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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

15. For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the four-
teenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on
the prey they laid not their hand.

16. But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves to-
gether, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their
foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

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Here the Old Testament tells about the elimination of seventy five thousand
eight hundred and ten persons in only two days of the Judaic revolution in the Per-
sian Empire. And since then exactly this event is celebrated by all Israelites in the
world. The amount of the killed for two days was an incredibly enormous number
for ancient times. But how many Israelites were killed in pogroms? None, because
there were no pogroms. These tens of thousands of people destroyed by the Israelites
were mighty men, mainly — aristocrats which descended from the Slavs-Aryans who
initially created the Persian Empire. The population of the Persian Empire consisted
basically of the people of the grey sub-race and the black race which constituted no
threat to the Israelites.
There is another moment worthy of our attention: in order to organize such a
massacre a lot of weapons were needed; there must be several hundred Israelites par-
ticipating and all of them must be trained to master a weapon to a certain degree.
Thereupon the following questions arise: if the Israelites were slaves, where did they
get such an amount of weaponry, when were they able to learn to use it and who
taught them?

A slave, merchant or manager was not a warrior. The Old Testament does not
mention Judaic warriors, but only the “peaceful” and “faithful” citizens of the Persian
king. Where did “peaceful” Israelites get so many weapons which, by the way, they
needed to purchase, secretly deliver all over the Empire and teach the use of these
weapons, also secretly? Besides, there must be perfect organization and a clear activi-
ty allocation: who does what and when, in order that the action happens simultane-
ously and effectively.

In fact, the majority of the killed mighty men were professional warriors who
were taught the art of war from their childhood, and to kill such people is not an easy
task. The absence of information about the number of Israelites killed, involuntarily
suggests the idea that most of these people were killed when they were not expecting
an attack. If we take into account that in the Persian Empire the Israelites worked as
stewards, auxiliary personnel and empowered persons, who lived in the houses of the
Persian aristocracy, then we can come to the conclusion that the majority of the dead
were killed in their sleep. If servants did not kill their masters they, at least, let the
killers in to the houses at night and indicated where they could be found.

All the abovementioned indicates careful and long preparation for the action and

156 Ibid.

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