In the 1970s, Jewish novelist, journalist, and ex-Communist Arthur Koestler dove into an obscure historical topic with global implications in religion, government, politics, and events: the Khazar Empire. Most people have never heard of it, and no wonder. Whenever they can, mainstream historians ignore it — and if they can’t ignore it, they belittle it. Why? And why did the Soviet regime try to sweep its existence under the rug, even going so far as to destroy important archaeological sites? Why did academia and the media launch a furious operation to discredit this book? Four years after The Thirteenth Tribe was published in 1979, Koestler and his wife died together — “suicided”, as some have speculated. What was so important about this Turko-Mongolian tribe that some today do not want us to know?
Perhaps Koestler brought to light secrets someone wanted kept in the dark.
“The story of the Khazar Empire,” Koestler wrote in The Thirteenth Tribe, “as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the cruelest hoax which history has ever perpetrated.”
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