Russia favours Tsar over Stalin

Ninety years after he was executed, Tsar Nicholas II is leading a tight race to be named the greatest Russian in history.

Russia favours Tsar over Stalin

Ninety years after he was executed, Tsar Nicholas II is leading a tight race to be named the greatest Russian in history.

His closest competitors are mass-murdering dictator Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet state that killed the last Tsar and his entire family.

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