The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 23

Episode Date: April 2, 2025

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Dr. Johnson, how are you doing today? I'm doing extremely well. I got to tell you, last night I had, I was on two races. radio shows. You know both of them, Dark Enlightenment and Jose Niño. And they went extremely well talking about

vaguely these general same topics. And, you know, Dark and Lightman has always been he's been a fan of mine since the Voice of Reason days in the 2000s. He's, and I didn't know that. So there were two amazing shows and I endorse, especially Dark Enlightenment, but I endorse both of

those, both of those outfits. All right. I'll make sure, yeah, I'll, I'll throw some of those links in the chat if I remember. All right, let's get going here, picking up on page 145. The creation of these circles was not done openly. It was necessary to conspire either to organize the meeting outside the city or to hold it in a private apartment in the city, but then systematically beginning with lessons of Russian grammar or natural sciences.

And then only by recruiting. volunteers to preach socialism to them. As I Martar explained, it was these preliminary lessons that attracted people to the revolutionary circles. Skilled and wise, capable of becoming their own masters, those who had attended our meetings had received instruction there, and especially mastery of Russian, for a language as a precious weapon in the competitive struggle of petty commerce and industry. After that, our lucky guys freed from the role of hired laborers. and swearing to their great gods that they themselves would never employ hired labor, had to have recourse to it due to requirements of the market.

Or once formed in these circles, the worker abandoned his trade and went away to take examinations externally. Well, that's for people to catch people up here. We're talking about the development of early Bolivism, because now the left is targeting, the Jewish left, is targeting, what we know we defined what a proletarian was last week and this is almost a formalized education for some of them the Jews themselves many times not speaking Russian you needed to learn it but more importantly the Russian proletariat it looks like that they're being taken away I mean to the extent it never worked at all

and recruitment was always very bad, but by not having to work anymore. Remember, this was the upper class of the Jewish population that was doing most of this work, and they went after the proletariat in the cities because he was separated from his village and was perceived as vulnerable. Continuing. The local Jewish bourgeoisie disliked the participation of young people in the revolutionary circles, for had understood, faster and better than the police, where all of this would. lead. Here and there, however, things advanced with the aid of socialist pamphlets and proclamations

provided by the printing press in London. The young revolutionaries themselves drafted social Democrat formulations on all programmatic questions. Thus, for 10 years, a slow propaganda led little by little to the creation of the Bund. Well, the Jews, the older Jews didn't like this, not because of the ideology, not even because of the violence, but because the Russian population then was almost a total opposite of your typical American today. They were healthy

and they would react vehemently to the realization that these Jews are killing people. Well-off Jews are killing people. Notice it's in London. This is the beginning of the anti-Russian, not the anti-communist, not the anti-revolutionary point of view,

the anti-Russian point of view. In fact, on my show, I'm going to put together tonight, there wasn't much anti-communism in the Cold War from the U.S., but it certainly was anti-Russian. Communism was practically adopted in the U.S. But without the London printing press,

with the full knowledge of the authorities, the revolutionary movement would have been in some serious trouble. Russia was developing rapidly. Its standard of living was very high. She was, you know, eventually, I don't know if it's right now or very shortly after this period. They discovered oil.

The population was exploding. London was terrified, and especially their ultimate nightmare that probably kept the elites up at night was the alliance between Germany. and Russia. That would be the end of the British Empire. So financing the revolutionary movement from the very beginning practically. We're at the very start of this. And the connection with the Jews and the Rothschilds in London, this is where it begins. But even more than police persecution,

it was the emerging immigration to America that hampered our work. In fact, we trained socialist workers for America. The concise recollections of Isaac Gervich on the first Jewish work, workers circles are enameled by obiter dicta such as Schwartz, a student who participated in revolutionary agitation, subsequently immigrated to America, he lives in New York, as well as in a meeting in Joseph Resnick's apartment. There were two workers present, a carpenter and a joiner. Both are now in America. And two pages later, we learned that Resnick himself, after his return from exile, went to live in America. Conversely, a young man named Gurchfeld, who came from America to do revolutionary work, is currently a doctor in Minneapolis and was a socialist candidate for the post of governor.

