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Tsar Nicholas II and Joseph Stalin battle to be Russia's greatest
Tsar Nicholas II and Joseph Stalin battle to be Russia's greatest
Last Modified: 18 Jul 2008
By:
Rags Martel
A national television quest for the greatest Russian finds Tsar Nicholas II head-to-head with Joseph Stalin.
Ninety years after Russia's royal family was killed by the Bolshevik revolutionaries, the cult around the Romanovs is greater than ever.
Boosted by confirmation yesterday that remains found in Yekaterinburg are those of Tsar Nicholas II's children, royalists have been marking the anniversary of their deaths.
Rags Martel reports.
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