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...executioners recalled--and the way some of the women who hid behind cushions were finished off with bayonets. The killers took a certain pride in their work: in a 1964 interview taped for secret Communist Party archives, one of the execution party jovially referred to the corpses as golubchiki--the little dears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Final Rites For The Czar | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

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