The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 107

Episode Date: January 31, 2026

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All right. Yeah, I needed to laugh. day. Unfortunately, my boy, Marcel, I was taking a turn for the worst. I don't know how long he's going to be here. It's rough. My wife saw the inside of his mouth and just was in tears. And I can't see. I've never been able to. But he's not eating now or he's eating and he's not getting weight. So this has been what I feared for a long time. It probably was cancer, a slow-moving cancer. But Marcel and Stanley grew up together.

Marcel used to be the head of security for the BLM, but it was a black feline lives matter. But he left them when I, you know, I adopted him as a infant. I mean, he was tiny. But he's looking rough and he's not in any obvious pain. But this is not something that I was looking forward to these days. you know, so anything to make me laugh would be great.

It was probably the wrong book for that, I think. Yeah. Well, I've been there, man. Been there many times. So, yeah. Alrighty. We are going to start talking about the Soviet Union and Zionism today and the founding of Israel.

So let's get into it. Meanwhile, during these very years, the biggest event in world Jewish history was happening. The state of Israel was coming into existence. In 1946, 1947, when the Zionists were at odds with Britain, Stalin, perhaps out of anti-British calculation or opportunistically hoping to get a foothold there, took the side of the former. During all of 1947, Stalin acting through Grimico in the UN, actively supported the idea of the creation of an independent Jewish state in Palestine and supplied the Zionists with a critical supply of Cheshos-Lavoc. made weapons. In May 1948, only two days after the Israeli Declaration of Nationhood, the USSR officially recognized that country and condemned the hostile actions of Arabs. I've cited this before. It's not something that gets talked about very much. And that's the

reason why I wrote the paper that it's in the show notes. There's quite a question. There's quite a bit of scholarly literature on it, but not popular, not popular literature at all. The Soviets created the state of Israel. And the U.S., when they put their arms embargo on the area, just meant that it was just the Arabs because Solomon was supplying the Jews. And Guamiko, as I think I've mentioned many times before, made this impassioned speech at the U.N. about Jewish suffering, how they need this state here. And I think right after that speech, Arabs burned down the Communist Party headquarters in Damascus, Syria,

and most of them were members of the party. They were completely abandoned. And it was said not just by him, but by many others, in both the Soviet and the Jewish side, that the Arabs are just too backwards for Marxism. There's two superstitious. There's too dedicated to the religion for Marxism. Jews are obviously natural allies.

They created us, essentially. And it's interesting to read about the back and forth. And then eventually, Truman came along. it wasn't the case in the U.S. There were plenty of people, Forrestall, for example, James Forrestall who was opposed to Zion. The issue either was a one state where both Arabs and Jews would live or partition.

Partition is what the Zionists wanted. And that's obviously what happened. But there was never any Palestinian state. So this all came from the USSR, and that relationship didn't end until Israel supported American actions during the Korean War. Then it stopped. And by then they had shifted over. So just a couple of years. But that two years was absolutely critical to Israel's existence.

you know, they had no problem. The Ergun and Stern gang were slaughtering people all over the place. Well, you know, for Stalin, that's like a Tuesday. So this was absolutely, Soviet support was absolutely essential for the founding of Israel. They were the first the state to recognize them. And Stalin was one of the most significant figures in early Israeli history right up until the 70s. However, Stalin miscalculated to what extent this support would reinvigorate the national spirit of Soviet Jews. Some of them implored the E.A.K. to organize a fundraiser for the Israeli military, others wished to enlist his volunteers, while still others wanted to form a special Jewish military division.

