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Amazing parallels between Rasputin and Putin
Rasputin is a controversial figure known for his role as a adviser of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. He was born in Siberia around 1869. Rasputin underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and proclaimed himself a holy man with the ability to predict the future and to heal. He managed to impress the czar' wife, Alexandra when he contributed to stopping the bleeding of their haemophiliac son, Alexei, in 1908.
Whilst Rasputin was a healer at court, he was a notorious drunk and womaniser. Despite reports from the tsar’s secret police of his scandalous actions, Tsar Nicholas II dismissed these in turned a blind eye at the request of his wife. Rasputin exerted a powerful influence on the ruling family of Russia, infuriating nobles, church orthodoxy, and peasants alike. He was assassinated in 1916 by Russian nobles eager to end his influence over the royal family.
There are at least five aspect of Rasputin’s life that are similar in essence to Putin’s life: social climbing, machiavellism, promoting a form of evil mysticism; surviving assassination attempts; and the disastrous impact on Russia.
Item number one: Like Rasputin, Putin is a social climber
Rasputin became a favourite of the czarina, Alexandra Feodorovna, who called him to threat with his alleged mystic powers her son’s haemophilia. After his sessions with the prince, the bleeding seemed to stop for some time. The condition might have improved as a result of Rasputin’s insistence on stopping the administration of aspirin (a known blood-thinning agent). Alexandra was amazed, and immediately enlisted the services of Rasputin as a close adviser, a position he enjoyed up the end of his life.
Putin is also a social climber and a machiavellic political opportunist willing to sacrifice for his thirst of power. His origin are very modest: Putin’s mother was a factory worker and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy. He steadily climbed the ranks as KGB officer. In December 1991 Putin retired from his position as a lieutenant colonel in the KGB, and supported Lenigrad’s mayor Anatoly Sobchak and become deputy mayor, which allowed to further climb through the ranks of power. In 1996, Putin became the deputy head of management in Boris Yeltsin’s administration. In December 1999, when Boris Yeltsin officially resigned , Putin became Acting President of the Russian Federation. On assuming this role, Putin order the invasion of Chechnya.
Item number two: machiavellism (the tendency to manipulate). Rasputin used his influence on the czarina attempting to influence political decisions. During the Great War, Rasputin’s influence over Russian politics was demonstrated with his ability to appoint his friends to high government positions regardless of their incompetence. When Tsar Nicholas II left for the front line in 1915, Tsarina Alexandra took responsibility for domestic affairs with Rasputin as her advisor. Rasputin saw this as an opportunity to control and destabilize government by replacing senior ministers with people he could manipulate.
Like Rasputin, Putin is a natural born machiavellic figure, with an endless desire to manipulate and control those around him. There are endless examples of his manipulations, however it is worth mentioning his uncanny ability to sell to his people the “need” for “the special operation in Ukraine”, and also obtaining support from them. It seems that 80% of Russians support his actions. A more recent attempt of manipulation is related to his intention of proposing constitutional reforms as clear attempts to extend his grip on power. It seems that in a more subtle they he wants to become a czar — the czar of rubbles.
Item number three — both of them promoted an evil form of mysticism, under the influence of some form grandiose delusions. Rasputin gradually gained a reputation as a starets (holy man) with his alleged healing and prophetical powers. Using his charisma he manipulated people especially for sexual favours and for traffic of power.
Putin’s evil mysticism is the disgusting concept of Ukrainian Nazism. He is adamant that there is no war and ongoing genocide in Ukraine. While there are government-aligned fascist militias in Ukraine, the Ukrainian government does not resemble a Nazi regime. The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish; he is proud of how his Jewish grandfather fought against Nazis in the Second World War. Putin is also delusional when he insists that Ukraine is an illegitimate country that exists on land that’s historically and rightfully Russian.
Item four the difficulty to assassinate them. In 1914, a beggar woman approached Rasputin on the street accusing him of seducing innocent women. Rasputin survived after six weeks in a hospital despite heavy hemorrhage. In 1916 a group of conspirators, invited Rasputin to a party and fed him wine and cakes laced with cyanide, however the poison seemed to have no effect on him. Baffled but not deterred, the conspirators finally shot Rasputin multiple times and thrown him into the Neva River.
Though not very clear it seems that there were some attempts to assassinate Putin. According to Ukrainska Pravda, Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, said an “unsuccessful attempt” on Putin’s life in Caucasus shortly after Russia invaded the nation on Feb. 24
Item five — the disastrous impact on Russia — Rasputin did offer military advice as well as medical help, but his ideas never proved beneficial for the Russian army. Due to his behaviour, manipulation, and incompetence Rasputin came to symbolize everything negative in Russian politics and society at the time, hence the attempts to assassinate him.
Putin has even a more disastrous impact on Russia. Starting the war in Ukraine weakened Russia rather than strengthening it. Today, Russia appears to be on the verge of an economic collapse without parallel in its post-World War II history. A study by the Centre for Economic Recovery and CIVITTA and EasyBusiness found that Russia’s daily war, costs are likely to “exceed $ 20 billion” as the invasion scales. Furthermore, Putin’s invasion has resulted in the greatest humanitarian crisis and security threat in Europe since World War II.