The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 59

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

55 MinutesPG-13Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson is a researcher, writer, and former professor of history and political science, specializing in Russian history and political ideology.Pete and Dr. Johnson continue a project in which Pete reads Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together," and Dr' Johnson provides commentary.Dr Johnson's PatreonDr Johnson's CashApp - $Raphael71RusJournal.orgTHE ORTHODOX NATIONALISTDr. Johnson's Radio Albion PageDr. Johnson's Books on AmazonDr. Johnson's Pogroms ArticleThe Orthodox Nationalist: Karl Marx “On the Jewish Question” (1844)Pete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

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The Pekignana Show.com. Everything's there. I want to welcome everyone back to part 59 of our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenyson. Dr. Johnson, how are you today? You know, I was the biggest Black Sabbath fan in high school. You know, I was a musician. But, you know, Ozzy Osbourne, for all of the, you know, it's very surprising. He doesn't know anything about music.

He doesn't know how to read music. He never wrote a song. He has excellent excellent taste of musicians, that's for sure. But Tony Iommi and Geisha Butler created him. That's the only reason that he exists. the only reason he ever was able to to have a solo career or anything else for that matter I had to just get that off my chest again

I've been saying that since this obsession occurred did you know Ozzie died yeah I'm not yeah I know I'm being sarcastic because it's flipping everywhere is that what it is yeah yeah you know and and this guy you know he he um he's not a musician let's put it that way

Dio could could sing rings around the guy but he had very little to do with putting the songs together of those, you know, those Sabbath albums. That was Tony in music and geezer and the lyrics and to some extent, Bill. But he was as a song for the ride. He would have died as a drug addict in the 70s if Tony didn't create that band. And everything, all the stories I've heard points to the fact that. The reason they even let him sing is because he was just this weirdo who would like run around the town and like pull.

He'd have like be holding a leash in his hand and be pulling along like a stuffed bunny or something like that. I don't know, like a lunatic. Well, Tony went to school with him and he just said that he was a nuisance and a pain. He was your younger. I mean, you know, he could hit the notes. I mean, in the beginning, anyway. That's just why Tony, when the band was set up on stage, Tony was in the middle.

This was him. This was his band. And, you know, he could hit the notes and everything, but to think that he had anything to do with the creation of what was heavy metal, and they did create heavy metal, like the Ramon's created punk, is not true. You know, he was there. He's saying it.

He was adequate for what they needed at the time. I agree. Agree. All right. Starting a new chapter here, chapter 14. Ready you go? Again, it's important. And what I used to say, Willis Cardo was the Ozzy Osbourne of the nationalist movement.

I used to say that all the time because he wasn't a scholar. He didn't pretend to be one. He didn't call himself one. He wasn't really a writer. But he knew how do I. identify them. He could tell, you know, that's why I was hired, obviously, Michael Collins Piper, all the other, you know, he had a lot of great people go through there over the years. And Ozzy was the same way. He had great musicians. Everyone from Rudy Sarzo, Tommy

Aldrich to Jake Lee, he could, he had an excellent ear. He had, he, he could spot a great musician without being anything close to a musician himself. That was the one thing that he could do. Well, apparently there was this, yeah, well, apparently there was this, whole big thing about how on the on the blizzard of Oz album like lee curse like the drummer wrote most of those songs yeah yeah yeah i've heard about that have you i don't know don't don't look him up today he was he's huge he looks like a mess um assuming he's still a line maybe those are all videos but he he looks terrible it's like Tommy Aldridge Tommy Aldridge still looks the same just older Lee Curstlike I don't think has kept up with

playing or anything else. That was a great band, though. Yes, sir. All right. Chapter 14, during 1917. In the beginning of April 1917, the provisional government had discovered, to its surprise, that

Russian finances are ready for some time in quite bad shape were on the brink of complete collapse. In an attempt to mend the situation in stir enthusiastic patriotism, the government loudly announced the issuance of domestic freedom loan bonds.

Russia was in the best financial shape before the war started. Not just in terms of income. It was a creditor nation. It was feeding the world. Oil was flowing. Population was growing. But it had a tremendous amount of equality, thanks to the peasant land ownership. Of course, the war hurt that to some extent.

But once 1917 hit, there's no confidence in the economy at all. all. A lot of the foreign investment, mostly French though. And they're going to pull out. So they just didn't have any trust in it. And the Soviet

Union, from this point until the Putin era, they never reached the economic development level of the late Tsarist Empire. Now Putin's recovered it, of course. Didn't take very long.

that's how bad off these governments were that they never approached I mean they always needed food aid always and yet Russia was drowning in wheat and grain in that era it just so talking about economic collapse and it's going to do so again and again

and again over the next couple of years at least none of this came close to happening I mean there were some localized famines that's true because of a drought and things like that. The government had ways of responding to that very quickly. There weren't mass death events.