One of the most active members of the first of Abramovich circle, a certain Jacob Jvaryen, after serving his 12 months in the Cresty prison, immigrated to America and now lives in New York. Schmulovich, Keevel, in 1889, was forced to force to, flee from Russia. He lived until 1896 in Switzerland, where he was an active member in the social democratic organizations. Then he moved to America and lives in Chicago. Finally, the narrator himself, in 1890, I myself left Russia, although a few years earlier we were considering things differently. To lead to socialist propaganda among the workers is the obligation of every honest, honest educated man. It is our way of paying our historical debt to the people. And since I have the

obligation to make propaganda, it follows very obviously that I have the right to demand that I be given the opportunity to fulfill this obligation. Arriving in New York in 1890, Gourvich found their Russian Workers' Association of Self-Development, consisting almost exclusively of artisans from Minsk, and in order to celebrate the Russian New Year, they organized in New York, the ball of the Socialists of Minsk. In New York, the local socialist movement predominantly was Jewish. So the first wave of Jewish immigration, we're in the 1880s. A chunk of it, a large chunk of it came from revolutionary circles. This is why Trotsky had to come to the U.S. and bring some of these guys back for the Civil War and immigrated via Canada. Of course, they were well treated. They made a lot of money. Of course,

they took over the media. They did very well in journalism. and other things. This was a place to go to make money in the 1880s. And so it was a revolutionary class that was leading this immigration. And within just a couple of decades,

maybe a little bit more, maybe by the 20s, Jewish organized crime was enormous. They were the ones who introduced in the 20s, the heroin trade. They looked to blame the Italians. It's not true. The heroin trade a generation after that they built

Las Vegas and on the other side of that the left pornography the tavern culture that we've spoken out was just brought to was brought to the U.S. Now whether this was a strategic move

to the U.S. just to make money and then go back or was it really to stay that's a separate issue but Trotsky it was so long that Trotsky felt it necessary to come back to go to Brooklyn and take a few hundred back to war-torn Russia with him. Air Grid, operator of Ireland's electricity grid, is powering up the Northwest. We're planning to upgrade the electricity grid in your area, and your input and local knowledge

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As we can see, from the time the ocean did not constitute a major obstacle to the cohesion and the pursuit of the revolutionary action carried out by the Jews, this living link would have oh-so striking effects in Russia. Yet all Jewish young people had not abandoned the Russian revolutionary tradition far from it. Many even stood there in the 80s and 90s. As D. Shubb shows, the pogroms and the restrictive measures of Alexander III only excited them even more strongly for combat. Then it became necessary to explain as well as possible to the little Russian people why so many Jews participated in the revolutionary movement. addressing uneducated people, the popular pamphlets gradually forged a whole phraseology that had its effects until 1917, including 1917.

It is a booklet of this kind that allows us to reconstruct their arguments. Hard is the fate of the Russian, the subject of the Tsar. The government holds him in his iron fist, but still more bitter is the lot of the indigent Jew. The government makes fun of him, pressures him to death. His existence is only a life of famine, a long agony, and his brothers of mystery and toil. The peasants and the Russian workers, as long as they are in ignorance, treat him as a foreigner. There followed, one after the other, didactic questions. Are Jewish capitalists enemies of the working people of Russia? The enemies are all capitalists without distinction, and it is of little

importance to the working people to be plundered by such and such. One should not concentrate their anger on those who are Jews. The Jew has not. no land. He has no means to prosper. If the Jews did not devote themselves to the labor of the land, it is because the Russian government has not allowed them to reside in the countryside. But in their colonies, they are excellent cultivators. The fields are superbly enhanced by the work of their arms. They do not use any outside labor and do not practice any extra trade. They like the hard work of the land. Are destitute Jews harming the economic interests of Russian workers? If the Jews do business, is it out of necessity, not out of taste?

All others are closed to them, and one has to live? They would cease with joy to trade if they were allowed to leave their cage. And if there are thieves among them, we must accuse the Tsarist government. The Jewish workers began the struggle for the improvement of their conditions at a time when the Russian working people were subjected. The Jewish workers before all others have lost patience. And even now, tens of thousands of Jews are members of Russian. Russian socialist parties. They spread the hatred of the capitalist system in the Tsarist government

through the country. They have rendered a proud service to the Russian working people, and this is why Russian capitalists hate them. The government, through the police, assisted in the preparation of the pogroms. It sent the police in the army to lend a helping hand to the looters. Fortunately, very few workers and peasants were among them. Yes, the Jewish masses hate this irresponsible Tsarist government, because it was the will of the government that the skull of Jewish children must be smashed against the walls, that Jewish women, elderly and children alike, be raped in the streets. And yet, he lies boldly the one who treats the Jews as enemies of the Russian people. And besides, how could they hate Russia? Could they have another country?

