On This Day: Bolsheviks Murder Romanovs, July 17, 1918

"The shooting of the Romanov family, of the Russian Imperial House of Romanov, and those who chose to accompany them into exile, Dr. Eugene Botkin, Anna Demidova, Alexei Trupp, and Ivan Kharitonov took place in Yekaterinburg on July 17, 1918 on the orders of Vladimir Lenin."

And at Bob Belvedere's, "The House of Special Purpose."

RELATED: Claire Berlinski, "A Hidden History of Evil":

It is widely understood that the Nazis’ ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the Führer principle—led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz. It is not nearly as well understood that Communism led just as inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps. Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.