The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 55

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

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The Pekingona Show.com. Everything's there. I want to welcome everyone back to part 55 of our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenyson. Dr. Johnson, how are you today? You know what bothers me? A lot. And this has been coming up in my life a lot. And it's becoming to the point where it's some kind of a pet peeve.

When people join the military, they're in for a short time. They sit behind a desk. And once they leave, they call themselves a veteran. I have a huge, huge, huge problem with that. When I was growing up, the veteran was a combat, veteran, whether it be a medic or a rifleman or in the air, not just somebody who was working a computer in Missouri when a war was going on. The word veterans been been completely denuded of any meaning and it irritates the hell out of me. I'm like the only guy in my family has

never been, never didn't join the military and my father didn't really want me to. And to hear these people, especially these women, claiming to be veterans, you know, because they did the accounting at a base somewhere. It irritates me to no end. Veteran to me is a combat veteran by definition. Yeah. Yeah. You just did a episode with three of my friends, one who's in the military and two, who've been out for some time over 10 years. And we talked about young guys today. And if they wanted to go into the military, how to do it, the easiest way to get the most from it to,

you know, if you're looking for to come out and have the home loan and the college tuition and everything, how to sign up for it. Or if you just want to go into combat arms or something like that, we talked about that too. So we, you know, all three of us come from the, come from the belief that any war that you go and fight, you're definitely going to fight for Zog. But this is also, this is also a way to get some training and some things that maybe possibly you may need in the future. But it's also a way to get set up financially.

So. Well, see, especially for the Marines. You know, that's what they specialize in. My son went in. But, and my father, of course, but he had no choice in the matter. But I agree with you. You know, it's just this concept of these, you know, five-foot little Muppet women claiming to be veterans because they were in the Army in Florida for a while.

I don't. Got a problem with that. A lot of them are 5 foot 300 pounds too. Well, I'm not even talking about them. Oh, boy. Don't even get me started there. All right. Picking up where we left off last time, we're going to, we stop where we did because we were going to get into Rasputin.

And I know that's a big topic for you, someone you like, you want to talk about. So picking up. However, at the top of the monarchy in Rasputin's morbid entourage, a small group of rather shady individuals played an important role. They not only outraged the right-wing circles, it is how, in May 1916, the French ambassador to Petrograd, Maurice Palaeagog, a paleolog, noted in his diary, quote, a bunch of Jewish financiers and dirty speculators,

Rubinstein, Manus, etc., have concluded an agreement with him, Rasputon, and compensate him handsomely for services rendered. On their instructions, he sends notes to ministers to banks or to various influential personalities. I completely disagree with the anti-Resputin thing. I haven't looked back on my Rasputin research over the years over the last 10 years. But, you know, generally speaking, you either love him or you hate him. But all he really wanted to do is get back to something. Siberia. Anything that was given to him was forced on him. You know, he thought that he could play a role in the, and, you know, with his poor Alexei.

But beyond that, you know, he didn't like power. He didn't like being in the, in the palace. And, and he lived, um, as humbly as he possibly could. But so many rumors. sometimes promoted by normally intelligent people have spread that it's really hard to get away from them. And I had to read, especially in Russian, I had to read and read and read and read until I finally developed some kind of rational opinion on the matter. It's not an easy topic because you're cutting through so much nonsense. But this is one of the things that when the monarchy fell in 1917, February of 17, the extraordinary investigative commission came to the conclusion, among other topics, that this stuff about Rasputin was false. They had no interest in saying that.

They had every interest in agreeing with it all. Some of these same people pushed it in the first place. Why would you need? who couldn't render any services. You know, sending notes to ministers to banks, that's not going to mean anything. He just, you know, he didn't want to be there.

He knew he had a role to play. But the concept of power or being a part of anything like this, absolutely made him shudder. And there's a lot of brilliant, great Russian Orthodox people who hate the guy. And I was always kind of in the middle. And there's a few websites in Russian that show, I mean, there's some that wanted to be canonized and everyone have icons of them and stuff. He was an interesting spiritual writer.

