Rick Spence

Well, the Protocols of the Alerted Elders of Zion is probably one of the most troublesome and destructive works of literature that has ever emerged.

and yet its origins remain obscure.

and yet its origins remain obscure.

and yet its origins remain obscure.

So you get a whole variety of stories about where it came from. So the one story that is often is that it was the work of the Okhrana, the Russian secret police, and in particular, it was all crafted in 1904 and 1905. In Paris, there's a whole description of... Piotr Raczkowski, who was supposedly the chief of the Okhran at the time, was the man behind it.

So you get a whole variety of stories about where it came from. So the one story that is often is that it was the work of the Okhrana, the Russian secret police, and in particular, it was all crafted in 1904 and 1905. In Paris, there's a whole description of... Piotr Raczkowski, who was supposedly the chief of the Okhran at the time, was the man behind it.

So you get a whole variety of stories about where it came from. So the one story that is often is that it was the work of the Okhrana, the Russian secret police, and in particular, it was all crafted in 1904 and 1905. In Paris, there's a whole description of... Piotr Raczkowski, who was supposedly the chief of the Okhran at the time, was the man behind it.

Another fellow by the name of Matvei Golovinsky was the drafter of it. They had this document written by a French political writer from some decades back called Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. which they were then adapting. Usually it's argued that they plagiarized it into the protocols. And none of that is really true.

Another fellow by the name of Matvei Golovinsky was the drafter of it. They had this document written by a French political writer from some decades back called Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. which they were then adapting. Usually it's argued that they plagiarized it into the protocols. And none of that is really true.

Another fellow by the name of Matvei Golovinsky was the drafter of it. They had this document written by a French political writer from some decades back called Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. which they were then adapting. Usually it's argued that they plagiarized it into the protocols. And none of that is really true.

I mean, the first part about it is that at the time this supposedly took place, Rajkosy wasn't working for the Okhrana. He'd been fired and he wasn't in Paris. And the whole situation which is described couldn't have taken place because the people who did it weren't there. It's a story. But it provides a kind of explanation for it. So the protocols emerge. So you always have to go back.

I mean, the first part about it is that at the time this supposedly took place, Rajkosy wasn't working for the Okhrana. He'd been fired and he wasn't in Paris. And the whole situation which is described couldn't have taken place because the people who did it weren't there. It's a story. But it provides a kind of explanation for it. So the protocols emerge. So you always have to go back.

I mean, the first part about it is that at the time this supposedly took place, Rajkosy wasn't working for the Okhrana. He'd been fired and he wasn't in Paris. And the whole situation which is described couldn't have taken place because the people who did it weren't there. It's a story. But it provides a kind of explanation for it. So the protocols emerge. So you always have to go back.

This is one of the things that I have found always useful in research is go back to the beginning. Find the first place this is mentioned or the first version or the first iteration. Where does it start? So you go back to St. Petersburg, Russia, around 1903. There is a small right-wing anti-Semitic newspaper published there called Znamya, Banner.

This is one of the things that I have found always useful in research is go back to the beginning. Find the first place this is mentioned or the first version or the first iteration. Where does it start? So you go back to St. Petersburg, Russia, around 1903. There is a small right-wing anti-Semitic newspaper published there called Znamya, Banner.

This is one of the things that I have found always useful in research is go back to the beginning. Find the first place this is mentioned or the first version or the first iteration. Where does it start? So you go back to St. Petersburg, Russia, around 1903. There is a small right-wing anti-Semitic newspaper published there called Znamya, Banner.

And it publishes in a kind of serial form a work, doesn't credit with any original author. And this is the first version of the protocols of the learned elders of Zion. But what it's actually describing is a Judeo-Masonic plot to rule the world. Those two terms are always combined together. And in fact, in the earlier version, there's far more mentions of Freemasons than there are Jews.

And it publishes in a kind of serial form a work, doesn't credit with any original author. And this is the first version of the protocols of the learned elders of Zion. But what it's actually describing is a Judeo-Masonic plot to rule the world. Those two terms are always combined together. And in fact, in the earlier version, there's far more mentions of Freemasons than there are Jews.

And it publishes in a kind of serial form a work, doesn't credit with any original author. And this is the first version of the protocols of the learned elders of Zion. But what it's actually describing is a Judeo-Masonic plot to rule the world. Those two terms are always combined together. And in fact, in the earlier version, there's far more mentions of Freemasons than there are Jews.

And the publisher of Znamya is closely connected to a thing called the Union of the Russian People, the Union of the Russian Men, which ostensibly existed to defend the empire against subversion. particularly against what it thought was Jewish subversion, when they also argued that the prominence of Jews in revolutionary movements somehow proved that this was in some way a Jewish revolution.