The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 57

Episode Date: July 30, 2025

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Everything's there. I want to welcome everyone back to part 57 of our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenison. What's new, Dr. Johnson? Well, I had to give my daily nationalist in a little bit early. Radio Albion needed it early this week. They rarely asked for that, but I just did it. And it was on something that irritates the hell out of me, and it's that constant prediction of World War III.

I can't read an article anywhere that doesn't have some mention of it, that it's coming. Every little thing that happens, World War III is coming. It never happens. And they've been saying this for decades. And I finally did an entire hour-long show on it and why it's nonsense and the purpose of it all. And it's just something I read it. I can't I can't read an article that doesn't have that in there somewhere.

It's so transparently meant as almost clickbait, you know, to get people to suck people into your narrative somehow. I'm just so sick and tired of it. So I'm, I just did an hour there. So we're going to do an hour here. So let's see if I could keep it together. Well, yeah, I mean, I could throw something out there that you can disagree with. I always felt like the Cold War was World War III. As a unit, yeah, from 45, yeah.

Yeah, you know, it's global. But, you know, Marxism was never the target. The U.S. and the Soviet. Soviets did as where we're cooperating as much as anything else. You remember, the West created the USSR. The West created its industrial base and then recreated it after World War II. There was a point where it just simply got too large. And, you know, with the fall of China, and that caused some problems.

But Marxism was never the issue. You know, Marxism was one of the official ideologies of the Western regime. so that was never the issue. It was definitely anti-Russian now, which is a totally different story. All right. New chapter, chapter 13, the February Revolution.

The 123-year-old history of unequal citizenship of the Jewish people in Russia from the act of Catherine the Great in 1791 ended with the February Revolution. It bears looking into the atmosphere of those February days. What was the state of society by the moment of emancipation.

There were no newspapers during the first week of the revolutionary events in Petrograd, and then they began trumpeting, not looking for the ways to rebuild the state, but vying with each other in denouncing all the things of the past. In an unprecedented gesture, the newspaper of the constitutional Democrats, cadets, Wretch, announced that from now on all Russian life must be rebuilt from the roots. a thousand-year life, why all of a sudden from the roots? And the stock market news announced a program of action. Yank yank all these weeds out.

No need to worry that there might be some useful plants among them. It's better to weed them all even at the price of unavoidable innocent victims. Was this really March 1917 or March 1937? The new minister of foreign affairs, Milukov, bowed and scraped, up to the to now we blushed in front of our allies because of our government. Russia was a dead weight for our allies. Well, keep in mind, and this comment proves it that this is as revolutionary as anything else. A revolution is by definition when everything socially is torn out from its roots and remain

on a different foundation. That's what a revolution is, where no stone is left unturned. A new ban is going to be created. people don't pay as much attention to the Kerensky revolution as they do the Bolsheviks for obvious reasons. Kerensky, well, highly Masonic and leftists, didn't really have a unifying ideology behind it. They were still willing to fight World War I. They were still in the middle of it. This certainly pleased the Entente, French and the British.

but because it didn't have much of an ideology, it didn't last. That wasn't the problem with the Bolsheviks. It didn't take long for this to collapse entirely, but it seems that this revolution was necessary for the Bolshek one to take place because they did do a lot of damage. They also, though, released a lot of responsibilities. I've said before in these investigations, which the Kerenzky government commissioned,

that the Tsarist government was a just one, that all their claims against it weren't real. The corruption was almost non-existent. And they say this. I mean, you know, this is one of the reasons that London had a big problem with them. Their investigative commissions backfired entirely to the extent that they were honest,

and they had access to far more stuff than we do. And as I said before, the abdication was forged. It wasn't a real thing. It wasn't by Nicholas at all. It was written by some of his generals. He was surrounded by people who wanted him gone. And the most depressing things I said before is that a huge portion of the bishop of the church accepted this as somehow from God. That the Masonic Revolution is somehow part of God's plan. And it was not. It was an evil matter. This government had no more legitimacy than the Soviet one did. Things changed a little bit in October of this year, but it was depressing to see how many people signed on to this revolution within the church itself. And I have written about this at great length,

and the handful of royalist bishops that remained did speak up against it, but they were a small minority. It was extremely, that was one of those depressing parts of this whole thing. Rarely in those beginning days was it possible to hear reasonable suggestions about rebuilding Russia. The streets of Petrograd were in chaos. The police were non-functional and all over the city. There was continuous disorderly gunfire. But everything poured into a general rejoicing. Though for every concrete question, there was a mess of thoughts and opinions, a cacophony of debating pens. All the press and society agreed on one thing. The immediate legislative enactment of Jewish equality.

