a clinic on restating the obvious from the NYT and Russia.
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Supreme Court on Wednesday declared the last czar and his murdered family to be victims of political repression — a decision that helps Russia move toward closing a chapter in its tortured history.
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Nicholas II abdicated in 1917 as revolutionary fervor swept Russia, and he and his family were detained.The czar, his wife Alexandra and their son and four daughters were fatally shot by a Bolshevik firing squad on July 17, 1918, in a basement room of a merchant’s house where they were held in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg.
That whole shot by a Bolshevik firing squad thing should have been a pretty good clue.
Get a load of this headline, “Court Rules That Czar Was a Victim”. took a court for that. Only in Russia.