Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Imperial family's murder by a Bolshevik death squad.
In a melee of wild shooting, squad leader Peter Irmakov was drunk, Tsar Nicholas died almost immediately. His children and family retainers were not so fortunate.
It took a further 20 minutes of "disorganized" firing, clubbing and bayoneting to kill the rest of the family until, it's reported, the floor of room was slick with blood and brains, like an "ice rink."
Even then, two of the Tsar's daughters were still breathing when they were carried out of the building. The bodies were eventually burned with sulphuric acid and buried in a shallow grave. You can read about it here, here and elsewhere.
Early this morning, at 2.30 am, marking the time of the bloodthirsty, pitiless, drunken, raving, satanic, child killing executions, thousands of Russians marched and processed in pilgrimage to the site of the murders, where a church was built at the turn of the millennium.
The Russian Church has canonized the Romanov victims of Red Terror as martyrs and perhaps it's no accident that the peace summit between Trump and Putin, America and Russia, against globalist, atheist socialism took place on the eve of this anniversary.
Of course Bolshevism is gone from Russia. Judging from the frenzied reaction of our media and their BillSoc (billionaire socialist) overlords to Helsinki, its spirit is alive and kicking in the West.
By the blood of the Martyrs,
LSP
The Romanov guards deserted them.
ReplyDeleteWhy did that happen? That's the question isn't it - really?
I can't offer an answer except to say that there may be a lesson in that. Heavy is the head that wears the crown, or something along that line?
That's an excellent question LL and a salutary lesson.
DeleteStill, accident or not, interesting Helsinki timing.
I always found the Romanov story heartbreaking and scary.
ReplyDeleteI totally 2nd that, Adrienne.
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