The Czar's Role In Preserving The Russian Revolution

Cries and shouts echo from outside, the Czar’s subjects are in revolt. Suddenly, shots ring out, the Czar looks to his trembling family, he looks down for a moment in sorrow, his cousin the King of England could not grant him and his family asylum because the Czar was the source of a grand problem. The doors crash open and the Romanovs are taken prisoner and hauled into the Siberian wilderness never to be seen again. The Soviet Union is born from the bloody and brutal death of one Europe’s longest lived dynasties. The Soviet Union was a cold and brutal place to live. Most of the Americans viewed it and its’ inhabitants as far colder and more brutal than any nation or people could ever be. The Soviet Union had a government that had control over

They preferred to wait and strike when the west would be weakest after the fall of the Tsar, the Soviet leadership became very cautious of what they did and were antagonistic. They murdered the Romanovs simply because if the royal family lived, they could have been reinstated and all the blood spilled would have been in vain. It would have been too great of a risk to keep the royal family alive due to that if there was a possible escape and a Romanov made it to friendly territory there would be an invasion of Soviet Russia and the regime would face defeat. They would have been hunted down until they were found. When a relative of a deposed monarch is still breathing the chance of an installment of the monarchy may be inevitable. The allies of the previous regime will seek the destruction of the new preserve the status quo. That is why the Romanovs were brutally murdered to preserve the fledgling Soviet

The Soviets also wanted to expand their nation even if it hurt other countries. The USSR was not a paradise either, people were oppressed, starved, tortured, brainwashed, and it was a one-party state. Which their country admitted to after the death of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet Union was created “in the embrace of great Russia.” This excerpt from the Hymn of the USSR shows that there are some parallels between east and west meaning that Soviet Russia was just as imperialistic as any western power. The USSR held sway from Berlin to Pyongyang, Beijing, and Vietnam. Maoist china followed Stalin’s model as did Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam as well as Kim Il Sung’s North Korea. Stalin’s model consisted of bloody purges, brainwashing, cult of personality, and a concept called infallibility of the leader. The Culture of communism varied in each country where it held power. Each regime censors the press, cracks down on dissidence, and allows very little to no