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Saint Theophan the Recluse, 1894

“Rulers-shepherds, what have you done from your flock? The Lord will seek His sheep from your hands!.. He primarily oversees the behavior of bishops and priests, their educational, sacred, pastoral activities... The current terrible decline in faith and morals depends very much on the coldness of many hierarchs and the priestly rank in general towards their flocks".

"But the All-Good Providence will not leave Russia in this sad and disastrous state. It righteously punishes and leads to revival. God's righteous destinies are carried out over Russia. Troubles and misfortunes forge it. It is not in vain that He who rules all nations skillfully, accurately puts on His the anvil of those subjected to His strong hammer. Be strong, Russia! But also repent, pray, cry bitter tears before your heavenly Father, Whom you have angered immensely!.. The Russian people and other tribes inhabiting Russia are deeply corrupted, the crucible of temptations and disasters is necessary for everyone, and the Lord, who does not want anyone to perish, burns everyone in this crucible.

“I foresee the restoration of a powerful Russia, even stronger and more powerful. On the bones of the martyrs, as on a strong foundation, a new Rus' will be erected - according to the old model; strong in its faith in Christ God and the Holy Trinity! And it will be according to the behest of the holy Prince Vladimir - as a single Church! The Russian people have ceased to understand what Rus' is: it is the foot of the Throne of the Lord! Russian people must understand this and thank God for being Russian."

Holy Righteous Father John of Kronstadt. 1906-1908

“The persecution and torment of the first Christians may be repeated... Hell is destroyed, but not destroyed, and the time will come when it will make itself felt. That time is just around the corner...

We will live to see terrible times , but the grace of God will cover us... The Antichrist is clearly coming into the world, but this is not recognized in the world. The whole world is under the influence of some force that takes possession of the mind, will and all spiritual qualities of a person. This is an extraneous force, an evil force. Its source is the devil, and evil people are only the instrument through which it acts. These are the forerunners of the Antichrist.

In the Church we no longer have living prophets, but we do have signs. They are given to us for the knowledge of times. They are clearly visible to people who have a spiritual mind. But this is not recognized in the world... Everyone is going against Russia, that is, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers, the true faith of Christ is preserved in them.”

Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina, 1910

There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be destroyed. But people also save themselves on chips and debris. And yet not everyone will die. We must pray, we must all repent and pray fervently... A great miracle of God will be revealed... And all the chips and fragments, by the will of God and His power, will gather and unite, and the ship will be recreated in all its glory and will go its way, intended by God. .."

Rev. Anatoly Optinsky. 1917

And Russia will be saved. Much suffering, much torment. Everyone must suffer a lot and deeply repent. Only repentance through suffering will save Russia. All of Russia will become a prison, and we need to beg the Lord a lot for forgiveness. Repent of sins and be afraid to commit even the slightest sins, but try to do good, even the smallest. After all, the wing of a fly has weight, but God has precise scales. And when the slightest good outweighs the balance, then God will show His mercy over Russia...

But first, God will take away all the leaders so that the Russian people will look only to Him. Everyone will abandon Russia, other powers will abandon it, leaving it to its own devices. This is so that the Russian people trust in the Lord’s help. You will hear that riots will begin in other countries and things similar to what happened in Russia, and you will hear about wars and there will be wars - now the time is near. But don't be afraid of anything. The Lord will show His wonderful mercy.

The end will be through China. There will be some kind of unusual explosion, and a miracle of God will appear. And life will be completely different on earth, but not for very long. The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be magnified and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone."

Schieromonk Aristoklius of Athos. 1917-1918

The monarchy and autocratic power will be restored in Russia. The Lord chose the future king. This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. First of all, he will restore order in the Orthodox Church, removing all untrue, heretical and lukewarm bishops. And many, very many, with few exceptions, almost all will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place... Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised.

Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it. But the Orthodoxy that existed before will no longer exist. God Himself will place a strong king on the throne.”

Saint Theophan of Poltava, 1930

When a little freedom appears, churches will be opened, monasteries will be repaired, then all false teachings will come out. In Ukraine there will be a strong uprising against the Russian Church, its unity and conciliarity. This heretical group will be supported by the godless government. The Metropolitan of Kiev, who is unworthy of this title, will greatly shake the Russian Church, and he himself will go into eternal destruction, like Judas. But all these slander of the evil one in Russia will disappear, and there will be a United Orthodox Church of Russia...

Russia together with everyone Slavic peoples and the lands will form a mighty Kingdom. He will be cared for by the Orthodox Tsar - God's Anointed One. All schisms and heresies will disappear in Russia. Jews from Russia will go to Palestine to meet the Antichrist, and there will not be a single Jew in Russia. There will be no persecution of the Orthodox Church.

In Russia there will be prosperity of faith and the former rejoicing (only for a short time, for the Terrible Judge will come to judge the living and the dead). Even the Antichrist himself will be afraid of the Russian Orthodox Tsar. Under the Antichrist, Russia will be the most powerful kingdom in the world. And all other countries, except Russia and the Slavic lands, will be under the rule of the Antichrist and will experience all the horrors and torments written in the Holy Scriptures

The Third World War will no longer be for repentance, but for extermination. Where it passes, there will be no people there. There will be such strong bombs that iron will burn and stones will melt. Fire and smoke with dust will reach the sky. And the earth will burn.They will fight and two or three states will remain. There will be very few people left and then they will start shouting: down with the war! Let's choose one! Install one king! They will choose a king who will be born of a prodigal virgin of the twelfth generation. And the Antichrist will sit on the throne in Jerusalem."

Venerable Lavrentiy of Chernigov.

Statements by the outstanding ascetic of Orthodoxy, Schema-nun Macarius

(Artemyeva; 1926 - 1993).

From the age of one and a half her legs began to hurt, and from the age of three she no longer walked, but crawled; falls asleep at eight lethargic sleep and his soul remains in heaven for two weeks. With the blessing of the Queen of Heaven, she receives the gift of healing people. During the war, the girl was left on the street, where she lived for seven hundred days. She is picked up by an old nun, with whom the ascetic will live for twenty years, and then she herself will accept monasticism and schema. Before last day throughout her life she was in obedience to the Queen of Heaven.
The feat of Schema-nun Macaria was tireless prayer, day and night, for Moscow, for Russia and all Russians. The lofty life of the people's mourner and prayer book is presented in the form of a hagiographic narrative. The book is intended for a wide range of readers. Mother Macaria's stories about the future were either an answer to the questions posed, or a warning, with the goal of protecting people close to her from trouble or future trials. Speaking about the future, she often limited herself to short remarks, explanations and brief characteristics. We present some of them. We have grouped all of them according to their meaning, and the date when they were said by the ascetic is noted in brackets.

