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Putin, Franco and the Tsar

11 July 2015

9:00 AM

11 July 2015

9:00 AM

I’m sure I wasn’t the only one panting over the Daily Express’s report that ‘Vladimir Putin “wants” to reinstate Russia’s royal family and bring back the Tsars’ (24 June). You don’t have to be an Orthodox autocrat to relish the idea of Bolshevism’s greatest symbolic victory, the deposition and execution of the Romanovs, being turned right on its head.

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