The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 108

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

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You know, I'm very happy to be living in the middle of nowhere. beautiful farmhouse, you know, fairly inexpensive. And we have very specific rural problems, problems that only rural people have. And I'll take those over anything else any day of the week. And I've lived in all, I lived in all area, including the beach. And rural problems I'll take before I take any city problems or suburban problem. As somebody who grew up in the city and has lived in pretty much every kind of situation, including on the beach, I agree with you 100%. I agree with you 100%. It is. And it may just be once you get to a certain age, you're like, I don't want to deal with this anymore. Well, yeah, yeah. We don't really have neighbors. And we just before we started recording, we were talking about the Starlink systems. I have regular internet out here, which,

as I wasn't expecting. But connectivity and those kind of things, they could all be dealt with. Being murdered on the subway, different story. 100%. All righty. Picking up where we left off last time. Here we go. As the incarcerated Jewish leaders remained jailed in Libyanka for over three years,

Stalin slowly and with great caution proceeded in dismantling the E.A.K. He was very well aware what kind of international storm would be triggered by using force. Luckily, though, he acquired his first H-bomb in 1949. On the other hand, he fully appreciated the significance of unbreakable ties between world Jewry and America, his enemy since his rejection of the Marshall Plan. Investigation of E.A.K. Activities was reopened in January 1952. The accused were charged with connections to the Jewish nationalist organizations in America, with providing information regarding the economy of the USSR to those organizations,

and also with plans of repopulating Crimea and creating a Jewish republic there. Thirteen defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death. A whole bunch of Jewish names here. Yeah. They were secretly executed in August. Aaron Berg, who was also a member of the E.K, was not even arrested. He assumed it was pure luck. Similarly, the crafty David Zeslovsky survived also.

And even after the execution of the Jewish writers, Aaronberg continued to reassure the West that those writers were still alive in writing. The annihilation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee went along with similar secret daughter cases. 110 people were arrested. Ten of them were executed and five died during the investigation. Well, we're heading into the period of the doctor's plot. We're talking, we're getting very close to Stalin's death. My opinion is that, you know, if Stalin's seeing America as his enemy was absurd,

despite what was going on in Korea, the U.S. was well aware what was going on with the economy, the USSR. I don't know how how that would that would be a problem for him. Information regarding the economy of the USSR. As I said last time, the only reason the Soviets rejected the Marshall Plan, the US was desperate to give aid to them, was because they had to turn over most of their, they have to essentially be audited. And they refused. So but the US was was well aware of this. And there was no doubt that Jews were in contact with nationalist organizations in America. I think there's a fine difference here, at least in Solomon's mind at the time,

between Jewish nationalist and Zionist. Most of us tend to use those simultaneously. I'm sorry, synonymously. But, you know, I think there's, you know, nationalism of any kind was rejected. Zionism seemed to have worked fairly well within the Soviet system. Lennon was a reader of Moses Hess. So you have to remember also at this period of time, Gentiles of all stripes were being locked up and sent to the Gulag and destroyed and everything else. So, and also the destruction

the Jewish anti-fascist committee, which is what the E.A.K. refers to in, you know, Russian letters transliterated. We're done by Jews. And we've already gone through that. And I'm pretty sure that the plan to repopulate Crimea in creating a Jewish republic with Stalin's idea just a few years earlier, or at least something that he's vaguely supported, or else there'd be no reason to remove the tartars. So a lot of this, a lot of this simply doesn't add up. And remember, this is in the middle of the Korean War, big problem. And North Korea was a Soviet client state, it wasn't really a Chinese client state. It was a Soviet client state, despite Chinese intervention. but you know this this was this was one aspect of Stalin's repression so you know it's he

began to he began to near the end of his life he began to distrust any nationalist Zionism is a little different because by 1950 Israel well Israel had supported you know the West vaguely in Korea. And that was a huge break between Stalin's support of the state of Israel and his rejection of it. So now he's starting to see a lot of these guys as opponents, where before he wouldn't have had any reason to. So there's a lot of other factors and variables going on here. You have to take into consideration.

