TIL: Rasputin, a peasant turned mystic, who dabbled with the occult was able to gain political influence in Russia by improving the condition of Aleksey Nikolayevich, the hemophiliac heir to the throne using his “mysticism”. He was also very hard to kill and survived multiple assassination attempts.

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the royal family, romanov's were so retarded, the czar let this weird homeless looking guy fuck his wife. He also influenced him into getting involved in WWI, to get him away from his wife that he was fucking, which proved disasterous as the czar was an idiot militarily. This all led to the russian people getting pissed off and letting communists take over because they were better than a cuck czar.

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Accurate.