Fyodor Solegob eloquently wrote in the Bergevier Vedamosti, the most essential beginning of the civil freedom without which our land cannot be blessed, the people cannot be righteous, national achievements would not be sanctified, is the repeal of all religious and racial restrictions. You know, I've read Sologob many times. He came to regret this, these statements. there were as many people mourning it as were excited by it, but it's hilarious to see that the one thing, the sole object that they agreed on, was about the Jews. It's only the only group that ever benefited from this were the Jews,

and this would culminate, of course, on October. The equality of Jews advanced very quickly. The March 1st, one day before the abdication, a few hours before the infamous order number one, which pushed the army to collapse, V. Makulikov and M. Ajimov, two commissars of the Duma Committee, delegated to the Ministry of Justice,

had issued an internal Ministry of Justice directive ordering to enlist all Jewish assistance to attorneys at law into the Guild of Judicial Attorneys. Already by the 3rd of March, the chairman of the state Duma, M. Rozianco, and the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, Prince G. LeVov signed a declaration which stated that one of the main goals in the new government as a repeal of all restrictions based upon religion, nationality, and social class.

Then on the 4th of March, the defense minister Gukov proposed to open a path for the Jews to become military officers and the Ministry of Education, Malianov, proposed to repeal the percentage quota on the Jews. Both proposals were accepted without obstacles. On the 6th of March, the Minister of Trade and Manufacturing, Konovalov started to eliminate national restrictions in corporative legislation, that is, a repeal of the law forbidding purchase of land by companies with Jewish executives. And you read this, you start to realize that this whole thing really was about the Jews, and that the generals and the high-level bureaucrats that were part of the overthrow of

of Zard Nicholas either owed them money or were somehow in business with them somehow. From here on in, Russia, even as it's sunk within the Soviet Union a bit later, never reached its previous output in terms of

agricultural goods or anything else. It never reached the levels of the Soviet or sorry, of the Russian empire right up until World War I. The workers were treated infinitely better, infinitely better than they were under the USSR because the Soviet Union had nothing to do with labor or the proletarian. That was just a convenient excuse.

And of course, it was so heavily Jewish. But this was a necessary step. The Jews were so organized already. They very quickly took advantage of this. And regardless of any debates over this stuff, and these guys are going to regret this. There's so many of the people who signed on to the February revolution were either murdered or were forced to flee in October,

realizing what they had done. Oh, and I should mention order number one. That was the so-called reform of the army, which came from Kerensky. It tried to eliminate ranks. This is in the middle of World War I. Soldiers didn't have to listen to officers. They had these soldiers committees that took the place of officers. It destroyed morale.

This led to the Cornelov revolt, which pushed him into the opposition. And, of course, he was one of the leaders of the White Army during the Civil War. So order number one was a complete disaster. I think it was meant to be a complete disaster. And to do something this stupid in the midst of a war like World War I, just shows you how this was a suicide pact and the Jews were this wasn't nearly as Jewish as the

October Revolution was but it certainly benefited them as much but it allowed them just enough time to build their positions so as to be the four the main backers of the Leninist Revolution just a few months later

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included in its body five Jews with voting power. Can you imagine this? They were just being put into power. They were just being thrust into positions of power because that's how powerful they were. They weren't elected. They were just placed into the city Duma. In Kiev, of course, there were many Jews there. So this was a massive windfall for the Jews in general.

But this is no shock. This is what they always do when they get power. Yeah. And here, on March 20 at the provisional government made a residence. resolution prepared by the Minister of Justice A. Kerenzky, with the participation of members of the Political Bureau of Jewish Deputies in the Fourth State Duma, legislated an act published on March 22 that repealed all restrictions on the rights of Russian citizens, regardless of religious creed, dogma, or nationality. This was, in essence, the first broad legislative act of the

provisional government. At the request of the political bureaus of Jewish deputies, the Jews were not specially mentioned in the resolution. Yeah, that was a way to sneak this in, talking about, you know, vague things, regardless of religious creed, nationality, whatever, this solely had to do with the Jews. And the Jews were the ones that said, make sure you state it that way. There's no more resentment towards us. But I think many people understood. But in order to repeal all this restrictions on Jews and all of our laws in order to uproot