Amid the burgeoning enthusiasm, Golda Mier arrived to Moscow in September in 1948 as the first ambassador of Israel and was met with unprecedented joy in Moscow's synagogues, and by Moscow's Jewish population in general. Immediately, as the national spirit of Soviet Jews rose and grew tremendously because of the catastrophe, many of them began applying for relocation to Israel. Apparently, Stalin had expected that, yet it turned out that many of his citizens wished to run away en masse into, by all accounts, the pro-Western state of Israel. There, the influence and prestige of the United States grew, while the USSR was at the same time losing support of Arab countries. Nevertheless, the cooling of relations with Israel was mutual. Israel more and more often turned towards American Jewry, which became its main support. Well, American Jewelry,

that's another word for American government. Obviously, the Soviet Union was in a far inferior position to finance anything after the war. The U.S. was totally untouched by it. They essentially found the better deal, and they went with it. It took a little while before the Zionists were able to fully infiltrate the executive branch. And some people might be surprised by the opposition in Truman's administration to the creation of the state of Israel, in the sense that it would alienate the Arabs. It would give the Arabs over to the Soviets and that oil supplies might be interrupted. to the West. So that was essentially

there aren't a Forrestall's argument for example. He was threatened into silence. But James Forrestall, among others, made those arguments. This was a very bad idea. And they said that group of people in the State Department said the same things we say today.

That we're going to end up being dragged into all of these wars over there if we end up supporting this entity. So how it ended up, as we all know, the Jews got the better deal with the U.S., took over the American foreign policy establishment, and the Soviets financed Egypt, Syria, Iraq, etc. Probably because he was frightened by such a schism in the Jewish national feelings.

Stalin drastically changed policies regarding Jews from the end of 1948 and for the rest of his remaining years. He began acting in his typical style, quietly, but with determination, he stuck to the core, but with only tiny movements visible on the surface. Nevertheless, while the visible tiny ripples hardly matter, Jewish leaders had many reasons to be concerned, as they felt the fear hanging in the air. The then editor of the Polish Jewish newspaper Fokhtim, Gersh Smolier, recalled the panic that seized Soviet communist Jews after the war. Emmanuel Kazakovich and other Jewish writers were distressed. Smolier had seen. on Arenberg's table, a mountain of letters, literally scream of pain about anti-Jewish attitudes

throughout the country. So we're talking about right at the end of the war the next year or so, and these anti-Jewish attitudes, I guarantee you, centered around the fact that Jews dominated the political part of the army, as we've already talked about, the political commissars, but were not necessarily in the line of fire. That was for the Guillaume. And that was proven by the Leningrad affair, which occurred a few years later. Again, they have no conception of consequences. I mean, that is the case. That's true. That's what happened. But they had no reason to feel distressed in general. I think they're talking to. about popular anti-Semitism, not official anti-Semitism.

But remember, all the anti-Semitic laws, or the anti-Amitic laws from Lenin, were always on the books, were never repealed, and Lenin enforced them like anybody else. Yet, Aaronberg knew his job very well and carried it out. As became known much later, it was exactly then that the pre-publication copy of the black book compiled by I. Aaronberg and B. Gras. Grossman, which described the mass killings and suffering of the Soviet Jews during the Soviet German war, was destroyed. In addition, on September 21st, 1948, as a counterbalance to Golda Mayer's triumphal return, Pravda published a large article commissioned by Ehrenberg, which

stated that the Jews are not a nation at all and that they are doomed to assimilate. This article created dismay not only among Soviet Jews, but also in America. With the start of the Cold War, the discrimination against the Jews in the Soviet Union became one of the main anti-Soviet Trump cards of the West, as was the inclination in the West towards various ethnic separatist movements in the USSR, a sympathy that had never previously gained support among Soviet Jews. Well, that came a little bit later. You remember, this isn't Solzhenitsyn. He's quoting someone else. At this point, Stalin was a firm Zionist.

it was a way to challenge the British. And again, he truly believed the arborist couldn't become Marxists, so let them do whatever they want. It's ungovernable anyway. But again, as we all know, that didn't last long. But as far as the West is concerned, that didn't really develop until the 1970s. However, the E.K, which had been created to address wartime issues, continued gaining influence. By that time, it listed approximately 70 members had its own administrative apparatus, a newspaper, and a publishing house. It functioned as a kind of spiritual and physical agent of all Soviet Jews before the CK, Central Committee of the VKPD, all Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks, as well as before the West.

