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

ants and artisans quietly worked on the fields, lived happily and… did not die. It was
exactly the aristocrats and their children who paid with their lives for this kind of
welfare.

Certainly, there were degenerates among aristocrats who did not care about the
life of ordinary people and whether children starved or not, but there were a lot of
those, whose granaries, which, by the way, were not bottomless, nevertheless, were
opened to poor people; but they could not give away everything in one day, because
there is always tomorrow and children will want to eat the same as today: It is always
necessary to think about tomorrow today. Although granaries were open for people,
they already thought not about bread, but about how to “establish” justice. However,
rich Israelites who controlled the grain trade and prices for bread, for “some” reason
did not open their granaries for starving people, but only made a profit out of them,
taking their last savings for a piece of bread for starving children! They not only took
away the last earned savings, it was precisely they who fixed exorbitant prices for
bread and other food, earning super-profits. It was the Israelites who got incredibly
rich on people’s misery, not Persian aristocrats!!!

At this time the Vizier Mazdak, the Shah Kavadh’s favourite, who was married
to a Jew, organized a revolution. In 6000 (S.A.C) or 491 A.D. he offered a “program”
for exiting the crisis. It consisted of two parts — philosophical and economic. The
philosophy of his position was very simple. The reign of justice is a reign of light and
good, the sphere of will and reason, and evil was spontaneity and unreasonableness.
His conclusions were also simple: in order to build the world “rationally” little was
needed — take away riches from the rich and give them to the poor. The Judaic ex-
ilarch Mar Zutra and all the poor Jews “joined” Mazdak’s revolt. Exactly they be-
came Mazdak’s main support and exactly they began to establish the “oppressed jus-
tice” which was carried out in two stages. The first stage: expropriation of their
riches from the rich. The second stage: give them to the needy poor people. The
oddities began already at the first stage.

“Revolutionary”-Israelites decided that it was exactly they who must estab-
lish justice on behalf of the Persian poor people and hastily began to confiscate the
riches of the Persian aristocracy and certainly eliminating them, the “devils incar-
nate”, to the last man. However, for “some” reason the Israelite-revolutionaries did
not consider rich Israelites, whose riches increased by many times during the years
of misery of the Persian people, to be “devils incarnate”. Rich Israelites who did not
support Mazdak and strived against him were just deported from Persia together with
their riches, while almost all poor Israelites began to work for the “state” under Maz-
dak’s leadership and actively participated in the expropriation of riches from the Per-
sian nobility. The Israelites of the Simeon tribe did their best and showed an ex-
traordinary selflessness in the name of “justice”. They spared neither themselves nor
their time for the good of the Persian people. The first stage of “justice” establishing
went without a hitch! The time came for the implementation of the second stage of
the “Great Plan” — the distribution of the riches among the needy people of the low-
er classes. And all needy Israelites got their “share” of the riches of the Persian
people. And the “justice” was established!

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