In autumn of 1952, Stalin went into the open as arrests among Jews began, such as arrests of Jewish professors of medicine and among members of literary circles in Kiev in October 1952. This information immediately spread among Soviet Jews and throughout the entire world. On October 17th, Voice of America broadcasts about mass repressions among Soviet Jews. Soviet Jews were frozen by mortal fear. The only time it was acceptable socially in the West to be anti-communist was when repressions came against the Jews. That was the only time. But the trade kept flowing. The knowledge of the Soviet economy kept going.

They had hundreds of students, Soviet students in Western universities who went back. And when I say trade, I'm just talking about, you know, grain and oats. I also mean highly advanced systems. Either dual use systems or just pure weaponry. This is still, we still have the generation of those who supported Stalin in World War II. We got to remember that. The problem was, as always, Israel. Stalin then became worried once the state of Israel.

Tel Aviv supported the American side. I don't think they did anything about it, but at least at the UN and other places, they supported the American side, and then now we've got a problem. Soon afterwards, in November and Prague, a show trial of Slansky, the Jewish First Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party

and several other top state and party leaders, took place in a typically loud and populist-Salinist-type entourage. The trial was openly anti-Jewish with naming world-leading Jews such as Ben-Gurion and Morgenthau and placing them in league with American leaders Truman and Atchison. The outcome was that 11 were hanged, eight Jews among them. Summing up the official version, Kay Gottwald said, quote, this investigation in court trial disclosed a new channel through which treason and espionage permeated the communist party. This is Zionism, end quote. Yeah, it's hard to argue.

It's exactly what was what was happening. I've mentioned before, and I have a paper which is not quite finished yet on the split between world jewelry on the one hand and the USSR, and even Marxism in general on the other. And again, Israel was one of the factors. It was really hard for Jewish communists, which were a huge percentage, to want to see Israel destroyed or harmed anyway, not even agree with him. And so Stalin was right in this case. You know, he was, you know, if you have uploaded the paper to your site on Stalin and Israel, and Truman and Atterson figure quite tremendously in that. If our readers read that, they'll get more detail in it.

There's quite a bit of, there's some good reason for Stalin to think this way. That paper will be included in the show notes of this episode, and then all episodes going forward. I can't go back and add it to over 100 episodes. No, no, no, no, no. I don't exactly like that. Yeah, yeah. Look for the latest to read that paper, and it'll connect to my site. I already, I did that today, actually. All right. At the same time, since summer of 1951, the development

of the doctor's plot was gaining momentum. The case included the accusation of prominent physicians, doctors to the Soviet leadership for the criminal treatment of state leaders. for the secret services such as an accusation was nothing new, as similar accusations had been made against Professor Pletnev and physicians Levin and Nazakoff already during the Bucharan trial in 1937. At that time, the gullible Soviet public gasped at such utterly evil plots. No one had any qualms about repeating the same old scenario. You know, I was just reading, of course, reading about the doctor's plot. this is one of the big pieces of evidence that the Jews all over the place, you know, claim that Stalin was anti-Semitic. The medical field was so dominated by Jews.

And in these particular cases, I'm talking about particulars, there was some evidence that there was true malpractice. Whether it's politically motivated or not is a separate issue, because these guys, who were, who were, you know, the Soviet leaders who were killed, weren't necessarily involved in foreign policy or anything else like that. Again, remember, we're coming very close to the end of Stalin's life. He had a horrible death. He had wolves dragging him down somewhere, or at least eyewitnesses said that Lenin felt like he was being tormented by electricity,

which was his obsession throughout the early USSR. So this may also reflect not any kind of anti-Semitism, but the fact that Stalin Stalin was actually starting to fall apart mentally.

