The Beilis Affair According to Solzhenitsyn - part 1

Further on the subject of pre-revolutionary Russia, I have found that Solzhenitsyn did address the Beilis story and in great detail in 200 Years Together, and I bring that to you here. I compare that to a few contemporary takes on the subject, including that of cultish Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish orthodox extremists (whose world apparently consists of only two kinds of people, semites and anti-semites). The intention here is to broaden knowledge on this subject, to show how fluid the writing of history can be, and the way it so clearly is used as a weapon by Jews. Elsewhere in this chapter Solzhenitsyn says this:

"Seventy years later, I was the object of a heavy accusation on the part of the Jewish community in the United States: why, in my turn, did I not conceal, why did I say that the assassin of Stolypin was a Jew? It does not matter if I have endeavoured to make a description as complete as possible. It does not matter what the fact of being Jew represented in the motivations of his act. No, non‐dissimulation betrayed my anti‐Semitism!!"

In the end we cannot ever know who in fact did kill this boy, or whether or not it was a ritual murder of some kind. All we can do is to learn lessons from the way it has been used for a century in the culture wars.