You know Vid, I heard that it was the Ural Soviet, but that info comes from a time before the USSR collapsed. In other words, it might have been convenient for the USSR to put the blame on regional party cell rather than on Lennin.
But...I think a lot of people will always wait on some other hidden evidence to surface some day. Maybe it will, and maybe it wont. But with the case of the Romanovs and the poorly thought out way that it was all done...the whole thing just seems so unsettled, you know?
I mean (and Im no expert).
What is the point of killing the Tsar to prevent him from becomming a rallying symbol. And then hiding or trying to destroy the body? If I were wanting to make a public statement, I would allow the body to be seen and confirmation made by credible sources, even ouside sources.
And the murder of the children? These were the female children.Alexi we can understand, but the Pauline rulles of succession prohibitted the femals from ruling anyway. And the mother Alexandra. The whole story of the bodies being removed from the basement after a rather botched execution, bullets bouncing off gem studded corsets, young women being bayonetted and clubbed to death after the hail of bullets failed to kill them. And Alexi being gunned down so ruthlessly, even the family dog? It seems like something from a Road Warrior movie.
And then the destruction attempts of the bodies, and then two become missing? Throwing them down the four brothers mine shaft and tossing grenades down and only managing to blow off one of Alexandras fingers, and then bringing them back up, trying to burn them, and finally burrying them under a road? Not to mention the rumors that Yurovsky had personally checked the pistols himself before the execution, and some rumors say that he inserted blanks into some guns before assinging a specific target for each man as a way of ensuring that some died while others didnt? And one of the pistols was a Colt M-1911 that was traced to the US Army, and was supposed to be in Kentucky as of 1916 with no explanation of how it came to be in the possession of the Bolsheviks in Yakaterinberg in 1918. And the rumors just go on for miles.
It was like the keystone cops were in charge of this mess. Not hardly what one would expect from the cold efficiency of the later NKVD or the even later KGB.
Reading Yurovskys account seems like a Charlie Chaplain adventure in sick incompetence rather than a well ran opperation. So it is no wonder that the world seems ready to hear the next continuing chapter in the Romanov saga.
And there are so many related rumors flying around, like the rumor of the 18 rolls of celluloid film that was found in the Romanovs effects in the Ipatiev house after the murders. The stories of Marie Romanovs affair with one of the guards, the supposed tunnel from the basement of the Ipatiev house to the house across the street that was supposedly leased by the British govt, the truck breaking down at the railroad watcher tower and two bodies, or perhaps living victims being removed while the Bolsheviks went for water for the overheated truck...And the rumors just go on and on.
And unless I am wrong, the Tsar had the rules of succession changed just before WWI to allow a morganic marriage to permit the heir of one of these marrriages to become Tsar, didnt he? Am I right in this?
The whole thing just seems so hopelessly bungled that it is rife for additional rumors or inuendos to resurface.
Its like the story of the man in the iron mask. No doubt this story has enough fuel to go on for centuries.
