RUSSIAN LIES.
It .may not be inexpedient to recall ; to mind at the present moment the declaration made by Prince Peter Dolgoruk6ff,' m his " Truth About Russia," published fiye-and twenty years ago,. that " Russia is the cqnn|;ry qf oificial and organised .lies/ 1 Ever since the Mongol' invasion m the thirteenth century, he'added, " the country has been nothing but an immense pyramid of oppression. In tb,is vast edifice slavish subjection and arbitrary foi'ce reign from the bottom to the. top ; and from top to bottom there is developed,|in formidable proportions, of the ' official lie — the lie erected into a political institution. -This- despotism "'deg"rad<es the soul. It corrupts, perverts, . and lowers the character, even more v among those' who exercise- that despotism than among its vicitms.-"— This was not written with Davidian haste, but with careful deliberation and frequent resort to* 'the d'etionary.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 48, 24 July 1885, Page 4
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