EAK executives were allowed to do and to have a lot, a decent salary and opportunity to publish and collect royalties abroad, to receive and to redistribute gifts from abroad, and finally to travel abroad. E.A.K became the crystallization center of an initially elitist in upper echelon, and then of a broadly growing Jewish national movement, a burgeoning symbol of Jewish national autonomy. For Stalin, the E.A.K became a problem which had to be dealt with. Yeah, at some point, but immediately after the war, it wasn't. this was a very pro-Soviet group of Jews. I mean, after all, remember the context.

Salon just defeated Hitler. He did most of the work in that regard. So, you know, their loyalty to him was extraordinary. But is referring to the anti-fascist committee, which will eventually be eliminated. But it will be eliminated because really there was no need for it anymore. You know, Germany and Italy were, their fascist governments were gone.

It just wasn't necessary. So, and of course, Jews were very well treated and were heavily in the bureaucracy and all over the place, especially in the mid-levels. And as this paragraph said, treated extremely well, and which is a cause for popular anti-Semitism, even within the Communist Party. He started with the most important figure, the head of the Soviet Information Bureau Sovind Form Bureau, Lazovsky, who, according to Feffer,

who was vice chairman of E.A.K. Since July 1945, was the spiritual leader of the E.A.K. knew all about its activities and was its head for all practical purposes. In the summer of 1946, a special auditing commission from Agitprop of the C.K.

inspected Sovin Form Bureau and found that the apparatus is polluted. There is an intolerant. concentration of Jews. Luzovsky was ejected from his post of assistant minister of foreign affairs, just as Litvanov and Myski had been, and in the summer of 1947, he also lost his post as head of the Sovind Foreign Bureau. Yeah, that sounds bad, but this is precisely the time when Stalin was fully supporting the creation of Israel and challenging the West in this regard at the UN. If you haven't read it yet, Gromiko's speech there is, every speech from an Israeli leader

is just essentially variations on that one. That created it and alienated the Arabs forever. The Arabs never quite trusted the communists or Soviet communists after that. But Zionism, maybe this could be a way to deal with the Jewish problem. Yes, maybe Stalin did. think that for a while. After that, the fate of the E.A.K. was sealed. In September of 1946, the Auditing Commission from the Central Committee concluded that the E.A.K, instead of leading a rigorous, offensive ideological war against the Western and above-all Zionist propaganda, supports the position of bourgeois Zionists and the Bund, and in reality, it fights for the reactionary idea of a United Jewish nation. In 1947, the Central Committee stated,

that the work among the Jewish population of the Soviet Union is not a responsibility of the E.A.K. The E.K.'s job was to focus on the decisive struggle against aggression by international reactionaries and their Zionist agents. So you clearly see, no matter how powerful Stalin was, and his role as, you know, the victor over fascism, you still had factions saying different things. The policy goes one way, the rhetoric goes another way. way. However, these events coincided with the pro-Israel stance of the USSR and the E.A.K. was not dissolved. On the other hand, E.A.K. Chairman Mekels, who was the informal leader of Soviet Jewry, had to shed his illusions about the possibility of influencing the Kremlin's national policy

via influencing the dictator's relatives. Here, the suspicion fell mostly on Stalin's son, son-in-law, Gregory Morozov. However, the most active help to the E.A.K. was provided by Molotov's wife, P.S. Jem Shina, who was arrested in the beginning of 1949 and Voroshilov's wife, Katerina Davidovna, Golda Gorman, a fanatic Bolshevik, who had been expelled from the synagogue in her youth, Abakumov reported that Mikuls was suspected of gathering private information about the leader. Overall, according to the MGB, he demonstrated excessive interest in the private life at the head of the Soviet government, while leaders of the E.A.K. gathered material about the private life of Joseph Stalin and his family at the behest of U.S. intelligence. However, Stalin could not risk an open trial of the tremendously influential Mikuls,

So Mikos was murdered in January 1948 under the guise of an accident. Soviet Jewry was shocked and terrified by the demise of their spiritual leader. Just remember, Stalin's children married Jews and their children married Jews. So Jews were all over the place. And this is why this group was so interested in Stalin's private, I guess it's considered Stalin's private life. how much power they had over his decision-making is hard to discern, but this is what they're talking about.

