I would also like journalists like Alexander Nezhny to besiege their excessively nihilistic colleagues themselves, without waiting for the chamo-Semites to make those around them anti-Semites.

I would like the Jews to hear the lines from the poem of the Jewish poet Naum Korzhavin about the Jewish revolutionary "Abram Springer":

There is no simple way out here, Only difficult is to be human. To feel someone else's torment, Know about your own guilt.

Finally, I would like the pain of my people to be taken into account, as well as the pain of the Jewish people.

I share my observations not to cause some kind of pogrom reflex. I hope to be heard, first of all, by the Jewish publicists themselves: well, don't be rude to the country in which you live! Do not trample on its shrines! I don't want Jewish blood to be shed again in Russia – and in response I hear accusations of "racism". I call for the observance of the elementary rules of politeness (not to blaspheme the shrines of the people among whom you live), and I am called an anti-Semite.

I simply ask the gentlemen from the demi-publications: do not make me an anti-Semite. I don't want to become one. As long as I am not an anti-Semite. And just anti-rude.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

In this book, we will focus primarily on what is happening in the world of the press. With amazing ease, it flashes statements that are offensive to those "who still love Russia." It seems that no logic of the article prompts us to immediately ascend from criticism of some particular event or lawlessness to generalizations of culturological capture and to reasoning about the fundamental vices of Russian history and Orthodox consciousness. But suddenly - you stumble:

"The odious example of Saltychikha, who slaughtered more than 100 of her peasants in the Moscow region with her own hands, is an ugly national symbol of Russia"[11].

What a measure of contempt for Russia, for its history and people stands behind these commemorations of Saltychikha. Well, who is still compiling textbooks of our national history, if even now neither journalists nor even schoolchildren know that Saltychikha was arrested, tried, sentenced to life imprisonment?..

"Two peasants, whose wives she killed, managed to submit a request to Empress Catherine II in the summer of 1762. The Justice Collegium conducted an investigation that lasted 6 years.

Not once did she show remorse."[12]

She was a degenerate, not a "national symbol." As Bunin once rightly cried out: "What an age-old baseness it is to cheat, this Saltychikha, the most ordinary madwoman"[13].

But still: if any Orthodox journalist dared to write in this style – "The odious example of Sverdlov, who initiated the campaign of "Cossackization", is an ugly national symbol of Israel" – he would quite rightly be slapped on the wrist.