Bear,
I cut and pasted these quotes you re entered on this thread below, so I might offer my opinion. It might be very good if when people posted a subject on the AP thread, if we had these particular instances of understandings of past findings, so people are better to centering their statements, don’t you think?
When we have something of direct focus of which to base our arguments, it offers something specific, rather than punching back and forth needlessly.When I think of the long drawn out arguments of posters, it is somewhat distracting. Still, Thanks to you, you have brought back focus to what is relevant, and of significant notice, past to present day.
#1] What seems to have happened, as far as I'm concerned, is that a few of the principals involved-Yermakov, Yurovsky, Nikulin, Rodzinsky, Sukhorukov, Kudrin-all of these guys have a pow-wow and it's agreed that Moscow can't know they bungled, so they agree to a cover story-that they burnt the missing bodies. Only this "accepted version" gets considerably tangled as different people tell different versions, from how many were burnt to where and when; all of them only got 1 basic thing in agreement-that bodies were burned. Which is why I tend to think it's a hasty cover story to protect themselves from Moscow.
With this above statement, here it has been discussed to the nth degree by many posters that this was a reality of what Yurovsky said initially. However, nobody in all their postings ever brought out the main information that it was more of a cover story to protect all ‘the murders’ from Moscow.
#2] But in 1922, when he writes his private memoirs, which he keeps in his family and remain a secret until his son Alexander hands them over to the Soviet Government in the early 1970s, he slips up and says he only tried to burn a single body.
Of course, [Yurovsky] his family would keep this a secret, it makes sense! It meant his neck, and of course, his place in history…but by this time the deed was long over, and he was dying
#3] I don't think you can put that down to him being unconcerned about details or the number of victims-having read his 1922 memoir in its entirety, it is very detailed
I agree, he went into exact and specific detail didn’t he.
#4] Given the weight of the evidence, that's why I suspect Yurovsky lied and that Anastasia and Alexei were missing. And as I have said elsewhere, their absence doesn't equal survival, but without their remains it does mean that their deaths on that the night of 16-17 July, 1918, remain only a theory.
Yurovsky was a pathological liar from the word go! Therefore, we remain with a very large question indeed.
Tatiana+