But even, you know, like Madozov, well, he's married to a, or Vylovlov, married to a Jew. So even the non-Jewish ones have a Jewish director. And Golda Gordman is a whole different matter entirely. And she was expelled from the synagogue not so much for, Marxism, but for her behavior. You know, she was a half lunatic. She was a, you know, very violent person. And so even the non-Jewish members,

high and breaking members of the party had Jews very, very close to them at all times. B.A.K. was gradually dismantled after that. By the end of 1948, its premises were locked up. All documents were taken to Lubyanka, and its newsmen. paper and the publishing house were closed. Pfeffer and Zuskin, the key E.A.K figures, were secretly arrested soon afterwards, and these arrests were denied for a long time. In January, 1949, Lozowski was arrested, followed by the arrests of a number of other notable members of the E.A.K. in February, they were intensively

interrogated during 1949, but in 1950, the investigation stalled. All this coincided in accord with Stalin's understanding of balance with the annihilation of the Russian nationalist tendencies and the leadership of the Leningrad government, the so-called anti-party group of Kuznetsov, Rodionov, Popkov, both those developments, their repression and the significance of those events were largely overlooked by historians, even though about 2,000 party functionaries were arrested and subsequently executed in 1950 in connection with the Leningrad affair. I knew he was going to mention this at some point. I also have the paper on that.

This was a group of men. They essentially fought the Germans within Leningrad. That siege lasted a very long time. And they were extremely popular when it was over. But they also started to question, you know, why is Russia being exploited like this? you know, why the Jews is so powerful here. And it was very quiet. I mean, most Westerners don't know about this.

The Leningrad affair was to say that Russian nationalism will be absolutely never tolerated or chauvinism, as they used to say, will not be tolerated. We can't have a Russian party, quote unquote, in the USSR, which is why, you know, when people say Soviet Russia, You got to laugh at them. So Stalin pinned metal after metal on them in 1945, 44, 45. Two years later, they were executed because they asked all the wrong questions. I have a paper on that on Patreon, but I could send that to you today even as well. It's very interesting. In January 1948, Stalin ordered Jews to be pushed out of Soviet culture. In his usual, subtle and devious manner, the order came through a prominent editorial in Pravda, seemingly dealing with a petty issue about one anti-party group of theatrical critics. A more assertive article in Cultura and Jinshich followed on the next day. The key point was the decoding of Russian and

of Russian pen names of Jewish celebrities. In the USSR, many Jews camouflaged their Jewish origins with such artifice, so that it is impossible to figure out their real names, explains the editor of a modern Jewish journal. This article in Probda had a long but obscure prehistory. In 1946, reports of the Central Committee, it was already noted that out of 28 highly publicized theatrical critics, only six are Russians.

It implied the majority of the rest were Jews. Smelling trouble, but still supposing themselves to be vested with the highest trust of the party, some theatrical critics confident of victory openly confronted Faddeev in November 1946. Faddeev was the all-powerful head of the Union of Soviet writers and Stalin's favorite, and so they suffered a defeat. Then the case stalled for a long time and only resurfaced in 1949. You know, making reference to Soviet culture is, is odd because the system was purely ideological and so artificial.

You know, we've talked about socialist realism and painting and propaganda and everything else. I mean, everything was meant to be propaganda. Propaganda was how the Soviet artist was to live. That was his purpose, no matter what else he wanted to do. But, you know, theater east and west, has been a Jewish concern. It wasn't always that way. But yes, it's true that there was, you know,

they dominated the critical side of things. And but, you know, Stalin's concern, you know, he's executing Russians and, but not, he's not executing Jews. He's simply eliminating their organizations. and then sending them or some of them to Israel with a lot of money and a lot of weapons. So clearly,

and certainly Stalin was more than aware of all the Jews who changed their names. It was not impossible to figure out their real names because so many of our people in the West were already doing that. I mean, I don't know how we lived before the Internet. I guess we didn't know anything. But you have plenty of books

published even in the early days of the Revolution who exposed the names of the fake names of the Jews. So Stalin was well aware of that, so that couldn't have been a real reason. The campaign rolled on through the newspapers and party meetings. G. Aronson researching Jewish life in Stalin's era writes, the goal of this campaign was to displaced Jewish intellectuals from all niches of Soviet life. Informers were gloatingly revealing their pen names. It turned out that E. Kolodov is actually Meyerovich. Jacques Jochoflev is Coltsman.