But over and over again, he just said, can I go home? So, anyway. Indeed. If in the past it was Baron Ginsburg who intervened openly in favor of the Jews, this action was henceforth conducted secretly by the upstarts who had clustered around Rasputin. There was the banker D.L. Rubinstein. He was the director of a commercial bank in Petrograd, but confidently made his way to the entourage of the throne. He managed to fortunes of Grand Duke Andre Vladimirovich made the acquaintance of Rasputin through A. Verober,

Verobeva, then was decorated with the order of St. Vladimir. He was given the title of state counselor and therefore of the Your Excellency. But also the industrialist IP Manus, director of the Petrograd Wagon Factory, member of the Putsilov factory board, the board of two banks, and the Russian transport company, also a state counselor. Rubinstein attached to Rasputin a permanent secretary, Aaron Semenovich, a rich jeweler, diamond dealer, illiterate but very skillful and enterprising. But what did Raspute in need of a secretary? He who possessed nothing.

This Semenovic, the best among the Jew, would have scribbled the starits on his portrait, published in immigration a little book boasting about the role he had played at the time. We find that in all sorts of gossip without interest of fabrications, he speaks to the hundreds of thousands of Jews executed and massacred by the Order of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, but through this scum and those surges of boastfulness, one can glimpse real facts, quite concrete. Who killed hundreds of thousands of Jews? On the order of Grand Duke, Nikolai? We've got to read further.

For example, the dentist affair for most Jews. which had broken out in 1913, a veritable dentist diploma factory had been elaborated, which flooded Moscow. Their detention gave the right to permanent residence and dispensed of military service. There were about 300 of them, according to Semenovic, 200. The false dentists were condemned to one year in prison on the intervention of Rasputin. They were pardoned. I don't see any footnote there. I have never come across this except in this book.

but this dentist affair it shouldn't really be a big deal because we've talked weeks ago about how the Jews are always faking what they were doing so they could have residency in certain areas

they weren't carpenters, they weren't farmers they weren't they were you know they wanted the paperwork goes with it and even the subsidy that goes with it why would Rasputin give a damn if these if these frauds were pardoned or not.

In fact, in his writings, we know of, he was kind of hard on the Jews. Now, in Siberia, where he's from, he had very little connection with them. But in Petersburg, of course, that changed. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive. By design.

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During the war, the Jews sought protection from Rasputin against the police or the military authorities. and Semenovich proudly confides that many Jewish young men implored his help to escape the army, which in time of war gave them the possibility of entering the university. There was often no legal way, but Semenovic claims that it was always possible to find a solution. Rasputin had become the friend and benefactor of the Jews and unreservedly supported my efforts to improve their condition, quoting Semenvich. By mentioning this article of these new favorites, one cannot fail to mention the unparalleled adventurer Manasev. He was in turn an official of the Ministry of the Interior and an agent of Russian secret police in Paris,

which did not prevent him from selling abroad secret documents from the police department. He had conducted secret negotiations with Capone. When Sturmer was appointed prime minister, he was entrusted with exceptional secret missions. Well, first of all, I have not come across any evidence that he was this all-powerful being that could have Jews, you know, free from army service. I have never, again, I've never come across that in any other publication, whether in Russian or in English, on Rasputin, except for this one. you know, he, it took him a while to know what the Jews were because he didn't have experience with it, you know, in Siberia. And second of all, the Father George Capone, again, we've mentioned him before.

He was the very, very, you know, I don't know if he was a liberal priest or whatever. He led the, he was supposed to have led the, bloody Sunday March in St. Petersburg that kicked off the 1905 revolution. So that's who, that's what this Gapon is. Rubinstein barged into public life by buying out the newspaper Nouveauvremia, hitherto hostile to the Jews. Irony of history in 1876, Suverin had bought this paper with the money of the banker of Warsaw Cronberg. And at the beginning, well, oriented toward the Jews, he opened its columns to them. But at the beginning of the war between Russia and Turkey, Nouveau-Vremia, suddenly changed course, went to the side of the reaction,

and as far as the Jewish question was concerned, no longer put a stop to hatred and bad faith. In 1915, Prime Minister Goret Mchen and the Minister of the Interior Gvostov, Jr., in vain, prevented Rubinstein's buyback of the newspaper. He achieved his aims a little later, but we were already too close to the revolution. All that did not serve much. Another newspaper on the right, Grasdana, was also partially bought by Manus. Esmelgounov nicknamed the Quintet, the small group which treated his affairs in the antechamber of the Tsar through Rasputin. Given the power of the latter, it was no small matter. Dubious characters were in the immediate vicinity of the throne and could exert a dangerous influence on the affairs of the whole of Russia. Britain's ambassador Buchanan believed that Rubenstein

was linked to the German intelligence services. This possibility cannot be ruled out. Now that might be true, but again, this depiction of Rasputin as this all-powerful creature. you know, once the extraordinary commission after the Tsar fell or was removed, it showed that, you know, Rasputin had no money. Actually, Zarnikilus personally had a few million dollars. You know, Trusky had a couple of billion when he was axed. So given his position, he was not a particularly wealthy man. He spent so much of his own money.

