If it is written that he was poisoned by the cakes, why would the song write change the lyrics to wine? Is there any imagery or meaning in wine that would make the lyrics give off a certain message?
As I stated in my last post, Rasputin was allegedly poisoned by cyanide via a cake, however in the song it was portrayed as wine. Either way, the poison didn't work because Rasputin didn't eat sugar, or the cyanide was cooked off during the baking of the cake.
Its a common misconception that it was the wine was poisoned, it makes sense considering that it was such a dumb idea to put it in the cake. Its also a cultural misconception, we have wine tasters today because in antiquity the wine was generally what was poisoned.
35 RA RA RASPUTIN
36 Lover of the Russian queen
37 They put some poison into his wine
38 RA RA RASPUTIN
39 Russia's greatest love machine
40 He drank it all and he said "I feel fine"
Another reason they chose wine as the poison medium was that wine rhymes with fine. Frank Farian needed this to be wine because in the chorus they had an ABCABC rhyming scheme.
redue of 1st verse translation
15 years ago
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Wine was frequently poisoned in antiquity because strong alcohol was the only thing that could mask the taste of poison (they didn't have much in the way of spices in their foods).
Wine, however, has a long literary/story telling history. Greek libations, Dionysian drinking parties, turning water into wine, holy grail ... and into more "modern" times in the past two millennium.
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