Now, that was a brief reconstruction of the pamphlets. I've seen some of these. the PDFs online, some of the real old ones. The people who wrote them had to be aware that it wasn't true. There is not a word or a phrase in here that's true. You have to laugh. They weren't allowed to work the land. They weren't allowed to, after everything we've been through,

with all the money spent on trying to resettle them. But when they were allowed, they were great cultivators. I mean, every single thing was a lie. And you can imagine my position personally, as a specialist in this area, hearing university professors, even those who may have been personal friends of mine, saying this kind of thing, lecturing, like, pontificating, like they've just discovered something extraordinary in the textbooks and everything. Now, even some of them will say, okay, this is a bit of an exaggeration.

but any leftist movement among the Gentiles was recruited in many cases by semi-literate proletarians who were promised a great job and oh my God, how can we ever do this to the Jews? You know, we all love Seinfeld, right?

The same attitude came from this guy. This was their campaign garbage. The British government accepted it is true. the American government accepted it is true German's probably not but you know

it depends on who you talk to but this is a list of slogans that was created at the time every syllable a lie we've already we've been reading about why these are all lies

for the last however long it's been and I refuse to believe that these guys didn't know they were lying they had to they figure well they're goyam their cattle

they'll believe anything, so long as we go, like Jerry Seinfeld with a big smile and flatter them. But this was informing British and American policy because Jews, not just Marxist, but Jews were saying this all over the place. And now this bunch is immigrating to the United States. And I assume England, too, for at least for a while. This is the foundation of the early Marxist movement, totally Jewish in Russia, and this was the garbage that they were telling people. So you tell me about followers of the left, you know, communist workers in the factory. If any existed, it was from this garbage.

And it's just a, it's a depressing reality that this is still being taught in some places. So many of the troops that we hear nowadays are in here, like Jews weren't allowed to own land or work the land. I mean, you almost see, oh, they were forced into finance. You know, the people hated them. The governments hated them so much that they wouldn't allow them to have regular jobs, but they'll let them take care of their money. It's just ridiculousness that persists to the state. Yeah, these are the tropes.

This is a list of tropes that the ADL and your typical university professor is still spouting. And it came from this movement. There are amazing resurgence in the revolutionary tradition. In 1876, A. Birbergull had been convicted of taking part in the demonstration on the square in front of Our Lady of Cazan. And it was there that his eldest daughter, a student of graduate studies of St. Petersburg, was apprehended on the spot in Kazan on the anniversary of their demonstration 25 years later in 2001. In 1908, member of a group SR, she was condemned to the penal colonies for, for the attack on the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. In fact, over the years, Russian revolutionaries increasingly needed the input of the Jews.

They understood more and more what advantage they derived from them, of their dual struggle against the vexations on the plane of nationality and against those of an economic order as a detonator for the revolution. In 1883 in Geneva, appears what can be considered as the head of the emerging social democracy, the liberation of labor group. Its founders were, along with P. K. Zazulich, L. Deutsch, and P. Axelrod, when Ignativ died in 1885, he was replaced by Ingramman. In Russia comes to life a current that supports them, constituted a former member. of the dismantled black repartition, they considerably exceeded those of the will of the people. They will be called liberationists. Among them are a number of young Jews, among whom we can name

the two best known, Israel Goldfond, the future and famous Parvos, and Rafael Soloveitchik. In 1889, Soloveitchik, who had traveled through Russia to set up revolutionary actions in several cities, was arrested and tried with other members of the liberation of labor group, which included several Jewish names. Others who belonged to this social revolutionary trend were David Golden Dock, the future well-known Bolshevik Riazanov, who had fled Odessa in 1889 and had taken refuge aboard the Escape Military Service, to escape military service. Remember, we're in the era of Alexander III. he was able to blunt the force of a lot of these groups

given the nature of Russian law enforcement the size of the empire communication, the roads, everything, the weather that wasn't an easy trickle though this is mostly an urban movement so there was some enforcement there we could see right now so they were somewhat dormant

somewhat It'll explode later after Alexander's untimely death because he died young, unfortunately. But we see almost exclusively Jewish. You have the Gentiles in like the positivist movement, the scientific materialists types and basic liberals. A lot of them, you know, looking to the West, a lot of them with investments over in Western Europe,

they saw Russia as backward they accepted the Western conception of the linear history leading to the British style parliament and capitalism as the ultimate development of a people Jews had gone They were always part of that too, but Jews had

gone much farther left than that terrorist groups, the most extreme terrorist groups who very soon are going to explode after the death of Alexander III and they're going to end up killing a lot of people. And you notice that was Jewish

and this was just coming into their own, but Alexander III. And again, this was a great time for Russian workers as well as peasants. And the development, there was a tremendous optimism in the country. But you notice,

I think we talked about this already, but the Lady of Kazain demonstration, which was a way of mocking the church now in public, in Russia at that time. So it's not like they didn't warn people what they were going to do with the church when they took over. Well, they rarely talked about that in public. But I think we'll get to that at some point here.

