The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 100

Episode Date: January 7, 2026

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Everything's there. I want to welcome everyone back to our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenison. This is episode 1. hundred dr johnson how are you done oh this is a this is a big deal to me um i've never been this deep into a book in my entire life anybody uh this has been this has been extraordinary and people who've been listening from the very beginning they're getting an education that very few people uh have and um and especially what we're doing now uh now stanley is at my feet So I can't stretch my legs out.

He's out like a log, though. So I can't, you know, speaking of getting older, he's, he's just over 10. And he falls, and he's the head of the animals in the household. He keeps very strict the counting of everybody. So, um, so he kind of plops down wherever he wants. He does this thing where someone is in, um, one of his sleeping spots. He's a big boy. He just goes over there and stares.

And the little cat, usually one of the younger kittens looks up and he doesn't say words of stairs and then eventually they get down. So that's what kind of a, what kind of a sociology of the cat hierarchy, feline hierarchy we have around here. And of course, the dogs are totally intimidated by him, most cats, I guess. That's hilarious. But yeah, he's a very strict, you know, dogs form packs, cats form hierarchies. And Stanley's hierarchy is very strict. and but right now he is snoring between my feet so i'm i can't stretch out it might be a big problem i don't know all right let's jump in

all right picking up where we left off last time looks like we're going to finish this chapter on the gulags and then we're going to get into uh the russian german war However, my camps were different, spanning from the great Bellamore to the tiny 121st camp district of the 15th OLP of Moscow's UITLK, which left behind a not-inspicuous semi-circular building at Kaluga's Gate and Moscow. Out there, our entire life was directed and trampled by three leading idiots. Solomon, Solomanoff, a chief accountant, David Burstein, first an educator, and later a work assigning clerk and Isaac Bershiter earlier in exactly the same way Salamanoff and Bersheter ruled over the camp at the Moscow Highway Institute M.H.I. Note that all this

happened under the auspices of a Russian camp commander, one ensign Mironov. For those who haven't heard previous episodes, an idiot, he means the word in the Greek sense, the way that Aristotle used the word, somebody who is not a part of society, either because they're too extraordinary or too stupid. They're outside of it. And in this case, it means that they're not really, they're within the camp, but they do their own thing. We get something like idiosyncratic terms like this from it. So that's what idiot means here. And that's what it meant when it was a medical term many years ago and it's not used anymore but but so now not only do you have jews controlling the camps from the top levels you have jewish inmates

controlling the camp from the inside and the idiotas from the camp level you know were overwhelmingly jewish and this is one of the first things that god's sultan is i'm in trouble when he uh published the gula archipelago um because you know he never he didn't And he didn't say, oh, my God, they're all Jews. He just mentioned all their names. And that was sufficient. So Jewish control was at numerous levels. And keep in mind, too, that the camp system was everywhere.

I mean, they were everywhere. Camps were everywhere. And they had all kinds of specializations. It wasn't just, you know, guys, you know, busted rocks for the pick or something like that. You had scientific. You had everything you could think of. military, the camps, you know, specialized in different things, and they became a big part of the Soviet economy. So, I know I said that recently, but in case someone's just tuning in, the word

idiot doesn't mean what we normally use the word at. All three of them came up before my eyes and to get positions for them, in each case, their Russian predecessors were instantly removed from the posts. Salamanov was sent in first. He confidently seized the proper position and quickly got on the right side of the ensign, I think, using food and money from outside. Soon after that, the wretched burscheter was sent in from MHA with an accompanying note, quote, to use him only in the common labor category, a quite unusual situation for a domestic

criminal, which probably meant substantial delinquency. he was about 50 years old short fat with a baleful glare he walked around condescendingly inspecting our living quarters with the look of a general from the head department well they shouldn't surprise anybody and even even before they knew they were going to be amongst the ranks of the idiots the idiotes they realized that their money coming in from the outside was sufficient to put them there and keep them there and so and remember it wasn't just the gulag wasn't just for political prisoners i mean they were a large chunk of the of the population but you know even just common criminals too and they were all mixed together so um the jews of course being as cohesive

as they are were able to in very you know take care of these guys once they were inside and they a tiny minority of the population anyway so they had this big income coming in not just from family members or anything but even from jews in general um and so that put him in a position regardless of of anything else and so uh but this this arrogance um and contempt for the russians who bade of of of course the majority of uh men at the camp um was something to be expected and of course God forbid you did something about it, you'd be in serious trouble. The senior proctor asked him, What is your specialty?

