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(1918) [MARC] Author: Alfons Heyking - Tema: Russia
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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 47

of the most difficult problems to be solved in Russia. It
was alleged that the Jews, by their tribal proclivities, acted,
in the form of their kahals, as a close fighting phalanx against
the Christians, who had no such organisation, and were in
general a danger to the rest of the population. It was also
supposed that their energy and cleverness in business made
the ingenuous Russian peasant an easy prey to their activities.
That may be so, but at any rate the problem to be dealt
with could certainly not be solved in a modern civilised
State by the suppression of the Jews, but had to be handled,
so to speak, from the other end of the stick. If the Jews
prove to be successful and dangerous opponents, their
success could be checked by making their Christian
opponents equal in strength. In other words, if the Christians
would apply the same force of organisation, the same energy
and eagerness for work, as the Jews, there could not be any
question of danger from the latter. It appears, therefore,
that it is the fault of the Christians who allow themselves
to be beaten. It is, for instance, a very significant fact
that in Great Britain, north of the Tweed, very few Jews
are found, for the reason that the Scots are so hard-working
and so pushful a race that they prove a good match for
the Jews, who have no chance whatever of exploiting them.

The Jewish question in Russia could not possibly be
dealt with apart from the general question of equality of
rights and equality of religion for all races inhabiting the
Empire ; the Revolution has, therefore, taken the only
possible course : to give to all Russian citizens the same
rights, including the Jews. Thus the Jews have achieved
their goal by the Revolution. It remains now for them to
show that they are worthy of the rights they have obtained.
Equal rights imply equal duties. The Jews will have to
realise that there is no longer any reason for them to be
antagonistic to the order of the Russian State, of which
they themselves form part. Equality of rights means that
any difference from a legal point of view between citizens
of different race and religion does not exist; and that the
question of race and religion only forms a part of the private

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