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Miamiu1027
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« on: March 01, 2015, 05:24:09 PM » |
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not positive, but has to be understood in context. there really was a Russian far-right that was being funded from outside of the country and there was a genuine fear the the country would fall to the right. Korlinov already had tried a coup in mid-1917. as I think Eric Hobsbawm pointed out, the Bolsheviks were a true crisis government until at least, say 1922, and before that could only think in days or weeks, rather than in months or years.
all this is to say that this was a different class of execution from those committed in 1936-39.
that said, the Romanovs themselves were not of a caliber to hatch a serious power-grabbing scheme. they were bizarre and stupid. killing them did nothing set the "whites" back.
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