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Originally Posted by Astromancer
No matter how much it might benefit the Brits to hand the Czar over to the Bolsheviks they simply wouldn't do it. I seem to have stumbled on a small change with massive implications.
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I dunno; the British and French governments thought that the problem of the Tsar would be an uprising on arrival. I think there's a plausible chance that the British would send the Tsar back to the Russian Provisional Government (who might be facing accusations by their Soviet allies of letting the Tsar go, and would probably want him back). If he somehow escapes after the October Revolution, they could very well just dump him off in the Falklands. Retrieving the Tsar would likely be a priority of the Soviet government after the Civil war was concluded, and with normalization of relations being a goal of the British (who historically signed a trade agreement with the Soviets in the early 20s), they'd eventually agree to send the Tsar back to Russia. The problem is speeding this process up.