I'm 16, and I don't really spend much time on this particular section of the board, because, even though I myself don't really beleive any of the immediate IF survived, I find that the bashing that goes on here is disheartening. I find these stories of survival interesting, if outlandish, because they could be true- at least some of them. The whole execution was poorly done- who knows if it actually happened at all? What if those bones found in Siberia were just a government cover up to end speculation? Weirder things have happened. Alexander I's body was missing from it's grave, for example. The Soviet government certainly wasn't the best when it came to keeping things in order- politics messed things up then as it does now, and there is every possibility in the world that the IF, after arriving in Ekaterinberg, were not shot at all, but rather...who knows? Maybe their executioners panicked, dropped the bodies in the woods, and left, and maybe someone survived. There is always a chance. I don't encourage these people, but it interests me to think what if...
I really form my own opinion- but the stories have interested me enough, that, if I had the power, I'd definatley re-open the case. A lot of what's on the AP is true and accurate, but a lot of what's considered 'true and accurate' by history has been found false in later years.
When I check in on this part of the board, it's mainly out of curiosity. What if someone survived? They'd be dead by now, certainly, but WHAT IF?!
I'm a big what if person.
