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Part Four: Helena Blavatsky: the woman who inspired the Nazis, and Gwyneth Paltrow

Behind the Bastards

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Do You Ever Think About Rasputin's Hair Walls?

Rasputin's walls were full of human hair, according to a story about him in high school. "I hope it's true too," says the author when he hears that Rasputin liked filling his walls with hair. In another letter she wrote to the columns ahead of a visit with two wealthy theosophists,. She told them quote, my dear friends, in the name of heaven, do not think that I have forgotten you."

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