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"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Protocols is well known as Imperial Russian secret police fraud. An August 17, 1921 London Times article in which reporter Philip Graves compared passages from Maurice Joly’s Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (1864) side-by-side with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to prove that the Protocols was plagiarized. (via US Holocaust Memorial Museum website)

A significant moment in the history of the effort to combat antisemitism took place one hundred years ago this August. The occasion was the detailed refutation of the most influential and conspiratorial antisemitic documents that ever appeared, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.

The writer of this historic refutation was Philip Graves, a journalist of the Times of London. He analyzed the Protocols, which claimed that it was the discovery of the secret plans of world Jewish leaders to take over the world. Rather than a discovery of any such plans, Graves proved that, in fact, the composers of Protocols, members of the Russian secret police, had concocted it by plagiarizing a satirical French piece that dealt with a completely different subject. Graves ably demonstrated by showing the comparable structures and expressions of the two documents that the Protocols had been fraudulently conjured up to generate the most conspiratorial anti-Jewish sentiment.

As to the need to tip us off by some absurd document it really is in keeping with this my most recent piece. https://stegiel.substack.com/p/tis-a-theme-for-poetry-too-strong

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