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How history judges Russia's leaders

President Vladimir Putin has been credited with making Russia either stronger or more aggressive, depending on your point of view, but history has yet to deliver the final verdict as the fluctuating views of past Russian leaders clearly illustrate.

Tsar Nicholas and his family were executed on 17 July 1918

Tsar Nicholas II and his whole family were shot.

Almost 60 years later, the house where they were killed was knocked down.

The communists were worried that it would become a place of pilgrimage.

Then communism itself crumbled and the remains of the royal family were recovered.

They had been cast into a pit like rubbish and were reburied alongside their regal ancestors.
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