The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 110

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

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Dr. Johnson, how are you doing today? Well, you know, on my show, the Orthodox Nationalist, I don't have guests. It just means very very no frills. It's just me lecturing on a topic like you're taking a university course. But today I am joined with Marcel, who is two inches from the mic. And Stanley, who is in his bed sleeping. He is out like a light.

I could hear him snoring. So if they have anything to say, I will let you know. And I'm eager to hear what they have to say. They're not stupid. All right. Picking up where we left off last time. Although there were already no longer any Jews in the most prominent positions, many still occupied influential and important second-tier posts, though there were exceptions. For example, Veniamen Dimshitz smoothly ran Goss Plan, the State Planning Committee, from 1962, while being at the same time the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of USSR and a member of the Central Committee from 1961 to 1986.

Why at one time the Jews were joining NKVD and the MVD in such numbers that even now, after all purges of the very Jewish spirit, a few individuals miraculously survived, such as the famous Captain Jaffa in a camp in Mordovia. Well, let's assume that that's true. You have Dim Shits, which, again, a great name. He runs the state planning committee, and he's deputy chairman of the council of ministers.

Well, that's pretty much the power of the USSR, the economic and the political power. Why do you need anyone else? Those are two incredibly powerful positions. And being a member of the council or the committee, in 61 to 86, that's a long time. But remember, you know, I don't think that there was ever a Jewish purge

at least at the time we're talking about roughly after the death of Stalin I think that's the era we're dealing with here or maybe the end of his his rule so we're talking about right up to you know not quite cruciv yet but but dim shits now despite the name everyone should know it because that's pretty that's a huge amount of power in one man's hands the state planning committee and the deputy chairman of the council of ministers. That's an extraordinary. That's huge in one man's hand. So clearly this was not an anti-Jewish purge.

They were everywhere beforehand, and there were everywhere afterwards. According to the USSR census of 1959, 2.268,2,268,000 Jews lived in the Soviet Union. yet there were caveats regarding this figure. Quote, everybody knows that there are more Jews in the Soviet Union than the census showed, end quote. As on the census day, a Jew states his nationality not according to his passport, but any nationality he wishes. Of those 2,162,000 Jews lived in the cities, i.e. 95.3% of the total population, much more than 82% in 1926 or 87% of the people.

in 1939. And if we glance forward into the 1970 census, the observed increase in the number of Jews in Moscow and Leningrad is apparently caused not by natural growth, but by migration from several other cities in spite of all the residential restrictions. Over these 11 years, at least several thousand Jews relocated to Kiev, the concentration of Jews in large cities had been increasingly increasing for many decades. Well, clearly there were no residential restrictions. Jews were able to go wherever they wanted. Of course, they were in urban people.

And we've been almost from the first day, we've been talking about how the Jews refused to answer census, whether it be in the Tsar's period, going way back, they want to keep their numbers secret. and there's obviously a reason for that. They functioned as a mafia group, more or less. Things changed when the Soviets took over. It was to a great extent of Jewish movement or a movement in the Jewish spirit.

But Israel, the foundation of Israel and the dual loyalties then started to cause some problems. That doesn't mean that there were ever any purges specifically of Jews and any, even if there were, it would have to be carried up by other Jews. So that number, I just as an aside, is much lower now. And those, let's say 20% in 1926, they were involved in tavern keeping. We talked about this already, in tavern keeping and making alcohol in that to get the goyam drunk. But that wasn't as relevant anymore.

