The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 56

Episode Date: July 26, 2025

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Here we go. Here we go. After that, it is impossible that the question not come up for discussion, so current during these years of war, of the numerous clauses. As we have seen, it had been reestablished after the revolution in 1905, but was gradually mitigated by the common practice of day school and high schools. and the authorization given to Jews who had completed their medical studies abroad to pass the state diploma in Russia. Other measures were taken in this direction, but not the abrogation pure and simple.

In 1915, when the pale of settlement was abolished, P.N. Ignatiev, Minister of Public Instruction in 1915, 1916, also reduced the numerous clauses in higher education institutions. Let's remind the audience what the numerous clauses is, or was. it was a quota on Jewish acceptances into really any upper-level institution. Medical school, law school in particular. And it came into existence because the minute you had a certain number of Jews, a certain critical mass, they immediately began to agitate for revolution. They didn't even seem to care about what the school was all about.

That was just a basis for violence. And, of course, the first thing they do, they get rid of professors. They don't like to get rid of students. They don't like with incredible arrogance. That's where this came from. And it didn't take many of them. It had nothing to do with being upset or being jealous, like the Jewish Encyclopedia would say.

That numerous clauses came from. from bloody experience. And as we saw in the 1905 revolution, that's all the universities were in the areas affected. There were just base camps of these violent, you know, proto-Belsivic revolutionaries. And then the spring of 1916, the walls of the Duma echoed the debate on this issue at length.

The statistics of the Ministry of Education as examined, and Professor Levachev, Deputy of Odessa states that the provisions of the Council's Administer, authorizing the derogatory admission of children of Jews called up for military service, have been arbitrarily extended by the Ministry of Education to the children of Zemgore employees, evacuation agencies, hospitals, as well as persons declaring themselves deceitfully dependent on a parent called up for military service. Thus, the 586 students admitted in 1915 in the first year of medicine at the University of Odessa, 391 are Jews. That is to say, two-thirds, and that only one-third remained from other

nationalities. At the University of Rostafandon, 81% of Jewish students at the Faculty of Law, 56 at the Faculty of Medicine, and 54% at the Faculty of Sciences. And the Jews would love you to believe, but that's because they're so much smarter than anyone else. You know, the Slavs are animals, and of course we're going to dominate these institutions. No, the real reason is because once they get into a position in the administration, they will favor other Jews. That's been going on. Harvard law schools very much like that. Regardless of what they score on their LSATs or what their grades may have been, you know, in Harvard, you had, what's his name, that, that Jew with the Jew fro, he's always

on TV. Ignatiov? No, in the law school. Oh, in the law school. Oh, Dershowitz. Adam Dershowitz. He was hired with tenure, which I have never heard of before in my life. You have to earn tenure. It takes six years to get it. He was hired with tenure built in, you know, many years ago. This is how the system works. The Ivy Leagues are very, very, very, you know, Judaic, which is where the reputation comes from. And, of course, on the far left of the political spectrum, and these numbers, as far as Russians are concerned, are dangerous. How many Jewish doctors are going to treat a Russian nationalist?

Will it be different if they, how many, if they treat, like, say, an Orthodox priest, what is their, you know, what is their role in that regard? even shows today like Family Guy, they seem to imply that Jews are just superior in all of these areas. It's a very Jewish show. Most of them are. But these numbers, from everything we've learned so far, these numbers are dangerous for the Russian state. If you get this huge number of lawyers sent out, you won't get another conviction for terrorism ever again. if it's leftist revolutionary terrorism. Unfortunately, the Tsar only had a year left.

Gorovich replies to Levicev. This is proof that the numerous clauses is useless. What is the use of the numerous clauses when even this year, when the Jews benefited from a higher-than-normal arrangement, there was enough room to welcome all Christians who wanted to enter the university? What do you want? Empty classrooms?

Little Germany has a large number of Jewish teachers, yet it does not die of it. Markov's objections. Objection. Universities are empty. Universities are empty because Russian students are at war and they send to the university's masses of Jews escaping military service. The Jews have overwhelmed the University of Petrograd and thanks to that will swell the ranks of the Russian intelligentsia. This phenomenon is detrimental to the Russian people, even destructive, because every people is subject to the power.

of its intelligentsia. The Russians must protect their elites, their intelligentsia, their officials, their government. The latter must be Russian. And he was absolutely correct. The fact that he could, if there'll be a time in just a couple of years, men like him won't be able to make this argument under any circumstances. We're coming to the end of Russia, an independent Russia at all. and he's absolutely right. Jews are, of course, evading military service, getting away with it, and then sending their kids to the very institutions that would enforce those kind of laws on anyone.