About the onset of terrible times.

And now there are no young people, everyone is old in a row, soon there will be no people at all (06.27.88). Until 1999, nothing should happen now, no disaster (05/12/89). According to the Bible, we are now living. It's called "Committed". And when the 99th ends, then we will live according to “History” (07/02/87). Until the Bible “Complete” ends, nothing will happen, and it will last until the year 99! You won’t die before that time, I will die, God will take me away (12/27/87).
Okay now, but next summer- worse. I also said: it’s not good to be in such darkness, there will be some kind of hole (06/28/89). The Lord doesn’t promise anything good, we won’t get anything, so we’ll just get along somehow (12/17/89). The Mother of God is with us (meaning, in the Russian land. - Author) grace was removed. And the Savior sent the apostles Peter and Paul, and John the Theologian to them (in other Christian countries. - Author) remove grace. We need to pray a lot here! (03/14/89) Now nothing big will happen (07/07/89).
Money won’t get any better, it’ll just become twice as cheap, and then it’ll get even cheaper.(11. 02. 89).
Such a time comes, the power is taken away by the sorcerers. It will be even worse, God forbid we live to see it (05.10.88). A bad man is coming soon, will go like a wheel. It would be nice to see the end of the world, but here - the destruction of buildings and people, everything is mixed with dirt, you will walk knee-deep in blood (03.25.89).
Soon all people will do this (witchcraft. - Author) know. There will be all the evil spirits around the evil one. He'll gather them together and start. Bad Life Comes (10/28/87). Now their time is coming Good times ends (05.24.88). They will spoil people, and then start pointing at each other (03.27.87).
Now people, in general, are not good. The authorities will not bow to the people, and there will be complete devastation(11.07.88). Now they have no zeal for the people, that’s what they want to do evil: who steals, who gets drunk, but what about the children (12/20/87).
Now it’s impossible to go to the floors (to live in multi-storey buildings. — Auth.). Now there is crowding, there are bad people everywhere, now with their unclean intentions they are crowding out the believing people (03.25.89).
The Chinese are worse for us. The Chinese are very evil, they will cut without mercy. They will take half the land, they don’t need anything else. They don't have enough land (27.06.88),

When the victory of darkness is complete.

We'll be in the dark (08/27/87). And they won’t let you turn on the light, they will say: need to save energy(28.06.88).
This is the beginning, then it will be cold. Easter is coming soon - with snow, and winter will come on Pokrov. And the grass is only for Peter's Day. The sun will decrease by half (08/27/87). Summer will become bad, and winter will become worse. The snow will lie and will not be driven away. And then we don’t know what frosts there will be (04/29/88).

There will be a great famine.

The Mother of God said: “You, Mother, have almost lived to see the government tables. Soon there will be government tables. If you come, they’ll feed you, but they won’t even let you take out a piece of bread.” The youth will be driven to the village. (09/15/87).
Soon you will be left without bread(29.01.89). Soon there will be no water, there will be no apples, there will be no cards (12/19/87). There is a great famine, there will be no bread- Divide the crust in half (02/18/88).
There will be a big uprising. From floors (from cities. - Author) people will run away, they won’t be able to sit in their rooms. You can't sit in the rooms, there won't be anything, not even bread.(12/28/90). And if you pray to the Savior, the Mother of God and Elijah the Prophet, they will not let you die of hunger, they will save those who believed God and sincerely prayed (06.27.88).
The harvest will begin to fail when the monks will be exiled (02/18/88).
And you won't die. It will be the will of the Lord, whoever is not written down to die will suffer and will not die (06/21/88). All good people died, they are all in heaven, they did not know this emptiness: they prayed to God, they will be fine there (02/01/88).
It's bad that we lived to see the end of the world. The world will end soon. Now there is a little left (12/11/88). Now she said: (meaning the Mother of God. - Author)“There’s a little left.” Now the people are bad, rarely anyone goes to heaven. (04/04/88).

Church unrest is coming.

The Bible they print is wrong. They (apparently, Pharisaical Jews. - Author) They will be thrown out of there as far as they are concerned, they don’t want reproach (03/14/89).
A change of faith is in preparation. When this happens, the saints will retreat and will not pray for Russia. And those who are (from the faithful. - Auth.). The Lord will take you to Himself. And the bishops who allow this are neither here nor there (in the next world. - Author) They will not see the Lord (08/03/88).
Soon the service will be half and will be reduced. (07/11/88). They will retain the service only in large monasteries, and in other places they will make changes (05.27.88). I only say one thing: woe comes to the priesthood, they will scatter one by one and live (06/28/89). They will serve in churches in red dresses. Now the evil Satan will take everyone (05.20.89).
Soon the sorcerers will spoil all the prosphora and there will be nothing to serve with (the liturgy. - Auth.). And you can take communion once a year. The Mother of God will tell her people where and when to receive communion. You just have to listen! (28.06.89)

My hope to the Mother of God.

When at four o'clock in the afternoon it becomes dark as night, then the Mother of God will come. She will go around the earth, will be in all Her glory and will come to Russia to establish faith. The Mother of God will come - she will level everything, not according to them (those in power or sorcerers. - Auth.), but in His own way, as the Savior commands. The time will come such that everyone will think not about what they ate, but how much they prayed that day. She will restore faith for a short time (07/11/86).

The time of persecution is near.

They will create such confusion, and you won’t be able to save your soul (01.90). Whoever enters the church will be recorded (02/18/88). Because you pray to God, that’s why you’ll get persecuted (05/20/89). You need to pray so that no one knows, pray quietly! They will start to chase and take away (05.15.87). First they will take away the books, and then the icons. The icons will be selected (01/07/88). They will torment: “We don’t need believers” (14.07.88).
Then it will get worse: churches will be closed, there will be no services, services will be held here and there. They will leave you somewhere far away so that you can neither go nor pass. And in cities where they consider that they do not interfere (01/07/88).
These churches that are being built and repaired will go to other enterprises and will not benefit anyone. Registration will be tricky: they will remain called churches, but there will be no idea what, their production, they will find something to do (07/11/88).
He who is God will not see the Antichrist (01/07/88). It will be open to many where to go, where to go. The Lord knows how to hide his own, no one will find them (11/17/87).

Blessed are those who keep God's commandments.

According to the Bible we are now living, it is called “Complete” (07/02/87). Soon everything will be nearby: the earth is nearby, and the sky is nearby, there will be a lot of everything, such a Master (apparently, the Savior. —Auth.) will be (06/08/90). Said (Mother of God. - Auth.):“A little remains, he will descend to earth with the Savior, everything will be sanctified, and it will appear on earth as paradise (04.04.88).”