Mecklenov is Millman. Jasny is Finkelstein. Vicarov is Shloshevsky. Zvetov is Scheidman and so on. Literatunayayah Gazeta worked diligently on these discourses. They were getting doxed. They were getting dached. You know, there were plenty of people who did use their regular Jewish sounding names, not all of them.

But when they collected in one area to a great extent such as they absolutely dominated it, then it became clear we have to do something about that as far as perception goes. And the Soviets were always very concerned with their image abroad. And that's exactly what this was about. and it was the only time that the Western world ever cared about the crimes of Stalin and the USSR. It was what it affected the Jews. Undeniably, Stalin hit the worst offending spot, the one that highly annoyed the public. However, Stalin was not so simple as it just blurt out the Jews.

From the first push at the group of theatrical critics flowed a broad and sustained campaign against the cosmopolitans. With their Soviet inertial dimwittedness, they overreaching. used this innocent term and spoiled it. Without exception, all cosmopolitans under attack were Jews. They were being discovered everywhere. Because all of them were loyal Soviet citizens never suspected of anything anti-Soviet, they survived the great purges of Yeshov and Yagoda. Some were very experienced and influential people, sometimes eminent in their fields of expertise. The exposure of cosmopolitans then turned into a ridiculous, even idiotic glorification of Russian primacy in all and every area of science, technology, and culture. Well, let's back up here. It's not Russian.

Russian culture is founded on the church and on the land. You know, again, it's a matter of culture that really didn't exist. It was so artificial or driven under. ground, you know, the purges of Yuzov and Yagoda, well, they were both Jews. And, you know, cosmopolitan could make reference to anyone who sought an accord with outside powers. People say that, you know, socialism in one country is, was his nationalist stance, and there's nothing of the kind. But there were people who wanted to reach out to, Yugoslavia, believe it or not, which could death sentence in USSR. And why?

Because Petito actually wanted to create a worker-controlled industry. It's the only fully communist country that wasn't a blatant, sick tyranny. I mean, it was to a great extent. But Stalin could not handle this because Marxism and, especially Leninism, had nothing to do with workers, had nothing to do with workers control, and had to do with the domination of a specific group of people. But remember, the whole point of the Soviet Union was to act as a base for the revolution to take over the rest of the planet.

And there's something that Stalin talked about all the time. His writings on this subject are not secret. They're in English for free all over the Internet. So you make a reference to a Russian culture under Stalin. What the hell is that? Most of the church have been destroyed. Collectivization was again being remade. And so many of the people who welcomed the Germans in 1941 were now in the gulags.

What they consider Russian is a completely artificial, I dare say, cosmopolitan concept that had no basis in reality. Yet the cosmopolitans usually were not being arrested, but instead were publicly humiliated, fired from publishing houses, ideological and cultural organizations, from Tass, from Glavlitt, from literature schools, theaters, orchestras, some were expelled from the party and the publication of their works were often discouraged. Well, you know who was being arrested, a Russian Orthodox clergy that were being shot all over the place or being sent to the gulag all over the place.

You know, the big thing, you know, Solomon Schwartz, we talked about him before, was he could talk to the suffering of the Jews refusing to talk about the Jewish role at this very time and earlier and then later of the total destruction, almost a total destruction, of the Russian Orthodox Church and any Russian, true Russian nationalist of any type whatsoever in the worst possible way. these were not awful punishments. And oftentimes it was a group of Jews within the party that was actually carrying this out. This has happened many times since we started here.

And the lists of letters that we talked about of all of the Jews who dominate all these areas, there was a popular anti-Semitism for the reasons that I mentioned. And that's not something because Solomon wanted to get involved in. You know, he, again, very worried about how he was perceived, despite the fact that he had won the war and was, you know, no one could challenge him in that regard. You know, the Jewish question was something that was pissing a lot of Russians off, including members of the party.

