July 16, 1918 murder by the Bolsheviks

THE EXECUTION OF THE ROMANOVS AND CZECHOSLOVAK CONNECTION
On the night of July 16, 1918, Russian ex-Czar Nicholas and his wife and five children were executed in a basement by the Bolsheviks. They were brutally executed by gunfire then bayoneted and shot again. Their bodies were buried in the nearby forest and grenades were used to erase any trace of them.
It is said that that the monarch (and family) had been executed on the order of Uralispolkom (Ural Executive Committee Soviet) under pressure posed by the approach of the Czechoslovaks, whom they feared would free him.
By June 1918, the Czechoslovak Legion, sided with the counter-revolutionary White Army, in the Russian Civil War. The army was steadily approaching Yekaterinburg, near where the family was imprisoned at the house in Ekaterinburg, and they feared that these forces were on a rescue mission for the Romanovs. Later that month the decision was made to execute the family.
It is true that there was a connection between the …More