So as the Russian boys are being tormented in the trenches at the front in ways that neither of us can imagine, Jews, as always, are taking advantage and filling the ranks of these revolutionary institutions. It's no accident. Lennon takes over, Lennon Trotsky take over, at least some of Russia in October of the following year. And one of the first laws they pass is, you know,

you can't talk about the Jews anymore. You have to talk about even the word Jew. rather than a Jewish person or the Jewish people was highly frowned upon. I don't know if there were any cases about that. But Solzhenitsyn will say, we'll get to this part much later, but there were thousands of cases violating the anti-Semitism laws, which aren't as, you know, not that far away from what we're dealing with in Western Europe, in Central Europe too.

Now it's true, I want to make a point here. Russia does have those laws. But they actually believe, I have a paper on this concerning one of my favorite authors, Nazad of. They actually are about incitement. You actually have to say, you know, to this crowd, let's go and kill these people or something like that. Now, the other laws are like that,

but that's not how they're enforced. if something is done in a scholarly way, in an intelligent way, then it's not a problem. And some of his books were brought to the, I have a paper. I could actually send it to you. I published some time ago on the Nazadov case where Jews tried to get him shut down and they failed. Because he, first of all, he was doing it from a... scholarly point of view, he wasn't trying to get them hurt in any way. He was using mostly Jewish sources, which actually did impress the people involved. So Russia doesn't have,

doesn't, Russia has similar but not identical laws concerning all that stuff. We have Holocaust revisionist conferences over there all the time. But, you know, the only law that exists It's about actual physical incitement based on ethnicity or really anything else. You know, you can't say that's not how they're enforced in Western Europe. We all know that. But in Russia, it's actually very strictly enforced that way. You can't say, let's go have a pogrom to a bunch of drunken guys and they go out and they start smashing things up. That would be a separate charge then.

It's taken seriously. Anything that's scholarly, anything that's serious, anything that's meant to provide knowledge is exempt from any kind of censorship in Russia. Ready for huge savings? We'll 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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And that would just be, that would be chaos. And you don't know who's getting hurt. Russians could be getting hurt in the process. So, I mean, anybody who would criticize Russia for that has never led or managed met let's put it that way yeah there you know um every once in a while i get some idiot who says well they have the same laws over there i um i certainly object to uh one of the laws passed by the diet i'm sorry the duma um about um rejecting certain truths about the red army in war two i reject i think that's a stupid thing it was passed by the um duma signed by uh signed by him. But even there, a scuttley approach is always exempted.

They really mean incitement. You know, I do reject that. I've criticized Putin on that as much as I can. It's a huge area of disagreement. No one's a bigger Putin fan than I am. And yet his focus on the great patriotic war, it's popular. He's a politician. You know, it's a popular thing to do.

and although those celebrations over there are for political purposes, not really historical purposes. Anyway, so that is the case. We have those kind of conferences in Russia all the time. They debate the Jews right on the floor of the Duma. It was impossible in the U.S., in the press, impossible for any of that to occur in any Western country, but it's done every day.

The Jewish question is wide open in Russia. That used to be the case in Ukraine too, until 2004-2014, where they shut all of that down. Now you have four political parties all saying the same thing. I mean, they're identical. Every other party has been shut down and their assets have been confiscated. But it's still called a multi-party democracy, essentially to one party. We know that. There's a handful of oligarchs who run it. But it was the case, even worse in Ukraine, or better in our case, than it was in Russia.

But Russia, it's a live issue. You could talk about it all the time. The letter, I think, with, I forget the letter that has a thousand signatures about the Jews. This stuff is being talked about daily. There aren't many Jews in Russia. They're less, they're far fewer than 2% of the population. But they are well organized. they don't treat Putin like a like a subject like they do in the U.S. They treat him as someone that they have to placate

they have to deal with because so much of his popularity 20 years ago was sending these Jewish oligarchs to prison. If he had shot them all, he would have been more popular. So, and then, and that's very connected to the intelligence. It's a broad term. it refers to your public intellectuals

as well as your academics. I think I bridge that bridge that gap between those two things. We all know who the intelligentsia in America is ridiculous. Maya Anzalu, who I just realized the other day was dead. But in Russia, you do have serious debates about this stuff on street corners. The only thing that's not permitted is actual true incitement.

