This is all myth. If you want the truth, read "Rasputin and The Jews: A Reversal of History" (Amazon). Rasputin fought a violent and anti-Semitic society, advocating equal rights for minorities (especially oppressed Jews) and campaigning against war. The Tsar had the blood on his hands of the senseless torture and
slaughter of entire villages of Jews. Rasputin never harmed a soul.
Hypocritically, the society that tried to discredit Rasputin with rumors of women and drink, was filled with promiscuous aristocrats, many of whom suffered from venereal disease (the newspapers of the time were filled with ads for cures for VD)and most of whom consumed vodka and French champagne by the case. So, if Rasputin had been an aristocrat and exhibited the rumored behavior he was maligned for, no one would have thought anything of it.
July 23, 2011