Nicholas II on the front, on hospitals and everything, I did his wife. But, but yeah, people, dubious characters influencing the affairs of the throne. Yeah, that is true. One of the hardest things that any monarch has to do is control their own court. That's something that Alexander III did extremely well. Basil II in the Byzantine Empire did that extremely well. It takes a very specific type of personality.

So, but the concept of Rasputin being connected to the Germans was a complete fabrication because he was opposed vehemently to the war. Russia being involved in World War I. And he said, you know, he begged, you know, Zarin-Aklis not to do this. And he went back and forth to Siberia, you know, several times. He was called back once in a while. You know, he was treated as a very intelligent man of the people, which he was to a great extent. But because he was against the war, the rumor started that he was a German spy. In fact, anyone who was opposed to the war had that attached to them.

So, yeah, but the Jews in particular, any of you, Rubenstein, yes, it may well have been possible. but there's no evidence that Rasputin was. The rapid penetration of German espionage into Russia, and its links with the speculators of the rear, forced General Alexiev to solicit from the emperor during the summer of 1916, the authorization to carry out investigations beyond the area of competence of the general staff,

and thus was constituted the commission of an inquiry of General Batuichin. Its first target was the banker Rubinstein, suspected of speculative operations with German capital, financial manipulation for the benefit of the enemy, depreciation of the ruble, overpayment of foreign agents for orders placed by the general stewardship, and speculative operations on Wheaton, the region of the Volga. On the decision of the Minister of Justice, Rubinstein was arrested on July 10, 1916, and charged with high treason. I might be wrong, but this is the same General Alexiev who had a hand in the old

overthrow of of Zar Nicholas. That's not an uncommon name, but there wasn't Alexiev involved in that. And we see this today, you know, with the inability to, in the U.S., the inability to

audit the Pentagon. This is nothing compared to what, and I've been writing about that for years, that you can't audit something, I think the last few times, not the last time, but previously, it was Ernst & Young from New York City. They actually were in the Twin Towers. They were assigned that job. And you could for certain little agencies, but not for the entire thing. And they said,

you can't, you can't audit something that doesn't have any records. There's nothing to audit. And if you go back in my read, you know, I would suggest, and I could actually send this to you and you could put it on show notes, my stuff on Rasputin, as well as my earlier stuff on the Pentagon. This is absolutely

nothing new. But trying to manipulate, it was hard to manipulate the Russian economy because the currency was under the control of the monarchy. But the

Jews were removed from the front lines for this very reason, overpayment, etc. But them trying to mess with the value of the rubble and everything else, that was just warfare in another direction. It was from the Empress and Person that Rubinstein received the strongest support. Two months after his arrest, she asked the emperor to send him discreetly to Siberia not to keep him here so as not to annoy the Jews. speak of Rubinstein with Protopoov. Two weeks later,

Rasputin sent a telegram to the emperor saying that Proto Popov implores that no one come to disturb him, including counter-espionage. He spoke to me of the detainee with gentleness as a true Christian. Another three weeks later, the Empress, about Rubenstein, he is dying,

send immediately a telegram to the Northwest Front for him to be transferred from Skof under the authority, of the Minister of the Interior, that is, of that good and gentle Christian of Proto Popov. And the following day, I hope you sent the telegram for Rubenstein, he's dying, and the next day, have you arranged for Rubenstein to be handed over to the Minister of the Interior? If he stays in Skullf, he will die, please, my sweet friend. On the 6th of December, Rubinstein was released,

10 days before the assassination of Rasputin, who had just enough time to render him a last service. immediately afterward the minister Makarov, whom the Empress detested, was dismissed. Shortly thereafter, he will be executed by the Bolsheviks. It is true that with the liberation of Rubinstein, the investigation of the case was not finished. He was arrested again, but during the redeeming revolution of February, along with other prisoners who languished in the Tsarish Ghals, he was freed of the Petrograd prison by the crowd and left ungrateful Russia, as had the time to do so, Manasevich, Manis, and Samanovich. This Rubinstein, we will still have the opportunity to meet him again.

