The guitar break starting at 0:52 in the 4:42 minute version of the song is taken from The Ventures' 1960 version of " Walk, Don't Run." Although the song states "he was a brute", it claims that the ladies "just fell into his arms." When his sexual and political acts became intolerable, "men of higher standing" plotted his downfall, despite the fact that "the ladies begged" them not to. The song claims that Rasputin's political power overshadowed that of the Tsar himself in "all affairs of state". As "Russia's greatest love machine", the "Moscow chicks" thought him lovely. It also claims that Rasputin was Alexandra's paramour: "Ra Ra Rasputin: lover of the Russian queen - there was a cat that really was gone" (although liberally rhyming his name with the word "queen"). "Rasputin" references the hope held by Tsaritsa Alexandra Fyodorovna that Grigori Rasputin would heal her hemophiliac son Tsarevich Alexei of Russia. Grigori Rasputin, the subject of the song
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