completely the inequality of the Jews, G. B. Sliusberg recalls it was necessary to make a complete list of all the restrictions, and the coalition of the list of laws to be repealed required great thoroughness and experience. This task was undertaken by Sliusberg and L.M. Bramson. The Jewish Encyclopedia says, quote, the Act listed the statutes of Russian law that were being abolished by the Act. Almost all those statutes, there were nearly 150, contained some or other anti-Jewish restrictions. subject to repeal were, in part, all prescriptions connected to the pale of settlement,

thereby its factual liquidation in 1915 was legally validated. The restrictions were removed layer by layer, travel, habitation, educational institutions, participations in local self-government, the right to acquire property anywhere in Russia, participation in government contracts, from stock exchanges, hiring servants, workers, and stewards of a different religion, the right to occupy high positions in the government and military service, guardianship and trusteeship, recalling a cancellation of an agreement with the United States, they repealed similar restrictions on foreigners who are not at war with the Russian government, mainly in reference to Jews coming from the United States.

These were the people who then eventually were the backers of the October Revolution later, just proving that those who were claiming to represent the proletariat had no connection with them whatsoever. These were wealthy merchants, either from the palace settlement or elsewhere, who were building their fortunes and who needed a purely Jewish government or almost purely Jewish government to maintain. None of these people were dispossessed by the Soviets. We talked about that with the Lena Goldmines, the Ginsburg, whatever his name was, who was just given a different position, equally powerful within the Soviet system. These are the people who ran the Soviet system. Now, it's true. Some of them were not happy with it. Some of them

were exiled. It's true. But this was the building up of Jewish power. And regardless of whether it was state-run or in this case private organizations after the October revolution, many of them maintain their powers just with a different title. The promulgation of the act inspired many emotional speeches. Deputy Friedman of the state Duma asserted, for the past 35 years the Jews have been subjected to oppression and humiliation, unheard of and unprecedented, even the history of our long-suffering people. All of it was the result of state-sponsored anti-Semitism. Attorney O. O. Grusenberg stated, if the pre-revolution Russian government was a vast and monstrous prison, then its most stinking, terrible cell, its torture chamber

was carted away for us, the six million Jewish people. And for the first time, the Jewish child learned about the usurious term interest in the state school, like hard labor camp prisoners on their way to camp. All Jews were chained together as despised aliens. The drops of blood of our fathers and mothers, the drops of blood of our sisters and brothers fell on our soul. They're igniting and enlivening the unextinguishable revolutionary fire. This typical neurotic overreaction, Oscar Grusenberg, if we remember, member was the main defense attorney in the Belize case. Jews were just the opposite.

They were always a privileged, extremely wealthy and powerful part of the Russian Empire, at least from the time they became part of that empire in the late 18th century when Poland was, parts of Poland were absorbed. But to talk like this, no one in their wrong. right mind could believe it. But in the West, especially in the English language, a country is written in the U.S. in Canada, this was taken as truth. And this is why any opposition to this revolution was despised by the Western governments. And in opposition to order number one, Kurnilov, and eventually became the White armies roughly at the time when the October

revolution took place and civil war started. Again, part of the reason why the Western governments didn't give a penny to these people because many of them were in opposition to Kerensky, even though technically the white armies were the provisional government's armed forces. But after order number one, they weren't. They weren't necessarily monarchists either, although you didn't have plenty of monarchist units. But for the very same reason, but the provisional government didn't last long, the white

army itself never really had any unity in terms of what its future for Russia was going to be if they won, and that cost them dearly. Rosa Georgievina, the wife of Venevere, recalls. The events of the March of the 1917 Revolution coincided with the Jewish Passover. It looked like this was a second escape from Egypt. Such a long, long path of suffering and struggle has passed and how quickly everything had happened. A large Jewish meeting was called. at which Milikov spoke.

At last, a shameful spot has been washed away from Russia, which can now bravely step into the ranks of civilized nations. Venevar proposed to the gathering to build a large Jewish public house in Petrograd in memory of the meeting, which was to be called the House of Freedom. I guess there weren't any, I guess that, what would you call that the first Holocaust memorial? Kind of. Yeah, something like that. They've already mentioned the six million.

