Was Rasputin's Assassination Justified

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It is debated whether it occurred late in the night of December 29 or the wee hours of December 31. Sources cannot reach a consensus even about the person who fired the lethal round. Some claim it to be British Secret Service Agent Oswald Rayner; others are more believable with the claim that several people, among them nobleman, carried out the deed. The matter has only been partially reconstructed, even this long after the fact, and the details are blurred amongst all the conspiracy. All historians know is that Grigori Efimovich Rasputin did not live to see even the first day of 1917. He was assassinated, brutally, by those who believed him dangerous, no matter who they themselves were, and he met a long, drawn-out, and callous end at their …show more content…

One of his killers said in a self-penned memoir, “They sent the army to the trenches without food or arms, they left them there to be slaughtered, they betrayed Rumania and deceived the Allies, and they almost succeeded in delivering Russia bodily to the Germans.” By they, Stanislaus de Lazovert meant the rulers; he included Rasputin in this. Aside from Rasputin’s role as a figurehead, a representation of the end of the dynasty and dictatorship, he was held culpable for some of the actions of the rulers, namely Alexandra, during the duration of the war, and even before. Those who loathed the idea of an autocracy, monarchy, oligarchy, or any other political system in which one or a few people hold the power, naturally loathed him too. Peasants, noblemen, and the clergy alike also simply resented his influence. Some thought him demonic, with his alleged healing powers. Whatever the root behind the hatred, Rasputin was the inevitable bull’s-eye. It was not a question of if he would be killed as a means for the revolution, but of when, and by …show more content…

They will say that Rasputin held no real power, but this is incorrect. Anyone who comes to be assassinated is almost certainly killed by those who fear him. Rasputin was feared because of who he was. He was prominent, he was thought to be superhuman, and he was thought to be the puppet master behind Alexandra’s strings. There is a debate of whether he held any power officially, but technicalities are overshadowed by the power that everyone assigned him. They made him in the image they wanted him to be. Some thought him unworthy; others thought him evil and the reason for their suffering. By fearing him, they made him the one to kill. They were very likely correct, as proven by the angry uprising shortly

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