Storekeeper. There is no such specialty. Well, I am a storekeeper. Anyway, you are going to work in the Common Labor Brigade. For two days, he was sent there. Shrugging his shoulders, he went out, and upon entering the work zone, he used to seat himself on a stone and rest respectfully.

Respectably. The brigadier would have hit him, but he quit. The newcomer was so self-confident that anyone could sense power from him. The camp storekeeper, Sevastiyanov, was depressed as well. For two years, he was in charge of the combined provision in sundry store. He was firmly established and lived on good terms with the brass, but now he was chilled. Everything is already settled. Bersadir is a storekeeper by specialty.

Yeah, you know, the common, being assigned to the Common Labor Brigade, you know, and that's the tough, that's your real, you know, force labor that is in many cases, you know, hitting rocks with sticks. But that was, to some extent, it was propaganda. You see, some of us do get a sign there. But he knew he didn't have to do anything. He knew that even the officers of the camp had to watch themselves because they were Jews and because they were given a substantial amount of money from the outside. I don't know what the word quailed mean means but the context seems to be that he he withheld that he was going to beat him as they normally did but because he was a jew um he and he had money coming in

that um he without even you're just like on day one without knowing what was going to happen he still acted as if he had been there forever and and was and didn't have to do anything and so well everyone else was was was kicking rocks he was he was he was sitting there. So even if they were assigned to the hard labor brigade, that doesn't mean they were doing hard labor. Nothing is ever as it seems when it comes to the Jews, either before or after the Russian Revolution. Then the medical unit discharged Burscheter from the labor duties on grounds of poor health. And after that, he rested in the living quarters. Meanwhile, he probably got something from outside. And within less than a week, Sevresyaanov was removed from

his post, and Bershiter was made a storekeeper with the assistance of Salamanoff. However, at this point, it was found that the physical labor of pouring grain and rearranging boots, which was done by Cvesdanov single-handedly, was also contraindicated for Bershitter. So he was given a henchman, and Solomanoff's bookkeeping office enlisted the latter as service personnel. But it was still not a sufficiently abundant life. The best-looking proudest woman of the camp, the swan-like lieutenant sniper M was bent to his will and forced to visit him in his storeroom in the evenings. After Burstein showed himself in the camp, he arranged to have another camp beauty, AS, come to his cubicle. Yeah, so the camps weren't quite the same.

We're talking about rape here, clearly. And this is supposed to be an inmate of the Gulang. You can remember, you know, at the end of the USSR, the, at least according to Friedman's book, The Red Mafia, which is an excellent book on the formation of the so-called Russian Mafia, which is a Jewish Mafia, most of its core membership came out of the Gulag, which wasn't eliminated until 89-90, and this was their life. So if they weren't already essentially a mafia organization in the country, they certainly were an organization. crime group in the gulag where they even had more freedom and so there was a woman here I don't know lieutenant sniper I don't know what that means genders were obviously kept separated but not for him but forced to visit him in his tour room in the evening you know this isn't exactly this isn't exactly consensual so this is a one level more of the arrogance and

and the contempt. And this is something that Solstinisa wasn't allowed to talk about. And he did. And despite the fact that he won the Nobel Prize in the 70s, this was a tremendous book. Remember, when Khrushchev was overthrown, the very, you know, Andropov, who was a Jew, Indrapov, who was the head of the KGB prior to becoming dictator of the USSR,

after Brezhnev, and even actually during Breznav's reign too, they'd helped finance a lot of anti-Sulteneatonian writing. So a lot of the negative stuff, especially from Jews in the West, may come from Soviet money. I can't say that for certain. But Sultanistan certainly said so, and that he knew that Endropov, who was, I think, the only clearly Jewish dictator of the USSR, although Endropov is, I don't, doesn't blatantly scream Jewish last name to me. Um, they were the ones who said, oh, look what he's talking about. And drop of, you know, had had, had, you know, was profiting. So many of the, um, Soviet elite were profiting from what the, what the gulags were creating

and what they were producing. That's why it never went away. Um, it was a huge part of not just so, I don't want to say the Soviet economy, but their personal privileges. And, um, I haven't said this before, but the KGB was involved in financing. anti-sulsin needs and writings. They tried to kill him. I know they tried to kill him in 1971

with a ricin pellet like it did in Bulgaria. He got very, very ill. It's, you know, it must not have penetrated enough. He almost died. As if life was, his life wasn't difficult enough. And he was aware we all know how ricin works. If you watch Breaking Bad, you know, it stays dormant for a while. You get flu-like symptoms and then you drop dead.

