Conspiracy: did Anastasia escape her family’s murder?
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The Anastasia Survival Story
There have been a couple of film versions of the Anastasia survival story. How far do you think they've been responsible for the continuation of this conspiracy theory if we can call it that? The Hollywood film was the one that really put the spanner in the works in terms of acceptance people wanted to believe the fantasy and romance of this somehow miraculous escape And I don't know how anyone could have been taken in by it quite honestly.
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