This might be slightly off topic but relevant to this conversation: people are too polarized now. Tsar Nicholas is le bad guy because otherwise Lenin must be le bad guy and Jews don't want that to be the case. Same with in WW2. People act like saying Stalin was evil somehow is pro-Hitler or anti-American.

Nicholas was a bad leader, he should never have been Tsar. All he wanted to do was spend time with his family. Saying that doesn't mean I'm pro Imperialism