The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 44

Episode Date: June 14, 2025

49 MinutesPG-13Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson is a researcher, writer, and former professor of history and political science, specializing in Russian history and political ideology.Pete and Dr. Johnson continue a project in which Pete reads Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together," and Dr' Johnson provides commentary.Dr Johnson's PatreonRusJournal.orgTHE ORTHODOX NATIONALISTDr. Johnson's Radio Albion PageDr. Johnson's Books on AmazonDr. Johnson's Pogroms ArticlePete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

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How you doing, Dr. Jay? Well, it is finally like a normal temperature for June. Way too hot out there. I have an air conditioner on. I got a little scammed in the house. It had central air, but the central air is worthless. So I had to get, you know, window units. But so, you know, I'm okay.

So long as I'm like a husky, I'm inside the house and buy an air conditioner. I'm wonderful. I told you before we started about the power outage we had, and our generator kept this going and even ran the AC. So we have a big, we have a big AC unit for this house. So I was very happy because this past Sunday was not, the humidity was insane after a gigantic storm. Yeah, yeah.

When I say it's hot, I mean for up here, I said, you know, down south, you know, humidity and heat, it's a totally different universe. So relatively speaking, it's hot out. All right. All right. Here we go. Picking up where we left off. And it is there in the passage to the ultimate stage of the struggle that is doubtlessly found, that is doubtlessly found the explanation for the pogrom. The revolutionary impetus of the Bialystok Anarch.

was expressed subsequently. At the trial, in the pleadings of the lawyer Gillerson, who called for the overthrow of the government and the political and social system existing in Russia, and which, for precisely this reason, was himself prosecuted. As for the Duma Commission, it considered that the conditions of a pogrom had also been created by various elements of society who imagined that fighting the Jews was tantamount to fighting the liberation. movement. Well, that's the key sentence. And that's what Jews refused to comprehend. It wasn't Jews just because they look a little different. It's because they were one and the same for the most part. You know, it's like saying Stalin was anti-Jewish. He was not. But when he purged the old Bolsheviks,

they were almost exclusively Jews. It had nothing to do with them being Jews, but the Bolshevik movement was Judaic and to some extent still is. And that's precisely right. Right-wing governments all over Europe, not just in Russia, have the same understanding. The Jew, generally speaking, the Talmudist, I mean, is a revolutionary, is a violent revolutionary. He hates a society in which he lives, and we can't just let that go. These weren't pogroms. These were, These were armed clashes, although the Jews were better armed than their Russians were. This was a response to endless Jewish violence in not in Hodesia, Kiev, Gamel, all over Western Russia. And they were justified, especially to the extent that the state either couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it.

and at this point the Jews had murdered thousands of people you know low-level bureaucrats I said this before they were getting into bank robbery that was a little later Stalin was Stalin's big thing you know it was an anti-social element yes fighting the Jews was tantamount to fighting the so-called liberation movement we also talked about how the Jews had completely took over the legal profession. So it doesn't surprise me. Here you have a lawyer who's not doing his job in the normal sense, but he's using this as a platform, Gillerson, to promote subversion. Somehow, I'm sure that's an anti-Semitic concept too, although using the phrase anti-Semitism

concerning Russian Jews makes me cringe because it's so ridiculous. They were the opposite of Semites. But this is how bad it was becoming. and the Jews had reached critical mass. They had tremendous money behind them, plus the Western world. And they realized that if worse came to worse, they could just leave the country. Even the Zionists, they realized that going to the Middle East is going to take a long time. And so they were fighting for the same things as the leftist revolutionaries were in Russia. So even calling them Zionists is somewhat inaccurate because that was a distant goal.

They were just Jewish nationalists, as many the revolutionaries were. But after that firecracker thrown by the provocation, which the Duma Committee had not been able to detect, what had been the course of events. According to the commission's findings, quote, the systematic execution of innocent Jews, including women and children, was carried out under the pretext of repressing the revolutionaries, end quote. there were, quote, more than 70 dead and about 80 wounded, end quote, among the Jews. Conversely, quote, the indictment tended to explain the pogrom by the revolutionary activity of the Jews, which had provoked the anger of the rest of the population, end quote. The Duma Committee rejected this version of the facts. Quote, there was no racial, religious, or economic antagonism in Bialistock between Jews and Christians.

end quote. And here is what is written today. Quote, this time the pogrom was purely military. The soldiers were transformed into rioters and chased the revolutionaries. At the same time, these soldiers were said to be afraid of the detachments of Jewish anarchists in the streets of Soros because the war in Japan had taught Russian soldiers to beware of gunshots. Such were the words pronounced in the municipal duma by a Jewish, counselor against the Jewish detachments of self-defense are given the infantry and the cavalry, but on the other side, there are bombs and firearms.

