Talk:Yakov Yurovsky

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Also, "murder" is defined as the unlawful killing of a person. Whoever wrote the article states that the members of the Royal Family were "murdered" by Yurovsky's comrades. If the Soviet ruled they were enemies of the state, they were therefore lawfully executed, and "killed" rather than "murdered." I guess it's all whose perspective you take.

Try writing something like this under the page for Holocaust. So you're saying that the Bolsheviks were the legal government of Russia, but the Nazis and Hitler were not the legal government in Germany. At least the Nazis were elected. I'll go out on a limb and say that the Jews killed in Nazi Germany were in fact 'murdered.' ````Shandafirde