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Created: 2025-07-16 04:45:00 UTC

On this night in 1918, Bolshevik troops shoot and bayonet Russia's royal family in a Yekaterinburg cellar. A communist party newspaper cynically proclaims the Romanovs were "... shot without Bourgeois formalities but in accordance with our new democratic principles."

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