So Moscow, Kiev, that were their two big areas. That's where the power was. That's where the money was. And even after the Jews disengaged from the USSR in the early 70s, they still had a large presence in those two cities. These figures are very telling for those who know about the differences in living standards between the urban and the rural populations in the Soviet Union. G. Rosenblum, the editor of the prominent Israeli newspaper, Yadiyoth Aronoth, recalls an almost anecdotal story by Israeli ambassador to Moscow, Dr. Harrell, about his tour of the USSR in the mid-1960s. In a large Caucasus near Kishnev, he was told that,

quote, the Jews who work here want to meet him. The Israeli was very happy that there were Jews in the Kulkos, love of agriculture, a good sign for Israel. He recounts, quote, three Jews came to meet me. One was a cashier, another editor of the Caucasus Wall newspaper, and the third one was a kind of economic manager. I couldn't find any other. So what the Jews used to do before, they are still doing. G. Rosenblum confirms this, quote, indeed, the Soviet Jews and their masses did not take to the physical work, end quote. El Shapiro concludes, quote, conversion of Jews to agriculture ended in failure despite all the efforts of public Jewish organizations and the assistance of the state. How many times have we dealt with this since we've done

110 shows? Hundreds of attempts. One more stupid than the next. But you would think at least the Soviet Union they would identify with it. But as it turns out, that just became a part of their mentality. And even in Israel, yeah, the Klobutz, they use Arab labor. You know, their managers, that's what they do. They're superior. They don't work with their hands. That's for the Guillaume. And that's the future they have in store for all of us. In Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev, the city's enjoying the highest living in cultural standards in the country. The Jews, according to the 1959 census, constituted 3.9%, 5.8%, and 13.9% of the population, respectively, which is quite a lot, considering that they accounted for only 1.1% of the entire population of the USSR.

So it was at this extremely high concentration of Jews in urban areas, 95% of all Soviet Jews lived in the cities, that made, quote, the system of prohibitions and restrictions, end quote, particularly painful for them. As we mentioned in the previous chapter, the system was outlined back in the early 1940s. End quote. Although the restrictive rules have never been officially acknowledged and officials stoutly denied their existence, these rules and restrictions very effectively barred the Jews from many spheres of action, professions, and positions.

End quote. Let's be clear. There were no laws saying this. There were no regulations saying this. This is your typical, you know, Solomon Swartz kind of hysteria. 1.1% of the population, and you have, even after purges, you had massive concentrations of Jews in very powerful party and police structures. Not anything like, you know, you have to work their hands or, you know, in the army, but in everything else. Jews are able to see anti-Semitism in anything, and these rules were to do.

never written down. There was nothing like that. But there was a legitimate worry, at least in some elements of the party, that Israel is going to become, especially because it's now being supported by the U.S. with a huge amount of money, that Israel's now going to become far more of a home to Jews in the USSR. There were plenty of Stalinist Jews. They always will be there in Eastern Europe, too, who had rejected. that Israel and this is our homeland. But there was always a small Zionist group, also communists, in every way. I mean, the Israeli state was based on more or less a Marxist program.

We don't really talk about that very much. We're always talking about the military side of things and their crimes and everything else. But, you know, they took the collective farming system of the USSR and brought it to Israel to be worked by others. by Arabs. So let's be clear. There was no no one ever in the system

was very dependent upon Jews and not just within the Soviet Union but also outside of it there was no nothing written that said Jews can't do this can't do that. So let's be clear about that. There was no one out there

who hated Jews although we have to admit maybe at the lower level of the party as we said a hundred times before from the beginning that, you know, why are the Jews, you know, 1.1% of the population, why are they so privileged? We're supposed to be against that sort of thing, right? Again, after the death of Stalin, you have factions, and you have people who, if they ever had

faith in the revolution, didn't have it anymore. Some recall a disturbing rumor circulating than among the Jews. Allegedly, Khrushchev said in one of his unpublished speeches that, as many Jews will be accepted into the institutions of higher education as work in the coal mines. Now, that's a good one. I like that. I like that. I don't doubt he actually wrote that. I don't doubt it either. That's the sort of thing he would say, I'm surprised he didn't blurt it out just anywhere, because that was his personality. He got into a lot of trouble. But the line itself is wonderful. Perhaps he really just blurted it out in his usual manner, because such balancing

was never carried out. Yet by the beginning of the 1960s, while the absolute number of Jewish students increased, their relative share decreased substantially when compared to the pre-war period. If at 1936, the share of Jews among students was 7.5 times higher than that in the total population, then by the 1960s it was only 2.7 times higher. These new data on the distribution of students in higher and secondary education by nationality were published for the first time in the post-war period in 1963 in the statistical annual report, the national economy of the USSR, and a similar table was annually produced up to 1972. In terms of the absolute number of students and institutions of higher education and technical schools in the 1962-63 academic year,