Death of Alexander III is going to be a radical turning point for this. As of right now, they're under somewhat control, but any control, even basic law enforcement against these Jewish revolutionaries was considered anti-Semitic, and it just galvanized them to further action because how dare you? Airgrid, operator of Ireland's electricity grid, is powering up the northwest. We're planning to upgrade the electricity grid in your area and your input and local knowledge are vital in shaping these plans.

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large group. Among them were, it's a list of 11 Jewish names here that I'm not going to, I'm not going to read. Yes, thank you. Thus, a certain amount of energy had been preserved to fuel the rivalries between small groups, the will of the people, the black repartition, liberation of labor, and theoretical debates. The three volumes. of the historical and revolutionary collection published in the 20s, which we use here, offer us in an interminable and tedious legoria, an account of the cut and thrust allegedly much more important and sublime than all the questions of universal thought and history.

The detail of these debates constitute a deadly material on the spiritual fabric of the Russian revolutionaries of the years 80 through 90, and it still awaits its history. But from the 30s of the Soviet era onward, it was no longer possible to enumerate with pride and detail all those who had their share in the revolution. A sort of taboo settled in historical and political publications. The role and the name of the Jews in the Russian Revolutionary Movement ceased to be evoked, and even now, this kind of evocation creates uneasiness. Now, nothing is more immoral and dangerous than to silence anything when history is being written. it only creates a distortion of opposite meaning. If this can be read in the Jewish Encyclopedia,

quoting, to account for the genuine importance of the Jewish component in the Russian liberation movement to express it in precise figures does not seem possible, one can nevertheless, based on various sources, given a proximate picture. Heston informs us that of the 376 defendants accused of crimes against the state in the first half of 1879, there were only 4% Jews, and out of 154 persons tried before the Senate during the year 1880, there were 6.5% of Jews. Similar estimates are found among other authors. Well, this is important to note what he's been saying here. As far as the Soviets are concerned, it's claimed that Stalin was some sort of an anti-Semite.

It's actually a very popular opinion, not just in the U.S., but in Russia today. And it simply isn't true. But picture yourself like an American historian trying to figure this out. Stalin purges the old Bolsheviks, the revolutionary era. They were really only good for the revolutionary era. Same thing goes to those are as military commanders. They were civil war commanders. They weren't for a full army.

So, but you notice that these purges of the old Bolsheviks, there's a huge number of Jews. So either, he only has, he only has two choices. Either you say that Bolshevism was Jewish in that era, or you have to say that Stalin was, wasn't a anti-Semite. And obviously, they're going to pick, they're going to pick the latter. And that's the source of that, of that myth. And as far as crimes against the state, well, that's a huge number of people. That would include a lot of things

that might necessarily not have a political component to it. I also think Jews had a far superior system. We've actually touched on this before to hide them, get them out of the country. I mean, they were smugglers.

So this percentage is still far greater than their percentage in the population, but I don't want to read too much into this. As time goes on, of course, that number is going to increase. But let's, you know, we'll just leave that here for now.

But there's a lot of reasons why it's fairly low. The terrorist actions, remember, this could be liberals. This could be anybody. This could be right-wingers. Crimes against the state. That's a whole list of crimes. And so let's, and then he's going to explain this is going to go way up. But, but you'll hear Jews mention these statistics, saying what liars we are about the Jewish concept of the Jews ran the revolutionary movement. But there were many different forms of the revolutionary movement.

However, from decade to decade, the number of Jews participating in the revolutionary movement increases. Their role becomes more influential, more recognized. In the early years, the Soviet role, when it was still a matter of pride, a prominent communist Lory Lorain said, in Zara's prisons and in exile, Jews usually constituted nearly a quarter of all prisoners in exiles. Marxist historian Emin Pekrofsky, basing himself on the workforce on the various congresses, concludes that, quote, the Jews represent between a quarter and a third of the organizations of all the revolutionary parties. The modern Jewish encyclopedia has some reservations about this estimate. In 1903 in a meeting with Herzl, Witte endeavored to show that while representing only 5% of the population of Russia, 6 million out of 136 million, the Jews had in their midst no less than 50% of revolutionaries.