That's something that people forget. The people who study this often forget that it was often party members. members that couldn't take it anymore. They weren't, Jews were not treated the same way as they were. In the Leningrad affair, these people were full-blooded Stalinists, every one of them. They never said a syllable that was anti-Stalin, anti-Soviet, anti-anything, and they were executed anyway because they talked about Russia as an important part of the Soviet Union. So, Stalin was doing this all over the place.

to many different groups. Now this is a book about the Jews, but in the way that we receive it here in the West, that's all that matters. And the public campaign was expanding, spreading into new fields and comprising new names. Anti-Jewish cleansing of cosmopolitons was conducted in the Research Institute of Science,

Institute of Philosophy with its long history of internecine feuding between different cliques, the Institutes of Economy, Law, and the Academy of Social Sciences, at the CK of the VKPB in the School of Law, and then spread to the Office of Public Prosecutor. Thus, in the Department of History at Moscow State University, even a long-standing faithful communist and falsifier,

I.I. Mince, member of the Academy, who enjoyed Stalin's personal trust and was awarded with Stalin prizes and concurrently chaired historical departments in several universities, was labeled the head of cosmopolitans and historical science. After that, numerous scientific posts in MGM were liberated from his former students and other Jewish professors. Let me remind the listeners, I've said it a few times before, about Hungary in the 20s. The entire Hungarian party that briefly took over Hungary under Balakone was Jewish. I mean, every, everyone.

And Salon, who was not lead to Soviet Union, but did have influence on foreign affairs, beg them to find somebody, just grab somebody off the street who isn't a Jew and put them in charge, make them president. You don't give them any power. So the president was somebody, I can never remember his name, he was so irrelevant. So a lot of this was to avoid accusation. This is simply a Jewish movement. This is a Jewish party.

Nothing was more Jewish than the Hungarian Communist Party. And there's slaughter of anything, Christian or agrarian at the time. So they finally, after months, found someone. They could make president. It was a short-lived, thank God for a Horthy. it was a short-lived dictatorship, but they finally found some guy that was made president of Hungary who wasn't a Jew so that everyone can say, see, one of the president's not Jewish. And the same thing is happening here.

Perjures of Jews from technical fields and the natural sciences were gradually gaining momentum. The end of 1945 and all in 1946 were relatively peaceful for the Jews of this particular social group. El Minenberg studied Jewish contributions in Soviet science. and industry during the war. In 1946, the first serious blow since the end of the war was dealt to the administration and a big case was fabricated. Its principal victims were mainly Russians. There were no Jews among them, though investigative reports contained testaments against Israel Salamanovich Levin, director of the Saratov Aviation Plan. He was accused on the charge that during the Battle of Stalingrad, two aviation regiments were not able to take off because of

manufacturing defects in the planes produced by the plant. The charge was real, not made up by the investigators. However, Levin was neither fired nor arrested. In 1946, Vanikov, Kaganovich, Ginsburg, Meckless all kept their ministry posts in the newly formed government. Almost all Jewish former deputy ministers also retained their positions as assistance to ministers. The first victims among the Jewish technical elite appeared only in 1947. And that confirms what I just said. This wasn't aimed at Jews. Salon was not anti-Jewish whatsoever.

He was the final semi, his entire existence. But when it came to appearances, he couldn't have too many Jews dominating all these fields because anti-communists. What was Hitler saying? about it. You know, this is a Jewish movement. You couldn't allow that to happen. So the purge had more to do with that than any worry about, you know, because so far we haven't been given a reason here of why Stalin did this. Thelan had no problem with Jews. He did have a problem,

though, with public perception. In 1950, academic AFIAOFA was forced to retire from the post of the director of the Physical Engineering Institute, which he organized and headed since its incest. in 1918. In 1951, 34 directors and 31 principal engineers of aviation plants have been fired. The list contained mostly Jews. If in 1942, there were nearly 40 Jewish directors and principal engineers in the Ministry of General Machine Building, Ministry of Mortar Artillery, then only three remained in 1953. In the Soviet army, the Soviet authorities persecuted not only Jewish generals, but lower-ranking officers working on the development of military technology and weaponry were also removed. Just since we've started here, we've gone through fields as diverse as physics to music criticism and theater criticism.