Jews were fourth after the three Slavic nations, Russians, Ukrainians, Bilo-Russians, with 79,000, 300 Jewish students and institutions of higher education out of a two, total 2,943,700 students, 2.69%. In the next academic year, 63 to 64, the number of Jewish students increased to 82,600, while the total number of students in USSR reached 3,260,700,000, 2.53%. This share remained almost constant until the 6970 academic year. 101,000 Jewish students out of a total of 4,500,000 49,900. Then the Jewish share began to decline, and in 1972 to 73, it was 1.91%, 85,88,500 Jewish students out of a total of 4,630,246. This decline coincided with the beginning of the Jewish immigration to Israel. Well, that last section in parentheses that said what I was going to say, there was always a slow drip of Jews leaving the USSR, either for the U.S. or Israel. That was just a matter, of course.

But in the early 70s, the Jackson-Vannock Amendment, which I'm almost positive, he's going to talk about at some point. it became more of a flood. And the same was the case for Eastern Europe. In the paper that you've uploaded to your side, I go into great detail about that. Now, I've read the national economy of the USSR for my work, dealing with that period of time, and it's very unreliable.

The Soviets were notorious for that. They had every incentive to lie about production figures. So, you know, we take these. It sounds like exact numbers, but let's take these with a grain of salt. But they definitely give us a general idea of what the situation looked like. But it wasn't just you had a certain percentage in schools. They were in the medical professions. They were in high-tech professions.

So it wasn't just any old secondary and post-secondary school. they were in, you know, the power positions, and of course all the economic positions as well. So this is a qualitative issue as well as a quantitative one. The relative number of Jewish scientists also declined in the 1960s, from 9.5% in 1960 to 6.1% in 1973. During those same years, quote, there were tens of thousands of Jewish names in the Soviet art and literature, end quote, including 8.5% of writers and journalists, 7.7% of actors and artists, more than 10% of judges and attorneys, great, and about 15% doctors. Traditionally, there were always many Jews in medicine, yet considered the accursed Soviet psychiatry, which in those years began locking up healthy people in mental institutions. And who were those psychiatrists?

listing the Jewish occupations, M. I. Haifitz writes, Psychiatry is a Jewish monopoly. A friend, a Jewish psychiatrist, told me just before my arrest, we began to get Russians only recently and even then as the result of an order. He provides examples.

He provides examples. The head psychiatrist of Leningrad, Professor Averk book, provides his expertise for the KGB in the Big House. In Moscow, there was famous Luntz. In the Kaluga Hospital, there was Lifshitz and his Jewish gang. When Haifitz was arrested and his wife began looking for a lawyer with a clearance, that is, with the permission from the KGB to work on political cases,

she, quote, did not find a single Russian among them as all such lawyers were Jews. I thought there were these purges. I thought that, you know, there was these anti-Semitic restrictions. Well, clearly not. at least not in the fields that mattered most. Because I've been doing this for so long, and I'm so focused and specialized on this stuff. I, again, have another paper I need to send you.