Let me point something out. You saw the estimated population of the Jews in Russia was 6 million. This is why in the Western press for the first time, I know I've said this, before, but the 6 million figure starts to appear. It was based on this population estimate. I think there's other numerological reasons for it, but this is the initial 6 million figure, where it came from.

Now, as the Soviet Union developed, and let's say in the early 30s, what he was trying to say before, there was a very good reason not to stress the Jewish nature of the old Bolsheviks, especially when national socialism was developing various right-way and nationalist parties in Europe. Stalin didn't exactly want to put that out front. It was a matter of pride in maybe the early 20s, but not in the 30s. Oh, and Herzl, that's Theodore Hurtzl, one of the founders of Zionism.

General Anson, Commander-in-Chief of the Siberian region, compiled statistics on January 1, 1905, a political prisoner is under surveillance for all of Siberia and by nationality. This resulted in 1,898 Russians, 42%, 1,678 Jews, 37%, 624 Poles, 14%, 167 Caucasians, 85 Baltic, and 95 other nationalities. Only the exiles are counted there. Prisons and Penal colony convicts are not taken into account, and the figures are only valid for the year 1904, but this, however, gives a certain overview. There is, moreover, an interesting precision in connection with those who went into hiding. 17% of Russians, 64% of Jews, 19% of other nationalities. It's what I meant before. I think Jews were far better off in that department.

I mean, the Kahal wasn't there anymore, but they were very used to hiding their numbers. They're used to smuggling. They have contacts, many contacts, out of the country. So all of a sudden, within, what, 10, 15 years, you have this massive jump in the number of Jews, not just part of the revolutionary movement, but getting arrested for it. Here is the testimony of V. Shulguyen in 1889. The news relating to the student demonstrations of St. Petersburg reached Kiev. The long corridors of the university were teeming with a crowd of young people in 1889. effervescence. I was struck by the predominance of the Jews. Were they more or less numerous than the

Russians? I could not say, but they predominated incontestably, for it was they who were in charge of this tumultuous melee in jackets. Sometime later, the professors and the non-striking students began to be chased out a lecture halls. Then this pure and holy youth took false photographs of the Cossacks beating the students. These photographs were said to have been taken on the fly, when they were made from drawings. Not all Jewish students are left-wingers. Some were on our side, but those ones suffered a lot afterwards. They were harassed by society.

Shulgwayne adds, The role of the Jews in the revolutionary effervescence within universities was notorious and unrelated to their number across the country. This is part of what assimilation did. They're not assimilated culturally by any means, but they're not wearing their traditional garb anymore. So it's often very hard to tell who's who. But I think it was pretty obvious at the time by how people spoke and how they dress in other ways that this was a Jewish movement.

They were already in the process of taking over the universities and noticed this may be one of the first, at least among leftists, the first attempts to use doctored photographs, which were accepted by the press in England and America, criticism to make the Tsarish government look bad. Air Grid, operator of Ireland's electricity grid, is powering up the Northwest. We're planning to upgrade the electricity grid in your area, and your input and local knowledge are vital in shaping these plans. Our consultation closes on the 25th of November. Have your say, online or in-person, so together we can create a more reliable, sustainable electricity supply for your community. Find out more at airgrid.i. 4.n. Northwest. Employers, did you know, you can now reward you and your staff,

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My goodness. It's Christmas at the Guinness Storehouse. Book now at giddlestorhouse.com. Get the facts be drinkaware, visit drinkaware.com. Miljikov described all of this as legends about the revolutionary spirit of the Jews. They, government officials, need legends, just like the primitive man needs rhymed prose. Conversely, G.P. Petitov wrote, The Jewish nation, morally liberated from the 80s onwards, like the Russian intelligentsia under Peter the Great,

is in the highest degree uprooted, internationalist, and active. It immediately assumed the leading role in the Russian Revolution. It marked the moral profile of the Russian revolutionary with its incisive and somber character. From the 80s onward, the Russian and Jewish elites merged not only in a common revolutionary action, but also in all spiritual fads, and especially in the passion for non-rootedness. In the eyes of a contemporary, simple witness to the facts, Zanaida Altsynskaya, who corresponded from the town oral with Fyodor Khriechkov, this Jewish youth of the beginning of the century appeared as follows. With them, there is the art and love of fighting, and what projects, vast, bold, they have

something of their own, a halo of suffering, something precious, we envy them, we are vexed, that the Russian youth is not the same. already, due to these, you know, largely make-believe Jewish suffering during the pogroms,

they have this aura of suffering. This is, this is, they were already creating that. The Holocaust, or what the Soviets said, the, you know,

the Holocaust made it far worse. But, you know, the, but it was the same idea, whether Holocaust or programs, that they are, um, the suffering race.

and we've made it and we've made money despite all of that and that created a fighting spirit. I want to uproot the concept of the, especially young Jews at the time, of being, you know, very meek, stereotypical. No, they had fighting organizations. They were armed.

