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(1889) [MARC] Author: Georg Brandes Translator: Samuel Coffin Eastman - Tema: Russia
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the result that the liberal Russian newspapers manifested
their sympathy by silence, then it was that Katkóf made
his master-stroke. He denounced the emigrants and
nihilists as perfidious traitors to their country, preached
the strongest Russian chauvinism, demanded not only
that the rebels should be put out of the way, but that
the independent existence of Poland should be blotted
out by changing the kingdom to a Russian province.
When the revolt was quelled, Katkóf was one of the
most popular men in the higher circles of Russia. It
was he who caused Muravief to be sent as “Hanging
Dictator” to Wilna. It was under his ægis, under the
pretence of the law of self-preservation of the State,
that the democrats gave the Lithuanian peasants freedom
and land through the unbridled plundering of the Polish
nobility, and that the Slavophiles urged religious
persecution under the pretence of wishing to eradicate the
tyranny of the Catholic Church.

From this time on, Katkóf could only rise and rise in
influence in the same degree as the re-action in Russia
rose. He had identified himself with it.

The quondam philosopher was henceforth the most
zealous adherent of the Greek orthodoxy. The quondam
English liberal was henceforth a worshipper and
defender of the national absolutism, more national than
the government, more monarchical than his monarch.
All his disputes with the Court and the Tsar were only
lovers’ quarrels, occasioned by too much zeal on his part.

His power increased to an incredible degree. When,
on one occasion, the ministry forbade the publication of
his newspaper, he nevertheless issued it as usual, only
with the comment that it was forbidden, but that the
prohibition must have arisen from a misunderstanding.
It passed unchallenged; the Tsar sustained him.

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