The Date is July 17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, you are about to wittness history. A man with a black beard and black hair is being follwed by 11 men, women, and children. A short strong man carefully carries a young thin 13 year old boy. A taller woman follows him, she is followed by 4 young women. Behind them are 4 others a cook, a maid, a valet, and a doctor. The short strong man puts the young boy in a chair next to the taller woman who is his mother ,the short man stands next to his son. The four young women are standing behind their brother, mother, and father. Next to them are the cook, maid, valet, and doctor. They are huddled together in a small room barely 13X7 feet big. The man with the dark beard comes into the room with his right hand in his pocket and a piece of paper in his left. He directs the 11 people to stand in 2 rows. He reads the paper which says, "Because your family persists in their attack on Soviet Russia, The Ural Executive Commitee has decided to excecute you." The short man turns to his family and turns back to the dark gentleman and says, "Wha.. What?" The dark gentleman repeats the order again and 12 armed men begin shooting. What you have just witnessed is the excecution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The short man is Nicholas II, his son is Alexei, his wife Alexandra, his daughters Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia. The cook is Kharitinov, the maid Anna Demidova the valet Trupp, and the doctor is Eugene Botkin. The dark gentleman is Yakov Yurovsky. I've always been taught and believed in 2 wrongs don't make a right, but in this case maybe it could have been. If you gave me a big old O.J. knife and Yurovsky in a locked room, only 1 person would come out...me. Here I want to put a quote from the book Tsar, The Lost World Of Nicholas And Alexandra "The Russian Revolution, cites the murder of the Romanovs in July 1918 as the moment when history made a turn toward genocide, when "millions of nameless beings" were placed on a list of expandables and the world entered "an entirely new moral realm". That realm is with us still. In a world grown accustomed, even inured, to the slaughter of innocents, these seven faces and this fatefull room might serve as epigraphs for all the horrors the twentieth century would hold in store."

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