Many assassinations occur due to political, religious, and cultural reasons. Some assassinations occur without explanation, or with explanations that seem illogical or unjust. The assassination of Czar Nicholas II was believed to be necessary for the overthrow of an outdated government regime because the Bolsheviks wanted the control of Russia for the people. However, it was unjust because the Romanov family was executed as well.
Czar Nicholas II, also known as Nikolai Romanov, was the czar of Russia from 1894-1917. He became the Russian Emperor upon the death of his father and carried on his nationalism and autocratic ways of ruling (Nicholas II, pgph 1). Under his ruling, the quality of life for the average person was mainly restricted to peasant agriculture and a life of poverty with little to no equality for the people. Nicholas was not a very good leader, and when he was coronated, he told a friend “I am not prepared to be a tsar. I never wanted to become one. I know nothing of the business of ruling,” (Russian Czar Abdicates, pgph 6). It was a challenging time for any leader as many were calling
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This is suggesting that it was needed to free Russia from Nicholas’s power, even though he had already abdicated. Although it is understood that the purpose of killing his family was to ensure an end to the Romanov reign, these murders were unjust because the entire family along with their help was killed as well. Nicholas II was a poor government figure for Russia, however death was the incorrect punishment. An alternative plan would have been to imprison the family to prevent the Tsar’s children taking over power rather than killing them. The punishment was unjust for the Czar and his