The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 58

Episode Date: August 2, 2025

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I want to welcome everyone back to part 58 of our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Salshaneson. Dr. Johnson, how are you today? You know, I lived in Nebraska for like five years. I got my Ph.D. from there. I got a lot of fellowship from there, which is why I ended up out there. Warren Buffett jokes on him. But he paid.

He pretty much owns the place. And I saw a news report where there was a steer, a bull, sitting in the passenger seat in the Brought. of a car, the horn's sticking out. Of course, it was a convertible truck. And it got pulled over. You didn't get pulled over for that. It got pulled over for like very minor, like not signaling or something like that.

That's perfectly normal for that state. Nebraska is the weirdest state on the planet. I'm sorry, the weirdest state in the country, I guarantee you the weirdest place in the planet. That's nothing compared to what normally goes on. There's a town where they have wooden cutouts of people because they think that would increase the population. They have a random, a total random chef boyardee statue in Omaha. It's not even near anything. It's just showed up there.

Warren Buffett himself is a nut job wandering around town, hoping that someone shoots him. Yeah, the whole political situation, you know, no political parties at the state level. You know, the biggest, the biggest attraction is Stonehen's made out of cars. There's a speed limit. There's a speed limit for horses on the, on the six miles an hour.

I don't know how well enforced that is. They're not allowed to go on the sidewalk, though. They have, Budweiser actually made a tomato beer. I don't know if they sell it anywhere else, but it's actually a Budweiser product. but I've seen many years ago in the in the in the in the beer refrigerator the place and a lot of states have weird stuff but Nebraska has a million and a half people

you know I used to walk by the governor's mansion I live like a half a block away from them in an apartment building it's just it's you know every once in a while you'll see a clown walking in downtown in the in the yellow lines and no one says anything because you know what

it's normal there it just it was one weird weird thing after another there's another town well of course it's the only town in the country I think now

it has a population of one that's Manawi the woman Mrs. Isler she's the mayor she is the librarian, she's the bartender, she actually pays taxes to herself, which is true. And population of one when her husband died.

Manawi's way up north. This is, you know, this kind of thing, no one really looks twice at it. And the museums of weird things, like the museum, Johnson's Museum of the Yard, the Museum of Shadows, all over the place in that state. There is no nothing boring about Nebraska. It is the weirdest place to live ever. It got to the point where, because I used to walk to school, and these Indians would be doing war drums on the newspaper, remember the newspaper machines that used to have. And it got to the point where I didn't even notice it anymore. It was so, it was so common. You know, I have, It was just a place where endless weirdness would happen.

And people, people didn't, natives didn't even give it a second look. I had to get used to it. You know, you never know what you're going to see in anywhere in Nebraska. These towns, there's a town that has three statues per person. And they're not even a famous people. They're of random people. The chef borrowed D.1 in Omaha got me let because it was, no it's not like near an Italian restaurant it was just somewhere it had no relevance there and that's

this is normal here this is perfectly normal here I'm very proud to have gone to university never the weirdest place you never knew what was real and what was in your imagination in that state all right all right just know that if I stop reading I'm probably either laughing at clown or statues to nobody's right. Very common. I'm going to try and read this. Okay. All right.

If we're ready, I'm going to try and get really serious here. All right. I do your best. I'm super serial here. All right. Picking up where we left off last time. The February Revolution was run by clowns. Okay, no, hold on.

All right, let me start over. Down the middle of the street on the yellow line with the big shoes. And it weren't in the way of, anybody. But I must have seen it maybe 10 times in the five years I was there. Like it was, you know, where's he coming from? Where's you going? There's no circus in town. This is living in, living in Nebraska is, is a, was a bizarre experience. I had to get there off my chest. Okay. All right. I'm going to try and read. Okay. Here we go. Picking up. Let me see how much of this chapter we have left.

I think we might be able to finish us today. Okay. I can't believe we're over 300, page 300. That's incredible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I never thought to see that day. Here we go. Yeah.

