The Deception

“Right before Christmas we were heading south, and sitting in the carriage we discussed those modern issues that provide plenty of material for conversation and yet require an urgent solution. We talked about the weakness of Russian characters, the lack of firmness in some organs of power, about classicism and about the Jews. Above all, there was care taken to strengthen authority and put the Jews to the sword, if they couldn’t be corrected and brought, at the very least, to some known height of our own moral level…”