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Not being Russian I find it dfifficult to understand their psychology. But being American and such long time adversaries of the Soviet Union, I must give it a try. Be warn, I took Soviet history twice and failed to complete the course both time. I remember how terrible that looked on my transcript when I was 20. Now I am 40 and I still have trouble understanding what goes on in Russia.
Rasputin v Vladamir Putin is what I am getting at in the title above. The names are similiar as you can see. Here in Shreveport what I hear about Mr Putin these days has been his prowess with a rifle and his love for Siberian tigers.
Rasputin on the other hand was more of a charlatan that the former statesman for Russian Mr Putin. But Rasputin deserves some respect for his role in the life of Russian nobility in his day. There must be types like Rasputin running around in the hills somewhere even today. I am trying to feel what it must have been like to be a fraud like character in a drama so big and folklorish that even Rasputin himself may have bought into the idea that he had supernatural powers.
For now, check out the link to the movie poster of the name Rasputin and I will dig into the wikipedia article and see if I can come up with any similarities between the two Russians. Maybe I can even find some similiarities between myself and Rasputin, or V Putin. Your comments are welcome about this, especially if you are an armchair philosopher like me.
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