But they never came close to what Tsarish Russia had achieved by, say, 1912. Rumors about the loan had began circulating as early as March. And Minister of Finance Teroshenko informed the press that, that there were already multi-million pledges from bankers to buy bonds. Quote, mainly from the Jewish bankers, which is undoubtedly related to the abolition of religious and national restrictions, end quote. Indeed, as soon as the loan was officially announced, names of large Jewish subscribers began appearing in newspapers, accompanied by prominent front page appeals.

Quote, Jewish citizens subscribe to the freedom loan, and every Jew must have the freedom loan bonds." End quote. In a single subscription drive in a Moscow synagogue, 22 million rubles were collected. During the first two days, Jews in Tiflis subscribed to 1.5 million rubles of bonds. Jews in Minsk to half a million in the first week. The Saratov community to 800,000 rubles of bonds. In Kiev, the heirs of Brodsky and Clara Ginsburg each spent one million. The Jews of Brodskyy, abroad came forward as well. Jacob Schiff, one million. Rothschild in London, one million. In Paris on the initiative of Baron Ginsburg, Russian Jews participated actively and subscribed to several

million worth of bonds. At the same time, the Jewish Committee in Support for Freedom Loan was established and appealed to public. Could you believe this? The nanosecond, and with the collapsing economy, by the way, the millisecond, Tsar Nicholas is removed. You have millions upon millions upon millions coming in from Jewish elites. They had no idea what was going to happen. It was a very unstable situation.

It will talk about here in a minute. It was just, you know, a lot of the wealthier Jew, they were willing to lose the money if it meant maybe supporting this kind of a system. No one knew, no one had any clue about how this was actually going to work out like we do. But this was a, you know, we talked about last time, this was a Jewish government. But it wasn't just a matter of lifting the restrictions. They were in a restricted group of people.

In very specific areas, maybe that was her own fault. But this had more to do with the fact that the Tsar was gone. That they were building a new secular society, that a variant of, of socialism had taken over. That's all they cared about. You know, people will tell you, you know, these Hollywood movies that flop because they have to stick black people in it, Little Mermaid and this crap, you know, they know they're going to lose money.

They know that, you know, they do this all the time. They ruin TV shows. They know they're going to lose advertising revenue. It doesn't matter. They're millionaires already. They haven't come from all kinds. They don't care. The IMF.

was sending, I've been saying this, God almighty, since my kids were little. The IMF have been sending loans to a broken Ukraine since 2004. They know they're never going to see it again. But it doesn't matter. If it means keeping them away from Russia, they'll do it. So at that level, with these millionaires and, you know, billionaires today, they're willing to take a loss. They're willing to take a loss. sometimes a big loss for a further more important goal it's not all about profit you know it's not like these guys in hollywood just the other day discovered what the population wants to see they've always they know that these things are going to flop it's not the point it's the lay a foundation they're investing in debt well that's what a bond you know a bond is they're investing in debt um in an economy that's in serious trouble and is very unstable and has no direction. Still, by the way, in the middle of a war, which we could forget very, very easily, April 1917, but it didn't matter. None of that mattered. The Tsar was gone. These were not freedom loans.

These were celebration loans as far as the Jews were concerned. 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. 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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For encouragement, the list of major subscribers who purchased bonds on 25,000 rubles or more were published several times in the beginning of May, in the beginning of June, and in the end of July. Quote, the rich who did not subscribe were shamed. What is most striking is not the sheer number of Jewish names on the list, assimilated Russian Germans with their precarious situation during the Russo-German war were in the second place among bondholders, but the near absence of the top Russian bourgeoisie, apart from a handful of prominent Moscow entrepreneurs.

I don't know why he says, Russell, German, he means World War I. And that's a shame by itself, because the Germans were very loyal. They were very pro-Russia. Many of them were like semi-Russianized, you know, names like Witte, Stolipid. We've, you know, we've come across many German names. these were some of the most loyal monarchists in Russian politics. But because of this artificial anti-German feeling, which the press at the time was promoting in Russia,

all the short-sighted nonsense, you had very loyal people possibly living somewhat of a he says a precarious situation. It's a shame. In politics, left and center, parties burgeoned and many Jews had become politically active. From the very first days after the February Revolution, central newspapers published an enormous number of announcements about private meetings, assemblies, and sessions of various Jewish parties, initially mostly the Bund,

but later, Paul Zionist, Zionist, Socialist Zionist, territorialist Zionists, and the Socialist Jewish Workers Party. By March 7th, we already read about an incoming assembly of the all-Russian Jewish Congress. Finally, the pre-revolutionary idea of Dubnov had become widely accepted. However, because of sharp differences between Zionists and Bundes, the Congress did not materialize in 1917, nor did it occur in 1918, either because of the civil war and antagonism of Bolshevik authorities.

In Petrograd, Jewish People's Group was re-established with Venever at the helm. they were liberals, not socialist. Initially, they hoped to establish an alliance with Jewish socialists. Venever declared, quote, we applaud the Bund, the vanguard of the revolutionary movement, end quote. Yet the socialist stubbornly rejected all gestures of rapprochement. The rallying of Jewish parties in Petrograd had indirectly indicated that by the time of the revolution, the Jewish population there was already substantial and energetic. surprisingly, despite the fact that almost no Jewish proletariat existed in Petrograd, the Boone was very successful there. Or anywhere.