All right. The February Revolution itself often consciously appealed for support to Jews, an entire nation enslaved. I witnessed testimonies that Russian Jews were very ecstatic. about the February Revolution are rife. Well, again, he's tongue-in-cheek here. Obviously, he doesn't think that the entire nation is enslaved. Unless he's talking about, you know, what came later, you know,

but they were never at any point enslaved or even inconvenienced in old Russia or after the February Revolution. Yet there are counter witnesses, too, such as Gregory Aronson, who formed and led the Soviet Soviet of workers, deputies of Vibetsk, which later had as a member, Y. V. Tarl, a future historian. He wrote that on the very first day when news of the revolution reached V. Tepsk, the newly formed Security Council met in the city Duma, and immediately afterwards Aronson was invited to a meeting of representatives of the Jewish community, clearly not rank and file, but leaders. Apparently, quoting, apparently there was a need to consult me as a representative of the

new dawning era, what to do further. I felt alienation from these people from the circle of their interests and from the tense atmosphere, which was at the meeting. I had a sense that the society belonged mostly to the old world, which was retreating into the past. We were not able to eliminate a certain mutual chill that had come from somewhere. The faces of the people I was working with displayed no their faith. At times, it appeared that these selfless social activists perceived themselves as elements of the old order. You know, it wasn't, there was nothing, this was a Masonic revolution. This was like something along the lines of a more, more radical French revolution. They had honest people. And we talked about the investigative committee who exonerated the monarchy,

you know, so clearly there were honest people there. And maybe that's part of what he's, he's talking about. They weren't willing to lie about it. And they had access to more documents than any of us could ever have. Who knows what's been destroyed in the meantime? But I think that line above, maybe a translation issue, appealing support for Jews by saying that you're an entire nation enslaved. It's not like Jews weren't involved, but it wasn't an ethnic movement like the Bolsheviks were. But, you know, the immense civics were. Marxists of a type, socialists of a type, you know, there were nowhere near Leninism, but they had such ideological diversity that they weren't around long enough to really develop

policy. And what they did do had to do with the war. They're in the middle of World War I. So as far as them ruling Russia, you can't really say anything about it. So there was nothing nothing that inspired loyalty about Kerensky or the February bourgeois revolution at all. Airgrid, operator of Ireland's electricity grid, is powering up the northwest. We're planning to upgrade the electricity grid in your area, and your input and local knowledge are vital in shaping these plans. Our consultation closes on the 25th of November. Have your say, online or in person.

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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. That is a precise witness account. Such bewilderment, caution and wavering, predominated among religiously conservative Jews, one assumes not only a Vitebsk. The sensible old Jewry, carrying a sense of many centuries of experience of hard ordeals, was apparently shocked by the sudden overthrow of the monarchy and had serious misgivings. Yet in the spirit of the 20th century, the dynamic masses of every nation, including Jews, were already secular, not changed to traditions, and very eager to build the happy new world.

The Jewish Encyclopedia notes a sharp intensification of the political activity of jewelry, noticeably even against a backstorm of stormy social uplift that gripped Russia after February, 1917. You know, I've written just a ridiculous amount on this era. I don't even remember half the stuff I've written.

My book on the Soviet experiment is mostly early. USSR. It was such a complex and difficult era. But one of the things that Lenin said is that of course the February revolution was necessary.

And he said I can almost quote him directly. He said, nowhere else in the world is there this level of freedom as the Russians have after February 1917. And of course, he says, we're going to take advantage of this. This is why we can function. This is how we can function. We're going to take advantage of that and organized. And keep in mind, the czar was never overthrown.

It was his own people. these generals who wrote the fake abdication note, you know, he remained popular consistently. And it was part of the reason why you had endless peasant uprisings. You know, the Civil War really didn't end in 1921. It ended really in 1945, the end of the German invasion. You know, the German invasion actually took part in what was already an ongoing war of the peasants against. the Soviet government. You always had plenty of monarchists there. They couldn't say so openly

many times, but Nicholas remained popular until the day he was murdered. Myself, having worked for many years on the February press and memoirs of the contemporaries of the February, could not fail to notice this sharp strengthening, this gusting. In those materials from the most varied witnesses and participants of those events, there are so many Jewish names and the Jewish theme is very loud and persistent. From the memory of Rojanko, from the town governor Balk, from General Globajov, and many others, from the first days of the revolution in the depths of the Tavrinsky Tavritsky Palace, the number of Jews jumped out at me. Among the members of the Commandants Office, the interrogation commissions, the pamphlet merchants, and so on,

