Question by J.A.N.E.T. 9: Would they have murdered Alexei Romanov if he was put on trial?
If the family had a trial, would they have murdered Alexei?
Honestly. They showed no logic in murdering Alexei, nevermind the whole family. Nicholas didn’t want to govern anyways, and he was in many ways relieved and glad he didn’t need to govern anymore. So why on Earth would he try to take back that position?
Also, yeah, I know Alexei was heir, but honestly, what would he have done? He was 13 and had hemophilia.
The bolsheviks were irrational thinking, greedy, blood thirsty murderers.
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Answer by bearstirringfromcave
Heck, conspiracy, treason, all could be viewed as ‘crimes’ by a court of law in a ‘madhouse’ – – – bear in mind, though, it was not simply the Bolsheviks there were many other factions fighting for control of Russia and they share in the guilt – – –
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PS – – – Had there been a trial most likely the Czar and perhaps the Czarina would have been found guilty and killed – – – as for Alexi, well people irrationality cling to the idea of Monarchy and thus he would have a threat to the state as the heir as well as his sisters – – – a compassionate court would likely have jailed them for life or quietly put them to death because alive there would always be people willing to stir up a fight to restore the monarchy.
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advocate172000 says
get real, whats the point of using crap expressions like ''if'', ''should'' ''could'' ''might'' and as for the opinions regarding ''bolsheviks'' it's self evident the questioner has no idea of Russian politics and even less intelligence when it comes to understanding anything about these things.
Dancie says
2 points, you worthless scum.
Jason B says
They were indeed bloodthirsty murderers, but they were not irrational.
One thing you have to bear in mind is that symbolism is very important in Russia. The Russians are traditionally a very pious and mystical people, with a veneration for icons.
The Bolsheviks understood this very well. That is why when Lenin died they had him embalmed and put on display in a casket, like a saint. They put his statue everywhere and turned him into a divine figure that could do no wrong. Later the Cult of Personality was transferred to Stalin. When Stalin died in 1953 there were scenes of mass grief and hysteria in Russia.
Do you see what this has to do with Alexei? If the Tsar had been executed alone, Alexei would have turned into a mystical figure for the Bolsheviks' opponents. I don't doubt that the Russian population would very quickly have shared in this veneration for the young "Tsar". The Bolsheviks violently confiscated the peasants' grain and land, and even massacred the sailors at Krondstadt, so of course there was widespread popular resistance to them.
The Bolsheviks were very conscious of the experience of the French Revolution. They were paranoid about a "counter-revolution", because they knew from history that all revolutions breed a conservative reaction. In previous history, in countries such as France and England which had executed their kings, the descendants of the king had ALWAYS returned to power ten or twenty years later. They weren't going to let the same thing happen in Russia.
By doing away with Alexei and the whole royal family, they made sure that Alexei could not become a symbolic focus for opposition to their rule, then or at any point in the future.
Here is a list of all the Romanovs that were murdered by the Bolsheviks. It was not just the immediate family who were killed: so were the Tsar's brothers, cousins etc. None of them were ever tried.
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It was deliberate policy to kill all members of the Romanov family, because of the possibility one of them might reclaim the throne. The age and personality of the victims were irrelevant to this policy. The ONLY Romanovs who survived the Civil War were the ones who managed to escape from Russia.