They did it on Soviet psychiatry and psychology, which was very different in the Western version. It, especially under Khrushchev. Khrushchev made great use of it. it was the new way of dealing with dissidents they did a lot of testing of different drugs on people the highest ranking person was of course the great general Peter Greigory of who was eventually dumped off in America he was a four-star general and he he said that there was an offensive buildup

on the border, the Central Europe's border, and that's why Hitler invaded, and that's why no one expected it. Hitler was basically on suicide, all the stuff that we say. The first thing they did was send him to a very distant command out in East Asia. He kept going. He kept talking about Stalin that way. Then they brought him to an institution, and he has a book out on it, the things that were done to him. He was never quite the same again. but when you get into this is one thing that even Jewish psychiatrists in the US

were concerned about it hurt their image because they were using some very dangerous drugs and methods all kinds of experiments the Soviets can get away with things that the Americans really couldn't Goulag prisoners were often too valuable for their economy to connection to the economy but dissidents new dissidents now it's great you send them to these new things called mental institutions

and people bought it people actually thought oh my god he must be sick they came up with something called latent schizophrenia in other words it's asymptomatic so they had asymptomatic schizophrenia

well he's which just meant that if someone dissents and shows no sign of mental illness, that's what he was, the label he was given. And people went, oh, all the psychiatrists are saying that. It must be true. It asymptomatic. He didn't show many signs of it, but he probably will in the future. And because of his dissent. How can you possibly dissent from the workers' paradise? You know, we live in advanced communism here. How can you possibly dissent? So this was, that was inherent. That was by itself a sign of mental illness.

and it was a very nasty part of Soviet history, starting roughly about now, it reached this peak in the Khrushchev era, though. And I will send that to you. Maybe we'll talk about it a little bit more. I don't know if he's going to talk about it more, but I have a lengthy paper on that. I'm quite proud of, and it gets really tough to read sometimes. They were very nasty to these people. Grigorenko, because of his high rank, they went a little bit too far. they couldn't kill him.

That would have been a terrible idea. So he went to America. And typically, you know, he didn't get much traction here. You would think something like that, who pretty much a defector, people would still be talking about today. Well, most people even know who he was. He's a four-star general saying everything that we say

about, you know, the reasons for Hitler's invasion is true. And that's why, you know, he had so many men at the border. That's why we lost. so many soldiers, that people would be talking about him. He is one of the big pieces of evidence for the icebreaker thesis. You can't really deny it anymore. But of course, he was flushed down the memory hole if he was even in the memory hole.

But he does have a book, which I've read on Soviet psychological practices, he was subject to it. You know, he says in there, he says, you know, one day when I was released I couldn't get a job anymore and I was with my wife selling vegetables on the side of the road he goes from four star general to selling vegetables to the side of the road in far eastern Russia

and he said you know for the first time of my life I'm free because now I don't have to listen to anybody anymore for the first time in my life I was free selling vegetables on the side of the road member of the party four star general I was under very short leave

Of course, he was not a Jew either. Greerunko, clearly a Gentile, a Ukrainian name. And he has a lot of great lines in his book there. And we're going to talk about it in the future, but I will send you my paper on Soviet psychiatry. Part of it concerns his work, too. In 1956, Fertseva, then the first secretary of Moscow, Gorkom, the city's party committee, complain that in some offices, Jews constitute more than half of the staff. I have to note for balance that in those years, the presence of Jews in the Soviet apparatus

was not detrimental. The Soviet legal machinery was in its essence stubbornly and hard-heartedly anti-human, skewed against any man in need, be it a petitioner or just a visitor. So it often happened that the Russian officials in Soviet offices, petrified by their power, looks for any excuse to triumphantly turn away a visitor. In contrast, one could find much more understanding in a Jewish official and resolve an issue in a more humane way. El Shapiro provides examples of complaints that in the National Republics, the Jews were pushed out and displaced from the bureaucratic apparatus by native intelligentsia. Yet it was a common and officially mandated system of preferences in the ethnic republics to affirm the local cadres, and Russians were displaced just as well. Yeah, one of the big problems, one of the big worries from Stalin's era, especially when Stalin died, was pissing off the outer rim of republics.

As I mentioned last time, some of them were quite productive. Georgia and Armenia were particularly productive. Every republic had a specific part within the Soviet economic system, which meant that when they were independent, they had an economy that now didn't make any sense. It only worked within the larger system. And you had a lot of high-tech stuff done in Georgia and Armenia. And since they tended to meet or exceed their quotas, they were kind of left alone. They didn't want to piss these people off. Creating a secessionist movement would be a disaster.

