The famous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" at one time made a lot of noise around the world. The scandalous collection of texts was called nothing more than proof of the worldwide Jewish conspiracy of the Masonic lodge, which consists in the destruction of the existing states and the proclamation of a new world order, where, of course, the Jews are the "ruling class". It all started in 1901, when the minutes of the secret meetings of the Masonic Lodge fell into the hands of the writer Sergei Nilus. The documents were written in French and resembled conventions of an organization called the General Union of Israelites.
Nilus was going to make the documents public, but he was ahead of him, and in 1903 the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" were first published. After that, several more journalists published this information, in total, from 1905 to 1907, 6 publications of the "Protocols" were published. Nilus released hisversion of the translation as an addition to his book "The Great in the Small, or the Antichrist as a Close Political Possibility", which caused a sensation in Russian society. As a result, after the first revolution, people were seriously ready to blame the worldwide Zionist conspiracy for all the troubles.
The Tsar got acquainted with the sensational "Protocols" in 1906 and was inclined to believe this information. However, Stolypin, who served as Minister of the Interior, organized an investigation into the origin of the documents, during which it turned out that the time of writing the Protocols was 1897-1898, and they were created by Parisian anti-Semites. The minister immediately went to the tsar with a report and a request to ban the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Russia, the text of which was completely falsified. The king listened to the report and agreed with the minister, thus the book was banned.
As for the authorship and authenticity of the book, the opinions of experts still differ. Some experts believe that the book was falsified by members of the Russian secret police. According to them, the police followed in the footsteps of the creators of the famous pamphlet against Napoleon, published in France. Thus, the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" were fabricated in the Paris National Library. However, there are adherents of the opposite point of view, who believe that the document is absolutely real, just like other texts of similar subjects: "MessagesWorld Council of Freemasons", "Kaiser's Dream", "Message of the General Union of the Israelites", etc. Russian emigrants managed to take the surviving copies of the book of Nilus abroad, and thus Europe and America also learned what the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" were. was soon translated into 80 languages and spread around the world.
Nielus's books began to be published again in Russia only in the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, and more recently, in 2006, human rights activists, together with the Public Chamber, achieved amendments to the legislation, including the creation of a list of extremist literature prohibited for distribution in Russia. This list also includes the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" along with the famous work "Mein Kampf".
