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.
Hmm. I was under the impression that after all that Rasputin had drowned, indicating he was still alive when dumped in the river.
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.