They've been talking about that number for a very long time. Three members of the state, Duma, M. Bomash, E. Gurevich, and N. Friedman published an open letter to the Jewish people. That now, our military misfortunes could deal grave damage to the still infirm free Russia. Free Jewish warriors will draw new strength for the ongoing struggle with the tenfold energy extending the great feet of arms. And here was the natural plan. The Jewish people should quickly reorganize their society. obsolete forms of our communal life must be renewed on the free democratic principles. I'm not sure what he means there in that last sentence. That reminds me a little bit of what

eventually became the Soviets. I don't know if there's, I think there might be an indirect connection there at least. But I love how they define civilized as how they treat the Jews. Jews are the marker of whether a country is civilized or not. I don't know what a large public house is. This was just a museum of sorts. It was simply a publicly financed temple to the Jews, in essence. They also define the word freedom as whether or not the Jews were showing you that their voice was the only voice here. And people who knew what the Jews were all about were increasingly fearful of,

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Search Trump-Ireland gift vouchers. Trump on Dunbiog, Kush Faragea. The author journalist David Isman responded to the act with an outcry. Our motherland, our fatherland, they are in trouble. With all our hearts, we will defend our land. Not since the defense of the temple has there been such a sacred. feet of arms. You see, it's hilarious because now the czar's gone, therefore it's a Jewish society.

That's exactly what the lifting of the restrictions means. Yeah, it's ours now. Yeah, and so we're going to fight for it. Well, not really. They're just going to support it more. And from the memoirs of Sliusburg, the great fortunes who have lived to see the day of declaration of emancipation of Jews in Russia and the elimination of our lack of rights, everything I have fought for with all my strength over the course of three decades did not fill me with the joy as it should have been because the collapse had begun right away.

And 70 years later, one Jewish author expressed doubts too, quote, did that formal legislative act really changed a situation in the country where all legal norms were precipitously losing their power? Many Jews, I shouldn't say maybe even a majority, but some of these people realize now the economy is in trouble. Now the currency is in trouble. The banking system's in trouble. Yeah, they could loot. You know, they could asset strip. It was easier now for foreign companies to invest in Russia.

But without the monarchy and without the social trust that goes into an economy, no one really knew what the agenda of the, your ordinary person didn't know what the agenda of Kerensky really was. And so a lot of confidence in the economy was lost. So a handful of these guys started realizing maybe we shouldn't be all that happy about this. We answer, in hindsight, from great distance, one should not downplay the significance of what was achieved. Then the act suddenly and dramatically improved the situation of the Jews. As for the rest of the country, falling with all its people into an abyss, that was the unpredictable way of history. I don't think it was unpredictable at all.

Yes. And that I've been talked about for some time. The most abrupt and notable change occurred in the judiciary. If earlier, the Batushan's commission on bribery investigated the business of the obvious crook D. Rubenstein. Now the situation became reverse. The case against Rubenstein was dropped, and Rubenstein paid a visit to the extraordinary investigatory committee in the Winter Palace and successfully demanded prosecution of the Batyushin's commission itself. Indeed, in March, 1917, they arrested General Batushin, Colonel Rezanov, and other investigators.

The investigation of activities of this commission began in April, and as it turned out, the extortion of bribes from the bankers and sugar factory owners by them was apparently significant. Then the safes of Volga, Kama, Siberian, and Juncker banks previously sealed up by Batushin were unsealed and all the documents returned to the banks. Seminovich and Manus were not so lucky. When Seminovich was arrested as Secretary to Rasputin, he offered 15,000 rubles to the prison convoy guards if they would let him make a phone call. Yet the request was, of course, turned down. As for Manus, suspected of being involved in shady dealings with the German agent Kulischenko,

he battled the counterintelligence agents who came for him by shooting through his apartment door. After his arrest, he fled the country. The situation in the extraordinary investigatory commission of the provincial government can be manifestly traced by records of interrogation at late March. Proto Popov, who asked how he came to be appointed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in response, he mentioned the directive issued by him. The residence rights of Jews were significantly expanded in Moscow. Asked about the priorities of his ministry, he first recalled the Food Stuff's Affair and after that the progressive issue, the Jewish question. The director of the Department of Police, A.T. Vasiliev didn't miss an opportunity to inform the

interrogators that he helped defend the sugar factory were owners, Jews. Grusenberg called me in the morning in my apartment and thanked me for my cooperation. Rosenberg visited me to thank me for my efforts on his behalf. In this way, the accused tried to get some leniency for themselves. This is another reason why you had some powerful Jews increasingly disillusioned with February because the one good thing that occurred in this period was the investigative commissions. They were going through records in an open manner and all the stuff that Jews had been doing, all the bribes, all the corruption was now made clear. This wouldn't have happened if the Tsarqq.

