Why was Tsar Nicholas and his family assassinated?

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I randomly thought about this at the middle of the night for some reason.

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Answer by ammianus
Pro Czarist White Russian forces were approaching Yekaterinburg,where the Czar and his family were being held under house arrest.

Had these White Russians succeeded in freeing the Czar,they would have had a figurehead leader as an alternative head of state to Lenin.The Czar and his family were therefore all killed to prevent this happening,and to prevent the possibility of it happening in the future.

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