V. D. Nabakov, who was well disposed towards Jews, wrote that on March 2nd at the entrance of the Tavritsch-Tavrishki mini park in front of the Duma building, there was an unbelievable crush of people in shouting at the entrance of the gates, at the entrance of the gates some young Jewish-looking men were questioning the bypassers. According to Balk, the crowd that went on the rampage at the Astoria in Elite Hotel in St. Petersburg, on the night of February 28th consisted of armed soldiers. sailors and Jews. I would indulge some emigrant irritability here as they used to say, well, that's all the Jews. Yet the same was witnessed by another neutral observer. The Methodist pastor, Dr. Simons, an American who had already been in Petrograd for 10 years and knew it well. He was debrief by a commission of the American Senate in 1919. Quote, soon after the March Revolution of 1917, everywhere in Petrograd, you can see groups of Jews, standing on benches, soapboxes, and such, making speeches. There had been restrictions on the rights of Jews to live in Petrograd,

but after the revolution, they came in droves, and the majority of agitators were Jews. They were apostate Jews. You know, that always irritates me. You know, a lot of normy conservatives say stupid things like that. Although I have cited him, he is a good source of information in my book and things like that. But apostate, apostate from what? This was their religion. I guess he means apostate in the sense that these aren't religious Jews at all. But that didn't make any difference as far as your connection to liberalism or Bolshevism was concerned.

One had nothing to do with the other. I mean, some of the more extremists didn't like it, but only because they thought there'd be a nasty reaction against them, not because they were opposed to it. So, you know, and that that became kind of a common theme Americans to this day in the Senate. Now, how they have no concept of what's going on in Russia. And I've dealt with some of the laws that they've passed the Captive Nations Act in the 50s where they misspell everything. It's absolutely clueless.

They're not apostate Jews, they're Jews. And by the way, exactly what we were talking about in. the Jewish question with Karl Marx. Marx says that is the Jewish religion. That's the essence of the Jewish religion. They weren't apostate from anything. A certain student Hanuk came to Kronstadt a few days before a planned massacre of 60 officers who were named on a hit list. He became the founder and chairman of the Kronstadt's committee of the Revolutionary Movement. The order of the committee was to arrest and try each and all officers. Somebody had already prepared and disseminated false information, triggering massacres first in Kronstadt, then in Sphereborg. It was because of the

uncertainty of the situation when every fabrication was taken for a hard fact. The baton of the bloody Cronstadt affair was carried by the dropout psycho-neurologist Dr. Rochal. Later after the October coup, S. G. Rochal was appointed the commandant of the Gachina, and from November, he was the commissar of the whole Romanian front where he was killed upon arrival. Yeah, don't get it into your head that the provisional government wasn't bloody. They absolutely were. It's just when compared to the Bolsheviks, they seem absolutely peaceful and like hippies by comparison.

But they were as bloody as anyone else, given the power that they had. How much of Russia did they really control? that's, you know, that's an open question. The Reds really didn't end up controlling all of their territory until late Stalin, the late Stalin era. So I do think it's an interesting question. If the provisional government took over, the war ended, how would they then rule from there on in?

I don't know of any literature on that topic, but it would be an interesting conception. but they just weren't around long enough to become infamous. A certain Solomon and Kaplan spoke on behalf of the newly formed revolutionary militia of the Vassiliievsky Island in the future of the latter would become the bloody henchmen of Zinoviev. The Petrograd Bar created a special commission for the examination of the justice of imprisoning persons arrested during the time of the revolution. Thousands were arrested during this time in Petrograd.

that is to virtually decide their fate without due process and that of all the former gendarme and police. The commission was headed by the barrister Goldstein, yet the unique story of the petty officer Timofé Kirpysnikov, who triggered the street revolution, was written in March 1917 and preserved for us by the Jew Jacob Markovitch Fishman, a curious historical figure. I, with gratitude, relied on this story in the Red Wheel. And the Red Wheel is a great novel from Solzhenitsyn. I love how he says, the Jew, Jacob Fishman. Like, we needed to be told that he's a Jew.

But the Jews, even just by reading this, if nothing else, they saw this as a very convenient period of time where they can mobilize to take it to the next level, which is what happened in October, one form or another. I know I said this before, but it is a stain on the Russian church that the majority of business went along with this.

Yes, they did not persecute the church, as far as I know, at least not systematically, but that the majority of bishops went along with this so-called the overthrow of Zarn Nicholas is something that really, there were plenty of royalists too, but they were a minority. And it, I mean, you know, who could defend Russian Orthodoxy more than me?

But this was a terrible thing. And their excuses for supporting it were stupid. And I actually deal with that at some length as well. Employers, did you know, you can now reward you and your staff with up to 1,500 euro and gift cards annually, completely tax-free. And even better. You can spread it over five different occasions. Now's the perfect time to try OptionsCard.