For us who live in the 90s of the 20th century, this orgy of plundering of state property appears as an experimental model on a very small scale. But what we find in one case or another, it is a government both pretentious and lame that leaves Russia abandoned to its destiny. This gets very confusing with what Rasputin. role was with all of this. Was he genuinely dying? Of the top of my head, I don't know.

But that's very typical of the Empress, who was extremely, I mean, she was very emotional. And the whole female part of the royal family took a crash course in nursing and went right to the front. I mean, they were veterans in the true sense. They were right there offering, you know, first aid and whatever they could. They spent a fortune on making sure that they got what they could. And it's the post-revolutionary governments who said this. Half the time, when I see something like this, something written by Rasputin, my first thought is that it's not, that it's a forgery.

So much of the stuff of this era was a forgery. He wants to talk about plundering state property. it's nothing compared to what the post-Petrine era was, meaning after the death of Peter the Great, where in this list, the long list of illegitimate monarchs, ruled secretly by masons, people like, you know,

Hopsman and, um, um, uh, Byron, that's, that was an orgy of plundering. Now,

what he's saying here, I think, though, is that the Jews were a huge part of, of this orgy. Rasputin was not involved in plundering state property. He hated the idea of property.

So I guess we have an occasion to meet him again that maybe he wasn't dying. Maybe he just fooled people. I don't know. But these two paragraphs get a little bit confusing to me. Ready for huge savings? We'll mark your calendars

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Search Trump-Ireland gift vouchers. Trump on Dunbioghush Farage. Educated by the Rubinstein case, the general staff had the accounts of several banks checked. At the same time, an investigation was open against the sugar producers of Kiev, Heppner, Sekinovsky, Babushkin, and Dobry. They had obtained permission to export sugar to Persia. They had made massive shipments, but very little merchandise had been reported by the customs and had reached the Persian market. The rest of the sugar had disappeared. But according to some information, it had passed through Turkey, allied to Germany, and had been sold on the spot. At the same time,

the price of sugar had suddenly risen in the regions of the southwest where Russia's sugar industry was concentrated. The sugar deal was conducted in an atmosphere of rigor and intransigence, but the Batyushin Commission did not carry out its investigation and forwarded the file to an investigative judge of Kiev, who began by expanding the accused, and then they found support alongside the throne. Now, this is true. We've talked about this before. The sugar industry, well, from sugar beats, mostly in Ukraine, were under Jewish control. Those four names are Jewish names. Scams like this.

And it isn't like they had any love for the Kaiser or for Germans. But their number one enemy was Russia. So they had to elicit the help with their number two enemy or number three enemy. whenever it could. The enemy of my enemy is my friend has always been a huge deal to the Jews. But these were some of the wealthiest, most powerful Jews of the Russian Empire. And this commission, even specialists in Russian history, don't talk about it for a very good reason. We know why. So it's pretty clear, even if some of this stuff is exaggerated or whatever, it doesn't matter.

It's pretty clear that Jews, given their position of power, were really messing with the Russian ability to wage war, a war which should never have happened, that Russia should never have been involved in. But once it started, it's not like you could put the genie back in that bottle, you know, they made sure that hopefully collapsed the Russian government through all of these tactics. And if anyone can do it, the Jews can do it. As for the Batyushan Commission itself, its composition left much to be desired. Its ineffectiveness in investigating the Rubinstein case was highlighted by Senator Zavatsky. In his memoirs, General Lekomsky, a member of the staff, recounts that one of the chief jurists of the commission, Colonel Rezanov, an indisputably competent man, was also found to be quite fond of menus, good restaurants, boozy dinners, another, Orlau,

proved to be a renegade who worked in the secret police after 1917, then went to the whites, and in immigration, would be marked by his provocative conduct. There were probably other shady figures on the committee who did not refuse bribes and had capitalized on the release of the detainees. Through a series of indiscriminate acts, the commission drew the attention of the military justice of Petrograd and senior officials of the Ministry of Justice. Look what they tried to do to Djerjavan. When all of these commissions first started under Emperor Paul,

just, you know, right at the almost the dawn of the 19th century, they were trying to bribe anybody they could to keep that from being released. It was anyway. Now, with much more power and with a lot of social chaos going on, there's no doubt that they did this. I don't know, Colonel Ries enough, because you know, you had military ranks in the bureaucracy as well as in the military. So sometimes that there's a parallel there, they're not necessarily military men. I don't see the problem with liking good restaurants and boozy dinners.