You have people who talk about the Holocaust in the most scholarly way are being attacked in Western Europe for incitement. They're not inciting anything. They're just making scholarly statements from the UK to Germany. So he's absolutely right, though. This massive, the Jews escaping military service, they're not going to fight for the Russian Empire. Then they send these same kids to flood the universities. now that they have control over the administration, while Russian boys are being shot at in the trenches, and this is going to be one of the ways that they take over.

Even if the Bolshevik revolution never occurred, this would still have to be dealt with at one level or another. They were building a state within a state precisely with these, and that's what the numerous clauses was passed to fight. Universities are empty. I mean, what is what is what is what is Gervich saying? Are they too stupid? They didn't want to be there? No, of course. They're at the front.

Russia's best was at the front not you know, that's why it would be empty. So, um, so it was a stupid argument, but it just goes to show that even in in the Duma, um, this kind of thing. Then as today can be debated. And it looks like in this case that Gervich lost. Well, what's going to happen is that in the comments under this somewhere, somebody's going to post a link to a picture of Putin with a yarmulka on at the whaling wall because that's what Spurgs do. Yeah, I've seen that. I don't, you know, he's a flipping politician.

This is what these guys do. He supports Hamas. You know, he supports Hezbollah, always has. You know, I've seen it's hard to find. But that's, in his mind, that was a way to deal with, to go to the great patriotic war idea. But I do think it's blasphemous. It's Michael Hoffman taught us all because the whaling wall is not the temple. There was nothing left of the temple according to Christ when he said nothing was left of it.

No stone was on another. But a picture doesn't tell us anything anymore. His policies tell us, tell us what we need to know. Pictures are for people who want to avoid the debate, not be involved in it. So let them post it if they want. Six months later, in the autumn of 1916, Friedman harped on about this by asking the doom of the following question. Thus, it would be better for our universities to remain empty. it would be better for Russia to find itself without an intellectual elite rather than emit Jews in two great numbers.

On the one hand, Gurevich was obviously right. Why should the classrooms have been left empty? Let each one do what he has to do. But in asking the question in these terms, did he not confront the suspicions and bitterness of the right? Therefore, we do not work together? One group to make war, the other to study? Here's an aside for. from Solshinisan.

My father, for example, he interrupted his studies at Moscow University and joined the army as a volunteer. It seemed at the time that there was no alternative to not go to the front would have been dishonorable. Who among these young Russian volunteers and even among the professors who remained in the universities understood that the future of the country was not only played on the battlefields? No one understood it neither in Russia nor in Europe. Yeah, and there was a tremendous martial tradition. there, as ridiculous as the war, as World War I was. It was something that had to be fought once Russia was in the middle of it.

And it isn't like they're not going to come home. Some of them won't, but a lot of them will. They have a huge population. The circulation and rotation of soldiers was tremendous. They wouldn't be empty under any circumstances. God forbid they have smaller classrooms. They had a shortage of lawyers in Russia at the time. You know, there's no such thing as a shortage of lawyers.

But, yeah, this is exactly, that's what Schultzhenits and is saying here. If you're called up, you go. And that's what was taken very seriously in Russia. You see, in World War II, as, you know, as NS as I am, you know, and I know it's not Hitler's fault. He invaded the Soviet Union, Russia, quote unquote, because Stalin was planning on invading Western Europe or Central Europe. And he was.

There's no doubt about that anymore. There's no question about that anymore. There's too many studies on it. But still, he invaded Russia. It was much easier for Stalin to make propaganda out of that than any of. anything like but but it's just you know in this case it's just there's a war going on we we have to fight uh at least for the honor of the country if for no other reason but this isn't much of an argument the gervis argument is stupid you're still going to have thousands of men coming home

are they going to be rotated you know you have 160 million people living in in russian he just would like classes to be filled to the brim with jews and nothing else and if that's the case, law won't even be an issue. It'll just be the revolution. I think I've always said that universities in America, for example, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a utopia for the left. That's what's what the left wants the society to be, you know, a total, you know, a complete totalitarian system where white people have no rights whatsoever. Everything is, you know, if you use their web servers. They monitor everything you do.