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Nakamkis, Steklov, and Gomer Sukhanov. On the night of March 1st to March 2nd, they dictated to the complacently blind provisional government, a program which preemptively destroyed its power for the entire. period of its existence. Reflective contemporary GA Landau thus explains the active participation of the Jews in the revolution. Quote, the misfortune of Russia and the misfortune of the Russian jury is that the results of the first revolution, 1905, were still not processed, not transformed into a new social fabric. No new generation was born when a great and backbreaking war broke out. And when the hour of disintegration came, it came upon the generation that from the

the very beginning was a kind of exhausted remnant of the previous revolution. It found the inertia of depleted spirituality lacking an organic connection to the situation and chained by spiritual stagnation to the 10 years ago bygone period. And so the organic revolutionism of the beginning of the 20th century of the first Russian revolution in 1905 had turned into the mechanical permanent revolution of the wartime era. End quote. I'm going to say, I'm going to say one thing. There was nothing organic, meaning natural, about 1905 February or October.

All of these were artificial and all of these were pulled off by people with minimal connection to your typical Russian worker, typical Russian peasant. There was absolutely nothing organic about it, nothing natural about it. Through many years of detailed studies, I have spent much time trying to comprehend the essence of the February Revolution and the Jewish role in it. I came to this conclusion and can now repeat it. And can now repeat. No, the February Revolution was not something the Jews did to the Russians, but rather it was done by the Russians to themselves,

which I believe that I amply demonstrated in the red wheel. We committed this downfall ourselves. Our anointed czar, the court circles, the hapless high-ranking generals, obtuse administrators and their enemies, the elite intelligentsia, the Octobrist Party, the Zemstva, the cadets, the revolutionary Democrats, socialists and revolutionaries, and along with them, a bandit element of army reservists, distressingly confined to the Petersburg barracks.

And this is precisely why we perished. True, there were already many Jews among the intelligentsia by that time. Yet that is in no way a basis to call it a Jewish revolution. One may classify revolutions by their main animating forces, and then the February revolution must be seen as a Russian national revolution or more precisely a Russian ethnic revolution. Though if one would judge it using the methodology of materialistic sociologists, asking who benefited the most or benefited most quickly or the most solidly and in the long term from the revolution, and then it could be called otherwise Jewish, for example.

But then again, why not German? After all, Kaiser Wilhelm initially benefited from it. But the remaining Russian population got nothing but harm and destruction. However, that doesn't make the revolution non-Russian. The Jewish society got everything it fought for from the revolution, and the October Revolution was altogether unnecessary for them, except for a small slice of young cutthroat Jews who, with their Russian internationals' brothers, accumulate an explosive charge of hate for the Russian governing class and burst forth to deepen the revolution. It's unfortunate that it's extremely difficult to tell what percentage of

the ethnic Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian populations supported the abolition of the monarchy. I'm very low to say that it was a majority. You know, when I talked about these bishops, I don't think the clergy supported it whatsoever, lower clergy. The monks certainly didn't. But these, but the bishops certainly did. It's the same thing. You know, that's another group of people who, but it seems that the Jews were the only ones who benefited because it permitted them a period of time to mobilize and then take over in October. You know, there was no support for the provisional government because there was nothing to support.

You know, Karenski was one personality among many. and any any German support for the overthrow of the monarchy is incredibly short-sighted because they had no I mean it's easy for us to say now but they had no idea what was going to happen they had no idea what was going to replace it the empire that was going to come out of it it was deeply Masonic it was deeply elite the peasants didn't make this revolution your typical worker didn't make this revolution. Even the high-ranking officers, you know, the very high-ranking officers around Nicholas may have.

Most of them did. But, you know, we would call brigadier generals and colonels and stuff certainly didn't. But when the Civil War broke out, you had a lot of these mid-level, you know, one-star, two-star, three-star generals, you know, division-level, army level. running different factions. It was quite chaotic. I mean, you had, you know, like Capelle, you had, you know, strongly monarchist and orthodox faction while the initial mainstream was in support of the constituent assembly, which was, it's not a principle. Technically, remember, the whites were in with the army of the provisional government, sort of. That's at least where they, how they were perceived in the West.

