>>836300If you don't find one corpse to honor and exonerate, they'll find another corpse to honor and exonerate: i.e. Nicholas II martyrdom followers.
Regardless, loyalty only has value to the living, not to the dead. This is done not only to honor the corpses, but to honor the regime that inherited from said corpses.
It is a game of wearing grandma's clothes and working off nostagia and public memory of past obedience to gain the present obedience of the public…