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Originally Posted by malloyd
That sounds like a stretch. The Czar was after all an ally in the still ongoing war. The British public might even warm to him as a victim of those obviously far worse treacherous bastards who deposed him and then betrayed the alliance. And having him does provide advantages to the allied intervention in the Russian civil war, which is still necessary as long as World War I is ongoing. He might complicate it thereafter, but that's later.
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At the time the Czar was immensely unpopular. Being murdered changed this. Executed royalty seems to be highly popular. Mary Queen of Scots, Marie Antoinette, Maximilian of Mexico, Czar Nicholas, all gained dramatically in popularity once they were dead.