That's a particularly stupid statement. Yeah, you had hundreds of thousands of Russian infantrymen eventually were fighting in Manchuria against the Japanese, and that was definitely they fought to a draw there. But I guarantee you, this Jewish counselor has never been in combat. day in his life. Somehow they're scared of gunshots now. I figured it would be the opposite. I think this is a Jewish version of events.

Soldiers in Russia were very disciplined at this point. And the only reason they were there was because of Jewish arrogance, Jewish violence, and the Jewish revolutionary movement. In this period of strong social, unrest. The Duma Committee concluded to a strafing of the population. But 20 years later, we can read in a Soviet book. In any case, the old regime will not come back, will not be able to justify itself, and so we can go ahead. Quote, they massacre entire families with the use of nails. They pierced their eyes, cut tongues, smashed the skulls of children, etc. And a luxury book, yeah, I mean,

they use this they every single time they just use the same thing over and over again same word same phrases everything and a luxury book edited abroad sensationalist book denunciatory a richly illustrated folio printed on coated paper entitled the last aristocrat decrying in advance that nicholas the second would indeed be the last proposed the following version. The pogrom, quote, had been the object of such a staging that it seemed possible to describe the program of the first day in the Berlin newspapers. Thus, two hours before the beginning of the Bialystok program, the Berliners could be informed of the event. This is in parentheses. But if something appeared in the Berlin press, was it not merely an echo of Grossman-Roshan's shenanigans?

now that's that's very interesting it was being we've seen this with some of the false flags and hoaxes that we've had to deal with in in this country last 20 years that the so-called pogrom was already being described in german newspapers before it occurred that's you know and of course at the time there was no way to know that it was all nonsense um and what's what's interesting about all of this is that once the revolutionary movement died down russia exploded economically it was growing at such a massive rate it was a huge threat to to britain which is why the revolutionaries needed war war one and all of that um uh complete you know dislocation for all the soldiers being you know out of the

country. Britain had to figure out a way to get their two enemies to fight each other, Germany and Russia. And of course, they realized it was in the Balkans. It was a diabolically brilliant plan. Austria is largely at fault for it because they invaded Serbia even though the Serbs were willing to do everything that they wanted. They had just fought two Balkan wars. They were exhausted. And yet still, two Austrian invasions were defeated. It took a third one. with German infantry to finally take parts of the country. So this shows you this whole thing is a scam. These, you know, massive skulls of children.

You know what? No one does that. Unless you're on meth or something, no one does that. No normal guy does that. I don't care what's going on. I hear something like that. You better give me evidence. I think it's a lot of easier to do that kind of thing from the air.

Of course, that was not relevant really at the time. But, you know, this was, and it's still being taught that this was the norm. It's still being taught today that it was the norm to do things like this. They had no good reason to attack the Jews. There was no connection between the Jews and the revolutionary movement. And this is a sort of thing that they did for no reason. you know, the last autocrat, I'd heard of this before. You know, if World War I didn't happen, it would have been a false prediction.

No war, no revolution. That goes for the Vietnam War in the U.S. They tend to need wars to create a suggestible and frightened population. But the fact that it was described before it happened, this is, well, we've heard this before. They've been doing this for a long time. Ready for huge savings? We'll mark your calendars from November 28 to 30th because the Liddle Newbridge Warehouse Sale is back.

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Search Trump-Ireland gift vouchers. Trump on Dunbiog, Kush Faragea. Moreover, it would have been rather absurd on the part of the Russian government to provoke pogroms against the Jews, even as the Russian ministers were lobbying among Western financiers and the hope of obtaining loans. Let us remember that Vita had great difficulty in obtaining from the Rothschilds, who were ill-disposed towards Russia because of the situation of the Jews and the pogroms, as well as other important Jewish establishments, with the exception of the Berlin or banker Mendelssohn.