It really, it's a tiny amount, but apparently the dose was the problem here. And he probably was strong as an ox anyway, everything he's been through. So, you know, Khrushchev mentioned him by name when he was condemning Stalin, saying we should allow this man to publish. But Khrushchev was overthrown in 64. And near the end of Brezhnev, the beginning of that last, you know, Shunenko and Dropov, that era, um, they, uh, were vehemently opposed to it, um, vehemently opposed to, to Schultzen's, uh, publishing in Russia. And, um, and yes, I, I've never mentioned this, but he does, there was one, at least one assassination attempt that he ever mentioned. Um, the symptoms

were too clear for it to be anything else. And ricin really was a Soviet method, uh, the rice and pellets given any kind of the one of Bulgaria was an umbrella I forget the guy's name the journalist that wanted to eliminate he was from Bulgaria but he was working in in Britain and the assassin was Middly that worked but it's really hard to trace doesn't show up on talk screens and it doesn't show up you don't feel it until I don't know a week after being injected with it so it really is the perfect assassination weapon. I think his name was Gregoriev. He, he remembers though, when he felt the sting, he knew what the Soviets did. You know, so it's very similar here in 1971, but they didn't

quite do it. But he was sick for a very, very long time. And he was well aware that he could never go back to the, to Russia until until the Soviets were overthrown. Is it difficult to read this? But they were by no means troubled by how it looked from the outside. It even seemed as if they thickened the impression on purpose. And how many such little camps with similar establishments were there all across the archipelago? And did Russian idiots behave in the same way, unrestrained and insanely? Yes, but within every other nation it was perceived socially like an eternal strain between rich and poor, Lord and Servant.

However, when an alien emerges as a master over life and death, it further adds to the heavy resentment. It might appear strange. Isn't it all the same for a worthless, negligible, crushed, and doomed camp dweller surviving at one of his dying stages? Isn't it all the same who exactly seizes to power inside the camp and celebrates crows picnics over his trench grave? As it turns out, it is not. These things have been etched into my mind. memory iriscibly this is a key point that he's making here we all know that westerners know almost zero about um judaism and what it truly is that it's not primarily a religion that it's really almost an ideology an ethnic ideology um and and a power drive a revolutionary movement most people don't understand that at all and where they can't understand it it's too expensive

socially to believe this stuff. But it's one thing, you know, you wonder, when the Soviets took over initially, it was a heavily Jewish movement. Cholson-Eason said so, Putin said so, and their priorities were strange for a group of people that were claiming to be in favor of labor. They were far more concerned with destroying churches and the sexual revolution and everything else. In other words, what he's saying here is that when there's a power differential,

And it's a Russian or a Gentile. Yeah, it might be nasty. It might be unpleasant. It might be exploited. But it's nothing compared to when there's a power differential when the Jew is over you and you're a Gentile. The hatred is, and they're willing to lose money over. They're willing to suffer for your, you know, to get to, you know, they could have been overthrown many times in the beginning. As I've said a hundred times, there were many legitimate.

Orthodox, Christian socialists institutions in Russia. It wasn't a capitalist society. You would think that they would promote that. No, of course not. They had to destroy it. If it were Gentile Marxists, they probably wouldn't have. Their priorities were completely different than, and we talked about this some time ago,

with all of the founders of the leftist movement, Marx himself, not trusting the Jews and disliking the Jews. As we all know, Bakunin, the founders of anarchism, said that the only reason that socialism and Marxism are synonymous is because he was in with the Rothschild. But it's completely different. And that's why I could write a book where I could say that the Soviet Union in its first half ever had nothing, didn't even consider the idea of labor. That was just a rhetoric. And that was because of its Jewish element. you had less of a Jewish element in Yugoslavia

and although you did have so many problems there, Tito was interested in worker control over industry and I oversaw a dissertation on this very topic. His workers' control is one of the main reasons he separated from the USSR. And it didn't work, but it was far less of a Jewish movement there than was in the early Soviet Union and certainly less so in the Stalinist era.