Now we know much more about the doctor's plot. Initially, it was not entirely anti-Jewish action. The prosecution list contained the name of several prominent Russian physicians as well. In essence, the affair was fueled by Stalin's generally psychotic state of mind, with his fear of plots and mistrust of the doctors, especially as his health deteriorated. By September 1952, prominent doctors were arrested in groups. Investigations unfolded with cruel beatings of suspects and wild accusations. Slowly it turned into a version of of spying terrorist plot connected with foreign intelligence organizations,

American hirelings, saboteurs in white coats, bourgeois nationalism, all indicating that it was primarily aimed at Jews. Robert Conquest and the Great Terror follows this particularly tragic line of involvement of highly placed doctors. In 1935, the false death certificate of Kube Shev was signed by doctors Kaminsky, Khodovsky, and Levin. In 1937, they signed a similar false death certificate of Orchuskidze. I remember trying to pronounce that name previous. Yeah, he's a Georgian. It's okay. They know so many deadly secrets. Could they expect anything but their own death? Conquest writes that Dr. Levin had cooperated

with the Cheka since 1920. Quote, working with Zürzinski, Michensky, and Yagoda, he was was trusted by the head of such an organization. It is factually correct to consider Levin, a member of you go to circle in the NKVD. Further, we read something sententious. Among those outstanding doctors who in 1937 moved against Pletnev and who had signed fierce accusative, accusative resolutions against him, we find the names of Vovsi Kogan-Zelenin, who in their turn, were subjected to torture by MGB in 1952 to 53 in connection with the case of Dr. Saboteurs, as well as two other doctors, Sherewski and Vinogradov,

who provided a pre-specified death certificate for Mijensky. Robert Conquest is actually, he's a neocon, but for anti-communists the world over, he was very valuable. he thinks everything he's one of the people who believes that Stalin was anti-Semitic

he was this another Hitler but I don't want any of this I mean he you know Olson-Nitin has already stated that despite all of this Jews still dominated the USSR

in the bureaucracy none of this changed that in fact he would have to you know drain this massive swamp I mean everything was everything was state-owned owned. So in terms of the medical profession, again, he, someone did not trust doctors. He was, he was a sick man and he was losing his grip

on power. So to what extent this directly came from Stalin here at this late date? I don't know. On January 3, 1953, Pravda and Izvestia published an announcement by Tass about the arrest of a group of doctors saboteurs. The accusation sounded like a grave threat for Soviet Jewry, and at the same time, by degrading Soviet custom, prominent Soviet Jews were forced to sign a letter to Pravda with the most severe condemnation of the wiles of the Jewish bourgeois nationalists and their approval of Stalin's government. Several dozens signed the letters. A list of them here. Initially, Arenberg did not sign it. He found the courage to write a letter to Stalin to ask your advice, his resourcefulness was unsurpassed indeed. To Aaron Berg, it was clear that,

quote, there is no such thing as the Jewish nation, and that assimilation is the only way, and that Jewish nationalism inevitably leads to betrayal. Yet that the letter that was offered to him to sign could be invidiously inferred by the enemies of our country. He concluded that I myself cannot resolve these questions, but if leading comrades will lead. let me know that my signature is desired and useful for protecting our homeland and for peace in the world, I will sign it immediately. The draft of that statement of loyalty was painstakingly prepared in the administration of the Central Committee, and eventually its style became softer and more respectful. However, the letter never appeared in the press. Possibly because of the international

outrage, the Dr. Plot apparently began to slow down in the last days of Stalin. After the public announcement that Doctors' plot created a huge wave of repression of Jewish physicians all over the country. In many cities and towns, the offices of state security began fabricating criminal cases against Jewish doctors. They were afraid to even go to work, and their patients were afraid to be treated by them. After the cosmopolitan campaign, the menacing growl of people's anger and reaction to the doctor's plot utterly terrified many Soviet Jews, and a rumor arose, and then got rooted in the popular mind that Stalin was planning a mass eviction of Jews to the remote parts of Siberia and North, a fear reinforced by the examples of post-war deportation of entire peoples. In his latest work,