As early as December 1905, the Russian ambassador to London, Benkendorf, warned his minister, quote, The Rothschilds are repeating everywhere that Russia's credit is now at its lowest level, but at that it will be restored immediately if the Jewish question is settled. end quote that really that is you know i wrote a paper on more on more recent events where the

credit rate rating agencies like you know moody's standard and pores they're very politicized yeah they give russia a bad rating despite and this is years ago despite it being a a purely creditor nation with no debt whatsoever in fact they paid whatever debt they had early still credit is is as much political as it is economic as it is economic Now, the short-term loans, I mean, Russia was a creditor nation then too, not a debtor nation, but these were short-term loans to finance the war in Japan and the war in China. And so it isn't like they were broke, they needed money. This was a very expensive war.

There were probably about a million men total fighting on land in any given, you know, in that, in that year-long land battle, maybe half a million, I should say. Still huge numbers for the era. But there was no other option. If you're a country and you needed loans to finance something like this, you had no choice with you go to the Rothschilds. The Mendelsons, I guess, were their last choice and they got it there. But given the fact that they had discovered oil,

everyone knew that they would get it back with interest very quickly. That wasn't the point. The Rothschilds were already, you know, in today's, terms trillionaires. They didn't need the money. They didn't need the business. They were using their wealth to promote revolution.

The take over of, and revolution to them meant the destruction of the monarchy and the take over the currency, turning Russia into a debtor nation. But, you know, nothing has changed even there. You have the credit rating agencies

give a grade, not always on an economic criteria. Often it's on political criteria. You can't even trust that. You can't trust anything that any of these people do. But the fact that they were forced to go to the Rothschild, after everything that's happened, shows you there were very few options and that the Jews had completely taken over any large-scale credit. They were the, you know, there was nowhere else to go. Now, Vita tended to be a bit more phylo-Semitic, I would say.

And that's why he was sent. He knew some of these guys. But it had to do with the perceived lies of the press. It had nothing to do with reality. But the Rothschilds, the Jews, he called Marx personally. I've talked about that for some length before. Despise the Russians. They were the bulwark against revolution.

there were the bulwark against revolution. If Russia went, everything's going to go. And that's why World War I was so important. But the Jews were so powerful now in Europe that you had no choice to fight a war like that, that large, and that far away, you needed the Jews for the short term credit. That's how powerful they had become. And that's why the Russian government had to be very careful in what they did. At the beginning of 1906, Vita disseminated a government community case saying that, finally a radical solution to the Jewish problem is a matter of conscience for the Russian people,

and this will be done by the Duma, but even before the Duma unites itself, the most stringent provisions will be repealed insofar as they are no longer justified in the present situation. He begged the most eminent representatives of the Jewish community of St. Petersburg to go as a delegation to the czar, and he promised them the most kind welcome. This proposal was discussed at the Congress of the Union for the Integrality of Rights, and after the fiery speech of I.B. Bach, editor of the Wretch newspaper, it was decided to reject it and to send a less important delegation to Vita, not to provide answers, but to make accusations, to tell him clearly and unambiguously

that the wave of pogroms was organized. at the initiative and with the support of the government. Well, they're talking about pogroms as counter-revolutionary measures. So to that extent, local commanders were. But anything that fought the revolutionary movement was considered a program. The newspapers weren't saying that, though. Nicholas and Vita, given Nicholas' personality, he would have given them the most kind, he would have heard them out.

That was his personal, despite everything, that absolutely was his. his personality. He spoke every European language, so it didn't matter where they came from or how they spoke to him. But even that, they were so arrogant. The power had got to their heads to such an extent that they said, screw you. We're just going to sit here and make accusations. We have

the international finance. Never underestimate the fact that the state, the Tsar personally controlled the Russian rubble. Russia was huge. It was a massive market. It was potentially autarkic. It didn't have to trade very much with people.

Capturing that market was the goal. And in my papers on the Bolshevik revolution, supporting the revolutionary from the Western point of view, it was precisely that to be able to take over that market. And the Tsar was not permitting that. to happen or very much so at you know in russians in russia's interests um russia was not a russia was part of the european economy sort of the gold ruble although was extremely stable only because of the state control and this massive economic growth now whether they knew

or they're just reading the papers they actually believed it or they knew that they were full of it either way it was in their interests now vita um you know it was when he says it's a matter of conscience. I don't know what a radical solution means to him. But he's the guy that was rebuffed by the Rothschild. So it wasn't a matter of conscience. And for the Russian people, I don't know who he's referring to there. The Duma, the first few Duma was very liberal.

