Oswald RaynerPosted on 10/07/2009 9:40:36 AM PDT by Nikas777
British spy 'fired the shot that finished off Rasputin'
By Karyn Miller
Published: 12:01AM BST 19 Sep 2004
Oswald Rayner
Rasputin, the Russian monk who became the confidant of Alexandra, the Tsarina, and her husband, Tsar Nicholas II, was killed by a British agent, according to a documentary to be broadcast next month. An investigation into his death in 1916 has concluded that he was murdered not as had been supposed by disaffected Russian aristocrats but by Oswald Rayner, a member of the Secret Intelligence Bureau who was working at the Russian court in St Petersburg.
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Now it is claimed that the SIB wanted to kill Rasputin, who was hoping to broker peace between Russia and Germany, because of his influence over the Tsar. The fear, according to Mr Cullen, was that if such a deal had been agreed in 1916, 350,000 German troops would have been freed to fight the Allies on the Western Front.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Killing Rasputin allowed the Communists to broker the deal instead of the Czarists thus sewing the seeds of the 20th century bloodbaths to follow. On such small things the axis of history turns.
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“my aim is true.”
Not so small a thing the murder of a close adviser to an Emperor.
Ah nuts!
I’m not sure the Czars were thugs, just aristocrats.
Amost 100 years later, does anyone really, really, really give a rat’s ass??
IIRC, the Bolsheviks did withdraw Russia from the war, ceding huge amounts of territory, in order to concentrate their forces in the ongoing civil war. They achieved victory in Russia as an independent Poland sprang into being, along with the Baltic states and Finland.
During the mass butchery of World War Two, the Russians reasserted control of nearly all the territory that had been handed over by the Brest-Litovsk treaty.
Now all those lands are free again, this time including Ukraine.
When does the cycle begin anew?
Please post more, I’d love to peruse your archives.
Free from Moscow though The Ukraine has never been an independent country/nation before - The Ukraine is a geographic rather than an ethnic identifier.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0509/S00185.htm
Book Launch: Hitler Was A British Agent
Thursday, 22 September 2005, 4:17 pm
Press Release: Greg Hallett
Greg Hallett and The Spymaster have co-authored a book titled Hitler Was British Agent.
The authors have been researching for the past two years gathering information from all around the world including Europe. Interview subjects included: James Bond III, other spymasters, and information and equipment acquired from the KGB.
The book tells the story of Hitler's British psychological training and his escape by submarine and planes out of Berlin. The book includes details of the pilots' names, the type of aircraft flown, the serial numbers, and who flew with them.
The book suggests Hitler survived World War II and also includes who Hitler lived with and where he died.
The book is being launched Friday in Auckland.
Book Launch: 23 September 2005, Friday 4-8pm Book launch at B@1 Bar in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand, behind the ANZ Bank, under the Elephant House, just up from Metropole.
480 pages - the book describes Hitler's secret British psychological training and his escape out of Berlin on 2 May 1945, what planes he caught, who flew them and who accompanied him, when he died, where he died, what he died of and the cover ups that followed. Next international best seller?
Authors: Hallett & Spymaster.
too@slingshot.co.nz
Orders NZ$50 + P&P PO Box 109 624, Newmarket, Auckland New Zealand.
Hmm. I was under the impression that after all that Rasputin had drowned, indicating he was still alive when dumped in the river.
The bullets did not kill him right away.
Now it is claimed that the SIB wanted to kill Rasputin, who was hoping to broker peace between Russia and Germany, because of his influence over the Tsar. The fear, according to Mr Cullen, was that if such a deal had been agreed in 1916, 350,000 German troops would have been freed to fight the Allies on the Western Front.Thanks Nikas.
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