The Russian Monarchial Empire

Introduction: What Really Happened

In 1917, Vladimir Lenin founded the Red Party in Russia, indicting two revolutions and starting the Russian Civil War. As a result, Tsar Nicholas Romanov the Second abdicated from the throne later that year, officially ending the monarchial legacy in Russia.

For the paranoid Lenin, that was not enough, so the next year he ordered members of the Red Army to kill the whole family in Yekaterinburg. Though the war lasted for another four years, the Red Party had essentially swiped victory from the Royalist supporters.

This formed the Soviet Union in 1922, just after the Ottoman Empire fell, which would lead to a power play between Lev, Trotsky, and Stalin, with the latter winning in the end, beginning a tri-decade reign of terror, with the death of 20 million people under his hand.

It would end up getting worse, too. Infamous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler capitalised on the fears that Communism brought, took over the German National Socialist party, and made it the hate group we know today. The development of nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World A caused panic between Russia and its former wartime ally North America, particularly the United States. This resulted in the Cold War, which lasted for almost the second half of the twentieth century, ending in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR.

Here's is what would have happened if the Romanov family were never massacred...