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Subject: Re: Queen Victoria & Haemophilia
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:58:57 EST


In a message dated 12/21/2002 7:31:35 PM Central Standard Time,
writes:

> Indeed, some quite well-informed observers believe that this defective gene
> was a major factor in World History, because they hold that without the
> Tsarevich Alexei's [Alexis's] haemophilia there would have been no Rasputin
> and without Rasputin there would have been no Russian Revolution in
> February
> 1917.
>

Just one more piece of crap to throw on poor old Rassies head. Just because
he wouldn't bathe more than every six months and was pounding the ladies of
the court like there was no tomorrow. For him, of course, there wasn't. You
said "some well-informed observers". That is so much bull.

Rasputin had very little to do with the 1917 Revolution. Lenin and others
had been pushing it for at least a decade. The Tsarist government was rotten
from the bottom up. I think the Romanovs were the only people who weren't
aware of the problems that were occurring. It just finally came to full
bloom.

You can't keep treating people like the Tsarist government was treating
people and not expect them to eventually rise up. Perhaps Saddam, and others
like him, should take a lesson from what happened in Russia.

Gordon Hale

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