or some other government existed. At least they were honest about this. Now, they exonerated the monarchy. But the same time they did that, they almost despite themselves, almost by accident, were uncovering scandal after scandal after scandal. The food stuff incident had to do with,

you know, charging all this money for the army. In other words, a lot of this stuff showed the reason why Jews were restricted, to the extent that they were restricted at all, why they were removed from the front and things like that. It wasn't really predicted. It was kind of an accident when this, you know,

they weren't going to repress this stuff. Those at the investigative commission were told to be as open as possible. And that ended up being a huge mistake. Again, part of the reason why October had to happen. This became intolerable to them. A notable aspect of the weeks of March was an energetic pursuit of known or suspected Judeophobes. I am so shocked.

The first one arrested on February 27th was the Minister of Justice, Shaglovitov. He was accused of personally giving the order to unjustly pursue the case against Baylis. In subsequent days, the Bayliss accusers, the prosecutor Vipper and Senator Sheplinsky were also arrested. However, they were not charged with anything specific, and in May 1917, Viper, merely dismissed from his position as the chief prosecutor of the criminal department of the Senate. His fate was sealed later by the Bolsheviks. The court investigator, Mashkovich, was ordered to resign, for during the bailist trial,

he had sanctioned not only expert witness testimony against the argument on the ritual murder, but he also allowed a second expert testimony arguing for the case of such murder. The Minister of Justice Kerenzky requested transfer of all materials of the bailist case from the Kiev regional court planning a loud retrial, but during the stormy course of 1917, that didn't happen. The chairman of the union of the Russian people, Dmitri Dubrovin, was arrested and his archive was seized. The publishers of the far right newspaper Glinka Janshevsky and Poliubovina were arrested too.

The bookstores of the monarchist union were simply burnt down. any any concept of the rule of law was gone this is what a revolution does when a revolution says it's going to rip up everything by the roots but what's the status of law in this case and to the extent that people got used to this kind of thing the bolshev it just made the bolshevik case more easier for it so the attacks and the physical assault

these people were arrested not for any particular charge they were punished very briefly under the provisional's And the Soviets ended up killing them if they didn't get out on time. But burning down bookstores and this kind of thing, this happened long before, or at least, you know, roughly just a little bit less than a year before the Bolsheviks took over. So there's nothing specific about the Bolsheviks. This was a Jewish government as much as a Leninists were. That's what the provisional government was. Solzhenitsyn's argument is that this was not the liberation of the Jews, but that, that's,

both revolutions were increasingly permitting Jews to take over the country and to destroy any concept of the rule of law whatsoever. I don't think it's odd that whenever Jews basically take control of the government, whether it's obvious or not, whether it's behind the scenes or whether it is flagrant like this, that the rule of law disappears. We haven't had rule of law in the United States for a very long time. Sure. That's right. For two weeks, yeah, yeah.

For two weeks, they hunted the fugitives and Markov and Zemzlovsky, Zemislovsky doing nightly searches for two weeks in St. Petersburg, Kiev, and Kursk. Zemislovsky was hunted for his participation in the case against Bellas, and Markov, obviously, for his speeches in the Senate Duma. At the same time, they didn't touch Puteskevich, one assumes because of his revolutionary speeches in the Duma and his participation in the murder of Rasputin. An ugly rumor arose as Stolipin took part in the murder of Yolos and in Kremlinchuk, a street that had

previously been named after Stolipin was renamed after Yolos. Over all of Russia, there were hundreds of arrests, either because of their former positions or even because of their former attitudes. I talked about Parishkevich before. He still has this reputation as a right-winger. But he came to be accepted by the provisional government, partially because of his murder of Rasputin. And that as time went on, he just went along with whoever was in power.

As the monicus government showed signs of cracking, he started all of a sudden became a revolutionary. He wasn't the sort of, he wasn't a slavophile. some of those people were just opportunistic. Whoever was in power, they were going to support. And people were being arrested solely for any. And you see the Belize case terrified the Jews. We've heard it's like three or four times just in a couple paragraphs that anyone involved in the prosecution.