But I think he's right to a great extent, the Jews benefited by far the most, but only in that this was a stepping stone for something else. So how, having understood this, was I to move through March 1917 and then April 1917. Describing the revolution literally hour by hour, I frequently found the many episodes and the sources that had a Jewish theme. Yet would it be right to simply pour all that on the pages of March 1917? 17, then that easy and piquant temptation to put all the blame on Jews on their ideas and actions to see them as the main reason for these events would easily skew the book and overcome the readers and divert the research away from the truly main causes of the revolution. Yeah, that's a title of a book. But it has to be said that no one, at least no one normal, would ever say the Jews were the exclusive cause of these things.

that it was entirely 100% of Jewish phenomenon. That's extremely rare to find in politics anyway. It was disproportionate. Maybe even, you know, they were extraordinarily well-represented. But no one, you know, saying all of them, all the blame, you have to be pretty stupid to say that. It's just not true. And so in order to avoid the self-deception of the Russians,

I persistently and purposely downplayed the Jewish theme in the Red Wheel, relative to its actual coverage in the press and on the streets in those days. The February Revolution was carried out by Russian hands and Russian foolishness, yet at the same time, its ideology was permeated and dominated by the intransigent hostility to the historical Russian state that ordinary Russians didn't have, but the Jews had. So the Russian intelligentsia, too, had adopted this view. This intransigent hostility grew especially sharp after the trial of the trial. and then after the mass expulsion of the Jews in 1915. And so this intransigence

overcame the moderation. Yet the executive committee of workers and soldiers deputies, which was formed within hours of the revolution, appears very different. This executive committee was, in fact, a tough shadow government that deprived the liberal provisional government of any real power, while at the same time criminally refused to accept responsibility for its power openly. By its order number one, the executive committee rested the power from the military and created its support for itself in the demoralized garrison of Petrograd. It was precisely this executive committee and not the judiciary, not the timber industrialists, not the bankers which fast-tracked the country to her doom.

In the summer of 1917, Joseph Goldenberg, a member of the executive committee explained to the French diplomat Claude and Ney, quote, the order number one was not a mistake. It was a necessity. On the day we executed the revolution, we realized that if we did not destroy the old army, it would crush the revolution. We had to choose between the army and the revolution, and we did not waver. We chose the latter and inflicted, I dare say, a brilliant blow. So there you have it. The executive committee quite purposely destroyed the army in the middle of the war. And that's precisely what Cornelov said. Now, if you read the press at the time, they're saying that this is an overdue reform of the military, patriotic reform.

That's how the American press talked about it, you know, getting everything from the system in Russia. They realized that it was the army and the army alone that could reverse all of this. Order number one, we talked about that already. I explained it already. They tried to get rid of ranks to a great extent. Soldiers didn't have to listen to officers. There were officers' committees. It just, you know, it was to destroy any kind of chain of command.

It was pretty radical. And, of course, it was eventually reversed. But by that time, it was too late. Kuhnilov ended up in opposition to the provisional government precisely because of order number one. Kournilov wrote substantially. In fact, Kornilov wrote to Kerenzki explaining how what a disaster this is. And in person, well, he also said it in person.

Kornila, Kerenzki said, yeah, I tend to agree, then tried to have him arrested the next day. Partially, that's because you had numerous centers of power. How much power Kerenzky had versus the Soviets? And the Soviets, you know, they were Bolsheviks of a type. many of them revolted against the early Soviet Union. The ideological differences were probably minimal. It's hard to tell sometimes. I think some of the local Soviets actually believed Leninist propaganda.

They actually wanted to give land a peasant, which, of course, he had no intention of doing. When that didn't happen, they got angry. Something along those lines. but I think the Soviets, really only in urban areas, very Jewish, had any real power. And that power was dispersed. So the army had to be defanged. Order number one was, you know, it was diabolical, but it was a pretty brilliant way to do it. And for the most part, it was carried out, at least in, carried out at least within the army.

It didn't last very long. But I want to remind everybody, too, and this may not necessarily be relevant to this particular issue, but the level of PTSD this country had by now, or all of Europe had by now because of World War I was extraordinary. No one saw a war like this coming. The mass of casualties, a poison gas, machine gun, the introduction of the tank later on, the air war for the first time. Trench warfare, the stagnation, the attrition. And I try to keep that. When I was writing, I continued to write my stuff on this. I'll send a few to you.

You could publish a couple of articles I have on this stuff on the site. I try to keep that in mind. Now, of course, they're a much stronger, healthier group of people than, let's say, Americans today. but I don't want to ignore that fact. Plus the fact, you know, Lennon would never, Leonard wasn't telling people what he wanted to do.

