The seventies were not only a time of sexual liberation, but also one of protest and change. One of the major things that was protested at this time was the Vietnam War. The war protests are still heralded as some of the biggest displays of public action in history. The Vietnam War marked the peak of the Cold War and what better way to wrap up my analysis blog than to correlate Rasputin to Vietnam.
I'm once again going to refer to the lines in the chorus: "Ra Ra Rasputin." These lines in my other analysis emphasized how the people of the seventies hold Rasputin in high esteem. The general populace never really liked the Vietnam War and it generally spawned the anti-war movement as we know it today.
Rasputin was venomously opposed to war. Not only was he morally opposed, but he preached that it would lead to political catastrophe. During the years of the Great War (World War I) Rasputin was said to have become more of an alcoholic, sexually active, and more permissible to bribes. Leading people to believe he became more cynical in those years of his life.
This behavior was not unlike the men of the Vietnam War who were not yet conscripted. They seemed to consume more "sinful" things, and would subscribe to more "sinful" behavior.
redue of 1st verse translation
15 years ago
2 comments:
Do you think that he drank and did all of the recklass behavoir that he did to rebel because he hated wars so much?
You really need to keep going with this thought.
At first I thought you were going to compare Rasputin to a soothsayer for the Vietnam War (war = political catastrophe, which was true for many politicians in the US), but you swtiched trains of thought over to Rasputin's increased drinking. Do you think this was a form of depression? If cynicism, as you state, then what pushed him that way? Not getting his opinions on war taken seriously? seeing dead soliders? What it did to the "war economy?" etc.
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