Russian Pilgrims Mark 100th Anniversary of Czar's Execution

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: US News and World Report

MOSCOW (AP) — THOUSANDS of Russian pilgrims have walked in a procession marking the 100th anniversary of the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family.

Russia's last czar, his wife and five children were executed by Bolshevik soldiers in the city of Yekaterinburg 18 months after Nicholas abdicated in the February 1917 revolution. They had been moved from detention in St. Petersburg and then in Siberia as the Russian Civil War raged.

The procession started out late Monday from the Church on the Blood, which was built on the site of the execution, and ended Tuesday at the site where the bodies were dumped 21 kilometers (13 miles) away.

The procession was led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has canonized the czar and his family as martyrs. Kirill then led a religious service Tuesday where the bodies were dumped.



Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-07-17/russian-pilgrims-mark-100th-anniversary-of-czars-execution

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[Jake Stern]

1. The Bolsheviks should have done to the Romanovs what Mengistu Haile Miriam did to Haile Selassie

Buried them in a place befitting their legacy: under the shitter.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. What Lenin brought was far worse

As bad as tsarism was, the Bolsheviks were a special breed of evil.
Lenin's pickled corpse should be a public urinal.

[Jake Stern]

4. More like part of an amusement park haunted house

Guaranteed to spook the shit outta people!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Common citizenry has frowned on gratuitous opulence more than a few times in history

All that greed and money came from somewhere