That's why the pogroms are the stuff of mythology. Actually, this came up with both radio shows yesterday. It's a very important concept that people are interested in. These were not meek people. They were incredibly arrogant people. And the more that they convinced themselves that they were the victims of suffering, the more arrogant they became. Emma Gerski states the following hypothesis. Participation in the revolutionary movement was, so to speak, a form of assimilation suitable than the common assimilation through baptism. And it appears all the more work because it also meant a sort of revolt against one's own Jewish bourgeoisie and against one's own

religion, which accounted for nothing for the revolutionaries. However, this proper assimilation was neither complete nor even real. Many of these young men in their haste tore themselves from their own soil without really taking root in Russian soil and remain outside these two nations and two cultures to be nothing more than this material of which internationalism is so fond of. But as the equal rights of the Jews remain one of the major demands of the Russian Revolutionary movement, these young people, by embarking in the revolution, kept in their hearts and minds the idea they were still serving the interests of their people. This was the thesis that Parvus had adopted as a course of action during his entire life, which he had formulated,

defended and inculcated to the young people. The liberation of the Jews from Russia can only be done by overthrowing the Tsarist regime. Especially the Tsar as the protector of Orthodoxy. To a great extent, you know, it's no accident that our conception of the Antichrist is similar, if not identical, to the Jewish concept of the Messiah. The revolutionary mind said that Jews themselves, themselves comprise that Messiah. It's perfectly consistent with the Kabbalah.

But when you advocate for equal rights for Jews, whatever that means, they were a privileged group in Russia, that could only benefit this Jewish bourgeoisie. They were very dependent on it for money and for financing. And I don't believe, I suppose it's possible, but I don't believe that the people, whatever they mean by that was really on the minds of these people. I think the ideology and Jewish interests as an ethnic conception, that was primarily on their minds. I don't, I don't really believe, I mean, it's true that they were very alienated from the entire country, as we read here, especially the peasantry, who they knew zero about. So it's possible that they start believing this

nonsense about how terribly oppressed they are. And yet their views on the peasantry, their views, you know, the goyam, I mean, that's the ultimate goyam on the farm, which they looked at it with utter disgust. The proletariat was their primary target. So I don't really believe they considered even remotely the interests of the majority of the Russian population. They abandoned the peasantry after the two-the-people movement failed, and they went for the most alienated group they could find.

Burialtyles like the Jews between two nations. The proletariat, too, in Marx's thinking, was also between two nations, the international proletariat as well as Russia itself. But again, that recruitment didn't go very well either. There was no support for any kind of revolutionary, like we would call vaguely the Bolsheviks in Russia. It never got out of the single digits. And I'm pretty confident about that.

This thesis found significant support for a particular layer of Jewish society. Middle-aged people, well-off, set, incredibly estranged from the spirit of adventure, but who, since the end of the 19th century, fed a permanent irritation against the Russian mode of government. It was in this ideological field that their children grew up before they ever even received the sap of Judaism to subsist from. An influential member of the Bund, Mr. Race, points out that at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, the Jewish bourgeoisie did not hide the hopes and expectations at place in the progress of the revolutionary movement. It, which it once rejected, now had the bourgeoisie's favors. And that's what I said before.

They were not really opposed. The bourgeoisie meant a very different group of people. It wasn't just all capitalist. the Jews who financed, again, all upper class people, that was okay. It was by capitalists, the capitalist owning ruling class, that was Gentile almost by definition. Jigershuni explained to his judges, it is your persecutions that have driven us to the revolution. In fact, the explanation is to be found both in Jewish history and in Russian history. at their intersection.

