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the romanov's must have somehow pissed off the bankers. Plenty of them lived but they don't get to retake over as monarchs now after 1991. I wonder if yeah, the communist revolution was fake, but there really were true believers for decades that made it a bit hard for oligarchs to swindle and graft so they wanted the fake vestige of socialism gone to have even less of a barrier to steal everything not nailed down.