In general, I do not believe that specific families need to be snuffed out. However, I do believe that in the context of the Romanov family, allowing any one of the Romanovs to live was more or less allowing for the Whites to claim a figurehead with which they could organize support and mobilize it from afar, and so the only option for the Bolsheviks in that context was to get rid of them, root and branch. I don't think that negates my previously stated position (all royals are criminals), because royalty is a crime in and of itself. No person should be permitted to declare themselves above and outside the community, and the community should be empowered to resist, by any means necessary anyone who attempts to do so. I suppose I have a very Roman view of the whole thing in that regard.
You realize that the Monarchy was unpopular with many of the Whites? Even if the Whites won I doubt that absolute monarchy would be coming back.
Yes especially as absolutism was abolished on paper in Russia in 1905.
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Was Russia a democracy after 1905, not even by the low standards of the time. But here's the thing, absolutism means the Monarch rule with no limitations. He no longer did that after 1905, Russia was no longer a absolut regime, there was limitations on his power.
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