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2008-10-02 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia's last czar declared victim of repression

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Help! Help! I'm being repressed!!

Posted by NIck II 2008-10-02 07:34|| 2008-10-02 07:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this a translation error? Because I'd call the murder of the Romanovs an act of lese majeste. In order to be repressed, you have to be the member of a subject class, not an overthrown ruler.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-10-02 08:40|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-02 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Gee. Thanks. Does me a lotta good...

Posted by The Ghost of Nicholas II 2008-10-02 09:35|| 2008-10-02 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 lol

Posted by sinse 2008-10-02 10:53|| 2008-10-02 10:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Nicholas II was an inbred moron who probably had more to do with the start of World War I than anybody else. For all the people who died because of his stupidity he probably deserved what he got. For decades Russians tried to get the Romanov family to loosen their grip on that country and introduce democratic reforms. If they had followed the example of England and allowed their country to evolve into a constitutional monarchy they could be sitting pretty with the Windsors today and that whole bloody business with the Bolsheviks could have been avoided. Not to mention World War I, World War II, the Cold War, Afghanistan, etc...A "great history"? Russia has an interesting history. They won important victories against the likes of Napoleon and Hitler. But there was a lot of drunken, squalid, stupid, bloody foolishness. Never count them out though. They have a way of hanging on and holding on through incredible hardships.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-10-02 12:33|| 2008-10-02 12:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Never count them out though. They have a way of hanging on and holding on through incredible hardships.

The next ice age will do them in.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-10-02 16:09|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-02 16:09|| Front Page Top

#7 The next ice age will do them in.

Unless Global Warming makes them the breadbasket of the world.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-10-02 19:40|| 2008-10-02 19:40|| Front Page Top

#8 you need to rehab the last czar before you officially declare yourself as the new czar

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-10-02 21:45|| 2008-10-02 21:45|| Front Page Top

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