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Why was tzar Nicholas and his family murdered

Answer 1

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The Romanovs were to be killed because they were the supreme symbols of autocracy. The irony was that, in Yekaterinburg, the Bolsheviks had turned them into the opposite of aristocrats. In the words of Evdokiya Semenova, “they were not gods. They were actually ordinary people like us.Explanation:

Answer 2

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As a reaction to the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks in Russia, a counterrevolutionary army, the "White" army of Gen. Kornilov was formed with the purpose to remove them from power and also make Russia rejoin World War One, which it had got out of with by signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. Fearing that for legitimacy the counterrevolutionaries may want to restore tsarist rule, the Bolsheviks murdered the former Czar Nicholas II and his family that they had been holding hostage in Ekaterinburg.

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