The Soviets kind of weren't. That was for the esoteric for the initiates. Yes, Lenin believed in collectivization. He wasn't going to talk about it, though. That became war communism. He couldn't say that in public. he wasn't going to talk that he's going to burn down the church he couldn't say that in public either

but that eventually happened and I think the white armies had an idea that that lennon was full of it and certainly when trotsky came back from actually was from Canada with this group of new york jews and financiers that's really where the anti-christian stuff came in but london was going to do the same anyway don't don't put all this on Stalin. Lenin and Trotsky were just as vicious in every way, shape, matter, reform. They just had a much weaker system to work with. So I try to keep this, the shock that Russians were living under. You know, not just World War I, eventually it's going to be the Civil War too.

Russians live, they're like Afghani. They live under a constant state of war from and mass casualties from 1914, pretty much, to 1945. because the peasant uprisings were often huge all over the country. The American press wouldn't talk about it. So I also want to keep that in mind when I write about it when I discuss it. But, you know, the British press didn't seem to have a huge problem with order number one, despite the fact that, you know, Russians and the British were allies in World War I. The war is still raging here.

You know, they bought the nonsense. This is just a reform. no one realized what it was except Cornelov because he saw it in practice. He refused to implement it. But you see an admission here. We did it to destroy the army. Well, they didn't say that at the time. And Kerencki wasn't alone.

Yeah, the Soviets were interested in this too. Which is another way of saying that their forces at this point, let's say spring of 1917 were very weak. just one committed general with a solid few divisions could have destroyed all of this, but they couldn't get their act together, partially because it was some of the high command that got rid of Nicholas in the first place. Is it legitimate to ask who were those successful and fatal for Russia leaders of the executive committee? Yes, it is legitimate when actions of such leaders abruptly changed the course of history. And it must be said that the composition of the executive committee greatly concerned the

public in the newspapers in 1917, during which time many members of the committee concealed themselves behind pseudonyms from the public eye. Who was ruling Russia? No one knew. Then, as it turned out, there was a dozen of soldiers who were there just for show and weren't very bright. They were kept out of any real power or decision making. From the other 30, though, of the other 30, though, those who actually wielded power, more than half were Jewish socialists. There were also Russians, Caucasians, Latvians, and Poles. Less than a quarter were Russians. I've seen many estimates all over the spectrum from kind of liberal to monarchists about Russians who actually supported the extreme left. And it's very low. And they tried to have to have.

elections for the constituent assembly, I think it was a handful showed up. A participation was nil. And I get partially because the Duma didn't really do much. And all right-wing parties were banned at this point, which is one of the things that the, both of the Karenski government and the executive committee, Soviets, workers or soldiers, deputies, all of this, they were in, you were united all right wing any kind of right wing party including the octobos were gone they were banned so it was a any any election they had was was absolutely farce going and there was nothing about these committees or soviets that was elected at all not by any definition of course they would say they were but you know um and yet they still had a lot of power and at that level

they um they were extremely jewish so the the the germs, so to speak, the cells, the outline of the future Soviet Union was already starting to show itself. The moderate socialist, V.B. Stankovitch noted, what really stuck out in the composition of the committee was the large foreign element, totally out of proportion for their part of the population in Petrograd or the country in general. Stankovic asks, was this the unhealthy scum of Russian society? Or was the consequence of the sins of the old, or was this the consequence of the sins of the old regime, which by its actions violently pushed a foreign element into the leftist parties? Or was this simply the result of free competition? And then there remains an open

question. Who bears more guilt for this? The foreign born who were there or the Russians who could have been there but weren't? For a socialist, that might be a case to look for, that might be a case to look for a guilty party. Yet wouldn't it be better for all for us, for you, for them, to avoid sinking into that mad, dirty torrents altogether? Well, unfortunately, I'm in that dirty torrent for, you know, 24 hours a day. So far as the research issue was concerned. But you can't point to just one.

There were many. I've read a billion articles roughly on what caused the fall. of what caused 1917, the various elements, and it's certainly the right-wing point of view too. And one of them is certainly the subversion of the nobility, such as they were. That masonry had penetrated very deeply. I have a paper out somewhere.