And we know that was part of what brought the system down. So Native congeys were able to get away with this kind of thing. pushing out Jews and Russians. But this was at the, especially Russians, and these men in these positions were all educated in Russia, in Moscow, or in Leningrad. I've been through, I've got to have a paper on this too, where I deal with the cost and benefit for the average citizen in each republic,

Russia included. and most take more than they give. The only exception to that was Russia. So it was clearly exploited. So these people would use Russian resources and go back to the republic and then build it. And that's why Russian nationalism was so violently repressed. And it always was a problem. Russian nationalism was feared most of all.

but some of these republics especially in the Baltics you always had you always had Scandinavian interest in them especially Estonia you know they were they were in the Soviet Union by force starting in 1940 so they were allowed to get away with this stuff more so than in the central regions is the point I'm trying to make here and getting rid of Russians also was a very important thing despite the fact that Russia as a suffering republic within the USSR had financed everything. Their university systems, it all came from, Russia was exploited so these other places can thrive, or as much as you could thrive in the Soviet system.

This reminds me of an example from contemporary American life. In 1965, the New York Division of the American Jewish Committee had conducted a four months long, unofficial interview of more than a thousand top officials in New York City banks. based on its results, the American Jewish Committee mounted a protest because less than 3% of those surveyed were Jews, though they constituted one quarter of the population of, that is, the committee demanded proportional representation. Then the chairman of the Association of Banks in New York responded that banks, according to law, do not hire on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin, and do not keep records of such categories. that would be our accursed fifth article, the requirement in the Soviet internal passport, nationality. Interestingly, the same American Jewish committee had conducted a similar study about the ethnic composition of management of the 50 largest U.S. public utility services two years before, and in 1964, in similar vein, it studied industrial enterprises in the Philadelphia region.

I have a list of your major movers and shakers in American finance, not just banks, but also hedge funds and all the rest. And it's single spaced. It's 25 pages long. I refuse to believe that it was actually 3%. I don't know who they surveyed or why or how they did this, but it's almost like they were inventing an issue. The Harvard people did the same thing there. You know, they're like 10% of the, there's not enough Jews. There are not enough Jews in the student newspaper, even though they dominated it totally. They're inventing an issue here to get upset about. They need more Jews in

the banking industry, really? You think that's actually the case? So I think that this is just something that they invented. I refuse to believe, even at this point, that 3% is the proper number. Yet, let us return to the Soviet Jews. Many Jewish immigrants loudly advertised their former activity in the periodical publishing and filmmaking industries back in the USSR. In particular, we learned from a Jewish author that it was due to Sarkomsky's support that all top positions in Literaturnia Gazeta became occupied by Jews. Yet 20 years later, we read a different assessment.

of the time. Whoa, the new anti-Semitism grew stronger, and by the second half of the 1960s, it already amounted to a developed system of discreditation, humiliation, and isolation of the entire people. So how can we reconcile such conflicting views? How can we reach a calm and balanced assessment? This is like maybe the 10th or 15th time this has come up in our talk on the Soviet era, that there is an alleged purge of Jews from something, and then two paragraphs later, he says they completely dominated that very place. How can they have been a purge?

Maybe reshuffling, maybe. But, you know, they dominated all these important areas, as we've mentioned. Then we hear about these purges, anti-Semitic purges that are outrageous, and then right afterwards, they still dominate these areas. So what kind of purges can these be? You know, this whole book, since we started in the Soviet era, seems to be like that. At least the Stalinist era and now post-Tolomest era seems to be like that. And this is not the first time this has come up.