Is he trying to say he's an alcoholic? I guess so. I don't drink, but I don't see that as a huge deal. and so but a lot of this stuff was cut through by the post-revolutionary investigative commission which largely absolved Tsar Nicholas and Rasputin as as people and even the government as a whole this was these were private sector actors who were doing everything they could to destroy to destroy Russia and of course they almost were all Jews however there was not only the staff to deal with the problem of speculators in relation to the activities of the Jews in general.

On January 19, 16, acting director of the police department, Kaffafov, signed the classified defiance directive, which was addressed to all provincial and city governors and all gendarmerie commands. But the intelligence service of public opinion soon discovered the secret, and a month later on February 10th, when all business ceased, Kajze read out this document from the Tribune of the Duma. And what could be read there was not only that the Jews make revolutionary propaganda, but that in addition to their criminal activity of propaganda, they have set themselves two important objectives,

to artificially raise the price of essential commodities and withdraw from circulation common currency. They thus seek to make the population lose, confidence in the Russian currency to spread the rumor that the Russian government is bankrupt and that there is not enough metal to make coins. The purpose of all this, according to the bulletin, was to obtain the abolition of the palest settlement because the Jews think that the present period is the most favorable to achieve their ends by maintaining the trouble in the country. The department did not accompany these considerations with any concrete measure. It was simply

for information. Yeah, and there's no reason to not. believe this. We've already, I think, last week, or the last show and the one before it, showed that the Jews were leaning towards Germany and any conflict against Russia. Now, here we're in the middle of the war. It's a great time and a huge war, nothing like the Russo-Japanese war, a massive war that's taking all the headlines, that people aren't going to notice these kind of things. And this is very typical of the Jewish propaganda. the Russian economy did fairly well throughout the war. And it continued to grow, unlike many others.

But spreading rumors was a Leninist stock in trade, especially at the front lines. You know, sending leaflets out there. There's no point to you fighting anymore, et cetera. So they did the same thing during the Civil War. artificially raising prices, all this kind of thing. Again, these are acts of war. This is ground for execution. Here is the reaction of Milikov.

The method of restubchin is used with the Jews. They are presented to an over-excited crowd saying, they are guilty, they are yours, do what you want with them. During the same days, the police encircled the Moscow Stock Exchange, carried out identity checks among the operators and discovered 70 Jews in an illegal situation. A roundup of the same type took place in Odessa, and this also penetrated the Duma Chamber,

causing a real cataclysm what the council of ministers feared so much a year ago was happening. Quote, in the current period, we cannot tolerate within the Duma debate on the Jewish question, a debate which could take on a dangerous form and serves as a pretext for the aggravation of conflicts between nationalities. End quote. But the debate really took place and lasted several months. months. The most lively and passionate reaction to the bulletin of the department was that of

Shinagadiof, he had no equal to communicate to his listeners all the indignation which aroused in his heart. Quote, there is not an igniteminy, not a turpitude which the state has not been guilty toward the Jews, which is a Christian state, spreading calumny over a whole people without any foundation. Russian society will be able to cure its evils only when you will withdraw that thorn. This evil that gangrens the life of the country, the persecution of nationalities. Yes, we hurt for our government. We are ashamed of our state. The Russian army found itself without ammunition in Galicia, and the Jews would be responsible for it. As for the rise in prices, there are many complex reasons for this. Like economics?

I was listened to a podcast once and it was two Jewish libertarians and they both admitted that all economics is as two Jews having a conversation. Or at least a group of Jews having a conversation. I read that again. Quoting, as for the rise in prices, there are many complex reasons for this. Why, in this case, does the bulletin mention only the Jews? Why does it not speak of the Russians and even others? end quote. Indeed, prices had

sought all over Russia and the same goes for the disappearance of coins. Quote, and it is in a bulletin of the Department of Police that no one can read all this. Nothing to object. Yeah, this was, you know, these are people who were

anti-Russian to begin with this kind of hyper-emotional, not even fact. He didn't make one fact. He didn't state one fact. He didn't state one argument. It'll be bad to persecution of nationality. That's bad for the war effort.