Jews dominated every one of these to a ridiculous degree. There were less than 2% of the population of the USSR. are. And in my opinion, getting rid of them, this was the only reason to get rid of them was to keep that constant criticism from right-wingers, even though, you know, Hitler had been defeated to destroy that criticism. Again, Sondon was not anti-Semitic. He was a phylo-Semite, obviously, because this all happened under his watch. the fact that there were mostly Jews, there were nothing left when they got fired,

this is extraordinary. But it just shows you. There's more proof of our overall thesis that this is a Jewish movement. Marxism in general and Soviet, Marxism in particular. And how many times this Stalin here right-wing leaders talk about this, or even not even right-wing leaders, from the revolution onward. And this is something that he couldn't handle anymore.

Thus, the purging campaign spread over to the defense, airplane construction, and automobile industries, though they did not affect the nuclear branch, primarily removing Jews from administrative, directorial, and principal engineering positions. Later purging was expanded onto various bureaucracies. Yet the genuine ethnic dominator was never mentioned in the formal paperwork. Instead, the sacked officials faced charges of economic crimes or having relatives abroad at a time when conflict with the USA was expected or other excuses were used. The purging campaigns rolled over the central cities and across the provinces. The methods of these campaigns was notoriously Soviet in the spirit of the 1930s. A victim was inundated in a vicious atmosphere of terror,

and as a result often tried to deflect the threat to himself by accusing others. These men who were purged, they weren't killed. They weren't sent to the gulag. Depending on their age, they were asked to retire or go into a different field or work, you know. On the other hand, Russian Orthodox people were being tortured to death on a regular basis, whatever was left of it by 1946, 47. Now, in this particular chapter, he's all. over the place in terms of years.

And actually that does matter because every year is different, especially when it comes to the Jews and Israel. There's only only two years that the Soviets really backed the Israeli cause. But at no time was any of this anti-Judaic. What they did to Russian nationalists, well, what happened to the Leningrad affair? They were executed. These people were not executed. very, very different kind of thing. By repeating the tide of 1937, albeit in a milder form,

the display of Soviet power reminded the Jews that they had never been truly integrated and could be pushed aside at any moment. We do not have indispensable people. However, Beria was tolerant of Jews, at least in appointments to positions in government. Pushing Jews out of prestigious occupations that were crucial for the ruling elite in the spheres of manufacturing administration, cultural and ideological activities as well as limiting or completely barring the entrance of Jews into certain institutions of higher education gained enormous momentum in in 1948 through 1953. Positions of any importance in the KGB, party apparatus, and military were closed to the Jews and quotas were in place for admission into certain educational institutions and cultural and scientific establishments.

Through its fifth item, the question about nationality, Soviet Jews were oppressed by the very same method used in the proletarian questionnaire, other items of which were so instrumental in crushing the Russian nobility, clergy, intellectuals, and all the rest of the former people since the 1920s. Remember, Sultan-in is quoting somebody. He's not saying this personally. But they were not oppressed. They simply got other jobs.

these former people that were still around that were still being at the underground church was very large, much larger than we realized. I wasn't alive at the time, but it was said that the underground Soviet church was very

Russian church in the Soviet Union was small. It was not. And in the 90s, when they came to the surface, there were a million, two million members. But how bad must have the discrimination and violence against Russians must have been to permit the fact that they dominated all of these fields to such a ridiculous degree by being less than 2% of the population. Quoting again, this whole paragraph is quoting,

although the highest echelon of the Jewish political elites suffered from administrative perturbations. Surprisingly, it was not as bad as it seemed. It concludes G.V. Costorchenko, quote, the main blow fell on the middle and the most numerous stratum of the Jewish elite officials, and also journalists, professors, and other members of the Creative Intelligence. It was these, so to say, nominal Jews, the individuals with nearly complete lack of ethnic ties, who suffered the brunt of the cleansing of the bureaucracies after the war. This has got to be the 20th time that I say something and that exact thing is said again in the next paragraph.