In conclusion, let me recall the words of Hieromonk Nektary of Optina: “Look for the greater meaning in everything. All events that happen around us and with us have their own meaning. Nothing happens without a reason..."

Nowadays, scientists themselves, futurologists, various modern psychics and even ordinary people. But what did the holy elders predict about Russia in the distant past and to our present time? Let's take a look at their presentation below:

Venerable Seraphim of Sarov, 1825-32

“Before the end of times, Russia will merge into one great sea with the other lands and Slavic tribes, it will form one sea or that huge universal ocean of the people, about which the Lord God spoke from ancient times through the mouth of all the saints: “The formidable and invincible Kingdom of All-Russian, All-Slavic - Gog and Magog , before whom all nations will stand in awe.” And all this is the same as two and two are four, and certainly, like God is holy, who from ancient times foretold about him and his terrible dominion over the earth. With the united forces of Russia and other nations, Constantinople and Jerusalem will be captured. When Turkey is divided, almost all of it will remain with Russia...”

Saint Theophan the Recluse, 1890s

“How many signs the Lord showed over Russia, delivering it from its strongest enemies and subduing its peoples! And yet, evil is growing. Will we really not come to our senses?

The Lord has punished us and will punish us with the West, but we don’t understand everything. We got stuck in Western mud up to our ears, and everything was fine. We have eyes, but we don’t see, we have ears, but we don’t hear, and we don’t understand with our hearts... Having inhaled this hellish frenzy into ourselves, we spin around like crazy, not remembering ourselves. If we don’t come to our senses, God will send us foreign teachers to bring us to our senses... It turns out that we too are on the path of revolution. These are not empty words, but a deed affirmed by the voice of the Church. Know, Orthodox, that God cannot be mocked.”

Holy Venerable Seraphim Vyritsky, early 20th century

“The time will come when not persecution, but money and the charms of this world will turn people away from God and many more souls will perish than during the times of open fight against God. On the one hand, they will erect crosses and gild domes, and on the other, the kingdom of lies and evil will come. The True Church will always be persecuted, and it will be possible to be saved only through sorrows and illnesses. The persecution will take on the most unpredictable and sophisticated character. But the salvation of the world comes from Russia.”

Schieromonk Aristoklius of Athos. 1917-18

“Now we are living through the pre-Antichrist time. God's judgment on the living has begun and there will not be a single country on earth, not a single person who will not be affected by this. It started with Russia, and then further... And Russia will be saved. There is a lot of suffering, a lot of torment... All of Russia will become a prison, and we must beg the Lord a lot for forgiveness. Repent of sins and be afraid to commit even the slightest sins, but try to do good, even the smallest. After all, the wing of a fly has weight, but God has precise scales. And when the slightest good outweighs the balance, then God will show His mercy over Russia...

The end will be through China. There will be some kind of unusual explosion, and a miracle of God will appear. And life will be completely different on earth, but not for very long. The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be magnified and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone.”

Bishop John of Shanghai, 1938

“Shake off the sleep of despondency and laziness, sons of Russia! Behold the glory of her suffering and be cleansed, washed from your sins! Strengthen yourself in the Orthodox faith so that you may be worthy to dwell in the dwelling of the Lord and move into the holy mountain. Arise, arise, arise, Rus', you who drank from the hand of the Lord the cup of His wrath! When your suffering is over, your righteousness will go with you, and the glory of the Lord will follow you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the radiance rising above you. Then lift up your eyes around and see: behold, your children will come to you from the west, and the north, and the sea, and the east, blessing Christ in you forever!”

Venerable Anatoly of Optina, early 20th century

“There will be a storm. And the Russian ship will be destroyed. But people also save themselves on chips and debris. And yet not everyone will die. We must pray, we must all repent and pray fervently... A great miracle of God will be revealed... And all the chips and fragments, by the will of God and His power, will gather and unite, and the ship will be recreated in all its glory and will go its way, intended by God..."

Saint Theophan of Poltava, 1930

“The monarchy and autocratic power will be restored in Russia. The Lord chose the future king. This will be a man of fiery faith, a brilliant mind and an iron will. First of all, he will restore order in the Orthodox Church, removing all untrue, heretical and lukewarm bishops. And many, very many, with few exceptions, almost all will be eliminated, and new, true, unshakable bishops will take their place... Something that no one expects will happen. Russia will rise from the dead, and the whole world will be surprised. Orthodoxy will be reborn and triumph in it. But the Orthodoxy that existed before will no longer exist. God Himself will place a strong king on the throne.”

Paisiy Svyatogorets, Athonite elder. 1990s

“My thoughts tell me that many events will happen: the Russians will occupy Turkey, Turkey will disappear from the map, because a third of the Turks will become Christians, a third will die in the war and a third will go to Mesopotamia... What will happen in Constantinople Great War between Russians and Europeans, and a lot of blood will be shed. Greece will not play a leading role in this war, but Constantinople will be given to it. Not because the Russians will revere the Greeks, but because a better solution cannot be found... The Greek army will not have time to get there before the city will be given to it.”

Joseph, Athonite elder, Vatopedi monastery. year 2001

“Now is the beginning of events, difficult military events... The devil will force the Turks to finally come here to Greece and begin their actions. And although Greece has a government, it actually doesn’t exist as such, because it has no power. And the Turks will come here. This will be the moment when Russia will also move its forces to push back the Turks. Events will develop like this: when Russia comes to the aid of Greece, the Americans and NATO will try to prevent this, so that there is no reunification, a merger of two Orthodox peoples... There will be a big massacre on the territory of the former Byzantine Empire. There will be about 600 million people killed alone. The Vatican will also actively participate in all this in order to prevent the reunification and increasing role of Orthodoxy. But this will result in the complete destruction of Vatican influence, right down to its very foundations. This is how God’s Providence will turn... There will be God’s permission so that those who sow temptations are destroyed: pornography, drug addiction, etc. And the Lord will so blind their minds that they will destroy each other with gluttony. The Lord will allow this on purpose to carry out a great cleansing. As for the one who rules the country, he will not be around for long, and what is happening now will not be for long, and then immediately there will be war. But after this great purge there will be a revival of Orthodoxy not only in Russia, but throughout the world, a great surge of Orthodoxy.”

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For a long time, the Protocols were a reference book for anti-Semites. As is known, in them we're talking about about a certain Jewish-Masonic conspiracy: wars, revolutions and capitalism were supposedly supposed to, according to the plans of the “wise men,” lead to the fall of the monarchy and the destruction of Christian civilization, clearing the way for world Jewish domination.

As a result of research conducted by leading Russian historian Mikhail Lepekhin, it became known that the protocols were written by Matvey Golovinsky, who devoted his life to espionage and propaganda activities. Having worked for the Tsarist secret police, he subsequently changed his political orientation and joined the Bolsheviks.