Yes, we're ashamed. Like, that's not bad, saying things like this. I don't know about Russian army without ammunition in Galicia. It's very possible. The Jews would be responsible for it. And yes, there are complex rises for prices. We already discussed these. Very powerful Jews in Germany.

and in Russia were involved in this. But it was nothing, unfortunately, that all the nations involved in World War I were suffering with at the time. Easy to write a bulletin in the back of an office, but very unpleasant to respond to a raging parliament. Yet this was what its author Kaffov had to resolve. He defended himself.

The bulletin did not contain any directive. It was not addressed to the population, but to local authorities for information and not for action. It aroused passions only after being sold by timorous civil servants and made public from the Rostrum. How strange, continues Kaffov. We are not talking here of our confidential bulletins, which have also probably been leaked, thus as early as May 1915. He had himself initialed one of this order. Quote, there is a rise in hatred toward Jews in certain categories of the population of the empire. And the department demands,

that the most energetic measures be taken in order to prevent any demonstration going in this direction, any act of violence of the population directed against the Jews, to take the most vigorous measures to stifle in the bud the propaganda that begins to develop in certain places, to prevent it from leading the outbreaks of pogroms. And even, a month earlier, at the beginning of February, this directive sent to Poltava, reinforced surveillance so as to, quote, be able to pursue, prevent in time any attempt to pogrom against the Jews." End quote.

And to complain, how is it that the bulletins such as these do not interest public opinion that those they are allowed to pass in the utmost silence? It seems that these last few paragraphs, I think we're done with Rasputin now, but these last few paragraphs, you know, there's been no factual statement made. They're simply saying that this is a bad thing that there's hatred against Jews and there's a program. I think pogrom during a war like this would be very difficult. You know, most of the men were under arms and drafted and at the front or in training. But there clearly was contempt for them.

Even though the Jews were spreading their tentacles throughout the media, people knew from past experience that these these price rises didn't never happen before Russia's currency was famously stable for centuries in fact only when you have only when bankers take over you know the huge loans necessary for a war where again that Russia should never have been involved in do you get these kind of fluctuations

chances are it was very artificial it was controlled it eventually was dealt with And even with that rise of inflation, if you adjust for it, there was an increase in prosperity within the Russian empire, of course, until 1917. And people all of a sudden, you know, we've had Jewish terrorism for the past 40, 50 years here, killing thousands of low-level civil servants, whatever, you know, attempts on the monarch. The only time these guys want increased surveillance is when it comes to the Jews. So either these people are Jews themselves or they're indebted to the Jews or they're involved in other business deals with them. Because they had to some extent monopolize some of the high-level capitalism of the empire at the time.

In his heated speech, Shengadiyov immediately warned the judge. Duma against the danger of engaging in debates on the boundless ocean of the Jewish question. But that was what happened because of the publicity reserve for this bulletin. Moreover, Shengariev himself pushed clumsily in this direction, abandoning the ground for the defense of the Jews to declare that the real traitors were the Russians. Sukhomenalov, Meisadov, General Gagoriev, who had shamefully capitulated at Kovna. There may be some truth to that. but it's not an either-or question.

They're not mutually exclusive. They all could be treasonous. They all could be doing the wrong thing. You know, one has nothing to do with the other. This provoked a reaction. Markov objected that he had no right to speak of Sukomilanov, the latter being for the moment only accused. The progressive bloc was successful in the Sukhominov affair,

but at the end of the provisional government, it itself had to admit that time had been wasted, that there had been no treason here. Maasadov had already been convicted and executed, but some facts may suggest that it was also a fabricated affair. Markov limited himself to adding that he had been hanged in the company of six Jewish spies. What I did not know, Masadov had been judged alone, and that here is one to six, that was the report. Among certain proposals contained in the program that the progressive block had succeeded in putting together in August 1915, the autonomy of Poland seemed somewhat fantastical insofar as it was entirely in the hands of the Germans.

