removed. We were lucky in the American revolution that King George didn't live here but with an entrenched Czar unwilling to go into exile they had fewer choices.
That doesn't make the man or his wife a martyr any more than Tookie is a martyr.
The martyrs are the Russian people - the ones who clung to Bolchevism as a way out of tyranny only to find there were far worse dictators yet to come.
My ancestors lived in Russia at the time. They were supporters of the Tsar and saw the inherent evil that was the Bolsheveiks. There homes were taken over by the Bolsheviks and they were forced to live in one room of the house. Some of them starved during the blockade. My ancestors fought with the White Army and my Great Grandfather (on my Dad's side) was martyred when he was murdered by the Red army for being an Orthodox preist.
My relatives that were killed or starved to death under the Bolshevieks are the Russian people you write of...and they were in full support of Tsar Nicholas II.
That's not true. His cousin, who was on the throne in England, refused him and his family sanctuary. Nicholas asked. England refused.