Kostrchenko, a historian and a scrupulous researcher of Stalin's Jewish policies very thoroughly refutes this myth of deportation, proving that it had never been confirmed either then or subsequently by any facts, and even in principle, such as, deportation would not have been possible. The entire, I shouldn't say the huge chunks of the bureaucracy, of the intellectual class, physicians would have been deport. There would be almost no Soviet Union. Yes, of course, they were a minority, but their numbers, even after this, within these key fields were extremely high, you know, 16, 17, 18%, sometimes more depending on the area.

Now, I don't know what with the menacing growl of people's anger refers to. There generally was a, the people usually refers to party members. When communists talk about the people, they're usually referring to their supporters. Um, but any kind of removal, any kind of, uh, it just shows you the, the Dharodosism here, it would have been utterly impossible for any deportation of Jews as such. Now, maybe it's Stalin was losing it and things like that. We had the same situation with Brezhnev, um, later on. Uh, but there's simply no way.

Yeah, we talk about entire peoples. Yeah, you know, Chuvash and, and tartars. No, they don't exactly have the significance in the Soviet system as Jews do. One of the big problems that supporting Israel between the years 1948 and 1950, or 51, was that if Jews were going to leave and go there, huge numbers of some of their, you know, intellectuals were going to be gone. Later on, it became a huge issue in the 70s, but we all know. I'll finish this paper by the time we get to that era. But wait a minute, we have Jews who have been trained in the military arts. They have, you know, top secret clearance, and they're going to Israel, an ally of the U.S.

We got a big problem with that. So at this point, intellectuals were looked on, Jewish intellectuals were looked on very negatively because who knows who wanted to go, who wanted to leave. You couldn't just come and go freely in the Soviet Union. But those with especially, you know, strategic, you know, military educations

who knew things, who knew serious things about the Soviet system, especially the military system. Yet they couldn't just be allowed to leave and just go, you know, all the, all the, all the, the money that they spent in educating these people.

And beyond that, and of course, you know, that's when, and they said it, you know, this was, you know, years later. And the Jackson-Vannock Amendment came into existence precisely because in the 70s, the Soviet Union said, we can't allow it. And so we're going to put sanctions for the first time on the USSR unless you let these Jews go. So Israel then had a influx of, so overwhelmingly Russian, you know, Russian Jews, you know, Soviet Jews.

They had no connection with Israel, but with the Israelites, we do, they do not. with a tremendous amount of military knowledge from the USSR, educated by their ostensible opponent. So this was, you know, any sense of worry about deportation, you know, you know how journalists are, especially Jewish ones, and they love to create these scenarios. You did have a panic among Jews in the U.S. at the time.

That they're, oh my God, you know, we have six million over there that are going to be deported or removed or neutral some way or another. And so this was a beginning, the very beginning of the split between Jews and the Soviet system. It took 20 years because Khrushchev, when he took over, he eliminated. all of these cases, all these arrests, it was all gone. He rehabilitated these guys who were shot. And at the same time, renewed a massive attack on the Orthodox Church, which they're connected. And I think we all know that. So for Jews to believe there was any chance of them, you know, if you're one of these people

who just refuses to believe that Jews, were a dominant part of the Soviet system. Even at this point, talking about deportation makes sense, but we all know better. We know that Jews were a huge part of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Stalin was not anti-Semitic, Stalin was not anti-Jewish,

but Israel, again, was a huge part of the problem, especially after 1950, 1951. and this was this was the beginning it took a while this was the beginning had cruistiff not been overthrown maybe it would have been different but you know after you know in the 60s for example the Soviets are supporting Egypt Iraq Syria and then the US is supporting Israel So Soviet Jews are in a strange position, and a lot of them didn't like that position. And the leadership was aware of it.