The equality of rights for peasants did not have to be demanded of the government because Stolipin had made it happen and it was precisely the Duma which did not endorse it, positing precisely as a condition the simultaneous equality of the Jews, so much so that the gradual introduction of a process of reducing the limitations of rights imposed on Jews, even though the evasiveness of this formulation was obvious, nevertheless became the main proposal of the program of the block. The latter included Jewish deputies and the Yiddish press reported the Jewish community wishes to progressive block a good wind. There is definitely a pattern here that the left hated the idea of all of these

autonomous Jewish community up the Jewish peasant communities as well as that handful of those who you know were now allowed to go and have property in their own right that wasn't very popular but there were a few that did it

and and then at the same time they want the equality of the Jews which means the creation of a far more powerful oligarchy. The people in the Duma, which is why it's so useless. It was such a, if anything is an embarrassment to Russia, it was that it was these four Duma.

We all know what total emancipation would mean. There was a reason. We talked about this so many times. There was a reason for these limitations. We saw what happens in the universities, what they were doing in the law schools, how they were, you know, they didn't want to be lawyers,

they wanted to manipulate the law. for their own purposes, for the revolution or for their own, or for Zionism, or for whatever, they were interested in. The state, the six Jewish spies, the state under Zarniklos was the only thing that was keeping Russia together at the time. And so these very same people who hated the idea of peasant proprietorships, I mean, peasants owned at this point, 96%, of the land either communally or individually the Russian Empire and that includes all of all of Russia that includes all of Russia you know from east to west and they they didn't like this and then they advocated more for the emancipation of Jews which in practice would mean that they would be buying up a lot

of this land pushing them off the land getting them involved, just like the Jojavan Commission said a century ago. And with all this going on, we're talking about, what, 15? The czar had two years left, a year and a half left. But this Duma was an absolute wreck, and it had no right to be there. And now, after two years of an exhausting war, heavy losses on the front and a feverish agitation in the rear, the extreme right waves its admonitions. Quote, you have understood that,

you must explain yourself before the people over your silence about the military superiority of the Germans, your silence about the fight against the soaring prices, and your excessive zeal to want to grant equal rights to the Jews. That is what you are demanding of the government at the present moment in the midst of war, and if it does not meet these demands, you blow it off and recognize only one government, the one that will give equality to the Jews. But we are surely not going to give equality now, just now that everyone is white-hot against Jews. In doing so, you only raise public opinion

against these unfortunates. I have in my very first book, German generals in World War I, who were very impressed with the Russian military man, with the Russian command, especially when Nicholas took over personally. I don't know what extreme right people these are. That could refer to a lot of different people. but I guess now they're saying even if the monarchy if the monarchy does something we don't like we're going to be against the monarchy and we're going to want a republic or something like that

but what they're saying and so during military superiority you know the Russians had knocked two two powers out of the war they knocked Austro-Hungarians and the Turks and we're going back and forth

with the with the Germans who of course were split in the western eastern eastern front so I don't know

military superiority I don't know what they're talking about there they had just as many losses as the Russians did so

and again I don't know specifically who he's talking about here and why someone on the extreme right would talk about the military superiority

of the Germans and and the storing prices and everything else. But they're certainly right about the Jews anyway. Deputy Friedman refused to claim that the people are at the height of exasperation. Quote, in the tragic context of the oppression of the Jews, however, there is a glimmer of hope, and I do not want to ignore it. It is the attitude of the Russian populations of the interior provinces toward the Jewish refugees who arrive there.

These Jewish refugees receive help and hospitality. It is the pledge of our future, our fusion with the Russian people. But he insists that the responsibility for all the misfortunes of the Jews rests with the government, and he lays his accusations at the highest level. Quote, there was never a pogrom when the government did not want it, end quote. Through the members of the Duma, I am addressing the 170 million inhabitants of Russia. They want to use your hands to lift the knife on the Jewish people of Russia, end quote. So this was replied, do the deputies of the Duma only know what is thought of in the country?

Quote, the country does not write in Jewish newspapers. The country suffers, works. It is bogged down in the trenches. It is there, the country, and not in the Jewish newspapers, where work John Doe's obeying mysterious guidelines, end quote. It was even said, quote, that the press is controlled by the government is an evil, but there is an even greater evil, that the press is controlled by the enemies of the Russian state, end quote. Yeah, I had Foxy, Fox Mulder Johnson. I had in my hand here.

