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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is an infamous forgery made in Russia for the Okhrana (secret police), which blames the Jews for the country's ills. It was first privately printed in 1897 and was made public in 1905. It claims that a secret Jewish cabal is plotting to take over the world.
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MOSCOW (AFP)---Hundreds of monarchists turned out in central Moscow on Thursday to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the slaying of Russia's last tsar Nicholas II and his family by Bolsheviks.
"The Russian people should repent for this crime," Vladimir Osipov, a monarchist party leader, said after a short religious service as many supporters held up icons with images of the tsar in Orthodox saintly robes.
Elderly women in headscarves sold far-right nationalist literature nearby including "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an anti-Semitic pamphlet, and books titled "Why We Hate The Jewish Mafia" and "Xenophobia or Self-Defence."
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The 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is an infamous forgery made in Russia for the Okhrana (secret police), which blames the Jews for the country's ills. It was first privately printed in 1897 and was made public in 1905. It is copied from a 19th century novel by Hermann Goedsche and claims that a secret Jewish cabal is plotting to take over the world.
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Democracy doesn't have a future. We're going to go back to monarchy," said Ivan Kolsev, 20, a student draped in a tsarist-era flag who was wearing a T-shirt reading "Glory to Russia: For Tsar and Fatherland."
Nicholas II, his wife and five children were murdered by Bolsheviks in the early hours of July 17, 1918 in Yekaterinburg, where they had been held prisoner.
They were canonised as Orthodox martyrs in 2000 but have not been formally recognised as victims of political persecution by the Russian state.
The monarchist gathering in Slavyanskaya Square in Moscow was one of many commemorations across Russia on Thursday. Church Patriarch Alexy II called on believers to reflect on the massacre "to make sense of our past and present."
