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Originally Posted by SpicyM
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The only good communist is a dead communist.
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One of the reasons anti-communist movement in the west was that Russia and UK monarchies were relatives. Russian Emperor Nicholas II was cousin of George V King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India. During revolution, Nicholas II was killed by communists.
Nicholas II or Nikolai II (Russian: Николай II Алекса́ндрович, tr. Nikolay II Aleksandrovich; 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 ? 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw the fall of the Russian Empire from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Due to the Khodynka Tragedy, anti-Semitic pogroms, Bloody Sunday, the violent suppression of the 1905 Revolution, the execution of political opponents and his perceived responsibility for the Russo-Japanese War, he was given the nickname Nicholas the Bloody by his political adversaries. Soviet historiography portrayed Nicholas as a weak and incompetent leader, whose decisions led to military defeats and the deaths of millions of his subjects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia
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George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 ? 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
He was the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra), and grandson of the then reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria. From the time of his birth, he was third in the line of succession behind his father and his own elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1891, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On the death of his grandmother in 1901, George's father became King-Emperor of the British Empire, and George was created Prince of Wales. He succeeded his father in 1910. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia
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