rah rah rasputin, russia's greatest love machine

you know how rasputin was supposedly dead hard? like they had to poison him, then shoot him, then beat him up, then drown him? well how do we know any of that's true? i mean, the only people who actually saw all this happen were the ones doing it to him. i suspect those crazy ruskies just made up the whole story to make them seem harder. i mean, "we killed a monk" isn't very manly is it? whereas "we killed superman" would give you a bit more streetcred. obviously.