All the years I was a professor, I told students this. I said, be really careful. If you use their servers, I don't think you have a choice. In many cases, they're watching. It's a cookie that they put up, put on your, on your computer. And that's just the beginning. All these, you know, re-education camps and everything else. I was sent to one when I was in grad school.

but that's that's a kind of in miniature what they would love society to be and of course they tend to get what they want at least up until recently 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 Remember, 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 slash Northwest.

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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. 4.4. Northwest. In the spring of 1916, the debate on the Jewish question was suspended on the grounds that it provoked undesirable agitation and public opinion. But the problem of nationalities was put back on the agenda by an amendment to the law on township's Zemsfos.

The creation of this new administrative structure was discussed during the winter of 1916 to 17 during the last months of the existence of the Duma. And then one fine day when the main speakers had gone for refreshments or had returned to their penance. And then, and that there was little left for the sitting than half of the well-behaved deputies, a peasant of Viatka named Tassarov managed to sneak into the Tribune. Timidly, he spoke, striving to make the members of the House understand the problem of the amendment. It provides that, quote, everyone is admitted, and the Jews, that is, and the

Germans, all those who will come to our township, and to those, what will be their rights. These people are going to be registered in our township, but they are going to take places and the peasants. No one takes care of them. If it is a Jew who runs a township administration and his wife who is secretary, then the peasants then, what are their rights? What is going to happen? Where will the peasants be? And when our valiant warriors return, what will they be entitled to?

To stay in the back, but during the war it was on the front line that they were. The peasants, do not make amendments that contradict the practical reality of the peasant life. Do not give the right to the Jews and Germans to participate in the elections of the township Zemstvus. For they are people who will bring nothing useful. On the contrary, they will greatly harm and there will be, they will greatly harm and there will be disorders across the country.

We peasants, we are not going to submit to these nationalities, end quote. That's interesting because he kind of just snuck in. And sometimes I forget about this incident. And people listen to them. This is why, well, not the only reason, but one of the reasons why Rasputin was, was, at least for a while in the good graces of the royal family. They needed that connection to people like this. Now, Germans in the Russian Empire were very loyal.

He's just talking about there's a war going on and they're fighting them. The German, Russo Germans, I guess, whatever you call them, were a big part of Russian life. And like Vita, you know, these were, and they were, orthodox as well, most of them. Zemstva, I don't forget, this was a small legislature at the county level. It was very important. It was instituted by Alexander II as part of his reform.

But what he's laying out here, let's just say the revolution never happened. If Russia went back to normal, after the war was over, this is a nightmare. You would have now the entire, because you had so many men leaving, the Jews would simply fill everything. They would come back and there would be second-class citizens. Jews despise the peasantry. We know that through the policies of the USSR. All the redneck stuff that you hear about today, these boys would have come home and have been ordered around by Jews who wouldn't go to the front under any circumstances. That's why they were filling the business schools.

They were, or not the business schools, the economic schools, the law schools, and God forbid, the medical schools. And so, as I said before, the revolution never occurred. This would be a problem that the Zon would have to deal with. And the peasant commune, as well as the Artels in the cities and the monarchy itself, that would be the only things keeping Russia together. So to ignore the numerous clauses was just to, was just incredibly stupid and very short-sighted. Liberals liked it because they thought, they figured, you know,

this is virtue signaling and that, you know, the Jews would promote our agenda. Little did they know. But this guy was right. So just be careful with the German talk. I mean, you know, that was during the war, in the middle of a war. in the middle of a war actually and he but he is talking about

the Jews specifically taking over everything since the war was going on you had millions of Russian boys at the front of course you had older people who were still home and in the chaos of the war it was very easy to get away with things so you know

he wasn't even supposed to be there. But again, this was the role of Rasputin for a while. You know, you get to, you know, Petersburg was designed to be isolated, be isolated from the population. That's why the Slavophiles hate it. Russian nationalists tend to hate it. Moscow is the capital. Kiev is the capital, not Petersburg.

It was meant to be isolated. Deeply Gnostic city. As I've written about many times before, it's one of my many books that I'm working on. So he's right. And I forget about this, timidly as he spoke. It's hard to find information on this in English, other than this translation of Solsthenitsyn's book.