That's where the real split started. Here you see cracks in the system, the cracks between the relationship between Judaism and Soviet Marxism. Maybe it is just a goyam thing after all, a goy movement after all. So this is the beginning of that, and that's why it's extremely significant. But it is amazing how bewildered were those circle of Soviet Jews who were unfailingly loyal to the Soviet communist ideology. Many years later, S.K. told me, there was no single action in my life that I am as ashamed of as my belief in the genuineness of the doctor's plot of 1953, that they, perhaps involuntarily, were involved in a foreign conspiracy. Yeah, remember what Stalin was to the Jews. This was the man that defeated Adolf Hitler.

And that gave him almost a legendary status. It was a little bit later where that image was tarnished after his death. But you had, I can't speculate. But the majority, especially of older Jews, which still be telling us regardless of all this stuff. I have been informed by many boomers that their parents were the ones who defeated Adolf Hitler. I'll have you nobody. You don't know how many times I've had that exact same tone.

I've had that conversation. But on a serious note, 85% of, German casualties were on the Eastern Front. And, you know, it's not like, you know, the West didn't do it. Battle of Britain, of course, destroyed a good chunk of the Luswaffe. But, no, it's true. The USSR, that invasion, although Hitler didn't have any choice in the matter whatsoever. He had no chance of winning.

He did just enough damage to keep him from invading. And he pretty much did anyway by taking all of Eastern Europe, including Poland, East Germany. It's a miracle he didn't take Finland and Austria. The line was drawn with Greece and Turkey, but that was a local matter, not the matter of, you know, the U.S. was fighting this or anything. So, yeah, the Soviet Union lost a ridiculous. number overwhelmingly of men, you know, because men are the only ones who die in wars, not women. Women are civilians who are they die that way, but I'm always irritated with the men and

women of the armed forces. No, men are the ones who get captured, POWs, men are the ones who die, men are the ones who get shot. The percentage of women from the American. women who died in World War II in combat is exactly zero. You did have female partisans, however, in the Soviet Union, but the point is, and they were very Jewish, by the way. But it does not surprise me in the least that Jews, as the years go on, the older Jews will remain loyal to Joseph Stalin. Yeah, I had some Gentile boomer actually very recently within the last week and a half or so on

social media. She had commented that her father was part of the, um, was, was part of the first group, the first, um, troops to get to Auschwitz and, and free them and the horrors he saw. And she was not happy when I, she was not happy when I asked her, you know, how her father, you know, um, if her father was Russian and if he was serving in the six, the Army. Yeah, the Red Army captured that. And I've heard that, again, a thousand times there's even been movies where that's been depicted. I'm not saying that professors will say that they won't, you know, that's too stupid to say. But yeah, when I deal with these people, you know, when I was growing up, the world where two generations was still around. My parents were

not boomers, they were greatest generation, they were born in the 30s. Thank God I didn't have to worry about the boomerism. So we went from the greatest generation to generation X, that's okay. But, you know, what I tend to say is, you know, my father

almost was killed in Korea, a war which wouldn't have happened had Hitler won World War II. same thing for Vietnam and anything against Marxism or against the growth of the Soviet Union your victory made that possible.

You fought on the wrong side and I'm in a position where I could say stuff like that well socially speaking it doesn't go over very well. Well, I heard that the next Holocaust movie is they're going to have black American female soldiers freeing Auschw

No, I've seen, you know, mock up pictures, you know, of the black units that rescue Jews from the camps. So an article from the 1960s states that in spite of a pronounced anti-Semitism of Stalin's rule, many Jews prayed that Stalin stayed alive as a new through experience at any period of weak power means a slaughter of Jews. We were well aware of the quite rowdy mood of the fraternal nations toward us. Well, you know, there's a bit of a point to that. You know, it's sort of like, you know, Assad and Hussein, keeping a lid on the extreme Islamist movements. It's very similar here. Another example would be, you know, witchcraft.

