[Shadow_Group] Fw: Headline News from Sky News

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(This is chilling...people are prepared to pay hundreds of thousands of
dollars for wine owned by Stalin, a man who ruthlessly executed one
hundred and fifty million innocent Russians and the brains behind the
Jewish Bolshevik movement.  Stalin and his Bolsheviks had also murdered
Tsar Nicholas and his family (the children were killed in a typical Purim
style ritual, replete with blood letting and collection.)

Headline News from Sky News

'RED' WINE UNDER HAMMER 
 
Legendary wines from the cellars of 19th-century Russian tsars and Joseph
Stalin has gone under the hammer - but less than half were sold. 

The wines had been expected to be snapped up for more than £500,000.


The rare vintages from the Imperial winery at Massandra, near Yalta in
the Crimea, are worth up to £4,000 a bottle and occupy a important place
at the heart of Russia's history.

Many bear the Tsar's personal seal. 

Some 150 fortified and dessert wines were at Sotheby's auction house in
London, which said they represented some of the finest, rarest Russian
wines ever to have appeared on the market. 

But just 195 lots were sold, leaving a further 327 items "on the shelf". 

In total, the auction made £149,391 - less than half of the £500,000
estimate. 

The winery was built in the 1890s to supply wines for Tsar Nicholas II's
Summer Palace, Livadia. 
 

 
  
 One of the vintage wines
 
  
 

Massandra produced sweet wines to cater for the Tsar's every conceivable
need. 

Chief winemaker Prince Lev Sergervich Golitzin's talent for blending
wines was legendary, but he took the recipe for many of his greatest
blends, including "Honey of Altae Pastures" and "Seventh Heaven" to the
grave with him. 

When Stalin's troops stormed the gates of Massandra in 1920 the future of
the winery hung in the balance. 

But he was so impressed with the wines he sampled, that he decided to
continue production and add to the historic collection. 

Under the threat of Nazi invasion in 1941 the entire collection was
packed up and taken out of Yalta to three secret locations. 

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