In my play, Republic of Labor, I presented some of the events that happened in that camp on Bolshaya Kalushkaya 30, understanding the impossibility of depicting everything like it was in reality because it would be inevitably considered an incitement of anti-Jewish sentiment as if that trio of Jews was not inflaming it in real life, caring little about consequences. I withheld the abominably greedy bershitter. I concealed Burstein. I recompensed the profiteer Rosa Kalikman into an amorphous bella of eastern origin

and retained the only Jew accountant Soleimanov exactly like he was in life. So what he's saying here, now I've read the Republic of Labor a million years ago. I really should get back to it. It was right after college. But he's saying that he, for the sake of a Western audience, is deliberately not talking about the Jews all that much, not mentioning their names. And he still was condemned because he mentioned one or two

condemned as anti-Jewish, as an anti-Semite. And he says, could you imagine if I let it all out how exactly the Jewish power functioned here? And not just from ideology, but I saw it. I witnessed it. This is how they functioned. There's nothing you could do about it. I witnessed it. It's a fact of life. But of course, we know when it comes to leftist ideology, facts have nothing to do with reality. When it comes to Jewish power, facts have nothing to do with reality. Have nothing to do with anything. You go on trial for incitement like Sven Longsheng was. Whether or not he's correct was irrelevant. All the so-called Holocaust trials, whether or not they're correct had no bearing on anything. That wasn't the point. But he was deliberately covering up the Jewish angle here, and he still was condemned for. So what about my loyal Jewish friends after they perused the play? The play aroused extraordinarily passionate protests from V. L. Tuich. He read it not immediately, but when Sovremnik had already

decided to stage it in 1962, so the question was far from scholarly. The Tushas were deeply injured by the figure of Solomanoff. They thought it was dishonest and unjust to show such a Jew, despite that in the real life, in the camp, he was exactly as I showed him, in the age of oppression of Jews. 1962 was the age of oppression of Jews? It's every age. I mean, it's every year. that's what he says here in the next line yeah but then it but then it appears to me that such age is everlasting what have our jews when have our jews not been oppressed oh man i love when they when they'll tell you why do you blame every why are you such a victim why do you blame all of your problems on jews it's like because i learned from the best if i am doing that i learned from

the best yeah it's it's a stupid argument to begin with I know we're only halfway through this but he mentioned one Jew not even saying that he's a Jew just the name itself was pretty clear you know Solomon's right in the name I remember 1962

Khrushchev was still in power he was permitting Sultan Easton to publish but you know in a certain way anyway but it also was an age where the Khrushchev era was where persecution of the Orthodox Church was increased. But that doesn't matter. This was a Soviet Union

was a Jewish era consistently until the early 70s. Troche was alarmed and extremely agitated and put forward an ultimatum that if I did not remove or at least soften up the image of Solomanoff, then all our friendship will be ruined and he and his wife will no longer be able to keep my manuscripts. Moreover, they prophesies that my very name will be irretrievably lost and blemished if I leave Solomanoff in the play. Why not to make him a Russian? They were astonished. Is it so important that he be a Jew? But if it doesn't matter, why did Solomanoff select Jews to be idiots? This is, yeah, and he was deliberately covering over the many Jewish names involved. This is one person that he bothered to mention and this was the threat now when he says friends he's being

sarcastic of course um now i've i've had jewish friends over the years who don't have a clue of of what i do there's a handful that do but there are these weird jews that think it's all right you know like a natura carter think that what i do is wonderful the um hasitic group but you know They're not exactly mainstream. But by the time, by the thing, I was kicked off. I had a few friends on Facebook that were Jewish. By the time I was kicked off, I'm pretty sure it was, it was zero. Or those that remained were that weird minority that were very much on my side.

I took a chill pill, a sudden censorial ban. Did he really say that? Did he really say that? Okay. Never mind. he couldn't have said that he could have what's the russian version he wrote it he wrote it in russian initially all right what's the russian for chill pill i've never come across it before all right it's like a chill pill a sudden censorial ban no less weighty than the official Soviet

prohibition had emerged from an unanticipated direction however the situation was soon resolved by the official prohibition forbidding sovereignic to stage the peace and there was another objection from Toish, quote, your Salamanov has anything but Jewish personality. A Jew always behaves discreetly, cautiously, suppliantly, and even cunningly, but from where does this pushy impudence of jubilant force? That is not true. It cannot happen like this. Well, you know, that is an interesting point he's making. You see this in the Talmud. You see it in Jewish writings all over the place. where they're in a society this is how they function in Russia now