Even though he wasn't prosecuted for ritual murder because there was no such law, because there was a rule of law under the monarchy just for murder and it was the Jews themselves it was the person we've already spoken to Oscar, what's his name? Roosembourg who demanded that the ritual murder thing be used in his defense

not mark or not any of these people not any of the prosecutors the Belize case was so terrifying to them that the minute they had power these people were targeted they should have gotten out of their as soon as possible. But again, I don't think since the newspapers were in such a disarray, I'm not sure if they were aware what was going on around them, at least in the early few weeks. Airgrid, operator of Ireland's electricity grid, is powering up the

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It is worth noticing only for the comparison to 1905, but also because all through March and April, all major newspapers were constantly reporting the preparation of postings. and that somewhere the programs had already supposedly begun. Rumors started on March 5th that somewhere either in Kiev or Poltava province, Jewish pogroms were brewing and someone in Petrograd put up a handwritten anti-Jewish flyer. As a result, the Executive Committee of Soviet Workers and Soldiers deputies formed a special visiting commission led by Raffes, Alexandrovich, and Sukonov. their task was to delegate commissars to various towns with the first priority to go into the regions

where the black hundreds, the servants of the old regime, are trying to sow ethnic antagonism among the population. In the newspaper, Izvestia SRSD, Soviet workers and soldiers deputies, there was an article incitement to pogrom. Quote, it would be a huge mistake. Tandem out to a crime to close our eyes to a new attorney. attempt of the overthrown dynasty because it is them who organized the trouble monarchists. In Kiev and Poltava provinces, among the underdeveloped backwards classes of the population at the

moment, there is an incitement against Jews. Jews are blamed for the defeats of our army, for the revolutionary movement in Russia, and for the fall of the monarchy. It's an old trick, but all the more dangerous because of its timing. It is necessary to quickly take decisive measures against the pogrom and instigators. After this, the commander of the Kiev military district general Kodorovic issued an order. All military units are to be on high alert and be ready to prevent possible anti-Jewish riots. This was in the middle of the war, and they were mobilizing military forces solely to protect the Jews. Now, no one was saying that the defeats of the army, I mean, there were as many victories as defeats, by the way.

But the Jews did leave the revolutionary movement in Russia and cause the fall on the monarchy in many ways. It's not a trick. It was true. They just didn't want this coming out. And I think because of how the news was being, to the extent it existed at all, you know, they're inventing stories of pogroms yet again. I don't think some of these people knew what was happening. They should have gotten out. Some of them did.

some of them were able to join the whites during the Civil War and eventually went into exile. Unfortunately, some didn't move that quickly. This clearly was a Jewish movement in February as much as it was in October. Anybody who said anything about the Jews, even under the February Revolution, was targeted. And this was given the same priority as the war,

the massive war that they were involved in at the same time. That shows you the obsession and the dominance of the Jews and the high-level Freemasons at this time. Long after this, but still in April, in various newspapers, every two or three days they publish rumors of preparations for Jewish pogroms, or at the very least about moving of piles of program literature by railroads. Yet the most stubborn rumor circulated about a coming pogrom in Kishiniv. That was to happen at the end of March, right between the Jewish, and Russian Orthodox passovers as happened in 1903. And there were many more such alarming press reports.

One even said that the police in Mogilev was preparing a pogrom near the headquarters of Supreme High Command. Not one of these proved to be true. One need only get acquainted with the facts of those months to immerse oneself in the whole February atmosphere of the defeated right and the triumphant left of the stupor and confusion of the common folk to dismiss outright any realistic possibility of anti-Jewish pogroms. But how could ordinary Jewish residents of Kiev or Odessa forget those horrible days 12 years before? Their apprehension, their weary caution to any motion in that direction was absolutely understandable.

If the press was irresponsible before, now it's tripled and quadrupled. They were making up stories. they were saying whatever they could to justify the destruction of anyone on the right wing. Right wing being defined as monarchist anti-Kazar, anti-Judaic, Slavophile, etc. Nationalists, the only national that was permitted was Jewish. And so making up stories of pogroms, which were iffy in the first place, of the six million Jews that were allegedly in Russia at the time,

that justified then. Within the few weeks, still in April. This is, you know, two months. This was the priority of the system, proving again, this was a Jewish-led movement. It benefited the Jews more than anybody else,

and they were a huge part of it. And yet still, this was the priority of the state while they were involved in World War I. And, of course, later on, the Bolsheviks were going to pull their government out of World War I, which irritated some people. But remember,

order number one did completely disintegrate the army, not because the army was a problem or anything like that, but order number one and the endless propaganda now from the provisional government, two soldiers,

that you don't have to listen to your officers anymore. You can shoot them whenever you want. And we also know that the pogrom literature was written by the Jews themselves. This was a huge part of there, and the same thing happens today, of course. The well-informed newspapers were a different story. The alarms raised by the newspapers

by enlightened leaders of the liberal camp and half-baked socialist intellectuals, one cannot call this anything except political provocation. Provocation, however, that fortunately didn't work. One actual episode occurred in the Bessarabian Bazaar in Kiev on April 28th, a girl. stole a piece of ribbon in a Jewish shop and ran away. The store clerk caught up to her and began to beat her.

