To repeat, it was Churchill who preferred the restoration of the Romanovs and Hohenzollerns both, if only as figureheads, to prevent a Lenin or Hitler. In its first few months alone, Lenin’s secret police executed almost 15,000 people, nearly twice the number of those executed by the Romanovs in the entire previous hundred years.[28] This then was the 20th century: the axe-like ending of the old world with all of its stabilizing traditions, allowing for the rise of abstract and utopian movements from the Nazis to the Bolsheviks to Pol Pot and Ayatollah Khomeini, each in its own way
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