because there's such a tiny minority and Putin made his bones by putting Jewish oligarchs in prison their behavior is very cautious they have to be very careful as not to irritate

they can only push so far they do it so anyway but the mentality is we can't be blatant about things this however is a Soviet Union this is why they're pushing it because this is their society and even more so their camp where the overwhelming majority of inmates are russian or at least non-Jewish and jews probably had a better life in it than outside of it given everything we've read so far however i

remember not this solomanoff alone and it was exactly like that i saw many things in the 1920s and 1930s in Rostovandand. And Frankl acted similarly, according to the recollections of surviving engineers. Such a slip of triumphant power into insolence and arrogance is the most repelling thing for those around. Sure, it is usually behavior of the worst and rudis, but this is what becomes imprinted in memory. Likewise, the Russian image is soiled by the obscenities of our villains. I do want to mention something. I wrote a paper a few years ago on the question of, and it was it was relevant to a lot of things that were happening in American politics, that most of the psychological associations all over the world have denied the existence of repressed

memories. They simply don't exist. If anything, a traumatic experience increases your retention of detail. So-called repressed memories were used to put people in prison who didn't do anything like you know like Bill Cosby and a whole bunch of other people like that it had no but it has no basis in reality it has no basis in psychology and I got I had

mostly quotations this paper and I could send that to you too but the very fact that it's traumatic I mean how many veterans wish that they could forget what could be more what could be more traumatic than than or being in an American divorce with a woman

an American woman I'll put that up against any combat veteran any day, those things, you wish you can forget that, but not only increases your, and intensifies your memory of detail, far more than if it's just normal life. So when he's talking about his own memory, you could swear by it because this was one long traumatic experience, he's talking about things. And again, he never comes out and says, you know, this was a Jewish movement. This was, you know, the Jews were, he didn't talk like that. he merely mentioned names and in this case really only one in archipelago of course he did more than

that but in his shorter pieces you know and um and despite all of the threats he didn't solve this this book okay or late in his life but um the kjb was trying to black in his name and it really didn't work the jews didn't like him to begin with they knew what he was talking about mentioning one person was enough to try to get threats from these people but um but traumatic events are imprinted in your memory they are not repressed that doesn't exist but even if it did exist there's no evidence that the memory just simply goes into cold storage even if it didn't it exist it may come out completely different than the way it went in have it has been worked on. It may be damaged. It may be, you know, so that's very important to remember. So many

veterans come back with tremendously detailed memories, which is the problem. They wish they could, they can repress it. That's an American myth used to put men away in, in the judicial system. But he's saying that because they were so nasty, because they were so wicked, that he remembers them more than anybody and therefore when he talks about them he could talk about far more details that he remembers than anyone else and

the fact this guy wanted a Russian to be put in there and the fact that you know well he he would be he wouldn't be this blatantly nasty even though it was his society well he can't admit that toys can't admit that so

So when I read this the first time, it dawned. I remember it again that there is no such thing as repressed memory. Memory is a very complicated area of epistemology. Well, it's not really epistemology, but it's very complicated. Memories are always changing. And certainly, even if they could be repressed somehow, I don't know where they would go. they don't go into cold storage and come out the exact same way, especially when there's an agenda behind retrieving those memories, and of course there

always is. So that's his point here. But I do want to point out that every psychological, psychiatric professional organization in the world has condemned, denied the very existence of repressed memories in the sense that we know the phrase. All these blandishments and appeals to avoid writing about the things like they were, are indistinguishable from what we heard from the highest Soviet tribunes about anti-defamation, about socialist realism, to write like it should be, not like it was, as if a creator is capable of forgetting

or creating his past and new, as if the full truth can be written in parts, including only what is pleasing, secure, and popular. So, but who can do that? The only person who can who can do that with no problem is a sociopath. Cognitive dissonance doesn't affect the sociopath, because there is no good and evil. There is no distinction between those two things. It's just self-interest. A normal man couldn't do this.