And he saw an ally there. Nicholas didn't Witte was very good at what he did but because he was the one who was rejected by the Rothschilds he becomes very interested in the Jewish question any future war anything like that were still going to have to go to the Jews so it certainly wasn't a matter of conscience

and the Russian people were victimized by it it's not their obligation whatsoever after two years of revolutionary earthquake the leaders of the Jewish community in Russia who had taken the upper hand, did not for a moment contemplate accepting a progressive settlement regarding the question of equal rights. They felt that they were carried by the wave of victory and had no need to go to the Tsar in the position of beggars and loyal subjects. They were proud of the audacity displayed by the Jewish revolutionary youth.

One must position oneself in the context of the time when the old imperial army was believed to be immovable to perceive the significance of the episode during which, in front of the war, of the regiment of Rostov grenadiers standing at attention, his commander, Colonel Szymanski, had been arrested by a volunteer Jew. After all, perhaps these revolutionaries had not been guilty of national treason, as Dubnov had accused them. Perhaps they were the ones who were in the truth. After 1905, only the fortunate and prudent Jews were left to doubt it. And that was the situation as far as the Jews were concerned. They really thought that they were on the cusp of something.

They really believed that Russia began and ended in Odessa and Gomel. As we said from the very beginning of this project, there 45 episodes ago, the Jews hated, especially the Slavs, the Jews hated the people who they lived among. They were only there to exploit and to manipulate. If they were given any kind of power, they were going to use it, and it was never going to be in their interests. So even someone like Vita, the only reason he was interested in the problem was the banking issue. It wasn't much of a victory.

The Tsar was still there. But I want to remind everyone again, freemationary, I don't want to exaggerate how powerful it was. in the upper reaches of the bureaucracy, especially in Petersburg. But it was significant. So they had allies there and certainly was in their financial interests to do it. But as I said, Nicholas was in a rough position as far as domestic issues were concerned. The only real solution was to get them out of the country, but at the moment that seemed to be impossible.

But this is a level of arrogance. murder, and then they respond to it, and that's a pogrom, and then you're going to be attacked for it. It's a very collectively narcissistic thing and way to think. It's purely neurotic. Ready for huge savings? Well, mark your calendars from November 28 to 30th, because the Liddle Newbridge Warehouse sale is back. We're talking thousands of your favorite Liddle items all reduced to clear. From home essentials to seasonal must-habs, when the doors open, the deals go fast.

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Give the gift of a unique experience this Christmas With vouchers from Trump-Dunbeg Search Trump Ireland gift vouchers Trump on Dunbioghush Farage What was the record of the year 1905 for the entire Jewish community in Russia? On the one hand, the revolution of 1905 had overall positive results. It brought to the Jews political equality even when they did not enjoy civil equality. Never as after the liberation movement did the Jewish question benefit from a more

favorable climate and public opinion. But on the other hand, the strong participation of the Jews and the revolution contributed to the fact that they were henceforth all identified with it. At the Tribune of the Duma in 1907, V. Shulgin proposed to vote a resolution to find that, quoting, the western half of Russia from Bessarabia to Warsaw is full of hatred toward the Jews whom they consider the responsible for all their misfortunes. That's one of my pet peeves. You get this a lot. It tells you from uneducated people.

They say that we blame immigrants or whatever for all of our problems. I've never heard anyone say that. I've never known anyone who believes that. We're very specific as to what they do and what a problem they are. But trying to make them seem irrational and when you have control of a good chunk of the press, that's pretty easy to make irrationality seem normal.

But I don't know where he's getting this, the Jews had this positive public opinion. I don't know what public he's referring to, maybe in Petersburg, parts of Petersburg, I think overwhelmingly, especially where you had daily interaction with Jews. It's what the, you know, the Palo settlement, the western part of Russia, the former parallel settlement, people actually dealt with Jews every day. And that's where the contempt was coming from. So I suppose what he means is in parts of Russia that don't have daily interactions with the Jews, they had, you know, they had no problem. with them. It was only, and even there, I have a problem with that because they were extremely

violent and the Jews didn't dominate the press entirely. But when you actually had to deal with the Jews every day, even the most normal person held them in contempt and a certain degree of fear. But no one ever said they're responsible for anyone, all of everyone's misfortunes. This is indirectly confirmed by the increase in Jewish emigration from Russia. If in 1904 to 1905, there was still an increase in emigration among mature men, the whole age pyramid is concerned from 1906 onwards. The phenomenon is therefore not due to pogroms of 1881 to 1882, but indeed those of 1905 to 1906.

