Book Club

[Dinaki]

The Last Days Of The Romanovs, a book that has TRAGEDY in all its pages, its almost like a Greek classic tragedy.

In the last chapters, a box of Kleenex is needed. A book that needs to be read as the history of the last Tsar, Tsarina and their five children is very well documented.

[Foxxee]

Tragic period in history.  Does the book reveal it was Communist Bolsheviks, not Russians who murdered this family?  Bolsheviks were not Russians, but controlled the government.  

[Dinaki]

Well, those Bolshevicks were Russian marxists founded my the evil man called Lenin.

In 1912 they formed that wicked party as they concidered themselves the ploretariat of Russia of that time.

Not from the book but from what history tought us, a word called Bolo was the deregodatory expressing the Bolsavicks.

We are liking it or not but it is in the history, Hitler, Goebbels and several other nazy leaders, used that word as a reference of their political movement that had a relationship  with the Comintern 

[Foxxee]

Bolsheviks were Russian citizens, but not native Russians.  They didn't have Russian ancestry.  Lenin's maternal grandfather was the same ancestry as the Bolsheviks according to declassified KGB files.  

Bolsheviks comprised about 80% of the Communist Party and held high levels in the government. 

Lenin was only 1/4 Russian.

Marxism and Communism are pretty much the same ideologies.  

Bolsheviks murdered at least 20 million Russians, mostly Christians.  Some historians say Communism killed 66 million.  

No doubt there have been evil leaders in the past.  

[beach-mom]

@Dinaki - I haven't read this one, but have read one (fact based) novel and many articles. 

I still can't believe King George of England wouldn't help his lookalike first cousin and best friend and his family. He put the monarchy first, which is understandable, but couldn't he have hidden them at a hidden castle or something? There had to have been a way! 

[Dinaki]

@beach-mom @not only his cousin the king of England refused to have/ hide the Romanovs in Britain but other crowned heads of Europe mainly Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway including Greece considered ways to rescue the family, but they all feared antagonizing the new government in Russia of the time.

After what happened in "the house os Special Purpose "by the Ural Soviet commetee after the execution, only Tsar Nicholas’ death was announced, and it would be months before word of the rest of the family’s fate reached the courts of the entire Europe!

Members of the British royal family had hoped to at least save the children but it was too late( too late King George). In 1919, the British sent a ship to Crimea to evacuate the remaining Romanovs. Descendants of Nicholas II’s two sisters, Olga and Alexandra, survive, as do descendants of previous czars ( tsars).

[beach-mom]

Thanks @Dinaki- I didn't know all that and it was interesting! 

[MoJoV]

@Dinaki  There is another book you may like.  It's The Race to Save the Romanovs.  It delves into what was and wasn't done to save them. It's very interesting and very tragic.