But this was the typical mindset of the Russian peasant. He is not stupid. He can be very widely. He had to be. And his biggest enemy was the Jew. the state guaranteed his land and 97% of the Russian peasants own the land or either through a commune

or personally that they worked on no other country in Europe could even come close to that this is why the standard of living was so high and we continued to grow during the war but this is your typical mentality the Jews would love you to believe that peasants were too stupid you know when the collective farms

were created under Lenin and yes it did happen under London for a while. You had these Jews being sent. We've never seen a farm before who were making agricultural policy. Well, I guess if Woodrow Wilson is sending us grain, we don't have to worry about food. We can eliminate huge numbers of them. And if any group of people suffered in the first half of the USSR's existence, it was the

peasantry because they refused to accept the Soviet Union. They were the only ones who were telling the world that this was a Jewish phenomenon. You had some intellectuals, but they were left that had been either killed or left the country by that point. This is why, this is the typical mentality of the peasant, and it should be taken very seriously. Depending on who you read, they're just ignorant rednecks, you know, in Russia. And that is not the case. You had a high level of literacy. This man had to have been literate.

And if you imagine coming home from this nasty war and having Jews, controlling huge parts of your life, you're fighting for the Tsar and the monarchy that they hate, what's going to happen to you? And this is, it's extremely important. And he says, we peasants, we're not going to submit. Well, they weren't kidding. Because from October of 1918,

practically to World War II, to the German invasion, you had pretty much a constant civil war of the peasantry against the Soviet government at one level or another, one place or another, at one level of intensity or another, it never ended. And so they weren't kidding.

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But in the meantime, the campaign for equal rights for Jews was in full swing. It now enjoyed the support of organizations that had not previously been concerned with the issue, such as the Vostev Central Workers Group, which represented the interests of the Russian proletariat. In the spring of 1916, the workers group claimed to be informed that the reaction is openly preparing a pogrom against the Jews throughout Russia. And Cosmas Vosdev repeated this nonsense at the Congress of Military Industrial Committees. In March 1916, in a letter to Rozjanko, the workers group protested against the suspension of the debate on the Jewish question in the Duma, and the same group accused the Duma itself of complacency toward

the anti-Semites. Quote, the attitude of the majority at the meeting of March 10th is de facto to give its direct support and to reinforce the policy of anti-Jewish pogroms led by the power. By its support of the militant anti-Semitism of the ruling circles, the majority in the Duma is a serious blow to the work of national defense. They had not agreed that they had not realized that in the Duma it was precisely the left who needed to end the debate. The workers also benefited from the supportive Jewish groups who, according to a report by the Security Department of October 1916, had overwhelmed the Capitol and without belonging to any party are pursuing a policy violently hostile to the power.

I, he means state power, but, or the monarchy, I should say. But I probably don't have to say this, but the workers group represented zero workers. we've talked about this in many especially in the Odessa violence workers had their demands written by these urban Jews workers were totally unaware of this would reject a lot of it would take legitimate issues and then in a short span of time turn it into this Marxist

nonsense none of them submit accepted as true 1905 it was full of that stuff Workers group had nothing to do with labor The Soviet Union had nothing to do with labor We said a hundred times why the proletariat Was singled out because they were alienated Moving into the city

But even that They needed force to get strikes They needed force to get people to do things for them And they knew that when they took over Where it be Bolshevism or whatever That they were going to have to constantly use force to get their way. So this workers group had nothing to do with labor. That was just a pretext, as we've come across this a hundred times by now. And the power in all this? Without direct evidence,

it can be assumed that within the ministerial teams that succeeded each other in 1916, the decision to proclaim equal rights for the Jews was seriously considered. This has been mentioned more than once by Proto Popov, who had already succeeded, it seems, in turning Nicholas the in this direction. Protopopov also had an interest in going quickly to cut short the campaign that the left is set in motion against him. In General Glabachev, who was the last to direct the Department of Security before the Revolution, writes in his memoirs, in the words of Dobrovolski, who was also the last minister of justice to the monarchy, the bill on equal rights for the Jews was already in the months

that preceded the rebellion, and in all likelihood, the law would have been promulgated for the 1917 Easter celebrations. By promulgated, I think he means that Zarnikoulos would accept it.

The Duma never really produced anything. Its powers were very vague. It was just a revolutionary body, although there were certainly some good right-wingers within it. Keep in mind that, you know, at this point, even when Russia was victorious in World War I, and they had many good years in knocking all these countries out of the war, Bruselov and all this stuff, when Nicholas took over, it didn't matter. Nicholas was surrounded by traitors.