From now on, for the United States alone, the number of immigrants rose to 100,000, 25,000 people in 1905 to 1906 and to 115,000 in 1906 to 1907. Lucky us. But at the same time, writes B.I. Goldman, in the short years of agitation, higher education institutions did not rigorously apply the numerous clauses to the Jews, a relatively large number of Jewish professional executives, and as they were more skillful than the Russians in placing themselves on the market, without always being distinguished by a great moral rigor in their activity, some began to speak of a hold of the Jews on the intellectual professions. And in the project for universities, prepared in 1906 by the Ministry of Public Instruction,

no mention was made to the numerous clauses. In 1905, there were 2,247, 9.2% Jewish students' information, in Russia in 1906, 3,702, 11.6%. And in 1907, 4,266, 12%. Well, we spent a lot of time on what the institutions of higher education really were. It didn't take much. I mean, this was sufficient 10% roughly

to turn these into revolutionary strongholds, both in the administration, as well as in the student body. They purged, you know, during the revolution itself, they purged many students who didn't agree with them. This was their home base. That was the reason for the numerous clauses, the limitation on the number of the Jews,

because they were well aware of what they were doing. Everything was either a violent revolutionary activity or a scam. We've been through this in great detail. are ready. But I suppose they can have another commission and maybe they'll solve it. In the program of reforms announced on August 25, 1906 by the government, the latter undertook to reexamine among the limitations to which the Jews were subjected, those which could be immediately lifted insofar as they were merely provoked dissatisfaction and are obviously obsolete. However, at the same time,

the Russian government could no longer be affected by the revolution, which was prolonged for another two years by a wave of terrorism hardly contained to Stollopin, and by the very visible participation of the Jews in this revolution. To these subjects of discontent was added the humiliating defeat against Japan, and the ruling circles of St. Petersburg yielded to the temptation of a simplistic explanation. Russia is fundamentally sound, and the whole revolution from beginning to end is a dark plot hatched by Jews, an episode in the Judeo-Masonic plot. Explain everything by one and the same clause, the Jews. Russia would have been at the zenith of glory and universal power if there were no Jews.

I need to repeat myself here. Tulsa Nietzschean is wrong on one thing. It was not a humiliating defeat. It wasn't a defeat at all, let alone a humiliating one. And it certainly wasn't seen as a defeat in Japan. Japan was seen as you had civil unrest because it was seen as a defeat of the Japanese. They didn't get anything they wanted. Or what they got was very ephemeral.

Yeah, Tsushima, yeah, they sank a whole bunch of Russian battleships. That's true. But the war was mostly on land and it was all to a draw. Japan was completely exhausted. I mean, completely exhausted and broke. when the war was over. Russia was nowhere close to it. And as I've said, I have a lengthy article

on the Russo-Japanese War, but it just got repeated so many times in the press both then and now that it's seen as a blatant, a humiliating defeat, not just a defeat, a humiliating defeat. And there is some truth to the statement

that Russia would have been a very different country without Jews. you wouldn't have had these revolutionary movements whatsoever. You may have had protests, you know, labor unrest in certain places. That's, you know, normal. But there's some truth to that last statement. It sounds crazy when you put it that way, but given what we've read so far, it's true.

They were the, they were the, you know, it doesn't take much poison to kill somebody. It takes a little bit. You put it in someone's soup and they're gone. And there is some truth to that. I don't like putting it in such a simplistic way. Judeo-Masonic plot, well, that's what a revolution is. Revolutions, by definition, are conspiracies. Masons, again, by the very structure, were secret.

Yes, you know, it's not all on the Jews. That's ridiculous. I don't know anyone who says that. I don't know anyone who believes that, who has argued that. But the Jews were a critical element in all of this. They were, they're the ones who that took protest and made it into a revolutionary. They hijacked some legitimate protests and made it something completely different. Yes, Russia would have been in a very different position without Jews.