I'll tell you, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, however, speaking of scientific cadres, the statistics are these. At the end of the 1920s, there were 13.6% Jews among scientific researchers in the country. In 1937, 17.5%. And by 1950, their proportion slightly decreased to 15.4%. 25,125 Jews among 162,508 Soviet researchers. S. Margulina, looking back from the end of the 1980s, concludes that, despite the scale of the campaign, after the war, the number of highly educated Jews in high positions always remained disproportionately high. but in contrast with the former times of happiness, it certainly had decreased.

A.M. Kaffetz recalls a memoir article of a member of the Academy, Budker, one of the fathers of the Soviet A-bomb, where he described how they were building the first Soviet A-bomb, being exhausted from the lack of sleep and fainting from stress and overwork, and it is precisely those days of persecution of cosmopolitans that were the most inspired and the happiest in his life. In 1949, among Stalin Prize laureates, no less than 13% were Jews, just like in the previous years. By 1952, there were only 6%. Data on the number of Jewish students in USSR were not published for nearly a quarter of a century, from the pre-war years until 1963.

We will examine those in the next chapter. You know, this is, I wouldn't, I don't like using the word purge here. A purge implies that they were either sent to the camps or executed, and this was never the case. These remained allies and friends of the Soviet Union. It was their concentration. And no matter how much Salon tried to create a balance here, they still dominated these areas, which in and of itself is a huge piece of evidence, the entirely Jewish nature of the Soviet Union. He was not a, again, he was not a Dismitic.

He just, he just didn't like the optics of this. But they still, you know, they still dominated the, they were less than 2% of the country. And it got him, we got Stalin worried. Berry, of course, was a Jew himself. He was surrounded by Jews. So Jews were the ones who were taking action against these Jews here. So, you know, there was no, this is a completely different, you know, the, the, Jewish literature on Stalin, which I've read many, many years ago, has him as just another Hitler.

That allowed them to support Lenin and Trotsky, especially Trotsky. There's nothing wrong with Marxism. It's just Stalin. Stalin came in and ruined it. Look at what he did to the Jews. That's why they've created this. So they weren't purged. Somebody got a job at another area.

That's all. That was the worst of it. The genuine Jewish culture that had been slowly reviving after the war was curtailed and suppressed in 1948 through 1951. Jewish theaters were no longer subsidized and the few remaining ones were closed, along with book publishing houses, newspapers, and bookstores. In 1949, the international radio broadcasting in Yiddish was also discontinued. In the military, by 1953, almost all Jewish generals and approximately 300 colonels and lieutenant colonels were forced to resign from their positions. I'll be going to stop here?

Yeah, yeah, it's a natural break. We can be going in 50 minutes, yeah. As I mentioned, you know, an hour ago, the break between Stalin and Israel came with Israel's support of the American position and the Turkish position, I should say, in Korea. and the slow but sure deal-making with the American presidency rather than the Soviets. Quite frankly, you know, 153, how many men were mobilized at the end of World War II in the Soviet Union? 15 million? Of course they were going to be, you know, not just Jews that were being demobilized, but it was everyone.

They didn't need 15 million men under arms. It just seems that way if you put, if you just focus just on the Jews. You know, a lot of this stuff simply just wasn't necessary anymore. So, and keep in mind, the split with with Israel was a big deal. And the concern that a lot of these guys might, that Israel was going to become an American possession, so, you know, laughable, rather than something that's loyal to the USSR. But this last one, the military, you know, 15 million men at least underarms in 1945,

yeah, they're going to be retiring a lot of colonels, lieutenant colonels, and everybody else for that matter, Jews and other, Jews and everything. All right. up at that break in the next episode. I want to encourage everybody to go over to the show notes, go over to the description on the videos, and donate to Dr. Johnson's work, buy his new book. That's another way that you can support Dr. Johnson's work. And I will try to link up to even more articles that I have put on my website and that I link to through the show notes. So yeah, check all that out.

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