Wednesday, February 6, 2019

About Last Of Tsars

Last of the Czars - 01 - Nicky and Alix (1996)
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Moving, seeing the grand spectacle of Romanov last days in Russia, knowing how it ended and how easily they might have been saved, but for the coward cousins across Europe.

"His wife was detested by people, thought to be a spy ..." 1:00 - 1:11, well, she was from Germany although a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, but that too still was a very German family; and when WWI came about, Britain and France were allied with Russia against Germany, Turkey and Austria, but the royal families everywhere had predominantly German blood and close German relatives, and ties were not cut before WWI, so people were naturally antagonised - they had husbands and sons and other close family members dying on battlefields where things could turn because a royal talked to a relative! 

It's quite fashionable to term Rasputin as "depraved and man" 1:03, but that merely exposes the bias ingrained by Rome in institutionlising spiritual authority and barring it to rest, with inquisition as punishment that gave way to this branding of everyone not of this institution as either charlatan or depraved and mad, dangerous or ridiculous. This is quite in keeping with branding all other faiths as superstition and myth or satanic. Reality, such blinkered views say more about the branders than about the branded.

As for Rasputin, his murder did pull the plug, in a way that, those professing faith institutionally but in reality merely blinkered, won't want to understand, for if they admitted it, there goes their slavery to the institutions that blinkers them.

Mesmerising 2:16.

Very impressive 5:10 - 5:20.

Even without the real footage here 5:20 - 8:20 that's quite enough to document the general disparity that was daunting, even if one merely watches the Greta Garbo starring Anna Karenina it's quite enough to see within the first few minutes, with the dinner revelry and the preparations beforehand, that disparity and the reason why revolution germinated.

Matilda Geshinskaya 9:03 - so Alexandra of Hesse wasn't his first love, although he was her only one.

"His close friend, a Prince of Greece ...." 9:03 - 9:30 - why omit the relationship, wasnt it a cousin, second if not first? Greece had a royal family that was junior branch of that from Denmark royals, and mother's of both Tsar Nicholas as well as George V were princesses of Denmark.

"A combination of naivete and a sense is entitlement..." 15:30 - 15:37 says narrator about Alexandra as she was engaged, after a childhood in Germany, and in England under personal supervision of Queen Victoria who was her own grandmother. This combination of naivete and sense of entitlement indeed, coupled with ignorance about the rest of populace at best and at worst a disdain fed by propaganda at pulpits weekly or later via media, is what feeds racism and more.

Here's one of the places fondly recalled by Princess Victoria, sister of Alexandria  17:48, as mentioned in a biography that is very revealing about the royals.

No wonder this photograph 19:02 is puzzling, her attire is at once queenly and bridal but she looks quite grim - they married so soon after his father's unexpected demise at what now we would call young age of 49, so the wedding after her conversion and his becoming next Tsar - though not yet crowned -  wasn't as much a celebration as a consolation for them in being together to bear the heavy responsibility they were never ready for!

Normally one associates Kremlin 19:03 - 20:50 with the grim Soviet regime, and the films that show insides for any reason rarely give any clue of its splendour that's so startling when one sees it in videos like this, since few state explicitly that it's the Romanov palace and seat of government that was taken over by the subsequent regime!

For the coronation, "one million people from all over Russia had gathered for the coronation in the field" 20:50 - 23:06, "and due to a glitch in food and warm drinks to be provided, they began to press, and 1,300 were trampled (presumably to death)"! The sheer scale is daunting enough, to begin with. The tragedy on the day of coronation must have seemed ominously foreboding.

Is it not apparent to anyone else that Lenin looks tad more oriental 26:26 than Caucasian, which is clearer in another couple of photographs of him before too in this video including a childhood one with Kerensky amongst others and the headmaster? Perhaps it's the antisemitic propaganda that finds it far more convenient to paint all Bolsheviks as Zionist, which couldn't be further from facts.

Beautiful, 28:58 Olga Xenovia.

Here 31:05 - 32:50, the scene is real, and the scale is huge, but the scene depicting this as shown in Dr. Zhivago is evocative enough albeit seeing it there one does realise that they couldn't possibly show it as it was.