So many of these men celebrated the fall of Tsar Nicholas. and the creation of the provisional government, as did maybe two-thirds of the bishops in the Orthodox Church, which a lot of Orthodox people don't want to deal with. So it's deeply Masonic concept. The masonry had penetrated so many of the upper classes in different areas. But it's possible that he doesn't say that it would have been promulgated by Nicholas. He says it just would be promulgated. I think what he means is maybe this wouldn't happen at all.

That the Tsar would be gone, and hence equal rights for Jews would be de facto. And then later, de jure, but it doesn't matter. He doesn't mention Nicholas here at all. Nicholas was clear on the Jewish question. He was well aware of what was going on concerning them, as was his wife, as was Rasputon, contrary to the nonsense we talked about on Saturday. But in 1917, the Easter celebrations were to take place under a completely different system. The ardent aspirations of our radicals and liberals would then have come true.

Everything for victory. Yes, but not with that power. Public opinion, both among the Russians and among the Jews as well as the press, all were entirely directed towards victory, were the first to claim it, only not with this government, not what this czar. All were still persuaded of the correctness of the simple and brilliant reasoning they had held at the beginning of the war. Before it ends, because afterwards it would be more difficult, and by winning a victory over victory on the Germans to throw down the czar and change the political regime. And that is when the equal rights for the Jews would come.

Yeah, that seems to essentially mirror what I just said. Public opinion, that's a very, very abstract claim. You're already seeing the Jews taking over institution after institution like they do everywhere, the left doing the same thing, being well funded not only internally, but also externally by the Jews of Britain, the Rothschild family, and shift in the U.S. Nicholas remained popular until the end. We have examined in many ways the circumstances in which took place 120 years of common life between Russians and Jews within the same state. the difficulties, some have found a solution over time. Others emerged and increased in the course of the years prior to the spring of 1917. But the evolving nature of the process is in motion,

visibly taking over and promised a constructive future. And it was at that moment that a blast disintegrated the political and social system of Russia, and thus the fruits of evolution, but also the military resistance to the enemy, paid for with so much blood. and finally the prospects for a future of fulfillment. It was the revolution of February. All right. Keep in mind that February was the revolution of Kerensky. October is the, on the old calendar, October is the Bolshevik one, which was very easy for them because the provisional government made that very easy for them.

There's clearly a connection. You know, Kerensky was a socialist of some type. but despite the propaganda against Nicholas and especially Rasputin got hit so hard like how Trump's being hit you know it was so hard and so constant the core of the country still remained with him and with the monarchy

the war of course was a huge factor in a lot of this and the Jews are going to take advantage of anything where Russian boys are going to be away. And it's all men, of course, are going to be away doing something that they would never do in a million years. They would do for Israel. They wouldn't do for their enemy. And, but, but let's just say that February never happened.

Russian soldiers come back. Let's say, I don't know, whenever 1918, 19, whenever it would have ended. say Germany was exhausted. Versailles, I don't think it would have happened. But Russian men would have to deal with a very, even more Jewish legal profession, even a more Jewish medical profession. They were trying to shut down a debate on the so-called emancipation of the Jews, which would have allowed them to dominate everything clearly.

Full emancipation would mean the numerous clauses would be gone. You know, that's part of the purpose of it. So they would support each other, bring each other in. You would have completely ethnic, in parts of Western Russia especially, these universities, producing lawyers and scholars in the so-called intelligentsia, would be either Jewish or heavily influenced by them, because they kicked their opponents out of universities all the time. I know a thing or two about that, although they weren't particularly Jews in my case.

But regardless, Zarn Nicholas would have had to deal with this very kind of unnatural bizarre problem with these Khazars having sneaked their way in. And I don't know how they could have remained. They weren't really a part of the Entente. The British hated them.

The whole point was to protect British interests and get Germany and Russia to fight each other. And he certainly would have survived through the war if February never happened. And if you read in my book on the ritual murder of

the royal family of Russia, Nicholas and his family, his abdication was totally fraudulent. It was written by generals. I have them all listed there. Things don't make any sense. I can't go through it.