I think it's in, I don't know. Barnes Review, one of these journals on the sexual revolution, which had occurred roughly around the turn of the century. amongst the high level nobility, something that, you know, Nicholas II, if you knew about it, with his thought was disgusting, something that Alexander III would have crushed. Not to say that Nicholas was weak by any means, he wasn't, but just Alexander the third was particularly strong. Yeah, the guilt here, if I was, if I was pressed, it's the nature of the war. that they were able to take advantage of

and the extreme levels of casualties. But foreign-born, this huge amount of foreign money coming in. This was not a Russian phenomenon at any level, in the sense of your ordinary Russian. They had absolutely nothing to do. They paid for it, but they had nothing to do with it. But the very fact that so many of the bishops were in favor of this provisional government, at least at first, I mean, I have quotes after,

quote from these guys that this is a this is God's gift to us and they rule in God's name and all this garbage these were these were freemasons karensky was karensky was very high i think he was 32nd uh degree masons were you know masonry really you know had roots in in r even though it's a western phenomenon you know it was like judaism for gentiles that's how it was he knows and that's another version of the remember we talked about the um Judaizers early on in this book, you know, makes sure he was kind of like that. It never quite went away because it was secret.

You know, and they were wealthy. They can get away with it. You know, any right-wing government has to ban all of this entirely, but that's really hard to do. The Jews, of course, are front-center in all of this. There's no question about it. The partition of Poland, which introduced millions of goy-hating Talmudis into Russia was the worst thing that could have happened to the empire. I think by now we all agree on that, and that Russia from the beginning was unprepared to deal with this.

It's to Russia's credit, though, that the Russian nobility didn't do what the Polish nobility did. There's two very different systems. The Tsar was far too powerful for that to be the case. Remember, the Polish system of Jewish rule really was that the monarchy had no power. Well, you can't say that about Russia. I think it is, to Russia's credit, that they really didn't go down that road. Maybe by now, you had many Russian elites who were in debt to Jewish bankers for like to win and Churchill phenomenon where his whole family was in debt to the Jews,

Jewish bankers for their absolutely dissolute living, especially his father. E. Michael Jones talks about that too. But I said this before, but without a war and a war like this, I guess the Franco-Prussian war was as close as you were going to get, but even that doesn't come close to what World War I was. And we're coming near the end. You know, well, we're in the middle of World War I. You know, we're talking about millions of casualties with no end in sight and for no obvious reason.

That's, you know, that's the shock here. And so you have multi-layered PTSD. There wasn't a family in Russia that didn't have a son. Of course, no women, although you had an occasional nurse who got clipped, but didn't have a son who was killed or mutilated. And there certainly wasn't the resources to deal with a mutilated kid when he came home. Certainly not in provisional state, and God knows not with the Bolshevik state where the economy just collapsed. And beyond that, Western money, Western support, Western propaganda, especially from Britain.

That didn't help either. So basically, this British need, the need of this Darwinian British elite, colonialist, industrialist, their need to get Russia and Germany to fight each other. It was the ultimate cause, many steps back of what happened here. And they had no problem with it. They had no problem with February. They had no problem with October. They had a little problem with October because, you know, they had a separate peace with Germany. That caused a little, that's one of the reasons that there was some intervention in the northern part of Russia.

The only thing they really cared about was keeping Russia in the war. The Treaty of Brezbovsk was, you know, it was unpopular because it gave a lot of Russian territory away, but at least it got Russia out of the war. That was the only reason British had a problem with the October revolution. And that's why British and French troops were in Russia. There were other reasons, too. I had nothing to do with the Bolsheviks. They were allies.

And so, you know, I can't stress the nature of this, the nature of this war enough. But ultimately, the war comes from Britain. Yes, the proximate cause was Austria's invasion of, of Serbia. But there was no reason for Russians and Germans to ever go to war. And the British knew that. I've always interpreted World War I. Of course, there was, you know, an esoteric element, get rid of the monarchies and everything else. That's certainly true. But as far as the British ruling class was concerned, we have to have, we have to have these people kill each someone because we could barely compete with one of these powers, not in the far east, not in

Central Asia. There's a lot of money to be made there. We're just getting started. And the result, of course, was millions of deaths and mutilations. An entire generation slaughtered and shocked and traumatized out of their minds. And without that, none of this would have happened. of this of February or October would never have happened. As I said before, no war, no revolution.

All right. Next chapter is going to be during 1917, and looks like that's going to be a long one. So it looks like we might be on that one for a few episodes. Okay. All right. So, yep, as I always end these, go over to the show notes and go over to the descriptions of the videos.

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