Golovinsky was born in 1865 in Ivashevka (Simbirsk province). His father was friendly with Dostoevsky and was sentenced to death for his participation in the conspiracy. He was subsequently pardoned and died when Matvey was 10 years old, so the child remained to live with his mother and French governess.

After briefly studying law, Golovinsky joined the Holy Brotherhood, an anti-Semitic secret society that used falsification as a means of fighting revolutionaries. He was engaged in publishing newspapers and pamphlets using falsified materials. As a result of the contacts established, Golovinsky managed to get a job in the government press department, where he published articles in “obedient” newspapers and paid remuneration to some journalists.

After the death of his patron, Golovinsky was publicly exposed by Maxim Gorky as an informant and was forced to go abroad. Settling in Paris, he came into contact with the head of the Russian secret police, Pierre Ratchkovsky, who offered him a job writing stories about Russia for the French press.

Subsequently, Golovinsky was entrusted with more important task. Reactionary circles in Moscow, shocked by the successes of the reformers around Nicholas II, were fired up with the idea of ​​fabricating a fake that would show the Tsar that the growth of capitalism in Russia was in fact a Jewish conspiracy to overthrow the monarch himself and the entire Tsarist regime.

At the end of 1900 - beginning of 1901, Golovinsky sat down to work. In writing the Protocols, he took much from a pamphlet written in 1864 by an anti-Bonapartist lawyer who accused Napoleon III of being involved in a conspiracy to usurp all power in France.
TO THE READERS
The book brought to the attention of readers is of interest in several respects. First of all, it answers the question of the authenticity of the document, which is still in circulation as one of the grounds for Black Hundred anti-Semitic propaganda.
The prominent English scholar Norman Cohn, based on a significant number of documents, traces the history of the creation of a fake, which, under the name “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” was launched at the beginning of the 20th century by pogromists in Russia, and then used in Germany during the preparation for the Nazis’ coming to power.
I myself had to hear about the reappearance of this fake in the “samizdat” of the Black Hundreds in 1977, and later “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” became widely known in our country. Unfortunately, the history of the fake was covered in detail only in the foreign press. Although the inauthentic nature of the document is generally recognized, which is reflected, for example, in all the latest editions of the Encyclopedia Britannica and in other standard Western European and American reference works, our reader has not yet had a sufficiently complete and detailed description of the history of the creation of this forged text .
The main milestones in revealing how the document was fabricated were outlined by the outstanding researcher of modern Russian history Burtsev. Drawing on Burtsev's revelations and work done by other researchers, Cohn convincingly traces the stages of creating a fake. Using intertextual research methods, he irrefutably proves that the basis for the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and their subsequent modifications, which were widely used for Black Hundred propaganda purposes, was a brilliant French political pamphlet of the last century.
One of the main methods of this propaganda was and still is the spread of fiction about an alleged Jewish (in Nazi terminology, “Judeo-Masonic”) conspiracy aimed at enslaving other peoples. One of the recent manifestations of this general trend discussions about Russophobia appeared that flooded our press.
Unfortunately, this is further evidence of the relevance of Norman Cohn’s book, which recreates that gloomy atmosphere first in Russia at the beginning of the century, then in pre-fascist Germany, which made it possible to spread the fake.
Kohn's book will be usefully read by all readers.
Vyacheslav Ivanov
People's Deputy of the USSR,
doctor philological sciences, Professor