I don't want to get into it now, but you know, it was written by, a typewriter which of course you would never do it has to be in the handwriting of the monarch the seal was wrong there were so many problems with it and a lot of people in Russia you know all over the place politically but you know believe that that was completely fraudulent and Nicholas was surrounded by enemies by traitors by frauds as a lot of good people

It's like Josiah in the Old Testament, you know, King Josiah. And that was the problem. And it's sad. This is, our world would be almost unimaginable had February and October never happened. These are the seismic shifts in global power. However, I'll repeat again. the provisional government did eventually. At least they had the honesty

to completely absolve Rasputin, the royal family, the military of corruption, of any kind, of any kind. And people around them may have, but that wasn't necessarily the fault of Nicholas. They didn't want to come to that conclusion, but they did. And through the investigative commission,

which is one of their big priorities, let's get to the bottom of this, while we still have the records. This is a huge argument for anyone who's interested in defending the monarchy is that their own enemies said that they can't find anything really that they did wrong. Other than, of course, getting involved in World War I. And Rasputin was the only person, one of the only people who were, you know, fighting that idea. These other right-wingers in the Duma and elsewhere were screaming for it.

And remember, the monarchs were iffy about it. It was the parliaments and the Dumas and the diets that were screaming for war, and the media especially. Nicholas didn't care about if he was popular or not, but he was anyway. Yes, he was not as strong as his father, but he wasn't this weak-willed person that the regime has depicted him. That is simply not true. I have tons of firsthand accounts of ambassadors saying the exact opposite about him. he did have a very open mind on certain things but once he found a solution

once he found what he wanted he was extremely stubborn about and so this is you know certainly only occurred to me recently in the last few years that there would be I hate to use the phrase a deep state that Nicholas would have had to deal with

with this huge number of Jews that were taking advantage of in these four years of Russian boys, you know, student age going away and they would be able to take over the legal profession almost entirely. Shutting down that debate meant we don't want it was going to happen. We don't want to talk about it. And it took one peasant, just like Rasputin, it took one peasant to come in and say, we're not going to, we're not going to deal with this. We're not going to accept this, no matter what you do. The peasants were always, even, even most of the old believers, a good chunk of the old believers, accepted.

Nicholas over any possible Masonic Republic and certainly over any atheistic system. So our world would be almost inconceivable, had these two massive, seismically powerful events never occurred. I guess we start the next episode on getting into February and then we go beyond there. but I mean, it's it's funny. I remember years ago calling somebody a Menshevik and a buddy of mine

just goes, why did you just call him a chew? I don't like, well, I mean, it's like, well, it's when you realize. The painful part of February was that you had a huge chunk of the military establishment,

high rankard, not soldiers, but generals who were scheming against Nicholas. And the acceptance of this by a huge portion of the Orthodox Church, which is an outrage to me. You did have a few loyal bishops. If you buy my book, I have their names in there. And all there are the Russian language sources. I get all this from.

And I forget exactly the title. of the book, the main title, off the top of my head, but it comes from his diary, you know, surrounded by frauds and deceit or something like that. And he absolutely was. A lot of good rulers are like that.

Keep in mind through all of this, that Russia was not doing badly. It wasn't even doing badly in the war. Austria-Hungary was on its last legs. Turkey, certainly. Germany wasn't in Syria. trouble but given the size of Russia it it had a lot more people to deal with it was tougher to get things to the front and everything but those problems

were solved a few years in but you know February it was a socialist movement it was a Masonic movement but I think it existed largely to pave the way for for the Reds didn't seem have you know remember many of the generals in the in the white armies were fighting for the Kerensky government. That's, you know, you didn't, they weren't all monarchists. The white movement was, you know, the provisional government movement. You had some people who were loyal to them and some people who weren't. You had plenty of monarchists, groups within it, of course. Cornelov was an obvious case. He was not loyal to Kerenzky. But part of their problem was their utter refusal

to come up with a cohesive political program. The left had one, and that's a huge reason why they were eventually able to motivate other than, you know, if you retreat, you get shot, which is a Soviet tactic, a Trotskyite tactic,

that they eventually came out victorious. And I'll be saying this until the day I die. The white armies never got a penny. They never got a bullet. They never got a tray. They never got anything from the Western powers. The Reds did on a regular basis. When the British left the Baltics,

they intervened to defend the Baltics. And when they left, they threw all their supplies into the ocean. the French in the South, they sold on credit all their leftover supplies to the Bolsheviks on credit. Nothing. They did nothing for them. And I am sick and tired of people believing that the Western powers were anti-communist. I mean, you know, there were certainly anti-Russian, violently anti-Russian, but they were never anti-communists under any circumstances. All right.

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