It would have been far more powerful than it was. That's true. And clinging to this short but convenient explanation, the high spheres only brought the hour of their fall even closer. The superstitious belief in the historical force of conspirators, even if they exist, individual or collective, leaves completely aside the main causes of failure suffered by individuals as well as by states. Human weaknesses. It is our Russian weaknesses that have determined the course of our sad history, the absurdity of the religious schism called by Nikon, the senseless violence of Peter the Great and the incredible series of countershocks that ensued,

wasting our strength for causes that are not ours, the inveterate sufficiency of the nobility, and bureaucratic petrification throughout the 19th century. It is not by the effect of a plot hatched from the outside that we have abandoned our peasants to their misery. It was not a plot that led the great and cruel Petersburg to stifle the sweet Ukrainian culture. It was not because of a conspiracy that four ministries were unable to agree on the assignment of a particular case to one or the other of them. They spent years in exhausting squabbles mobilizing all levels. of the hierarchy. It is not the results of a plot if our emperors, one after the other, have proved incapable of understanding the evolution of the world and defining the true priorities.

If we are preserved the purity and strength, which were formally infused into us by St. Sergius of Rodinich, we should not fear any plot in the world. There is no way to disagree with him here. This is a very powerful paragraph. He has said similar things in other books, especially near, you know, near the end of his life. Yes, Jews were not involved in the, in the Nekonian schism, which was made worse by Peter the Great. Very few Jews were involved in that, in that, in that, in that, in that, too. That was a revolutionary movement in and of a very different sort. He is completely, he is completely correct.

So the Jews, however, took advantage of Russian human weakness and were able to almost mobilize it and weaponize it. That's what I said. No one thinks that the Jews have caused all of these problems. No one has ever said that. It's a stupid thing to say. It's a stupid accusation to make against someone like me. He's absolutely right, though. and the examples that he uses, I know extremely well.

I have a book on each of them. The Peter the Great One hasn't come out yet. You know, the 18th century, the violence of the 18th century, Jews were not really involved because that part of Poland hadn't come to Russia yet. He's absolutely correct. But when that section of Jews came in to the Russian Empire, everything changed. No, it cannot be said in any case that it was the Jews who organized the revolutions of 1907 or 1917, just as one cannot say that it was this nation as a whole that

fomented them. In the same way, it was not the Russians or the Ukrainians taken together as nations who organized the pogroms. It would be easy for us to all to take a retrospective look at this revolution and condemn our renegades. Some were non-Jewish Jews. Others were internationalists, not Russians, but every nation must answer for its members in that it has helped to train them. On the side of the Jewish revolutionary youth, but also of those who had formed it, as well as those of the Jews who constituted an important revolutionary force, it seems that the wise advice Jeremiah addressed to the Jews deported to Babylon was forgotten. Quote, Jeremiah 29-7, seek people.

peace for the city where I have deported you, pray to Yahweh in its favor, for its peace depends on yours. While the Jews of Russia who rallied the revolution only dreamed of bringing down this same city without thinking of the consequences. There's, okay, good. There's some exaggeration. I think he doesn't like the idea of just putting a label on things. these simplistic explanations

that government control the program the Russian people are evil and hate the Jews but there's no getting away from the fact that the only real dominant parts of the revolution of 1905 were in Jewish areas Jews were a massive part of this I don't know how he's defining Jews as

internationalists not Russians I don't care. They were Jews and they thought like Jews. Being a Jew is a secular ethnic membership. It has nothing to do with religion or the religion is really just very secondary. It's a form of mobilization. And Jeremiah, or I know at least Isaiah is burning in hell according to the Talmud. I can't imagine that Jeremiah,

would be, although I don't know specifically off the top of my head if he's included, Isaiah is, because they were, you know, all they did was criticize Israel. And of course, these are two very different groups of people regardless. Jeremiah would be totally irrelevant to the Khazars who were creating this revolution. Jews have to, I mean, at least there's got to be some that realized, the misery that they brought on Russia and to take account of themselves and, you know, understand that they are at fault for a lot of this, not entirely. That's, again, the simplistic stupidity that no one says.

We say things like that as just, you know, as abbreviations. We realize it's far more complex than that. Jewish Revolution of 1905, what the stomach extent it was? because it occurred most violently in places where the Jews dominated. It's not a coincidence. The arrogance of the Jews is found in the Talmud that does have the prophets like Isaiah burning in the same pool of hot seamen that Christ is in, according to them.