Therefore, if you have a society that demands this, like our society does, only the sociopath is going to do well. The Machiavellian is going to do well. Because if you have to, if you're forced to write something that isn't real, to satisfy something. It's going to kill you. Any artists like that. Therefore, only the most ignorant, the most brainwashed, or the sociopath can do this effectively. And hence, they're the

ones who get promoted. And socialization does write about that elsewhere. And how meticulously all the Jewish characters in my books were analyzed with every personal feature weighted on apothecary scales. But the astonishing story of Gregori M, who did not deliver the order to retreat to a dying regiment because he was frightened our our our our archipelago volume six chapter six was not noticed it was passed over without a single word and ivan denisovich added insult to injury there were such sophisticated sufferers but i put forward a bore for instance during gorbachev's glossnos emboldened assier sandler published his camp memoirs quote after first perusal i emphatically rejected one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. The main personage was Ivan Denisovich, a man with

minimal spiritual needs, focused only on his mundane troubles, end quote, and Solzhenycin turned him into the national image, exactly like all well-meaning communists were grumbling at that time, while Solzhenesan preferred not to notice the true intelligentsia, the determinant of domestic culture and science. Sandler was discussing this. with Miran Markovic Etlis, both used to be idiots in the medical unit. And Etlis added, quote, The story is significantly distorted, placed upside down. Solzheniesin failed to emphasize the intelligent part of our contingent.

Self-reflections of Ivan Dysovich about himself, that patience, that pseudo-Christian attitude toward others. And in 1964, Sandler was lucky to relieve his feelings. feelings in conversation with Aaronberg himself. And the latter affirmatively nodded that Sandler mentioned his extremely negative feeling toward my novelette. However, not a single Jew reproached me that Ivan Denezovich, in essence, attends to Caesar Markovic as a servant, albeit with good feelings. Ivan Denezovitz, as I said before, is a great place to start. I also mentioned Dostoevsky's House of the Dead too, but that's a separate issue. Both are prison

prison novels. Very different from each other, but the life of Ivan and it's my copies, like 250 pages, easier to get through. I don't recall many Jews being mentioned at all. And, you know, I spent so much time. Now, this is post, you know, this is probably like in the mid-80s. And Glass Noyce was first decreed, Sandler of course, is a Jewish name. I have the feeling, you know, one of the reasons that Sultan Eaton was arrested is that he witnessed war crimes in Prussia. One of his first works was on this by Soviet soldiers against Germans. And, you know, he had the guts to talk about it and he wasn't allowed to. He did, he did anyway. This was

one of the initial things that got him arrested, got him, got him, got him to a lot of trouble. He witnessed a lot of things. He, you know, publicly repented of his work fighting in the Red Army, even though, of course, he had no choice in the matter. But I was just beyond all this, one day in the life of Ivan Deneasov, it's just a great place to start to understand Solzhenits. But I don't know what book they're reading because that book is not just him talking about himself. Of course, the man is suffering tremendously, but I think part of his point here is that since Jews who are, the idiots did not suffer, why would he be so upset? You know, weren't we all like that? You know, no, you were like that. You were treated well

in prison, but he certainly wasn't. But minimal spiritual needs is simply not true. if you read the book so many of these Jews already knew what Solzhenitin was all about and were condemning him who knows it maybe they didn't even read it maybe they were just going by what other Jews were saying to them but even though it's fairly easy reading

from the start and I don't want Jews talking about what's pseudo-Christian one isn't that's outrageous to begin with but yes remember Schulzhen did witness war crimes, serious ones, in Prussia, which is far as far west he ever got. And he became someone of a loose cannon after that. So he had guts, no doubt. And he kind of thought that, that, you know, this is maybe a new patriotic society is emerging,

so I can talk about that. But he realized that the minute the war ended, that was all gone. And the Jews, you know, the Jews were in power from the beginning anyway. So, but they were, the Jews in the Soviet Union were well aware of what Solzhenitin was from the very beginning, from the published, from the publications of his first, I forget, the Prussian Knights, I think it was called, something like that. And we know, you know, the Jews who were controlling, you know, Stalin and all that, the Jewish, who were controlling the infantry, the political commissaries, we talked about that already, that were very Jewish. were responsible for this, all of Erneberg's almost rhapsodizing about raping and destroying German women once they entered, went to enter Germany, near the very end of the war where really no one can defend them. And this began, and then later on, as I've said, KGB wanted to promote this kind of thing. But Denisovic really wasn't, you know, Jews weren't, they didn't

figure prominently at all. But I don't know if these people read this book, turning them into the national image, that's fine. And, you know, but as, as, you know, after the 80s, when 90s went on, you had certain communist factions becoming more national socialist rather than, or national Bolsheviks, or some combination of those two, then straight out Marxist. And that ends up confusing a lot of novice western readers because yeah you know he's a member of the communist party but he's taught how can you be you know a right winger with a picture of of lennon at your letterhead top of your letterhead and it's i know it's very strange but this is the the origin of this stuff um and um i know so many of the like the progressive socialist party in ukraine

as i've mentioned many times uh i've gotten i i've gotten i cited them many times they're essentially a semi-social nationalist national national Bolshevik kind of Ukrainian movement they of course been banned and all of their assets were seized by Zelensky a long time ago if not before and oh I can't think of her name Natalia something and I cited them many many times excellent website they used to have and so there's some of them you know just because you say communist doesn't really mean anything by itself. It's the presence of the Jewish element that matters. But that last sentence, I'm entirely sure what he means there.

