Burying Romanovs

Re “Russian Panel Advises Burying Last Czar in St. Petersburg,” Jan. 31: Playwright Edvard S. Radzinski says, “The Russia that disappeared with [the Romanovs] has returned.” Let us hope not. Nicholas II was a poor leader whose incompetence cost millions of Russian lives. He was also an anti-Semite whose bigotry inspired genocidal murderers from Ataturk to Hitler. Even his own family held him responsible for the situation that brought about the revolution that eventually destroyed him.

Using the same logic as the Russian panel, should we bury Hitler as a martyr also, since he was forced to commit suicide to avoid being captured by the Red Army?

NICK WILSON

Scottsdale, Ariz.