And about the last thing. I remember, you know, the notorious card of the anti-Zionist Jews, I used to know, I used to know David Weiss, Rabbi Weiss, for many years. I haven't spoken to them in a long time. But that line is repeated by them all the time. You know, they're really apolitical. They want to be the best neighbors possible. I'd exploit anybody.

Seek peace for the city. You know, and which is why they're very easy to deal with. Very different. I grew up in a Jewish area or, you know, largely Jewish area. In New Jersey, that's almost by definition. just outside of Manhattan, just outside of Staten Island, actually. So this isn't something that I just discovered the other day on a personal level. But of course, none of this is personal.

This is all about their aggregate effect. You take away the Jews from Russia, or let's just say that Poland was never disintegrated, was never partitioned. this wouldn't have happened or if it would have happened it would have been nothing like this Russia was doing very well the media was been fanning the flames there was no censorship

contrary to what all these people say or if there was it wasn't enforced and as I've said a hundred times the royalists the nationalists didn't have their act together in terms of a full solid movement that could fight back

which is a common problem you know, Russia was a healthy society outside of the old pale of settlement, saying that, you know, Poland shouldn't have been partitioned, and Russia shouldn't have absorbed this area, yeah, but there's no way they could have known that at the time. In the long and chaotic human history, the role played by the Jewish people, fubid energetic, is undeniable and considerable. This also applies to the history of Russia. But for all of us, the role remains a historical and

for the Jews as well. This strange mission brought them everything but happiness. Well, there's a few things maybe that are mysterious. Why they don't realize, what they don't realize their limits, they don't back down once they reach a certain level of power. They keep wanting more. You know, their refusal to recognize their control over things, that any reaction to them is not a violent pogrom,

they don't, you know, somehow their brain doesn't work that way. There's a, there's a miscommunication and their synapses. It just doesn't work. I mean, Jews are notoriously neurotic. In general, I don't see the Jewish role as an enigma at all. I'm a professional historian. You know, I think it's very clear they act more or less the same way wherever they go.

Russia was just, you know, brought to the second or third power. Jews are intensely neurotic. They're never going to be happy. They have everything it takes to live like Rabbi Weish wanted, a very peaceful life and prosperous life in the countries in which they live,

but that is never enough. How intelligent can they be if they don't understand that simple thing? But rather, they need to rewrite history. They need to rewrite everything. They need to lie. in order to make it seem like there's no good reason to dislike it. There's no hatred here.

I mean, sometimes I was there at the time, I would. But none of this is personal. This is talk. We're talking about them as a group. We're talking about Talmudis and their role in Russia, which has been absolutely nothing but negative. Even for them. Yeah.

Their mission has brought them everything but happiness. They rejected logos. They embraced revolution. happiness can't be found there. They rejected Christ, and that is their entire identity. Their entire identity is the negation of Christianity. And there was no country, more anti-revolutionary, or strictly Christian or royalist, than Russia was.

It was the belly of the beast, as far as they were concerned. It was the last manifestation of Rome. And if you know the Talmud, they condemn Rome all the time. It's their enemy. It's, you know, the super goyum in Rome, the land power, the virtues of the settled agricultural estate. They despise that. But they could simply reach a certain level of prosperity and stop, but they never do.

They push and push wherever they go. They don't know their limits. Why there is this short circuit? That's a separate issue. I know in some places, like in Ukraine, in 1648, they really believed that because their power was so absolute there, that the Messiah was coming. And therefore, they would have no reason to back down.

They got Kim Ilnitsky instead. I've been talking about him for many, many years now. He was a great man. But that's not the case everywhere. they simply don't know they would rather lie they'd rather you know make up an entire false world and all that work that it takes to do that rather than simply enjoy a certain level of prosperity which they can do very easily there's something wrong there's something spiritual about this that's wrong and being the the rejectors i mean that the manifestation of the rejection of christ

this has something to do with it. Their passions have no limits. Their intellect is only used in various specific things, except for that. If there's power to be had, they're going to take it. Despite the fact that they know that it's going to piss a lot of people off, they don't care. And they don't care even when they realize it could be a huge reaction against them.

There's a short circuit in there. That, to me, that's the enigma. But as far as their behavior is concerned, I don't find them mysterious at all. All right. Let's end it there. Done with Chapter 9. Moving on to Chapter 10 on the next episode.

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