60,000 Russians get got marched to the site of the murder of Russia's concluding Tsar. As reported yesteryear leftie Great Britain rag the Guardian:
"Holding aloft icons, crosses too portraits of Russia’s concluding tsar, tens of thousands of pilgrims get got made a 13-mile walk close the Russian urban gist of Ekaterinburg to grade the anniversary of the execution of Nicholas II. In the early on hours of Mon morning, the pilgrims walked to the spot where Nicholas too his solid unit of measurement were executed 99 years ago."
The pilgrims reached the Monastery of the Holy Royal Passion-bearers at Ganina Yama at close 7:00 AM. Here they were met yesteryear ringing bells. A service of intercession was held at "Mine Number 7," the house where the murderers attempted to shroud the prove of their nighttime deed, carried out on the orders of Vladimir Lenin, whose gruesome corpse nevertheless rests inward slice exterior the Kremlin.
Metropolitan Kirill of Verkhoturye too Ekaterinburg addressed the gathering as follows:
"This cross procession went non solely along urban gist streets, but through fields too forests. And the primary matter is that it tapped into our souls. You could hardly abide by fifty-fifty ane mortal forthwith who would stay indifferent to this day, to the service too procession, which is an picture of our repentance too our love for the Tsar too his motherland—Holy Rus’. We give cheers y'all all, honey brothers too sisters, too nosotros promise that every year, when the Lord volition give us the grace, nosotros volition proceed to tally this sacred cross procession to this holy place."
I'm non fifty-fifty Russian too this hits me inward the feels.
OK, Tsar Nicholas wasn't the best leader for the Russian people, too he evidently made some bad mistakes, but nobody would genuinely assay to claim he was a bad guy. He comes across equally a moral homo of proficient intentions, who loved his people, but had a lot of bad luck too worse advice. So it is proficient to encounter that many Russians forthwith revere the members of the Imperial Family slaughtered on that twenty-four hours equally martyrs too saints.
OK, that mightiness last pushing things a petty besides far the other way, equally yesteryear most definitions existence a saint includes to a greater extent than than getting a Commie bullet inward the brain. But this reckon is no doubtfulness driven yesteryear the deep sense of loss that the Russian people experience at what followed the overthrow of their Tsar -- namely lxx years of genocidal Communist tyranny, when the Russian people were ruled over yesteryear a gang of self-serving ethnic minorities too barbarous thugs, followed yesteryear closed to a decade when Russian Federation was a laughing stock nether the croney capitalism of Boris Yeltsin.
Love of Tsar Nicholas II too his solid unit of measurement is love of a truthful Russian identity. By the dominion that whatever Communists loathe is in all likelihood proficient for whatever country, isn't it fourth dimension to for Russian Federation to evict Lenin from his tomb yesteryear the Kremlin too select dorsum the hereditary monarchy?
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| Seven of the 100 1000000 victims of Communism inward the 20th century. |