Comments below most videos about Romanovs on YT proliferate with hatred of the revolution and abusive against communists, and they are predominantly from U.S., not only going by the anti communist sentiment without thought or comprehension but completely without any knowledge. The same people would comment on Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility to say that anyone who has a maid isn't poor, or be vicious against Scarlett O'Hara because Gone With The Wind begins on eve of the civil war and it's set in Georgia - and they are not realising that they, the modern day citizens of U.S. anywhere, are living in an era and nation where they are far more well off than either the serfs of pre revolution russia who were starving by millions, or Jane Austen era of genteel poverty, or the tough life of plantations without modern machines when money and slaves were gone. What's more, U.S. is where they defend rights of anyone to have guns, which are mostly used in moments of anger to shoot a family member or go berserk in a school full of children, and they still call the Bolsheviks evil for rising in wrath after centuries and generations of seeing millions starve while the wealthy aristocracy had luxuries they could have done without quite comfortably to help their own serfs not see their children die.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mYo8SEvnsrM
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Last of the Czars - 02 - The Shadow of Rasputin (1996)
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"We've got to know of a man of God, called Gregory, from Tobolsk province" 5:30 - isnt that where they were eventually murdered? The killers weren't connected to him in any way, or else it would be known thoroughly by long before this, but the coincidences are of occult stamp all over them. His powers were supposedly occult, and Alexandra trusted him to keep her son alive. What's more he knew the Romanov family would not survive after him long, and said so. His killers were close relatives of the family, and had no idea that this man was the one pole holding their empire up precariously. Not only the star and family but a lot more Romanovs were killed, apart from the empire being gone, soon after him.

"...Rasputin arrived .....uttered a few soothing words. To everyone's amazement, bleeding of tsarevich stopped" 9:45 - 9:54  - unless someone claims haemophilia is controlled by soothing words, which presumably anyone could manage, this is clearly evidence of occult power.

It isn't clear if this person 9:54 - 10:36 is speaking of the murder of Rasputin.

The bishop's grandfather "not liking Rasputin at all" 12:00 - 12:30, is it so different from the church inquisition? The "evil spirit" bit translates exactly to "someone with powers nit permitted by church authority ", just as mist victims of inquisition were merely guilty of knowledge or thought, which was precisely everything that church would not allow to to those not part of church authority.

"Let papa not plan the war, for with war will come the end of Russia and yourselves ...russia will lose to the last man" 26:45 - 26:56 came the message to the Tsar, from Rasputin who was in Siberia at the outbreak of war. "The Tsar read it, tore it into shreds, and gave the order for general mobilisation" 26:54 - 27:02.

This was in August 1914, after Germany had declared the war against Serbia, Kaiser Wilhelm II expecting his cousin Nicholas II to stand by the Russian treaty with Serbia, and seeing an opportunity in the 28th June 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the nephew of the emperor of Austria and Hungary, to acquire territory and more. His revenge against the Tsar for having married Alexandra who had refused the cousin Willy. Alexandra had refused also the other grandson of grandmother Queen Victoria, the English Prince who would be ruling the empire shortly after, but cousin Willy was another matter and his revenge went from treating the Battenberg relatives with less than gracious status, for their inclusion of a member with a morganatic marriage, to war against the first or more distant cousins who had not treated him on par or higher.

Rasputin clearly had some foresight that the relatives and advisors of the Tsar lacked, and obviously it was occult or he could have explained it to the Duma. So those who called him evil must of neccpessity concur with the Bolshevik massacre of the Romanov family and relatives, which included the widowed sister of Alexandra, Elizabeth, who had joined a convent after the death of her husband Sergei Romanov, uncle of Nicholas. This widowed nun had no children and was secluded, and moreover couldn't possibly be as much a symbol for the white Russian forces to rally as a born Romanov, but was murdered anyway.

In short, the gossip about Rasputin and so forth is merely a game for the unthinking nasty who indulge in throwing muck at safe targets to satisfy their own sense of virtue fraudulently, and what target could be safer than a murdered royal family and a man of spiritual powers who wasn't appointed by church, especially when it involved a beautiful princess born from the wrong side of the border, however devoted she be to her adopted nation that her love and husband and her children belonged to!

Similar muck after all had been thrown to justify the murder of an innocent young Marie Antoinette, another very similar beautiful young innocent queen born a foreign princess and made a symbol by another revolution for convenient focusing of hatred. But then, being a queen in this context is merely a detail that brings more targeting.

Tsar Nicholas II not only "did his duty travelling the front lines and boosting his soldiers' morale" but the renaming of St Petersburg was done at this time 30:00 - 30:30, in spirit of Slavic unity - which ought to have been clear that Romanov were all Russian!