Then, from the high spheres inhabited by economic barons, there came alarming signals, signals that made the Jews nervous. Quote, to a certain extent, Jewish activity in the Soviet Union concentrated in the specific fields of economy, along a characteristic pattern, well known to Jewish sociologists. End quote. By then, at the end of the 1950s, Khrushchev suddenly realized that the key spheres of the Soviet economy are plagued by rampant theft and fraud. Quote, in 1961, an explicitly anti-Semitic campaign was initiated against the theft

of socialist property. End quote. Beginning in 1961, a number of punitive decrees of the Supreme Soviet Union, of the USSR were passed. The first one dealt with, quote, foreign currency speculations, end quote, another with bribes, and still another later introduced capital punishment for the aforementioned crimes, at the same time lawlessly applying the death penalty retroactively for the crimes committed before those decrees were issued, as, for example, the case of Jay Rokotov and B. Faye Bichenko. Execution started in the very first year. During the first nine

trials, 11 individuals were sentenced to death. Among them were perhaps six Jews. The Jewish Encyclopedia states it more specifically, quote, in 1961 through 64, 39 Jews were executed for economic crimes in the RSFSR and 79 in Ukraine and 43 Jews in other republics. In these trials, quote, the vast majority of defendants were Jews, end quote. The publicity was such that the court records indicating the names and patronymics of the defendants, which were the normal order of pleadings, yet it was getting absolutely clear from that that they were Jews. That's interesting. What he says there is that they weren't giving last names. In giving last names, they'd be, you know, admitting that these were Jews, but you could tell otherwise. Patronymics like Avaramovich or something

like that, clearly are Jewish. So they were not using last name for, from the Jewish point of view, for very good reason. But like I said last time, we're now under Kruistefs, things are starting to fall apart. Foreign currency speculation? And that, of course, is classic Jewish area, 100%. I think these were symbolic trials. but if you're opposed to foreign currency speculations, you want to make an example of them,

well, there were no non-Jews involved in that. So every name, of course, is going to be Jewish. Remember, Khrushchev personally comes from peasant stock in Ukraine, eastern Ukraine. And with this kind of thing, though, he was pissing a lot of people off. He wasn't going to last too much longer. He was overthrown in 64. This was part of the reason why. that, you know, it was very clear.

Now, the West is noticing this. The Western press is interpreting this as, and they have been, you know, in this era, that another mass purge of Jews, they would never say foreign currency speculations. They would say from the financial sphere or from banking or something like that. And a very powerful American and British Jewish organizations were starting to get upset with the Soviet system. Certainly to get upset with Khrushchev in particular, who, again, as I said, is known for just kind of barting things out.

Whatever in his head, he would say it. A lot of his innovations and policies were miserable failures. But technically, of course, any kind of speculation would be illegal. I know it occurred throughout Soviet history, but now it's being exposed. And, of course, every single name is Jewish. and the fact that they refused to use last name should tell you something. You know, and the fact that they executed them for economic crimes is also very interesting. And I guarantee you the lawyers and judges who put them in that position were Jews.

Next, in a large court trial in Frunson, 1962, 19 out of 46 defendants were apparently Jewish. Quote, there is no reason to think that this new policy was conceived as a system. of anti-Jewish measures. Yet immediately upon enforcement, the new laws acquired distinct anti-Jewish flavor, end quote. The author of the quote obviously points out to the publication of the full names of defendants, including Jewish ones. Other than that, neither the courts nor the government nor the media made any generalizations or direct accusations against the Jews. And even when Soviet Svetskaya Kyrgyzia wrote that, quote, they occupied different posts, but they were closely linked to each other, end quote,

it never clarified the begged question. How were they linked? The newspaper treated this issue with silence, thus pushing the reader to the thought that the nucleus of the criminal organization was composed of the closely linked individuals, yet closely linked by what? By their Jewishness.

So the newspaper emphasized the Jews in this case, yet people can be closely linked by any illegal transaction, greed, swindling, or fraud. And amazingly, nobody argued that those individuals could be innocent, though they could have been innocent. Yet to name them was equal to Jew baiting. That was the complaint.