Chapter I. "PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERDS OF ZION" AND "DIALOGUE IN HELL"
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People who in the 19th century spread the myth of universal Jewish conspiracy, constitute a rather motley society. This is Barrel and the Simonini Letter at the beginning of the century; much later, in last third century, - Gedsche in Germany and "Rabbi's Speech"; the French Gougno de Mousseau, Archbishop Meran, Abbot Chabot, Edouard Drumont, Russian Brafmann, Pole Lutostansky, Serb Osman Bey. These people together cleared the way for the famous forgery, which for a long time outlived their own works, which had sunk into oblivion.
“Around 1840,” Osman Bey wrote in his book “The Conquest of the World by the Jews,” “the Jewish Parliament was convened in Krakow. It was something like an Ecumenical Council, where the leaders of the Chosen People gathered for a meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to determine the means most suitable for the Jews to achieve dominion over the entire globe."
This fantasy formed the basis of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The "Protocols" consist of reports or notes for reports in which a member of the secret Jewish government - the "wise men of Zion" - lays out a plan to achieve world domination.
The number of “protocols,” reports, or chapters in the usual, standard version is twenty-four; they are collected in a booklet, which in both English editions of a small format is about one hundred pages. The content of the "Protocols" is not so easy to convey, since they are verbose and presented in a pompous style, and their argumentation is evasive and devoid of logic. However, with some effort, three main themes can still be discerned in them: a critique of liberalism, an analysis of the methods supposedly allowing the Jews to achieve world domination, and a description of their future world state. These topics are presented in the most disorderly manner, but in general it can be said that the first two predominate in the first nine "protocols", while the remaining fifteen are devoted mainly to the description of the coming kingdom. If we try to organize the argumentation of the “Protocols”, then, in general terms, it looks like this.
The calculations of the “wise men” are based on a specific understanding of politics. In their opinion, political freedom is just an idea - an idea that has great appeal to the masses, but which has never been put into practice. Liberalism, which undertakes this insoluble task, ultimately leads only to chaos, because people are not able to govern themselves, they do not know what they really want, they are easily deceived by appearances, and are not able to make the right decision when it is necessary to choose. When the aristocracy was in power, which was quite just, and freedom was in its hands, it used it for the common good; for example, she took care of the workers whose labor she lived with. But the aristocracy is a thing of the past, and the liberal order that replaced it is not viable and must inevitably lead to despotism. Only a tyrant can restore order in society. Moreover, since there are more wicked people in the world than good people, force remains the only acceptable means of government. Might is always right, and in the modern world the basis of such strength is capital and control over it. Today gold rules the world.
For many centuries there has been a conspiracy to concentrate all political power in the hands of those who are able to use it correctly - that is, in the hands of the "Elders of Zion." Much has already been done, although the conspiracy itself has not yet achieved its goal. In accordance with the very precisely formulated plans of the "wise men" in the period preceding the establishment of their domination over the whole world, the non-Jewish states that still exist, but are already sufficiently weakened, must be destroyed.
First, for this it is necessary to achieve an increase in discontent and anxiety in each state. Fortunately, the means for this are provided by the very nature of liberalism. Already now, by encouraging endless propaganda of liberal ideas and incessant chatter in parliaments, the “wise men” are helping to achieve complete confusion in the minds of common people. Confusion and disunity will increase thanks to a multi-party system: the "wise men" carefully deepen the differences by secretly supporting all parties. They will ensure that the people are alienated from their leaders. In particular, they will create constant discontent among the workers, pretending to support their demands, but at the same time secretly doing everything possible to lower the standard of living.
In any state it is necessary to discredit the government. The aristocracy must ultimately be destroyed by increased taxation on land; Since aristocrats will never give up a luxurious lifestyle, it is necessary to help them get entangled in debt. As a result, a presidential form of government should be introduced, which makes it possible for the “wise men” to nominate their puppets to the presidency; Preference should be given to people with a “dark past” to make it easier to control their activities. Freemasonry and secret societies must be made obedient instruments in the hands of the “wise men”; any Mason who resists must be physically destroyed. The industry is concentrated in the hands of giant monopolies so that the property of non-Jews can be instantly destroyed when the “wise men” need it.
Relations between states should also be undermined. It is necessary to aggravate national hatred until mutual understanding between nations is completely lost. Stockpiles of weapons must gradually increase, and wars must be started as often as possible. These wars, however, should not lead to the final victory of any country, but only contribute to the creation of even greater economic chaos. In the meantime, it is necessary to constantly undermine the moral foundations of non-Jews. Widely promote atheism, beautiful image life, debauchery and vice; For this purpose, the “wise men” are already introducing teachers and governesses specially selected as agents into the homes of non-Jews. Particular care should be taken to encourage drunkenness and prostitution.
The "Wise Men" admit that the Gentiles may still be able to thwart their plot, but they are quite confident that they can break all resistance. They can use the common people to overthrow the rulers, bringing the masses to such a degree of impoverishment that they will simultaneously rise up in all countries at once and, under the complete control of the “wise men,” destroy all private property, except, of course, for property owned by Jews. They can play one government off against another; after for long years By skillfully weaving intrigues and encouraging mutual hostility, they can easily achieve the outbreak of war against any nation that opposes their will. Even if by chance all of Europe united against them, they could turn to the support of the guns of America, China and Japan. In addition, there is also a metro: underground railway lines were invented for the sole purpose of giving the “wise men” the opportunity to blow up any capital in the event of serious opposition. After this, the remnants of the opposition can be destroyed at any time with the help of terrible diseases. There was even a possibility: if some Jews showed obstinacy, they would be dealt with through anti-Semitism.
Looking around the modern world with their inner gaze, the “wise men” prepare the ground for far-reaching plans. Already now they can state that they have destroyed religions, especially Christianity. Now that the influence of the Jesuits has been reduced to nothing, and the papacy is defenseless, it can be destroyed at any moment. The prestige of secular rulers also declines; murders and assassination threats force them to appear in public only surrounded by bodyguards, and the killers are glorified as true martyrs. Neither rulers nor aristocrats can now rely on the loyalty of the common people. Economic unrest has shaken social foundations. Clever financial manipulations led to economic decline and huge public debts; finances have fallen into a state of complete confusion, the gold standard [The gold standard is a system of monometallism, in which one metal (gold) serves as the universal equivalent and the basis of monetary circulation. It was first established in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century, and in most other capitalist countries at the end of the 19th century. In Russia in the 19th century. silver played this role. In 1897, the gold standard was introduced, under which gold coins circulated freely and were exchanged for banknotes. The gold standard met the needs of developing European and Russian capitalism. - Approx. ed.] everywhere led to a national catastrophe.
The time will soon come when the Gentile states, pushed to the limit, will be glad to hand over the reins of government to the “wise men” who have already managed to lay the foundation for future domination. Instead of an aristocracy, they have established a plutocracy, or the rule of gold, and gold is completely under their control. They established control over legislative activity and brought the laws into complete confusion; the invention of arbitration is a clear example these devilish tricks. They have firmly taken control of the education system. In this area, their destructive influence was reflected in the invention of teaching with the help of visual aids. The purpose of this technique is to turn non-Jews into “unthinking, obedient animals, waiting for evidence to figure it out...”.
