The entire Russian Imperial family was murdered in 1918 at the order of Lenin -- and the remains of the "missing Romanovs" have now been positively identified.

For nine decades after Bolshevik executioners shot Czar Nicholas II and his family, there were no traces of the remains of Crown Prince Aleksei, the hemophiliac heir to RussiaÂ’s throne.

Some said the prince, a delicate 13-year-old, had somehow survived and escaped; others believed he was buried in secret as the country lurched into civil war.

Now an official says DNA tests have solved the mystery by identifying bone shards found in a forest as those of Aleksei and his sister Grand Duchess Maria.

The remains of their parents, Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, and three siblings, including the czarÂ’s youngest daughter, Anastasia, were unearthed in 1991 and reburied in the imperial resting place in St. Petersburg. The Russian Orthodox Church made all seven of them saints in 2000.

The murder of the family was simply one of the many atrocities committed in the name of Communism over the course of many decades, and the family are only a few of the millions of victims of that Satanic ideology. May the closing of the book on this historical question serve as one more pointed reminder of the malignant nature of Communism and the fact that it is antithetical to any valid notion of human rights.

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