The Protocols

Also known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Did you know that this is a Russian forgery used by Moscow to help it reignite anti-Semitism in Western Europe?

It was compiled by Petr Ivanovich Rachovsky, a disinformation expert who worked for the Okhrana (Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order). The Protocols claim that the Jews were plotting to take over the world.

The following excerpts are from Disinformation by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa and Prof. Ronald J. Rychlak which I'm currently reading:

Rachovsky lifted most of his text directly from an obscure, 1864 French satire called Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ("Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montestquieu") written by Maurice Joly and accusing Emperor Napoleon III of plotting to seize all the powers of French Society. The Okhrana officer essentially substituted the words the world for France and the Jews for Napoleon III. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the Okhrana republished its forgery in Paris under the name of a mystic Russian priest, Sergius Nilus, as part of an antirevolutionary propaganda campaign.

Now you know.

This forgery has proved to be the most resilient piece of disinformation in history.

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