The description of war by Max Kleinman 30:30 - 31:47 is so very like descriptions by Tolstoy in War And Peace!

Funny how not only the Tsar but his wife and daughters too were doing their best 31:50 - 32:43 rising to the occasion and nursing the wounded, turning palaces into hospitals et al, at this time, yet they all got blamed for the miseries of the war and murdered as symbols. Same efforts by cousin of npboth the Tsar and Tsarina, the English royals, were hugely rallying points and always well publicised forever after.

"What is important about Rasputin is not what he did, but what he was perceived to have done or be doing, by Russian society" 42:00 - 42:30. So true, far more generally, and the following too - when he says society, obviously what is implied is the relevant part - then immediately it was those in power, aristocracy and the government, church and so on; later, it was media, and with small changes, all of this too is true of all such cases.

Rasputin wrote to the Tsar in December 1916 "I feel that I shall leave life before January the first" 45:30 - 45:45, while the family of the Tsar was united with him at the front! And with so much repeated evidence of his occult power, they still either call him a charlatan or a sexual deviant, with someone fainting due to his gaze at them from behind as evidence of his - of all the things! - "sexual power"?

"If you hear the sound of bells which will tell you that Gregory has been killed, you must know this: If it was your relations who have wrought my death, then no one in your family, that is to say none of your children or relations will remain alive for more than two years; they will be killed by the Russian people."  Rasputin wrote to the Tsar 45:45 - 46:10.

So, of course, Felix Yusoupov and grand duke Dimitri had to be the Romanov relatives, wealthy aristocrats who did it!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx2zMUCsdM0
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Last of the Czars - 03 - Death of the Dynasty (1996)
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Uncanny echoes 0:00 - 2:48 across a century and a quarter globe, of not as much perception of an outsider by her country of residence, but of the words of Alexandra quoted her, about the country and about heritage of her son!

"Lenin's trick was to say what people wanted to hear" 27:15 - 27:48 "and what the Germans had sent him back to say"!

"Lenin, whose return to Russia had been engineered by Germany, pushed for peace. In one stroke of the pen he conceded great tracts of the Russian empire's western borderlands" 33:10 - 33:40 "nearly half a million square miles and more than one third of the polupation". And thus the German claim to much of the territory ever since, especially the Baltics and more. "To think that they called her majesty a traitor" 33:40 - 34:55, said Nicholas, in pain about Russia breaking up and his abdication having been in vain.

Beastly end, and "Nicholas's family were not the only ones" 44:00 - 44:20  "Every Romanovs they could find, they murdered; Nicholas's brother Michael, nine uncle's, Alexandra's sister Ella" who was a widow of Sergei Romanov,  uncle of Nicholas, and a secluded nun in a convent; and "eighteen Romanovs in all". "The local Bolsheviks seemed to have carried out the murders on their own, but it now seems clear that it was on orders of Lenin" 45:00 - 45:34. "Lenin took great care to hide the truth, even from his ambassador at Berlin" 45:34 - 45:43.

After the search, discovery and DNA analysis to match the tissue from living relatives - "Philip, who was oldest remaining relative of both, provided his.." 49:00 - 49:33 "One daughter and the son have not been accounted for, so rumours of their survival ...however unlikely". So the whole mystery about Anastasia escaping, might, after all, ....


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f1em_lDQzmA
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Revenge of the Romanovs - HomeVision
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After seeing the whole video, it's completely unclear exactly what the title refers to.

The footage is mostly familiar from other videos, commentators interviewed differ, but here the comments below are extraordinarily antisemitic! Church propaganda hasn't stopped after holocaust, and lies go on. Funny they seem not to realise that when one disrespect the thinkers, craftsmen, intellectuals and those that hold knowledge high, well, you get jihadists migrants and you've no basis except racism to deal with them, having massacred values with holocaust.

The execution was actually filmed 27:00 - 30:40?

These extrajudicial executions 30:40 - 32:07 and holding people without legal recourse or  even admission thereof, later included such stellar personae as Raul Wallenberg and Subhash Chandra Bose,  both of whom are since strongly suspected to have been held in USSR in custody for years, and died an anonymous death. 

The mindset he speaks of that one wouldn't understand if not familiar with their thinking 34:36 - 35:30 is all too familiar to those even on the fence, such as those familiar with likes of racists or fascists and so on.

Courageous man there 53:24 - 54:00.



 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zXup2ix_fTg
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