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[Christians only] The act of faith of the Russian Emperor Nicolas II he is venerated for as a saint martyr

katya1965

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It is his fidelity to his duty as the guardian of the theocracy, a God given state system. It is his refusal to give up the theocracy.

In march 1917 (long before his murder) he was captured by generals traitors and he spent 17 months in captivity together with his family. His jailers wanted him to sign the abdication from the throne, that is the abandon of the theocracy.

But Nicholas II has never signed the abdication manifesto. The opinion that he did is a falsehood peddled by the bolsheviks and non-critically accepted by the mainstream historians. Let’s see some arguments to this point.

Nicholas II definitely was negotiating in 1917 his stepping down with transfer of power to a member of his family. But this did not work out. It is important to note: he was ready to give up his personal power. But he refused to give up the theocracy.

The main piece of evidence is the absence of the abdication manifesto signed by him. The bolsheviks who destroyed the Russian Empire were interested in denigrating the monarchy and pre-revolutionary Russia in general. They took over the archives, selectively uncovered and/or falsified documents and exterminated possible witnesses in order to vilify the tsar and his rule, and to push their propaganda. They murdered tsar and his family. It was important for them to broadcast the interpretation of this event that it was no the tsar who they murdered, but a private citizen Nikolay Romanov. So the leninist murderers needed the abdication manifesto as a proof of their version. If they had it in their hands, they would have presented it. But the strongest piece they have extracted from their archives and published is the typewritten page with erased parts, hiding the date and true origin of that page, and with a facsimile instead of signature, reported by their "experts" as a signature made by pencil. Official legend says that this paper was done in the tsar's train traveling from the commander-in-chief's headquarters in Mogilev towards St. Petersburg on March 2, 1917, and that it reproduces the text from three telegrams received from Gen. Alexeev. But then it is written on a wrong paper, and the whole process of preparation of a document to be signed by the tsar went off the usual protocole, in spite of the fact that the Tsar's Chancellery car was in that train. Also the content of it is incongruous, the first and the third thirds calling the people to cling around their emperor at the hard times, and the middle three sentences being the actual abdication, which is not in apparent contradiction with the content of the first and third parts, but also has no obvious semantic connection with them.

Whatever may have happened in the making of this draft, the draft was never finalized and accepted by the tsar, otherwise the Chancellery would have produced an execution copy and the latter would have been signed by the tsar.

So it was not an abdication but a forcible seizure of power by conspirators, who placed the emperor in detention and took his family hostage. They had never regained liberty until their assassination on Lenin's order.

See
for arguments proving the invalidity of the official version with further references.
 
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