Question by Katelynn: Why were the servants of the Romanov Family killed along with them?
If the Whites were nearing the area where the Romanovs were being held, and the Reds were afraid that the Romanovs would be put back into power, what was the point of killing the servants along with them? Was it a different reason why they killed them all then? Because I honestly do not understand that at all why they would kill the servants along with the family…..
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Answer by Navigator
I can think of a couple of reasons:
1) The Reds were seeking to eliminate as many traces of the old regime as possible. That would include the servants, so they got whacked along with the Czar and his family.
2) Dead men tell no tales. In killing the servants, they eliminated potential witnesses, just in case the Romanovs’ executions ever came under the scrutiny of a criminal trial.
EDIT – and also …
3) Dead men also don’t tell any stories about what the old regime was like. This ties back into #1 above.
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miaow. says
I think maybe partly to make a point, killing off everything associated with the Tsar… Also, probably because it was easier… just to kill off everyone in the house, and they could've been caught much easier…
These are just guesses though.
paul s says
simple, these people were witnesses and need to be removed also,
that is why they burned the bodies threw acid on them then dumped them down a mine shaft.
without proof that they had been killed the reds could deny it and claim many different stories as to were the Romanov's were or what had happened to them. it was only many years later that they admitted what they had done, before that they claimed any number of things, (that they had fled to England or France and were living in disguise, or that the whites/bandits had killed them etc) no one had any proof that they were dead, no bodies, no witness, nothing, everyone knew the reds had them, but no one could prove what had happened to them
Aaron says
Because they didnt want anyone to know who did it and what they did to the little Princesses