Or is the site the same as where the Czar, Czarina and girls were found?
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BS, Anastasia was my grandmother!
They were not “shot by a firing squad”. They were shot, bayoneted and bludgeoned by a gang of Bolshevik thugs under orders from the local Soviet [and good old V.I Lenin]. Their bodies were then burned, doused with acid, and buried - twice.
All this hand wringing over the execution of the Czar and his immediate family is an exercise in fascist nostalgia. From what I’ve read of history, the Nicholas II was as much an airhead as Obama. He was murdered why? because his subjects were happy, contented workers living fulfilling lives under a benevolent monarch?! As a Republican, I find monarchy a hideous concept that needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth. I have no sympathy for monarchs, oligarchs, royalty, aristocracy, plutocracy or kleptocracy. European history is one long tale of discontent, rebellion and hatred for the tyrannical excesses of the nobility. Frankly, the Czar got what he deserved. Had his assassins been religious mystics, lone nuts or midget circus clowns, I’d raise my flagon to them with a “well doneâ€.