Question by chick7chicky: Lenin and the murder of the czar and his family?
why do you think lenin felt it was important to hide the truth about the murder of the czar and his family?
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Answer by Finnegan
“Hide” what? The Bolsheviks openly publicised the execution of the Imperial Family two days after the event. The only significant mistruth was the concealing of the remains, so as to stop them being used by the Tsarists of the White Army as any sort of relic, or their graves as any sort of shrine.
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Spellbound says
Deniability.
Lenin let the World think that the orders came from the Socialist Revolutionary dominated 'Ekaterinburg Soviet. This was so that had the civil war led to a Bolshevik defeat, then he could deny that the orders came from his leadership.
Burning & hiding the bodies gave them another shot at deniability. Again, had the White armies taken 'Ekaterinburg, then he could state that the Bolsheviks left them in good health – it must have been the White army that killed the Imperial Family.
The Bolsheviks never mentioned their role in how they died, although it was common knowledge.
In 2008 the Russian Supreme Court admitted that the Tsar's murder was a political act, not the act of an out of control city soviet.
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