James Langton
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Chana Dvora
Your info on Rasputin is outdated. Read "Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History." As summarized on Amazon, "This book is a well-documented account of Rasputin as a healer, equal rights activist and man of God, and why he was so vilified by the aristocracy that their vicious rumors became accepted as history. For nearly a century, Grigory Rasputin, spiritual advisor to Russia's last Tsar and Tsarina, has been unjustly maligned simply because history is written by the politically powerful and not by the common man. A wealth of evidence shows that Rasputin was discredited by a fanatically anti-Semitic Russian society, for advocating equal rights for the severely oppressed Jewish population, as well as for promoting peace in a pro-war era. Testimony by his friends and enemies, from all social strata, provides a picture of a spiritual man who hated bigotry, inequity and violence."
The lunatics were the aristocracy and the bureaucracy who wanted to kill off the minority groups. Remember that, sanctioned by the Romanovs, there were regular raids called 'pogroms' wherein entire villages of Jews were tortured and slaughtered. Rasputin never harmed nor killed a soul in his life, and even forgave those who tried to assassinate him on numerous occasions. He was seen as a 'lunatic' for his progressive thinking that all people were equal in the eyes of God. The fact that he could not budge the Tsar's rabid anti-Semitism actually proves how little influence he had. He was only there to help their son. When he did try to influence the appointment of cabinet ministers, he recommended men who were proponents of equal rights for all and who were anti-war. So, who's the lunatic?
Zeeshan
In todays age of war, economic uncertainty and political upheavels, it is so nice to see a refreshing picture of someone so familiar, to remind you of better times.
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