Who could've given Tsar Nicholas II and his family refuge aside from the British and the French?

They wouldnt be safe anywhere but in the US, if Stalin could have Trotsky killed in freaking Mexico, you can be sure he is going to have them killed in any European country, Denmark and other places will be within Stalin's reach.
 
They wouldnt be safe anywhere but in the US, if Stalin could have Trotsky killed in freaking Mexico, you can be sure he is going to have them killed in any European country, Denmark and other places will be within Stalin's reach.
Trotsky was actively scheming for control over the socialist world. I'm not sure the Tsar and his children would be trying to insert themselves into Soviet intrigue in a similar manner.

Most likely Stalin settles for compromising their inner circle and occasionally bringing up the Tsars as a boogyman to justify why his faction must be the only faction with any power (complete with the ability to source 100% genuine "records" of which soviet officials had contact with the royalists).
 
Trotsky was actively scheming for control over the socialist world. I'm not sure the Tsar and his children would be trying to insert themselves into Soviet intrigue in a similar manner.

Most likely Stalin settles for compromising their inner circle and occasionally bringing up the Tsars as a boogyman to justify why his faction must be the only faction with any power (complete with the ability to source 100% genuine "records" of which soviet officials had contact with the royalists).

Trotsky had no way at all from threatening Stalin after he was out of the USSR and he still killed him.

The Romanov actually could had potentially been used by any invader to challenge Stalin. Given how Stalin thought it was a matter of time before the capitalist powers attack the USSR the choice is obvious.

Let's remember that Lenin was a successful plot by the Germans who sent it back to Russia to weaken it. Stalin should be aware of this and was insanely paranoid to not consider the Romanov could be used to pull a reverse Lenin.
 
Trotsky had no way at all from threatening Stalin after he was out of the USSR
He had plenty, he was still active on the international communist scene where his name still had weight, and he had thousands of fanatical adherents denouncing communism in one country.

The Romanov actually could had potentially been used by any invader to challenge Stalin. Given how Stalin thought it was a matter of time before the capitalist powers attack the USSR the choice is obvious.
And yet OTL's Stalin had a clear preference for coopting the White Emigre movements.
 
Is it Tsar or Czar?


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Its Царь.
Preferred transliteration into English is Tsar.
 
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