A crowd rushed to lynch the clerk and the store owner, but the police defended them. In another incident in the Rogoshevsky district, people angered by exorbitant prices smashed to stores, including Jewish ones. This is what emancipation meant. I mean, to a great extent, they were free before. there were still a wealthy and to say the least pampered minority. But now without the monarchy and without the social unity that the monarchy and the church even created, now they could do whatever they want.

And they were so well organized and so heavily armed, they could defend themselves. But they didn't even have to because under Kerensky, the police were there to support. them. The very fact that a Jew can run after a girl and beat her, the confidence that nothing's going to happen to me, including people won't even bother because our revolution has already occurred, it shows you what they thought about it. And this is just an ordinary, ordinary peddler. Where and by whom was the Jewish emancipation met with hostility? Those were our legendary revolutionary Finland and our powerful ally, Romania. In Finland, as we learned in chapter 10 from Javatinsky, the Jews were forbidden to reside permanently and since 1858, only descendants

of Jewish soldiers who served here in Finland during the Crimean War were allowed to settle. The passport law of 1862 confirmed that Jews were forbidden entry into Finland and temporary habitation at the discretion of a local governor. The Jews could not become Finnish citizens. In order to get a Jew had to go to Russia, the rights of Jews to testify and finish courts were restricted. Several attempts to mitigate the restriction of the civil rights of the Jews in Finland were not successful. And now, with the advent of Jewish equal rights in Russia, Finland, not having yet announced its complete independence from Russia, did not legislate Jewish equality. Moreover, they were deporting Jews who had illegally moved to Finland, and not in a day, but in an hour, on the next train out.

one such case on March 16th caused quite a splash in the Russian press. But Finland was always extolled for helping the revolutionaries, and liberals and socialists stopped short of criticizing her. Only the Bun sent a wire to very influential Finnish socialists, reprimanding them that this medieval law was still not repealed. The Bund, the party of the Jewish proletariat, expresses strong certainty that you will take out the shameful stain from the free Finland. However, in this certainty, the boon was mistaken. Remember, Finland was the way the Russian Empire was structured, certain nations were freer than others.

It just depended on circumstances. Poland and Finland had their own constitutions. Yeah, there was an appointed governor with very limited powers. Finland was essentially independent, but technically was a part of the Russian Empire. But there weren't that many Jews in Finland. ones that were there were looked at with hostility. This may have influenced foreign policy in Finland in the following decades,

but because that they were allowed great independence under the monarchy, and Judaism really didn't have a huge base there. They didn't control the press or anything else. They weren't going to fall for the nonsense of the Kerenzky revolution. In essence, Finland was now an independent country, at least de facto. But they knew enough about the problem. They weren't subject to the same propaganda that Russians were. And this was one bright spot in the entire thing.

Because Finland had a reputation. Like, you know, the Vyborg, you know, exile duo members went there in Finland to condemn the monarchy, as we talked about before. it had a good reputation among revolutionaries, so people were split as to whether to condemn them or not. They were Finnish socialists, but they were of a very different sort than you had in Russia. It's a very different society there, and they were isolated enough from the Jewish problem,

but not so much they didn't understand what was really going on, especially after the revolution. So Free Finland was de facto, though. But again, here's more proof that they define freedom as to whether or not Jews can dominate the society. That's what freedom is. Shameful staying on free Finland. But to the extent that Finland was ever really a part of the Russian Empire, they were, but they were almost completely independent to their detriment, as it turns out. And a huge alarm was raised in the post-February press about the persecution of Jews in Romania.

wrote that in Jassy, it was even forbidden to speak Yiddish at public meetings. The all-Russian Zionist student Congress, Gickover, proposed to passionately protest a civil inequality of Jews in Romania and Finland, which is humiliating to the world jury and demeaning to worldwide democracy. I mean, they take, they're in power for five minutes, and they're already meddling in other countries. You know, I mean, I understand Finland. Finland, but Romania, I mean, this is why people like A. Z. Koo, we know the name A.C. C. C. C.