The "wise men" already exercise control over politics and politicians; all parties - from the most conservative to the extremely radical - are essentially tools in their hands. Hiding behind the backs of Freemasonry, the "wise men" have penetrated the secrets of all states, and, as all governments know, they are powerful enough to bring into existence societies with new social orders or, conversely, destroy society whenever they want. After centuries of struggle, costing the lives of thousands of non-Jews and even many Jews, perhaps only a hundred years separate the “wise men” from finally achieving their goal.
Their goal is the advent of the “messianic age”, when the whole world will be united by one religion, that is, Judaism, and it will be ruled by a Jewish ruler from the line of David. This century is sanctified from above, for God himself chose the Jews for world domination, but its structure will be distinguished by a very specific political structure. Society will be organized in full accordance with the principle of inequality; the masses in it are separated from politics; education and the press suppress even the slightest interest in politics. All publications are heavily censored, and freedom of speech and association is severely restricted. These restrictions will be presented as temporary measures that will supposedly be lifted after all the enemies of the people have been dealt with, but in fact they will be permanent. History will be taught only as a visual aid, which will highlight the difference between chaos in the past and ideal order in the present; the successes of the new world empire will be constantly contrasted with the political weakness and failures of the previous Gentile governments. Every member of society will be under surveillance. A large secret police force would be recruited from all sections of the population, and every citizen would be under strict obligation to report all criticisms of the regime. Anti-government agitation will be equated to the most shameful crime, comparable only to theft or murder. Every manifestation of liberalism will be put an end to, and unconditional obedience will be required from everyone. Freedom will be promised in the indefinite future, but this promise is ephemeral.
On the other hand, a high standard of living of the population will be ensured. Unemployment will be eliminated, and taxes will be made dependent on income. The interest of the “little” person will be spurred by the development of small-scale production. Education will be planned so that young people are trained according to their background. Drunkenness is condemned, as is any manifestation of independent will.
All this will give the masses satisfaction and peace, and the example of the leaders will help them in this. Laws will become clear and unchangeable, and judges will become incorruptible and infallible. All Jewish leaders will be selected from among capable, business-minded and benevolent people. Moreover, the paramount chief will be a man of eminent merit; all unsuitable heirs are ruthlessly eliminated. This Jewish ruler will communicate freely with people, accept their petitions; no one will guess that he is constantly surrounded by secret police agents. He must lead an impeccable private life, without patronizing his relatives; he will not own any property. He is called upon to constantly work on the instructions of the government. The result will be a world without violence or injustice, in which all will enjoy the true benefits of society. The nations of the world will rejoice and praise the wonderful government, and therefore the kingdom of Zion will last long.
This is the plan that is attributed to these mysterious gentlemen, the “wise men of Zion.”
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The general public first learned about it after several editions of the Protocols were published in Russia between 1903 and 1907. The earliest printed version, with minor abbreviations, is the version that appeared in the St. Petersburg newspaper Znamya, where it was published from August 28 to September 7, 1903. The editor-publisher of "Znamya" was P.A. Krushevan, a known ardent anti-Semite. A few months before the “Protocols” appeared in print, he organized a pogrom in Chisinau, during which 45 Jews were killed, more than 400 were wounded, and 1,300 Jewish houses and shops were destroyed.
Krushevant did not say who forwarded or gave him this manuscript; he only mentioned that it was a translation of a document written in France, which the translator entitled “Minutes of the Meetings of the World Union of Freemasons and Elders of Zion”; He himself entitled them: “The program for the conquest of the world by the Jews.”
Two years later, the same version, but this time without abbreviations, appeared in the form of a pamphlet entitled “The Root of Our Troubles” with the subtitle “Where is the Root of the Modern Disorder in the Social Order of Europe in General and Russia in Particular. Excerpts from the Ancient and Modern Protocols of the World Union Freemasons." This work was transferred to the St. Petersburg Censorship Committee on December 9, 1905; permission for publication was received immediately, and in the same month the brochure appeared in St. Petersburg with the imprint of the Imperial Guard. The editor's name was not mentioned, but it is likely that in reality it was a retired officer named G.V. Butmi, a close friend of Krushevan, both of them are from Bessarabia.
At that time, from October 1905, Butmi and Krushevan took an active part in the formation of the far-right organization - the "Union of the Russian People" - known as the "Black Hundred", which created armed units to fight radicals, liberals and for mass bloodshed massacres of Jews. In January 1906, the organization again published the pamphlet The Root of Our Troubles, but this time the editor's name, Butmy, was on the cover and it was given a new title, "Enemies of the Human Race." The main part of the book is subtitled “Protocols extracted from the secret repositories of the Zion General Chancellery (Where is the root of modern disorder in the social system of Europe in general, and in Russia in particular).” This brochure appeared this time with the output data not of the Imperial Guard, but of the School for the Deaf and Dumb. Three new editions of this version of the Protocols appeared in 1906 and two more in 1907, all in St. Petersburg; in addition, they were at the same time published in Kazan with the subtitle "Excerpts from the ancient and modern protocols of the Elders of Zion of the Universal Society of Franc-Massons."
"The Root of Our Troubles" and "Enemies of the Human Race" are cheap pamphlets aimed at the mass reader. The “Protocols” are presented in a completely different way in the book that appeared entitled “The Great in the Small and the Antichrist as a Imminent Political Possibility.” Its author was the mystical writer Sergei Nilus. The “Protocols” were not included in the first edition of his book (1903). They were included in the second edition, which was published in December 1905 with the imprint of the local branch of the Red Cross in Tsarskoe Selo. Subsequently we will see that this edition was prepared with specific purpose- to impress Nicholas II, therefore it bore the imprint of the mystery of the original source. The beautifully published book was camouflaged as those mystical works that the king loved to read. In addition, it contained references to events in France and other countries, while the Krushevan-Butmi edition was more focused on events taking place in the Russian Empire.
Let's go back a little. So, Nilus's book was approved by the Moscow Censorship Committee on September 28, 1905, but still remained in manuscript; nevertheless, it appeared in print almost simultaneously with The Root of Our Troubles. But even before that, she attracted attention. Since Sergei Nilus then enjoyed the favor of the Imperial Court, the Moscow Metropolitan gave orders to read a sermon containing an exposition of his version of the “Protocols” in all 368 churches of Moscow. This was performed on October 16, 1905; in addition, the sermon was hastily reprinted in the right-wing newspaper Moskovskie Vedomosti, effectively becoming another edition of the Protocols. It was Nilus's version, not Butmi's, that influenced world history. But this did not happen in 1905, or even in 1911 or 1912, when new editions of “The Great in the Small” appeared. This happened only when the book in question appeared again, in a somewhat modified and revised form, in a larger volume, under the title “There is Near, at the Door.” This happened in 1917.
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When you come across a top secret document, which is a whole series of reports, you can’t help but wonder: who wrote these reports, to whom, for what reason; and also, how did this document get to those for whom, obviously, it was not intended at all? The various publishers of the Protocols have done their best to satisfy legitimate curiosity, but their answers are, alas, far from clear and consistent.
Even the earliest edition, which appeared in the Znamya newspaper, is puzzling. While the translator claimed that this document was obtained “from the secret repositories of the Zion General Chancellery” in France, the publisher admits: “How, where, how the minutes of these meetings in France could have been copied, who exactly copied them, we do not know ..." But that is not all. The translator, in a postscript, says: “The protocols set forth were written by Zionist representatives” and persistently warns us not to confuse “Zionist representatives” with representatives of the Zionist movement, but this does not stop the publisher, who claims that the protocols represent a threat to Zionism, “called upon to unite all Jews on earth into one union, even more united and dangerous than the Jesuit order."
