In retaliation, Mr. Todorov wrote, the militia murdered 38 Jews in the village of Saint-Armand by throwing them into a well and finishing them off with rocks and cement. In the interview in Le Monde, Mr. Todorov said he was skeptical of the concept of good, preferring simple kindness. Mr. Todorov, 24 when he emigrated, had grown up with an instinctive skepticism toward government, one that relented after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. “I had some mistrust toward everything the state defends or that is related to the public sphere,” Mr. Todorov told Le Monde. Mr. Todorov became a French citizen in 1973.

Source: New York Times February 08, 2017 02:08 UTC