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New DNA tests on bones of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, and his family confirm they are authentic. Researchers exhumed Nicholas's father Alexander III — himself assassinated in 1881 — to prove "they are father and son."
The test results could lead to the Russian Orthodox Church recognizing the remains for a full burial. It said it would consider the findings and commended the progress of the investigation.
Nicholas II, his German-born wife and their five children were shot by Bolsheviks as a consequence of the October Revolution of 1917. The bodies of the last members of the Romanov dynasty were thrown into a mineshaft, before being burned and hurriedly buried by the killers. They were first tracked down by amateur historians in 1979, although the discovery was only revealed in 1991. The Russian Orthodox Church had recognized the ex-tsar as a martyred saint in 1981.
[Ed. note: Anastasia's supposed escape and possible survival was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century, False reports of survival]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:38PM (2 children)
From what I recall reading of the "Jewish Bolshevism" conspiracy, the actual claims were that atheistic, ethnic Jews inspired by The Zohar [wikipedia.org] were massively overrepresented amongst the Bolsheviki. The myth of sanguinary ritual is then conflated with the Bolshevik death count. Is that accurate?
(Score: 4, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday July 19 2018, @04:17PM (1 child)
"Accurate" is a funny word when dealing with conspiracy theories. While I've read about some of this in the past, and I'm sure your characterization is correct for some conspiracy theorists, I honestly don't care to go back and read more about this now. Suffice it to say that yes, many modern Jewish conspiracy theories depend on the notion that ethnic Jews (not necessarily religious) are all potentially involved. That's how Hitler for example justified his targeting based on ancestry.
In Russia specifically, you had the Protocols of the Elders of Zion [wikipedia.org] nonsense, and stuff from that trickled into the various Bolshevism conspiracy theories [wikipedia.org]. Yes, generally the idea was that a huge number of Bolsheviks were ethnic Jews, and the theory specifically around the Tsar's assassination involved various wacko combinations of Kabbalah, blood libel theories, etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @11:48PM
The reason the Russian Orthodox Church keeps bringing up antisemitic conspiracies is over property disputes in Israel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_properties_in_Palestine [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Jerusalem [wikipedia.org]
https://www.timesofisrael.com/orthodox-patriarch-jewish-settlers-threat-to-christian-presence-in-holy-land/ [timesofisrael.com]
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/02/565464499/greek-orthodox-church-sells-land-in-israel-worrying-both-israelis-and-palestinia [npr.org]
It's shit going back 200 years. Suffice to say that one nice example of such religion meets corruption and nationalism is how the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, had the lands it was built on leased from the Church (at below market price as the local Church official was likely bribed) and how the current Palestinian Church officials tend to stir the pot whenever a new Israeli government wants to review the Church's books or when some Palestinian finds their grandfather's Ottoman deeds to lands that the Church claimed ownership over after 48'...