Boutmi also explained that the “Protocols” were removed from the secret archives of the “main Zion Chancellery,” but he sets out a much more colorful story:
"These protocols, considered secret, were obtained from with great difficulty, in fragmentary form, and translated into Russian on December 9, 1901. It is almost impossible to get to the secret vaults in secret archives, where they are hidden, and therefore they cannot be supported by exact indications of the place, day, month, year, where and when they were compiled."
The author calls the main argument in favor of the fact that the “Protocols” were not forged “shameless self-praise, contempt for all humanity, as well as shamelessness in choosing means to achieve one’s goals, that are inherent in such a measure.” only to the Jews."
Nilus becomes confused in his statements and ends up contradicting not only Butmi, but also himself. In the 1905 edition of the Protocols, a note follows after the text: “These protocols were secretly extracted (or stolen) from an entire book of protocols. All this was obtained by my correspondent from the secret vaults of the Zion General Chancellery, now located on French territory.”
This fiction echoes Boothmy's version, but, unfortunately, the same edition of the "Protocols" is accompanied by a note stating that they were stolen by some woman from a very influential, high-ranking leader of the Freemasons after one of the secret meetings of "initiates" "in France, that nest of Masonic conspiracy. And in the 1917 edition, Nilus further confuses the question of the origin of the Protocols:
“...only now it has become reliably known to me, from Jewish sources, that these “Protocols” are nothing more than a strategic plan for the conquest of the world under the heel of the God-fighter Israel, worked out by the leaders of the Jewish people during many centuries of their dispersion and reported to the council of elders.” Prince of Exile" Theodor Herzl during the First Zionist Congress, which he convened in Basel in August 1897."
The author couldn't come up with anything better! The original manuscript was allegedly found written in French, but there were no French delegates at the First Zionist Congress, and the official language was German. Herzl himself, the founder of modern Zionism, was an Austrian journalist; all the work of the congress took place with the participation of the public, and the city of Basel was flooded with journalists who could hardly miss such an unusual meeting. But in any case, Nilus himself, in the 1905 edition, categorically stated that the reports were read not in Basel, but in France, “this modern nest of the Freemason conspiracy.”
In an atmosphere of general confusion, the publishers of the Protocols continued to invent new versions. Publisher German translation(1919), known as Gottfried zur Beck, argued that the "Elders of Zion" were simply delegates to the Congress of Basel; he also explains how their machinations were exposed. According to him, the Russian government, long concerned active work Jews, sent a spy to the congress to monitor them. A Jew, tasked with taking a shorthand record of (non-existent) secret meetings from Basel to the "Jewish-Masonic lodge" in Frankfurt am Main, was bribed by a Russian spy to give him the manuscript for one night in some town along the way. Fortunately, the spy had a whole platoon of census takers at hand. During a night of feverish work, they managed to copy many protocols, which were then sent to Russia to Nilus to translate them into Russian.
This is what Gottfried zur Beck said. But Theodor Fritsch, the “patriarch of German anti-Semitism,” in his edition of the Protocols (1920), offers a completely different version. For him, this document was also a Zionist product - he even called them the "Zionist Protocols" - but they were stolen not at the Basel Congress by the Russian police, but in some unnamed Jewish house. Moreover, they were not written in French, but in Hebrew, so the police handed them over for translation to "Orientalist professor Nilus" (who in reality, as we will see, was neither a professor, nor an Orientalist, nor even a translator." Protocols").
A completely different story is given by Roger Lambelain, who published the most popular publication; according to him, the “Protocols” were stolen from a closet in some Alsatian town by the wife or fiancée of the leader of the Freemasons. After such colorful stories, the Polish publisher's assertion that the Protocols were simply stolen from Herzl's apartment in Vienna sounds like gray prose.
The lady, known as the American Leslie Frey, and by her husband as Madame Shishmareva, has written a lot about the Protocols since 1922. Her main contribution to the debate was her arguments proving that the author of the Protocols was none other than Asher Ginsberg, who wrote under the pseudonym Ahad Gaam (that is, “one of the people”), an author essentially so apolitical that he It’s hard to even imagine another. According to Madame Frey, the “Protocols” were written by Ginsberg in Hebrew, read by him at a secret meeting of “initiates” in Odessa in 1890, and then forwarded to French translation to the World Jewish Union in Paris, and then in 1897 to the Basel Congress, where, as one can assume, they were translated into German for the convenience of the delegates. The hypothesis is too complicated, but nevertheless it finds quite influential support.
Thus, the various authors writing about the Protocols do not have a common opinion about their origin. Even the belief that the “Elders of Zion” are delegates to the Basel Congress is not shared by everyone. The unknown Russian translator of the French text, according to Krushevan and Boutmi, unequivocally states that the “wise men” cannot be identified with representatives of the Zionist movement. For Nilus, before his belated discovery, the "main Zion office" was the headquarters of the World Jewish Union in Paris; Urbain Gautier, one of the first publishers of the Protocols in France, was also convinced that the "wise men" were members of the Union. Others, following Mrs. Frey, have tried to combine the two hypotheses - no easy task, since the Union is a purely philanthropic, apolitical organization, which pinned all its hopes on the adaptation of the Jews to their countrymen and was so hostile to Zionism that it caused general surprise. Of course, there were also the Freemasons, who were very often mentioned in connection with the “Protocols”...
Meanwhile, in 1921, something came to light that proved in the most decisive way that the Protocols were a fake. Moreover, the “Protocols” are such an obvious and ridiculous forgery that it may seem surprising why it was necessary to prove the fact of forgery. However, in the years immediately following the First World War, when the Protocols emerged from the fog and thundered around the world, many quite sensible people took them completely seriously. To realize this, it is enough to refer to what the Times newspaper wrote on May 8, 1920:
“What are these “Protocols”? Are they reliable? If so, then what evil bunch drew up such plans and rejoices at their rapid implementation?.. Have we not, by straining all the forces of our nation, avoided the “All-German Union” only in order to fall into the snare of the "All-Jewish Union"? A year later, on August 18, 1921, The Times published a sensational editorial in which it admitted its mistake. In the issues of 16, 17 and 18 August, she published a detailed report from her correspondent in Constantinople, Philip Graves, which stated that the Protocols were basically a copy of a pamphlet against Napoleon III, a pamphlet dating from 1864. Here's what Philip Graves reported:
“...I must admit that when the discovery reached me, I initially refused to believe it. Mr. X., who provided me with the evidence, was convinced of it. “Read this book,” he told me, “and you will You will find irrefutable evidence that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is plagiarized."
Mr. X., who does not wish his name to be known, is a Russian landowner whose relatives live in England. Orthodox by religious convictions, by political convictions he is a constitutional monarchist. He came here as a refugee after his final failure white movement in Southern Russia. He had long been interested in the Jewish question in Russia. To this end, he studied the "Protocols" and, during the reign of General Denikin, undertook some research to find out whether there really existed in the south of Russia some kind of secret "Masonic" organization similar to that mentioned in the "Protocols". It turned out that there was only one organization there - the monarchical one. He came upon the solution to the appearance of the “Protocols” completely by accident.
A few months ago, he bought a stack of old books from a former secret police officer who had fled to Constantinople. Among them he found a small volume on French without title page size 15x9 centimeters, in cheap binding. The word "Joly" is imprinted on the leather spine in large Latin letters. The preface, entitled “Just an Announcement,” is marked: “Geneva October 15, 1864...” Both the paper and the font are very typical of the 60s and 70s of the last century. I present these details in the hope that they may lead to the discovery of the book's title...