Let us listen to G.A. Landau, a renowned Jewish publicist, he wrote after 1917, quote, there were many Jewish families, both small and middle class, in which the parents, bourgeois themselves, saw with their benevolent eyes something proud. Always quiet, their offspring being marked by the seal and fashion of one of the social revolutionary ideologies in vogue. They also, in fact, learned vaguely in favor. leaned vaguely in favor of this ideology which protested against the persecutors, but without asking what was the nature of this protest or what were their persecutions. And it was thus that, little by little, the hegemony of socialism took root in Jewish society. The negation of civil society

and of the state contempt for bourgeois culture and of the inheritance of past centuries, and inheritance from which the Jews had less difficulty to tear themselves away from since they already had, by Europeanizing themselves, renounced their own inheritance. The revolutionary ideas in the Jewish milieu were doubly destructive, and for Russia and for themselves, but they penetrated the Jewish milieu much more deeply than the Russian milieu. There was a neurotic short circuit. You see it in the left today. a neurotic short circuit in their in their in their in their brains where um they can't comprehend consequences their so-called persecutions never existed until the left has started killing people

starting attacking churches started attacking the the state and the monarchy that's what they don't understand it didn't just happen these things happened for specific reasons and it was often just the common people, which gets me suspicious what they mean when they say the people, the common people who took their anger out on them. Yeah, it was an overwhelmingly Jewish group that killed Alexander II. Leftist terrorism was a very Jewish phenomenon, even though they used Gentile killers, hopefully, to distract attention. But they don't, and how many of them actually believed it, and how many of them just used it strategically? Consequences, you know, the question of, says right here, why did this happen? Did they wake up one morning and all of a sudden

they're going to start persecuting Jews when treating them extremely well before, like we've been reading in this whole book? It's a neurosis at this point. And it's still around today and it's still dominant in the left today. A jeweler from Kiev, Marshaq, who even created some pieces to decorate the churches of the city, testifies that while I was frequenting the bourgeoisie, I was contaminated by the revolutionary spirit. Moreover, this is what we see with a young Bogroff, that energy, that passion which grows in him during his youth spent in the bosom of a very rich family. His father, a wealthy liberal, gave full liberty to his young terrorist son.

And the Goetz brothers, also terrorists, had for grandfathers two Muscovites, rich on Krosis, Goetz, on the other hand, and on the other, Vesotsky, a multi-millioner. millionaire teammaker, and these, far from retaining their grandchildren, paid to the SR hundreds of thousands of rubles. Many Jews have come to swell the ranks of the Socialists, continues Landau, in one of his speeches in the Duma. A.I. Gukov quotes the testimony of a young SR, among other causes of her disenchantment. She said that the revolutionary movement was entirely monopolized by the Jews and that

they saw in the triumph of the revolution, their own triumph. The enthusiasm for the revolution has seized Jewish society from the top to the bottom, says I.O. Levin, it is not only the lower strata of the Jewish population of Russia that has devoted themselves to the revolutionary passion, but this movement could not fail to catch a large part of the intellectuals and semi-intellectuals of the Jewish people. Semi-intellectuals who, in the 20s, constituted the active executives of the Soviet regime. They were even more numerous among the liberal professions, from dentists to university teachers, those who could settle outside the palest settlement. Having lost the cultural heritage of traditional Judaism, these people were nonetheless

foreign to Russian culture and any other national culture. This spiritual vacuum, hidden under a specifically assimilated European culture, made the Jews already inclined to materialism by their trades as tradesmen or craftsmen very receptive to materialistic political theories. The rationalist mode of thought peculiar to the Jews predisposes them to adhere to doctrines such as that of revolutionary Marxism. So we've heard over the last two episodes, I think, exclusively from Jewish sources, both at the time and later scholars, that the revolutionary movement was Jewish.

The upper classes, you know, the older generation who you would think would be opposed to terrorism was quite in favor of. They might not do it themselves, but, you know, I don't think this is uncommon to be very proud of their sons.

And the pogroms and what they believed to be the persecution of the state somehow galvanized them into action. This is why the Jews had to provoke the Orthodox as much as possible attacking the Easter procession, which was in the 20th century, because these programs, this is what,

and the belief that the state had something to do with it, this galvanized all segments of the Jewish population. Propaganda coming from Britain and America, in all languages was flooding the country. They actually came to believe it, especially the older generation. Revolution was a Jewish, it had nothing to do with class. And while it's true, they weren't exactly, you know, he said it at the time. There's much in the Kabbalah that they did adopt.

They were stateless people. There was no Zion, not a large Zionist group yet, not even close. the revolution was their state, the revolution was their culture and the cult of victimhood. And when they take over, of course, there's no victims anymore except themselves. So this is all classes, all layers of the Jewish population. They had spent the last generation taking advantage of the state, taking over the liberal professions, dominating the merchant trade,

and then now, after the murder of Alexander the Senate, second, they use all that influence now to attempt their take over the country. It took a while, but the millions of bodies they left behind come precisely from this mentality. It was a Jewish movement. But I don't want to leave, I wanted to say this before, and I forgot, I don't want to leave out the freemasons that had penetrated the urban nobility, the upper reaches of the nobility, both because of their business dealing for Jews, as well as Freemation ring, which was all over the place, despite the fact that it was technically illegal, especially under Alexander the third, were the two prongs at this stage, the two prongs of the revolutionary movement.

