Posted on 09/22/2016 1:46:11 AM PDT by odds
Nothing special. A YouTube video of Boney-M and one of their popular songs "Rasputin".
It is funny in today's social & political context.
Check out the Italian presenter with his bouffant hairdo.. if you speak Italian it'd be a bonus.
Thanks for that. Quite refreshing.
I became a fan of Boney M when I was an exchange student in France in the 1970s. It is a shame the group never became popular here in the US.
The song Rasputin actually inspired me to learn a little about Russian history. Rasputin was a kook... he would have fit quite well with some of the leftist new agers I have known.
I really like Boney M’s songs, they are so upbeat; maybe it is the disco thang. Though several years ago learned they were a Dutch group - had thought maybe Jamaican.
There was recently a British documentary on tv here about Romanov Tsars, and Rasputin was ‘thrown in’. Apparently, he was given poisoned wine, drank it too, but was all well until they shot him, in the head...several times.
People were interviewed about his murder. A British historian said: “I can’t explain it in British cultural terms, but the Russians would have a more accurate explanation for it” - no sarcasm.. she meant it as if he did have some extraordinary ‘ability’ to temporary calm Alexei Romanov, who was suffering from haemophilia (evidently a mutation of it from his maternal grandmother Queen Victoria).
She grew even more in this after she had given birth to an incurably ill child - her only son after six daughters.
Rusputin was a cultist, a very charismatic man. Apparently, he could ease the boy's suffering which ability the Empress took for a manifestation of Rusputin's spiritual powers.
hehe.. yep. in fact i posted that one few years ago on FR.
there is another Boney M Rasputin clip filmed in Russia or rather USSR, which i like, where they played in the snow... can’t find it right now.
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