Just finished a book on the last days of the Romanovs. It was such a mess at the end because the heads of all the European states were all related and everyone was afraid of optics. The Bolshiveks were very disorganized and frankly lucky because Lenin was a coward. The truth of what had happened did not come out for years and if it had, would people have been so eager to fight the wars? (They were eager to claim responsibility for Nicholas', but the others? Not so much. A lot of disinformation about the fact the others were alive and being kept safe, when it was really only the parents who died quickly. The children suffered horribly and had that become public knowledge, I just don't know if the Bolshiveks would have pulled it off.)
In part it was Nicholas and Alexandra's choices that led to their demise as they didn't want to leave Russia, but for God's sake, you couldn't park them in New Zealand for a couple of years until things cooled down?
Just finished a book on the last days of the Romanovs. It was such a mess at the end because the heads of all the European states were all related and everyone was afraid of optics. The Bolshiveks were very disorganized and frankly lucky because Lenin was a coward. The truth of what had happened did not come out for years and if it had, would people have been so eager to fight the wars? (They were eager to claim responsibility for Nicholas', but the others? Not so much. A lot of disinformation about the fact the others were alive and being kept safe, when it was really only the parents who died quickly. The children suffered horribly and had that become public knowledge, I just don't know if the Bolshiveks would have pulled it off.)
In part it was Nicholas and Alexandra's choices that led to their demise as they didn't want to leave Russia, but for God's sake, you couldn't park them in New Zealand for a couple of years until things cooled down?