But as far as violence is concerned, that was entirely Jewish. And you're not really seeing a whole lot of, I mean, Karl Marx never really explained what he wanted to create. He never laid out his future idea, which is very interesting. I never heard of it. Any other political theorists say, I'm not going to tell you what's going to happen. afterwards, just the purely negative. And they're kind of the same way here. I don't think they could have said. I don't think they really knew 100%. They knew that Balthasar, as was written in the

Apatia of House after the murder of Nicholas Sassanke, had to go. Orthodoxy needed to be destroyed. And the bulwark against revolution was the Russian Empire. Karl Marx said this over and over again. Karl Marx and Engels, they hated the Slavs. more than any other group of people that was purely racial it exploded during the Crimean War and that propaganda continued so these revolutionaries were being covered for

in the West, Britain in America and France, less so in Germany and they had support all over the civilized world the entire thing is a lie and it is completely ethnic because even masonry is heavily

influenced by the Kabbalah. So you had these two prongs at the time. But as far as activism was concerned, it was Jewish. I think we're going to end it right there, and then we can finish the rest of this chapter on the next episode. But I wanted to ask you to address something. In the episode we did previous months ago talking about the pogroms and basically that they're a fiction, in their narrative. Somebody had, you had put in there a quote from a 1903 St. Petersburg newspaper, and it basically was showing that, like, the, some of the newspapers in Russia were reporting that these weren't pogroms.

And they're saying, well, they're saying, well, you say the newspapers were, a lot of the newspapers were controlled by Jews, but yet these newspapers over here, saying this and yeah I told the person I said yeah but the Western newspapers aren't picking up the ones who are calling it fake saying that this is saying that this isn't what it is so it just people I think people need to understand that the internet you know we've talked about in this series already how you know operating out of Istanbul operating the money coming from England well who was that money coming from I don't think people understand that these were an international people that once they had access to information from the outside, money from the outside, they could control a narrative around the world.

So this is why years ago, because of these problems, these questions, it's not the most well-known issue. The Jews know all about it, but I wrote a lengthy paper on it. I could send it to you. You could post it on your page. It was in the Barnes Reviews, in a bunch of other places. And the inspiration came from Schulze-Nitson. Actually, even some of the media citations came from Schulzhen-Nitzen. Thank God for the web, because so much of this stuff from many years ago is available online.

Of course, you have different forms of media. more diverse media back then than you have in the U.S. today. If you had a religious media, you had some conservative organizations that put out well-known publication. We mentioned Katkov not too long ago. He was a journalist. But in the big cities, especially in Western Russia, it was a huge Jewish influence and ownership over the press. And that's where this, that's where some of that stuff comes from. but and that that was exactly because it was Western because it was Jewish owned that's where the Anglo-American world got their news from and this continued straight up until straight up until the revolution because most of the pogroms occurred in the far west the wealthier parts of of the Russian Empire the last places are wanted any trouble they really required more or less compliant media to exaggerate these claims.

I have a list in that paper, I think that's what he must be referring to. I have a list of newspaper articles, some from the Baltic, some, if I remember, it's been a long time saying many different things about the pogroms,

but certainly nothing like the Jews today believe what happened. Because even when it was adopted by the West, it just got bigger and bigger and bigger. God knows the number. You know, what Jews would say today, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands. The six million figures I mentioned many times before was connected to this. But places like Odesta, it was a Jewish media, period. Knessyv for the most part, Kiev for the most part.

It's also very wealthy parts of Western Russia and the Jews predominated. That in general, where you're going to get. And everywhere else in the empire, to the extent that they, you know, they took their, news from there. Unless I had someone right on the scene, they were dependent on the local press for what they reported in their own, on their own towns. But you had plenty of organizations at the time that rejected this, that saying that they're exaggerated, the bodies, we've counted the bodies, most of them are Russians.

It's a handful of Jews here. The Russians were not armed, et cetera, et cetera, that the Jews were. We found pamphlets that say we're going to attack this procession. defend your Jewish people, destroy them. And that's where most of these things came from. All righty. We'll pick up and finish this chapter on the next episode. As always, I'm going to point everyone to the show notes on these episodes

so that they can go and support Dr. Johnson's work. Thank you. Dr. John, yep, of course. Dr. Johnson, I appreciate it. Talk to you in a couple days. Thank you. All right, my friend. Bye-bye.