This, again, is proof that they did function as a criminal organization, just like they did in Zaris, Russia. Zaris Russia was supposed to be, it was supposed to have solved the problem. It was supposed to be a Jewish homeland of sorts. but Jews didn't accept it that way, especially now. Israel being founded, again, even though it was by the Soviets in 1948, that only lasted a few years, ruined everything as far as the Soviets were concerned,

because now you have powerful Jews everywhere. You have a state dedicated just for Jews, closely linked with the United States. You know, a huge problem that the Soviets had is if you had a high-ranking technician, educated in Russia, a lot of money spent on him, and he decides he's going to leave for Israel, well, he's going to take all of those secrets with him. This was starting to become a huge problem. That's actually what led to the some restrictions,

and that led to the Jackson-Vannock Amendment in the early sense. 70s. And that amendment also proves that Western elites, Jewish or not, were noticing this. So the Gulag state, no problem. Mass murder, no problem. Fomenting revolution all over the world, no problem. By restricting Jews from immigration, now we're going to put sanctions on you. That's the problem. And all it was was using last names. Patrick never was. can be just as bad. You know, Moseievich, a classic Jewish patronymic, you know, your father's name. And they're talking about, you're using vague connections.

We use this in American media today, linked or connected to. What does that mean? It's almost like they're coming out and saying that this is a mafia organization. You know, you had plenty of people from, I keep using those examples. because I know them from Georgia or Armenia, that were doing very well in the USSR. Never had these kind of problems. Never had these kind of problems.

And it's because of how they were linked. They were linked by race and an agenda. And the only thing that Soviets had going for them was that Jews were very, very heavily divided between the minority who thought that Israel was where we should be. minority at this point and those who saw, you know, say the Stalin estate was the Jewish homeland. Don't forget any time there was any so-called purge, which clearly doesn't exist in the way these things are written,

it was done by Jewish judges and Jewish lawyers because that's the one place where you had massive domination of Jews. I don't care about any, whatever they want to say, maybe farm managers may have been purrs. not a big deal to them but judges and lawyers they continue to dominate their science the same way but Israel kind of ruined everything because where were Jews

especially when the war started with American money Jews to Israel starts winning and they're winning against societies financed by the USSR so it puts them in a terrible position and their official language is Hebrew. So it really depended in how, this really we talk about assimilation, how assimilated

the Jews were to the Soviet reality. These people now were born after the revolution for the most part. They still do remember the so-called great patriotic war where Hitler was defeated. So Stalin was the great leader, not Khrushchev. Khrushchev was really seen as a total goi from where his parents were from and just how dumb he was. He was a terrible choice. And Brezhnev attempted to corrected some of that

and failed to do that. But he did have great eyebrows. That's an aside. Brezhnev eyebrows were legendary. They even mentioned Brezhnev as being one of the ugliest people on the planet and like Seinfeld. You remember?

that episode I do and you know when he would they didn't have to be politicians there so when he would go on tv to read something he would never look up he would be reading something from a piece of paper like this you know no personality you would never look up from the he had to be smacking his lips all the time massive eyebrows in front of the camera you know zero absolutely no and so this is no Stalin uh and he was destroyed by um Afghanistan anyway. And at the end, and he was Ukrainian too. He spoke with a, with a,

he used to make fun of him for his Ukrainian accent. His family was from Kharkiv. So again, non-Russians in these positions. But although, you know, they're from Russian-speaking area, but still, you know, an accent from that area. So, you know, this is, Brezhnev couldn't.

do it. And clearly, And Dropov, even though he was head of the KGB, they didn't live long enough. And the only Russian one, Gorbachev, well, that was near the end. But because this guy's total lack of charisma. And he even tried to start a cult of personality. With that personality, he didn't have a personality. Khrushchev was at least funny and interesting. He got all upset when Disneyland wouldn't let him in. He wanted to see them, the, the, the, the mouth that talks. I forget what he said. But Brezhnev was just so, you know, read.

There's so many comics, so dissidents had a field day with his total lack of personality. And so he was in no position to fix what Khrushchev had done. And again, after the death of Stalin, everything starts falling apart slowly but surely. And we're seeing that happening now. It reminds me of another really hilarious line from Seinfeld. when George is like, ask him if it works. And the Asian guy goes, say you grow hair, you look like Stalin. Oh, I remember that.