Waring about witchcraft usually happened in places where the state was weak. so but I don't know if your typical Jew would actually see it that way that level of sophistication there was a period of there was kind of an interregnum there

in 1953 and Khrushchev really took over it by himself but to think that that would even matter where you have Jews heavily armed throughout the military and and various police forces.

It's, again, typical neuroticism. They just have this. You know, if there's no fight, they're going to create a fight. It's absolutely absurd. On February 9th, a bomb exploded at the Soviet embassy in Tel Aviv. On February 11, 1953, the USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Israel. The conflict surrounding the doctor's plot intensified due to these events. And then Stalin went wrong, and not for the very first.

time, right? He did not understand how the thickening of the plot could threaten him personally, even within the secure quarters of his inaccessible, inaccessible political Olympus. The explosion of international anger coincided with the rapid action of internal forces, which could possibly have done away with Stalin. It could have happened through Beria, for example, according to Aftor Hanof's version. There is a theory. There are plenty of Russian nationalists out there. more like Soviet patriots or national bolsheviks that I worry about, especially in Russia, that say that Stalin was being gradually poisoned.

And that then he was killed on Purim. I don't know if that's true. Or he died on Purim, exactly. I don't know if that's true or not. But it is a common theory. He wasn't worried about himself personally anyway. but I do love the phrase inaccessible political Olympus. I got to use that.

I got to use that. It's an excellent line. But I'm not sure with the international anger, was that aimed at what? Was that aimed at the bombing? Including a Jewish group. So, well, regardless, Stalin wasn't going anywhere. there was very little support for getting rid of him within, at least among those who had any chance of being able to do anything about it.

And remember the constant purges. He had loyalists everywhere, including Jews. After a public communique about the doctor's plot, Stalin lived only 51 days. The release from custody and the acquittal of the doctors without trial were perceived by the older generation of Soviet Jews as a repetition of the Purim miracle. Stalin had perished on the day of Purim when Esther saved the Jews of Persia from Haman. On April 3rd, all of the surviving accused in the doctor's plot were released. It was publicly announced the next day. And yet again, it was a Jews who pushed a frozen history forward. The Jews make far too much of the doctor's plot,

at least at the very least because Stalin was not in his right mind at the time. I think Stalin died simply, you know, organ failure. I don't think he was murdered. I've read the articles in Russian on that, and they're, I don't know, at best I'm on the fence. But he did irritate Jews, but again, he was still surrounded by them. It was a very odd situation here. And it proved that he was not anti-Jewish.

He had them in, you know, even after all of this, even after all this happened, the day Stalin died, Jews still dominated in media and medicine and everything else. Only it may be a slightly lessen number. Slightly. So these are things that they take and make a very big, big deal out of them. As I mentioned before, Khrushchev had dropped all this stuff. Khrushchev needed Jewish support to stay in power, and he courted it pretty blatantly. But as I've said before, and this is an extremely important point, the belief that Stalin was anti-Jewish, or anti-Semitic, comes from the

refusal to accept the fact that bolivism was largely a Jewish movement, especially in the 20s. Going after the old Bolsheviks, going after any of the people who went after, Jews are going to be a huge number of them. The old Bolsheviks, the old revolutionary generals, etc., tended to be, you know, partisan Jews. and it appeared that he was anti-Jewish. He wasn't. There were just so many of them. So they certainly can't admit in public that Bolshevism was Jewish, like we do, like Putin did, like so many others do. So they came up with the idea that Stalin just hated Jews for no reason.

Oh, and by the way, just two weeks ago, three weeks ago, I did a lecture at Radio Alibaba. being on the book of Esther in the Old Testament. It does belong in the Old Testament. And I explain in great detail why. All righty. We will be back with a new chapter in a couple days. It'll be chapter 23 before the sixth day war. So I guess that's just a period from 53 to 67.

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