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Czar Nikolai II visiting the Crimean Regiment in Livadia and arrives for a banquet with Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich

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  • Re: "Total freedom is anarchy":

    Democratic freedom is not anarchy!

  • Nicholas II combined a curious combination of febrile sensitivity for his family and immediate circle with an almost solipsistic disregard for his subjects. A revealing anecdote is a letter he wrote to his mother in 1902 in which he justified the brutal Russification of Finland and then went on to share his personal grief of the death of his favourite pet dog which had caused him to cry all day. The Romanov's didn't lead Russia they haunted it and their example poisoned the well of posterity.

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  • Great Video !

  • didnt know russians where mute in the early 1900's...

  • According the great intellect Trotsky:

    At the very dawn of his reign Nicholas praised the Phanagoritsy regiment as “fine fellows” for shooting down workers. He always “read with satisfaction” how they flogged with whips the bob-haired girl-students, or cracked the heads of defenceless people during Jewish pogroms. This crowned black sheep gravitated with all his soul to the very dregs of society, the Black Hundred hooligans.

  • He not only paid them generously from the state treasury, but loved to chat with them about their exploits, and would pardon them when they accidentally got mixed up in the murder of an opposition deputy. Witte, who stood at the head of the government during the putting down of the first revolution, has written in his memoirs: “When news of the useless cruel antics of the chiefs of those detachments reached the sovereign, they met with his approval, or in any case his defence.”

  • In answer to the demand of the governor-general of the Baltic States that he stop a certain lieutenant-captain, Richter, who was “executing on his own authority and without trial non-resistant persons,” the tzar wrote on the report: “Ah, what a fine fellow!” Such encouragements are innumerable. This “charmer,” without will, without aim, without imagination, was more awful than all the tyrants of ancient and modern history.

  • @SweetJaya1978 Problem with your theory is that there is no evidence that Nicholas II played a role in organaizing any pogroms. So instead of screaming and crying about how he was an " evil autocratic tyrant" I would suggest showing evidence to support your claims.

  • Но николашка смешной. Жалко что преступники большевики его расстреляли. Был бы у нас сейчас король как в англии.

  • Во бля офицеры какие. Два метра ростом, подтянутые, вежливые, образованные. Не то что нынешнее племя.

  • @samk1101 Perhaps there are not video records of that. However there is countless recorded evidence to suggest otherwise. There are also very many photos of him talking to peasant elders. The only people who lived in a dreamland far removed from the reality of Russia, was the so called left wing " intelligentsia". Russia is still suffering to this day because of the mistakes those idiotic baboons made ! Bozhe tsara hrani !

  • Not one of the videos show him actually talking to his people, asking them how they were doing, what they need, how is their life. Not one. He lived in a dreamland of a palace far removed from the reality of life in Russia. He was warned, especially by his British cousins, but he refused to listen to them.

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