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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 20 2018, @02:31AM (2 children)
*sigh*
If I had lived under the rule of the Romanovs, I would have grown up speaking a different language, under an entirely different education system, with different parents, a different legal system. In short, I wouldn't be me.
And, you'll also notice that I said nothing good about the tsar. All I have done, is to point out that it was a sick situation, from any point of view. Herd an entire family into a killing field, and execute them all. FFS, the children could have been spared, and re-educated. They could have been USED to the benefit of the state.
Unfortunately, communism views all persons as expendable. People as individuals, as well as people in groups. Entire ethnicities are expendable. Entire nationalities.
Poorly thought out anticommunist propaganda? That's funny, in a way. All communist propaganda is poorly thought out. Promise utopia, and deliver hell on earth - that is communism.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Friday July 20 2018, @03:08AM (1 child)
If you had grown up under the Romanovs, you would probably defend them.
Are you serious? The Grandchildren of Queen Victoria, and the cousins of every other European ruler? Used by the Bolsheviks? Do you really think they would let that happen?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 20 2018, @02:01PM
Obviously, you've not studied any history if you need a citation for the hell on earth bit. The two largest communist countries slaughtered about 20 million people - each. Wake up and smell the coffee.