“An individual, a group, a party, or a class that ‘objectively’ picks its nose while it watches men drunk with blood massacring defenceless people is condemned by history to rot and become worm-eaten while it is still alive.”
When the young war correspondent Lev Davidovich Bronstein wrote those words in 1912, the individual he had in mind was the historian and prominent Russian intellectual Pavel Nikolayevich Miliukov, leader of Russia’s liberal-left Constitutional Democratic Party. It was Miliukov’s custom to publicly and explicitly excuse the atrocities being visited upon defenceless Turks at the time by the Bulgarian partisans who were serving as …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