I guess he must have missed it because he wanted to come and be on camera. So I missed some of it. It's a long-haired, very small, Norwegian forest cat, very beautiful animal. So the state did not control the press in Russia. Of course, any Jewish refugees, on a personal level was never treated poorly. How many times I have to tell people this is not a personal matter. We're talking about the collective, their aggregate effect on a society, not them as people. The guy who lives up the street from me or my dentist or my father's accountant who treated me with nothing but respect my entire young life. That's not that.

This is how the Jews are. are in general. But no program broke out. I think it was very difficult to do on the circumstances where all the able-bodied men were heading to the front. And, of course, there was trench warfare in the east, just like there was in the West, showing how ridiculous, mindless this war was. And I wish to God that Nicholas would have heeded Rasputin's advice. and just stayed out.

As Shingarov had sense, the liberal majority of the Duma was now, no longer interested in prolonging the debate on the Jewish question. But the process was on and nothing could stop it. And it was a never-ending series of speeches that came in the middle of the other cases to be dealt with for four months until the end of the fall session. The right accused a progressive bloc. No, the Duma was not going to tackle the problem of rising prices. You were not going to fight with the banks, the unions, against strikes in the industry, because that would be ten amounts of fighting against the Jews. Meanwhile, the reformist municipality of Petrograd, quote,

gave the town supply to two Israelites, Levenson and Lessman, the first the meat supply, the second the food shops, although he had illegally sold flour to Finland. Other examples of suppliers artificially inflating prices are given. None of the deputies took it upon himself to defend these speculations. which suggests to me that they knew it was true that inflation was being was used as a weapon of war domestically as well as from Germany and elsewhere Jews really around the world to harm the the Russian war effort

having Jews as part of that war effort you know the meat supply and food you know knowing what they've been knowing what they've done knowing who they're connected to it's just they must have really been able to talk a good game we're getting into there's a couple paragraphs here where they're going to talk about the numerous clauses so I think we should end it right here and pick up with uh looks like there's a new

yeah yeah a new idea starting here yeah this this this section has been very all over the place uh to me um there's no real resolution to the issue, Rasputin. So Zanitin is not giving really an opinion.

He's just laying out the information as he understands it. But he does say, I mean, you know, if I put my mind to it, I'm sure I could very easily show that the Jews were involved in inflation in 1915, 1916, which was part of the reason, eventually you had strikes and everything else. But remember what strikes are.

In the past, even just in past 20 years in Russia here, we're talking about, you had, they were, they, they were want to strike a gunpoint. Yes, it's true. The labor laws, which were very generous were, and this is a case all over the place. The eight hour day was eliminated. You had 12 and 12 sometimes, especially for strategic industries. No one like that, but people understood it. but, you know, wherever the Jews had reached a point of power here, that Zarn Nicholas, a handful of others, and one of them was Rasputin,

was fighting by himself to keep the country together, because you did have a military man who were the Alexievs, as I already mentioned, and a few others, who were going to be a big part of his being forced out. Now, he did not resign. He didn't abdicate that, That's a forgery. I go through that in my book on the ritual murder of the royal family. Very kind.

In Russia, no one really believed that was a real thing. It's very poorly done. Figured out, well, no one's going to know, you know. But otherwise, this was a very difficult and very confusing set of paragraphs, partially because you're dealing with Russia now plunged into a massive war that it did not start, that it had nothing to do with, and the only reason that they were involved was they had certain obligations to the Slavs, the Orthodox Slavs of the Balkans.

And that's pretty much it. They were going to gain nothing else from this. and there was no way that the Tsar could have ever known that the war was going to be this nasty and this brutal with the poison gas and the airway on this this this was this shocked everybody in Europe the trenches and everything else none of this was expected the mass slaughter was not expected this is this was a new wave of warfare um and you see notice in world war two it really didn't happen

it was a specific desire to get away from it if possible, because there was nothing, no hell like fighting in those trenches. I've watched enough shows and read enough on it. They're filled with water. There's dead bodies. It was beyond belief. And the PTSD that these poor guys must have had was off the chart. It really was, that was a real crime here.

but the Jews and the left use this war to their own advantage, as they always do. No war, no revolution. All right, we will pick up from here on the next episode. Please go over to the show notes and go over to the videos and the description section, and every way that you can possibly donate to Dr. Johnson is there. So please do that, and we'll be back in a couple days. Thank you, my friend. Thank you.