I mean, why that whole movement developed in the first place. Yeah. At that time, Romania was weakened by major military defeats. So the prime minister Bratianu was making excuses in Petrograd in April, saying that most of the Jews in Romania migrated there from Russia. And in particular, that prompted Romanian government to limit the political rights of Jews, he promised equality soon. However, in May, we read, in fact, nothing is happening in that direction. In May, the Romanian communist Rakovsky reported that the situation of the Jews in Romania is unbearable. They ran the universities at this time. And the economy. The Jews were blamed for the military defeat of the country.

They were accused of fraternizing with Germans in the occupied parts of the the country. If the Romanian government was not afraid to anger their allies in the Entente, then one would fear for the very lives of the Jews. I guess Romania wasn't large enough or significant enough to, as same with Finland, to get the same treatment that a huge country like Russia would. Jews were extremely obnox. They were very much like they were in the old Polish Empire in Romania. They dominated trade. They dominated the universities. And this is why the early, you know, Iron Guard movements were founded.

Not too long after this. And Jews in Romania were getting the idea what was happening in Russia means that we could do the same thing here. And the Romanian government wasn't going to, the monarchy wasn't going to tolerate it. But it didn't get the attention that Russians would or the Ukrainians would because it was relatively small and didn't play a massive role in, in in in in in in in in military effort the worldwide response among the allies of the February revolution was expressed in a tone of deep satisfaction even ecstasy amongst among many

but in this response there was also a short-sighted calculation that now Russia will become invincible in war in great Britain in the US in the USA there were large meetings in support of the revolution and the right of the rights of the Jews I wrote about some of these responses in March 1917 in chapters 510 and 621. From America, they offered to send a copy of the Statue of Liberty to Russia. Yet, as a situation in Russia continues to deteriorate, they never got around to the statue. On March 9th in the House of Commons of the British Parliament, the Minister of Foreign Affairs was asked a question about the situation of the Jews in Russia. Does he plan to consult with the Russian government regarding guarantees to the Russian

Jews for the future and reparations of the past. You imagine. You imagine the arrogance. The answer showed the full trust that the British government had for the new Russian government. From Paris, the president of the international Jewish Union congratulated Prince Levov and Levovov answered, from today onward, liberated Russia will be able to respect the fates and customs of all its people, forever bound by a common religion of love of their homeland. People actually were saying this stuff and believing it. The newspapers

Berevskir, and many others reported on the sympathies of Jacob Schiff, a well-known leader of North American circles that are hostile to Russia. He wrote, I was always the enemy of Russian absolutism, which mercilessly persecuted my co-religionists. Now let me congratulate the Russian people for this act, which they committed so perfectly. And now he invites the new Russia to conduct broad credit operations in America. Indeed, at the time, he provided substantial credit to the Karenski government. Later, in emigration, the exiled Russian right-wing press published an investigative reports attempting to show that Schiff actively financed a revolution itself.

Perhaps Schiff shared the same short-sighted Western hope that the liberal revolution and Russia would strengthen Russia in the war. Still, the known and public access Schiff, who had always been hostile to Russian absolutism, had even greater effect than any possible secret assistance to such a revolution. But we have to decode some of this. By Russian absolutism, he's referring to not just the monarchy, but Russian nationalism and orthodoxy in general. This was a Jewish movement.

financed by the same people who then went the next step and were financing the Bolsheviks. And this shows you where their massive financial support for the Bolsheviks came in, whether it was

to Trotsky or to Lenin. And the desire now that they figured when the British are saying that this market is now ours. We can invest everywhere. The Rothschilds were moving in. Russians were working have any control of their economy.

And really nothing changed after October, except that the war destroyed much of what the armed government had built. And then people like Schiff moved in to kind of like Black Rock was supposed to be doing with Ukraine after the war, which they've backed off from now. They're going to profit massively from rebuilding. So it was the West that created the workers' parents. paradise, even after October, even after the Civil War was over. They knew what the Soviets were doing to the peasants.

And that to them was no problem. These were the same backward people that they mentioned before, these non-progressive inert elements of the population that could be destroyed. Because after all, since Russia never really produced the food that they were able to produce under the Tsar, never, right up until the very end of the abusive state, it didn't matter. whether we had peasants or not, because people like Woodrow Wilson was sending in food aid by the ton. So we don't really have to worry about that. And no one's going to hold them accountable.

And the press in the West believe whatever they were told about how stupid. They believe whatever they were told. And that's how it got into the history books to this very day. I think we should stop right there and come back in a couple days. Okay. All right. Yeah, this seems like a natural stopping point. Yeah.

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