But the point is Jews are trying to decide and telling us what Christianity is and how it affects Solzhenitsyns writing. But it didn't matter whether they read it or not. The Soviet elite especially at the very end of the empire at least under and drop of we're financing both in Russia and in the West attacks on on Solzhenits and a lot of the present contempt for him comes from that remember all he did was mention names not in Ivan Denisovic but all he did was mention names and even if it was just one name and he covered up the others that was enough this is what this is what you're dealing with here and this is why this book came to be written at the end of his life you know what are they going to do to him he was a big Putin

supporter Solzhenitin was nothing was going to happen to him so long as Putin's on his side and he wasn't to the very end um Putin agreed with with you know 99% of what Salton had to say uh over time and so he can get away with something like this and especially more recently, well, actually I said, you know, the last 20 years, the Jewish issue in Russia is day to day. You have mainstream intellectuals talking about it in a way that we would talk about it. And that's been going on, you know, since the mid-90s. Mid-90s, you had more of a Jewish elite running society, but when Putin took over, that wasn't the case anymore. And this book directly comes out of this. And it can only really, this book, we're reading now,

is a lifetime of studying these things not just his own personal experience and how Jews relate to him but the historical aspects as well and he knew that so long as Putin was his friend and he was he wasn't going to get into any trouble and about the Jewish question talking about in Russia

and using this book as a foundation this was published in Russia long before I was published in English, you know, and really wasn't officially published in English, proving that, you know, this was a place where you can discuss Jews without any fear. There are laws about incitement, but they're actual incitement laws, unlike in Britain. You can't say, I want to start killing them. You can't say that. You can't say that anywhere. Elsewhere, incitement laws are just used to shut people down, but Russia is. It's a very different story.

My criticism of Putin is always this concern with the Red Army and the great patriotic war being at this core of his identity. I don't like it. But it's a popular concept in Russia, and he's a politician. I'm the only one who's written a book in English on his political ideology. It came out in the Barnes Review published it in 2012. Russian populist, the political thought of Vladimir Putin. I beg of you to get it. The Barnes Review is a place that sells it now.

It's everywhere, I guess. And it goes into greater detail here about all of that. And don't think that Schultznynyny's did not affect Putin's developing view of things. It did. He was very much, he was very influential on Putin in his circle's political point of view. And that's a wonderful thing. All right. episode 100's in the in the can so um we'll come back and we'll start on the um

the russian german war in the next episode wait excuse me for one second i am going to encourage everybody while dr johnson goes and takes care of business i'm going to encourage everyone to go and donate to dr johnson go to the show notes go to the description in the video and yeah take care of him because he's taking care of us by doing this 100 episodes in if you haven't donated already at least a one-off at least buy one of his books by the new book on ukraine um please go ahead and do that so um all right dr johnson i already told everybody to go over and to donate to you to buy your new book and um we're at of here we'll come back for episode 101 you don't have all these animals you never know what

crisis is going to happen so I apologize for that that's okay you didn't you didn't hear the cow outside just losing his mind about five minutes ago no I didn't there's a cow outside my window just go wha you've been doing it all day and this woke me up this morning do you know oh wow that's weird We just have a cornfield. Oh, yeah, they're not, the cats, the cows are not happy. The cows are not happy at all, but, oh, okay, what, what can you do? What can you do with an 800, you really can't argue with an 800 pound animal?

Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah, it's not my thing. But thank you, we don't have that around us. We have nothing but cats and dogs that very much have their very, very, very well-developed personalities and anything could happen at any time. it's a soap opera wrap yeah well um you know i'm hoping one day i'll have that well developed personality too so um hey you know i think you do but but many people don't and i you know these

my cats have more personality uh than than most people i've come across and that i you could you could take that to the bank especially stanley down here who still has a move all right dr jay Thank you. All right, my friend. Bye-bye. Thank you.