User blog comment:YNot1989/The Sandwich that Changed the World./@comment-440250-20090731104124

Em, i do not think convicted terrorists such as saddam.

The hatred for the romanovs was because of the war. many suspected nicholas's wife alexandra had betrayed Russia with Rasputin.

You also forget that during the civil war walls were covered with slogans such as "down with lenin and horsemat - give us the tsar and pork"

Also, the aristocracy and others would NEVER allow the Bolsheviks into power. Tsarist Russia is not Weimar Germany. After 1912, the Duma became a rubber stamp.

Worlld War 1 was three nails in the coffin for Nicholas: his credibility, his throne and his life.