Yeah. Yeah, that stinky stuff you had to put on its head. That actually, when I watched, when I watched that the first time, that made me laugh out loud. Hey, funny is funny. I don't care if they're Jews. Funny is funny. You know, as far as I was concerned, they didn't have an accent. because everyone I knew sounded like that.

But everywhere else I went, they had an accent. Next in January, 1962, came the Vilnius case of speculators in foreign currency. All eight defendants were Jews. During the trial, non-Jewish members of the political establishment involved in the case escaped public naming, a usual Soviet trick. This time, there was an explicit anti-Jewish sentiment from the prosecution. Quote, the deals were struck in a synagogue, and the arguments were settled with the help of wine, end quote.

Well, how could there not be? You know, and this has been going on now for a couple of years. They're taking, you know, speculation and currency. That's currency gets its value from labor. It gets its value from hundreds of years of Russians, actual Russians and Ukrainians, working, whether it be an industry or anything else. And they're getting wealthy manipulating the symbols of that well. but it only gets its value from work.

It's the, you know, if you're, in that goes to show that no one was a Marxist at this point. The only Marxists that existed in this era were in American universities and maybe in South Africa, because this was the total opposite of anything that, anything socialist, no matter what kind of socialist you're talking about. But we did talk about, we had a whole show, I think, on Marx's on the Jewish question and this is exactly what he talks about

but they revert the form once they get too comfortable but if the deals were struck in a synagogue well that is relevant information there's no getting out of it this was a Jewish practice and if that causes anti-Semitism

well you know you know Provdna provident never made stuff up they editorialized in every article but they never made stuff up like the American press does that they describe something just as it was and then they would condemn it to the skies

and say how wonderful Lenin was and something like that the American press will simply create a sensational story to support the left or the Jews or whoever they're talking about I would trust Pravda in these cases more than the American newspaper the American newspapers were inventing things things, that, oh my God, the Soviet Union's becoming another Third Reich, even though they continue to dominate, the Jews can dominate all of these areas. And if there's one area that

they absolutely dominated was the one that was totally illegal, currency speculation. Solomon Schwartz is absolutely convinced that this legal and economic harassment was nothing else but rampant anti-Semitism. Yet he completely disregards, quote, the tendency of Jews to concentrate their activity in the specific spheres of economy. end quote. Similarly, the entire Western media interpreted this as a brutal campaign against the Jews, the humiliation and isolation of the entire people. Bertrand Russell sent a letter of protest to Khrushchev and got a personal response from the Soviet leader. However, after that, the Soviet authorities apparently had second thoughts when they handled the Jews. This goes to show just how important

the West was, their image was. to the Western world. Western corporations were always invested in the Soviet Union. The U.S., Western Europe, NATO countries, were not enemies of the Soviet Union. You can't be enemies and trade with them and educate their people. There were plenty of Soviet citizens educated in Harvard, Yale, and the University of London, and then sent back to the USSR without a problem. you had 100 organizations that were founded to the Soviet American Friendship Society,

a million others like this. But, you know, they didn't say that they were currency speculators in the Western press. They covered that up. They just talked about, you know, they were bankers or whatever. So this is, you know, this is exactly what I said. I didn't read forward. I didn't know. But again, Solomon Swartz is here.

I'm sick and tired of that guy right now. I've read him. I'm sick and tired of him showing up in all these things. I don't even know if he was in the USSR at the time. He may have left by that point. But he refused to acknowledge the Jewish domination of these fields in the Soviet Union. He just did special pleading. You couldn't get reason out of that man.

And yet he was the link. between the West and the Soviets in terms of the Jewish question. He was very, very important. And so he may have left by this point, but I'm not sure. All right. I think that's a good place to end it for today. I am going to encourage everyone to go over to the show notes and to go to the descriptions of the videos

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