Paul Goble
Staunton, December 30 – The murder
of Rasputin, the monk who advised Nicholas II as a result of his work with the
tsarevich’s hemophilia, was intended to stop the slide of the Russian Empire
toward disaster; but instead, his killing 102 years ago today, legitimated murder
for political goals and opened the way to millions of deaths, Leonid Mlechin
says.
Rasputin was accused of giving the
tsar bad advice and taking liberties with the imperial family, and many near
the throne wanted him removed for one thing or another, the Russian historian
says; but killing him backfired on its perpetrators and their supporters (echo.msk.ru/blog/mlechin/2343269-echo/).
Grand Duke Dmitry
Pavlovich, Prince Feliks Yusupov, and Vladimir Purishkevich were treated as
national heroes by many after they killed Rasputin, Mlechin continues. The only
one in the elite who got it exactly right when he observed that “no one has the
right to murder.” Such actions never are
self-contained.
And in Russia, they led to the falling
of dominos and the murder of millions of people. “The Romanov dynasty outlived
Grigory Rasputin only for a short time. The monarchy fell, the Bolsheviks came
to power, the Civil War began and all of Russia was drown in blood” not only
during the course of that conflict but throughout the decades that followed.
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