DBWI Rasputin song not created during world war 1

The Dixieland jazz band was created during the first world war the band enjoyed some local success but after the bands piano player Henry Ragas heard about Rasputin's death he had a strike of inspiration. The song which would later be covered by Bony M became a massive hit in the united states.

The song didn't just imply that the Russian queen was unfaithful to her husband but gleefully stated it outright. The catchy song became a smash hit in the united states. It was of course banned in Russia and the Russian royal family pressed their allies to ban the song but this effort backfired and records were smuggled into both France and the british empire.

The german's of course saw no reason to ban a song that insulted their Russian enemies and it became a massive hit in germany, german troops are credited with singing the song to their Russian enemies during several battles and the so the song became a global hit and still gets played to this day.

But what if the Rasputin song hadn't been created or created much later how would that have changed world history and Russian history?
 
Well, it's debateable. I mean, the Russian Royal Family was kind of well hated by 1917 over a multitude of issues, especially the food supply and the mounting defeats. Probably would have given Kerensky more of a respite, though, and not given the Communists so much morale and propaganda ammunition that they basically won the Russian Civil War.
 
And western intelligence agencies in the 1950s probably wouldn't have been inspired to come up with "Dschinghis Khan", that rockabilly standard that they blared all over Radio Free Europe, to remind the Russians of the butt-kicking their territories endured from the Mongols.

Funny thing was, US right-wingers, conditioned to regard the Soviets themselves as "the hordes", figured the song was an attempt to glorify Communism, thus leading to some amusing infighting between the hayseeds in Congress and the highbrows at the CIA.
 
Oh come on. The only people who play that filth are Soviet sympathisers. It's up there with the sodding Internationale, and if it weren't for that ludicrous 1969 Supreme Court decision, the USA would have joined the rest of the civilised world in banning it.
 
Oh come on. The only people who play that filth are Soviet sympathisers. It's up there with the sodding Internationale, and if it weren't for that ludicrous 1969 Supreme Court decision, the USA would have joined the rest of the civilised world in banning it.
Gee, I didn't realize the lyrics when played backwards would incite the working class to revolt.[/sarcasm]

Seriously, it's just a tabloid bawdy song about a lecherous adviser boinking the empress. It may have been political, but not that political.
 
Gee, I didn't realize the lyrics when played backwards would incite the working class to revolt.[/sarcasm]

Seriously, it's just a tabloid bawdy song about a lecherous adviser boinking the empress. It may have been political, but not that political.

It *started* like that, but honestly, you may have noticed that it's an anthem for Soviet-backed insurrections? It's no accident that they were playing it in Tehran when they overthrew the Shah (I suspect the Ayatollah didn't approve, but then he was never going to win).
 
It *started* like that, but honestly, you may have noticed that it's an anthem for Soviet-backed insurrections? It's no accident that they were playing it in Tehran when they overthrew the Shah (I suspect the Ayatollah didn't approve, but then he was never going to win).
Much as I'd like to blame the Shah for letting the Tudeh take over and make a mess of things in the Middle East, it seems the song is an easy whipping stick against royalty. I mean, people used Marie Antoinette's presumed affairs to discredit the French monarchy in its final days. It's just easier to target a monarchy for excess when they're supposed to be role models.

Then again, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states ban that song on pain of treason for ever airing it. It doesn't look good as they continue their slide towards religious radicalism as a result of Iran's communist revolution.
 
Gee, I didn't realize the lyrics when played backwards would incite the working class to revolt.[/sarcasm]

Seriously, it's just a tabloid bawdy song about a lecherous adviser boinking the empress. It may have been political, but not that political.

speaking of that, how do you think it would change the view of the Russian royal family in movies.

I mean the german's felt inspired to create some pretty lurid stuff about the Romanovs during the first world war, the soviets freaking ran with the idea afterwards, and the HBO series the Romanovs is pretty well racy....
 
Then again, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states ban that song on pain of treason for ever airing it.

Good on them. Britain cops out with that complicated licencing system that the Benn Government introduced as a half-arsed compromise.
 
I mean the german's felt inspired to create some pretty lurid stuff about the Romanovs during the first world war, the soviets freaking ran with the idea afterwards, and the HBO series the Romanovs is pretty well racy....

Speaking of The Romanovs, there needs to be a greater protection of Public Morals in America. In this part of the world, me and my fellow members of the Clean Up TV Campaign had to suffer through endless hours of perversions in order to make our complaints to the broadcast censorship office.

(Worse, one of us had to visit the bathroom, so we had to play the entire scene again!).
 
Speaking of The Romanovs, there needs to be a greater protection of Public Morals in America. In this part of the world, me and my fellow members of the Clean Up TV Campaign had to suffer through endless hours of perversions in order to make our complaints to the broadcast censorship office.

(Worse, one of us had to visit the bathroom, so we had to play the entire scene again!).
Speaking of The Romanovs, there needs to be a greater protection of Public Morals in America. In this part of the world, me and my fellow members of the Clean Up TV Campaign had to suffer through endless hours of perversions in order to make our complaints to the broadcast censorship office.

(Worse, one of us had to visit the bathroom, so we had to play the entire scene again!).

That's nothing compared to the American backlash against that film about Catherine The Great. Managed to unite the anti-Communists and the ASPCA in opposition, and getting those two groups together is no mean feat.
 
That's nothing compared to the American backlash against that film about Catherine The Great. Managed to unite the anti-Communists and the ASPCA in opposition, and getting those two groups together is no mean feat.

Ok that show was hilarious, Rosann Barr was fantastic as Cathrine.
 
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