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Thousands honour last tsar at mineshaft burial site

 

Thousands honour last tsar at mineshaft burial site

Nicholas II, his family were killed 90 years ago by Bolshevik agents

AFP

Published: Thursday, July 17, 2008

GANINA YAMA, Russia - Thousands of people on Thursday paid their respects at a former mine in central Russia where the remains of murdered last tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were dumped 90 years ago.

"When the tsarist family was murdered no one defended them. The people were asleep," Archbishop Vikenty of Yekaterinburg told journalists at the close of commemorations of the killings carried out by Bolshevik agents. "Now people are waking up and reflecting on what they did, are coming to atone for their sins, for the fact that they stayed silent."

The archbishop said 40,000 people had joined an 18-kilometre procession to the site outside Yekaterinburg, although the number could not be confirmed.

The event reflected the improved fortunes of the Orthodox Church since the fall of the Soviet Union, in which religion was repressed.

Following the slaying on the night of July 16 to 17, 1918, the bodies of the Romanovs were burnt and doused in acid and dumped in the mine, before later being moved to another spot for more effective concealment.

On Thursday, pilgrims lit candles at the forest glade where the mine was located, now planted with white lilies.

"This is a place of great tragedy for Russia," said a visitor from Serbia's capital Belgrade, Bengin Dragica. "We very much respect the emperor, Nicholas. Everything got worse for Russia after this."

Yury Timoshin, a member of a monarchist organisation from the city of Lipetsk, asserted that "ever since 1918 the authorities have been illegitimate."

"They took power in a bloody revolution, whereas a tsar is anointed by God," he said.

Following an overnight vigil Wednesday to Thursday, another was to be held Thursday to Friday at the nearby town of Alapayevsk in honour of another six Romanov family members murdered there the night after Nicholas' death.

[Stoat]

[Huntress]

"They took power in a bloody revolution, whereas a tsar is anointed by God," he said.

The Tsar and his family certainly didn't deserve their fate, but the above statement is a bit much. Nicholas II was a terrible tsar: weak-willed, none too bright, and totally unprepared to rule. Still, the Bolsheviks managed to do an even worse job than he did.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Let us not forget that the rise of militant Islam was slow and wrought with mainly internal conflict...until they saw the success of the Bolshevik revolution.

When they saw how quickly and thoroughly unrepentant and extreme violence succeeded, they switched their tactics to mimic those.

They are all tyrants.

[ASA Vet]

The skynews version from less than 2 hours ago.

[GadareneDemoniac]

I was a little surprised that this article was written from the viewpoint that the cold-blooded murder of this family was a bad thing, but then I realized that it was NOT written by the hacks at Associated Press or Roto-Reuters.

[calex59]

"When the tsarist family was murdered no one defended them. The people were asleep," Archbishop Vikenty of Yekaterinburg told journalists at the close of commemorations of the killings carried out by Bolshevik agents. "Now people are waking up and reflecting on what they did, are coming to atone for their sins, for the fact that they stayed silent."

This is just a stupid statement. The people alive in Russia today had nothing to do with the killing or defending of the Tsar and his Family. The a**hat communist did. Now what they should be feeling is that they will resist any attempt(and it is happening as we speak here)to reinstate communism into Russia and to become as free as they possibly can. Goes for us in the USA also. Look at history, this is what Obama and the other Democrats want for us, thuggery, murder, and slavery.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

All this hand wringing over the execution of the Czar and his immediate family is an exercise in fascist nostalgia. From what I’ve read of history, the Nicholas II was as much an airhead as Obama. He was murdered why? because his subjects were happy, contented workers living fulfilling lives under a benevolent monarch?! As a Republican, I find monarchy a hideous concept that needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth. I have no sympathy for monarchs, oligarchs, royalty, aristocracy, plutocracy or kleptocracy. European history is one long tale of discontent, rebellion and hatred for the tyrannical excesses of the nobility. Frankly, the Czar got what he deserved. Had his assassins been religious mystics, lone nuts or midget circus clowns, I’d raise my flagon to them with a “well done”.