Mr. X. considers this book to be a bibliographic rarity, since otherwise the Protocols would immediately be recognized as plagiarism by anyone who read the original.
The authenticity of the book will not be doubted by anyone who has seen this book. Its first owner, a secret police officer, did not remember where he got it from and did not attach any importance to it. Mr. X., one day, looking through a book, was struck by the similarity between the phrase on which his gaze rested and a phrase from the French edition of the Protocols. He continued comparative study and soon realized that the "Protocols" were basically... a paraphrase of the Geneva original...
Before receiving the book from Mr. X.'s hands, I did not believe this. I did not consider the “Protocols” of Sergei Nilus to be authentic... But I would never have believed it if I had not seen for myself that the writer who provided Nilus with the original was a shameless and unscrupulous plagiarist.
The Geneva book is a thinly disguised pamphlet against the despotism of Napoleon III and consists of 25 dialogues... The interlocutors are Montesquieu and Machiavelli..."
Before publishing the message of its correspondent from Constantinople, The Times undertook a search in the British Museum. Joly's name printed on the cover provided a clue. The mysterious volume was identified: it is “Dialogue in Hell between Montesquieu and Machiavelli,” which was written by the French lawyer Maurice Joly. It was first published in Brussels (albeit with a Geneva imprint) in 1864.
In his autobiography, written in 1870, Maurice Joly told how one day he was walking along the Seine embankment in Paris and suddenly had the idea of ​​writing a dialogue between Montesquieu and Machiavelli. Direct criticism of Napoleon's regime was prohibited. In the same way, it became possible, albeit through the mouth of Machiavelli, to reveal the reasons for the actions of the emperor and his methods, freeing them from the usual camouflage. Joly thought so, but he underestimated his opponent. "Dialogue in Hell" was printed in Belgium and secretly delivered to France, but the moment it crossed the border, the cargo was seized by the police, and soon the author of the book was tracked down and arrested. On April 25, 1865, Joly was brought to trial and sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment. His book was banned and confiscated.
Future life Jolie's life was just as unsuccessful. Witty, aggressive, and disrespectful to authorities, he became increasingly disillusioned with everything and finally committed suicide in 1879. He certainly deserved a better fate. Joly was not only a brilliant stylist, but also had excellent intuition and the gift of foresight. In his novel The Starving People, he showed a rare understanding of the tensions in the modern world that gave rise to revolutionary movements of both the right and the left. But above all, in his reflections on the amateurish despotism of Napoleon III, he achieved a vision that has retained its relevance in relation to the various authoritarian regimes of our time. Moreover, some of Joly's visions came to life again when Dialogue in Hell was turned into The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and this is the reason, as we will see later, why the Protocols often seem to be a prediction of twentieth-century authoritarianism. But in the end it is an unenviable immortality, and the cruel irony is that a brilliant but long-forgotten defense of liberalism served as the basis for a horribly written reactionary nonsense that has misled the whole world.
Joly's pamphlet is real wonderful work, precise, ruthless, logical, beautifully constructed. The dispute begins with Montesquieu, who claims that in this century the enlightened ideas of liberalism gave rise to despotism, which has always been immoral and also unsustainable. Machiavelli answers him with such eloquence and at such length that he dominates the rest of the pamphlet. “The masses of the people,” he says, “are incapable of governing themselves. They are usually inert and happy only when they are governed by strong personality; at the same time, if something awakens them, then they are only capable of senseless violence, and then they again need a strong personality to bring them under control. Politics has never had anything to do with morality, and as for the practical side of things, it has never been so easy as now to establish despotic rule. The modern ruler must only pretend to observe the forms of legality, he must convince his people of the merest appearance of self-government, in which case he will have not the slightest difficulty in attaining and exercising absolute power. The people willingly agree with any decision that they consider their own; therefore, the ruler must only transfer decisions on all issues to the people's assembly, having first, of course, arranged the matter in such a way that the assembly will make exactly the decisions that he needs. It is easy to put an end to opposition forces that might oppose his will: one only needs to tighten censorship and also instruct the police to monitor their political opponents. He is not afraid of either the power of the church or financial problems. As long as a statesman dazzles the people with the force of his authority and wins military victories, he can be completely confident of support.
This is the book that inspired the author of the fake Protocols. He shamelessly engaged in plagiarism, and the extent to which this was done shamelessly and unceremoniously can be judged by the parallel texts placed at the end of the book [See: Appendix, p. 195.]. More than 160 passages in the Protocols - two-fifths of the entire text - are openly taken from Joly's book; in nine chapters borrowings reach more than half of the text, in some - up to three quarters, and in one (protocol VII) - almost the entire text. Moreover, with a few exceptions, the order of the borrowed passages remains exactly the same as in Joly's, and it seems that the author of the Protocols worked on the Dialogue mechanically, rewriting page after page. Even the arrangement by chapter is almost the same - the 24 chapters of the "Protocols" almost entirely coincide with the 25 chapters of the "Dialogue". Only at the end, where the prophecies of the “messianic age” predominate, does the copyist allow himself some deviations from the original. This is truly an undeniable case of plagiarism and forgery.
The author of the forgery built his evidence on calculations extracted from the dispute between two opposing sides in the “Dialogue”: Machiavelli’s defense of despotism and Montesquieu’s defense of liberalism. But his borrowings are drawn mainly from Machiavelli. What Joly puts into the mouth of Machiavelli, the author of the forgery makes the nameless “wise man of Zion” speak with the same words, but with some important additions. In Joly's book, Machiavelli, personifying the position of Napoleon III, describes a state of affairs that has always existed, while in the Protocols this description is presented in the form of a prophecy about future times. Machiavelli argues that a despot can find in democratic forms of government a useful cover for his tyranny; in the Protocols this argument is turned on its head, with the result that all democratic forms of government are but a cover for tyranny. But the plagiarist borrows some passages from Montesquieu, and here they acquire a specific meaning from him, that, supposedly, the ideas of liberalism are an invention of the Jews and they disseminate them for the sole purpose of disorganizing and demoralizing non-Jews.
Given free time, it would be possible to build a brilliant forgery on such material, but when you read the “Protocols”, you get the impression that they were fabricated in a hurry. For example, the Dialogue makes a very clear distinction between the policies of Napoleon III when he was just trying to seize power, and his policies when he already had power firmly in his hands. "Protocols" suspects nothing of such nuances. In one place the speaker speaks as if the “wise men” already have absolute control, and in another he gives the impression that they will have to wait another hundred years for this. Sometimes he boasts that the non-Jewish governments are already intimidated by the “wise men,” and sometimes he admits that they know nothing about the conspiracy of the “wise men” and that they have never even heard of its existence. Other inconsistencies are explained by the fact that the despot described by Joly seeks to achieve dominance over France, while the “wise men” try to achieve dominance over the whole world. The author of the fake does not care about somehow reconciling such discrepancies; moreover, he likes to tear apart the verbal fabric of the “Dialogue” with absurdities of his own invention, for example, such as the threat to blow up rebellious capitals, using the subway to achieve this goal.
It is even more strange that the author of the forgery preserves all the passages that are devoted to attacks on liberal ideas and praise of the landed aristocracy as a necessary stronghold of the monarchy... These passages are so gentile in nature that they caused confusion even among the publishers of the Protocols. Some publishers simply excluded them, others tried to explain it by saying that the ardent Russian conservative Sergei Nilus must have inserted his own reasoning here. Their difficulties are understandable. Nilus was not the author of the forgery, but, as we will soon see, the curses against political freedom and the praise of the aristocratic and monarchical system will help us discover the true nature and reasons for the appearance of this forgery.