It was extraordinarily active in Petrograd, arranging a number of meetings of local organization in the Lawyers Club, and then on April 1st in the Tennishev School. There was a meeting with a concert in the Mikhailovsky theater, then on April 14th through 19th, the all-Russian conference of the Bund took place at which a demand to establish a national and cultural Jewish autonomy in Russia was brought forward again. After conclusion of speeches, all the conference participants had sung the Boond Anthem Oath, the International and La Marseille. How does that pronounce? Le Marseille. I don't know how to pronounce that. Now it's bullshit either way.

Yeah, it's French stuff. And, as in past, Bund had to balance its national and revolutionary platforms. In 1903, it struggled for the independence from the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, and yet in 1905, it rushed headlong into the all-Russian revolution. Likewise now, in 1917, the Boone's representatives occupied prominent positions in the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers and Socialist deputies. at least you could yeah read that yeah you read that okay a soviet is the Russian term used for an elected at least in theory council and later among the social democrats

of Kiev by the end of 1917 the boon had nearly 400 sections countrywide totaling about 40,000 members I've said it before and I'm going to say it a million times probably till the day I dropped it none of these people

none of these parties Jewish and a handful of Russians that were involved claiming to represent labor had any interest in them they didn't benefit from the revolution whatsoever they were far more oppressed under

their rule than they ever were in in czarism their bosses if they politically were correct were just simply promoted in the in the Soviet state and called proletarians, believe it or not. My book came out the Soviet experiment.

One of the main arguments in it is demonstrating, and we've done a lot of that here, actually, just what I'm saying, demonstrating that the Soviet Union, Lenin himself, Trotsky, more than anyone, Trotsky, certainly these Jews, these upper-class Jews from Poland and Pell settlement, didn't really know any workers, didn't care about workers, were threatened by workers. I mean, actual guys working in a factory, certainly peasants were out of the question. You know, guys work in machinery.

Not only that, of course, they were some of the substantial opponents of the Marxist system, not as much as a peasants were. The only way that they can get them to work is if they either lied to them or as we talked about before in 1905, forced them to go on strike. You know, it's extremely suspicious how this group who clearly has no interest in the Goyam who runs the factories, suddenly they're their spokesman overnight. And given their treatment of them later on, it's clear. And yet today, open up your first textbook on the history of the USSR. This was a worker state. Oh, it might have failed.

It might have had problems. But it was still aimed at labor. And that was never the case. Not at one point was ever the case. And he hints at it here that there was no such thing as a Jewish proletariat. That would be humiliating for them. These were essentially Jewish nationalist organizations. I shouldn't say that.

These were Jewish organizations who wanted to take revenge on their imagination, the pogroms and everything else, and destroy the ultimate symbol of old Rome, and that is, of course, our Nicholas II, who was the inheritor, who was Roman Empire, you know, going way, way back, the last Roman emperor. So that's all they cared about. We talked about why the proletariat was chosen. This is extremely important. It was because they were workers or they were oppressed. These were oppressors. You know, they were chosen because they were vulnerable. They could be manipulated.

And then the Jews can go in public and say, you know, how noble we all are supporting these people. And Marxism was just a very convenient platform for them to use to take over. Marx was very, it's very frustrating. It was only on the extreme left, really. Marxism and even most of the anarchists, you don't get a view of what the future is going to be. Marxism is entirely a criticism of what they think capitalism is, as are being paid money by capitalists to publish it. And in some cases, you know, Marx, especially in the early writings, Marx was correct. It was tremendously exploitative.

On our show, on the Jewish question, we talked about how necessary free trade was, in a broad sense, for Marxism. It was one of the stages on the way to socialism. It was an earlier version of a revolution that will soon be supplanted by the Bolshevik revolution, but it was still absolutely necessary, especially in Western Europe

Marx went back and forth He hated Slavs as did As did angles And I have paper after paper Lecture after lecture Quoting them On how much they hated Slavs And not just, you know,

the Tsar But Slavs in general, especially the peasantry This was the bulwark against revolution, Russia You know, Eastern Slavs, I should say And this is why Marx was a huge support of the Crimean War. And you would think he would be anti-war, but no, he attacked the anti-war protesters in Britain.

During Crimea, who said this isn't going very well. Russia's beating us. And I think it was called the Snowball Riot. And Marx was very upset by this. You know, you have to be very careful when reading these people. What do they mean by these terms? what really does a proletarian is a proletarian what really is a is a what's really um an enemy of the people what's really uh when they refer to the people or the masses who specifically are they talking about

it isn't everybody clearly i mean they killed enough people we know it isn't everybody they eliminate a lot of people so who are they really talking about and who is this you know who are they speaking to when they're writing the last few years i've just been focused on that, understand that when they write, and even when they speak, like, even in campaigns, although Bolsheviks didn't really campaign, they didn't run for election most of the time. But people very close to them who ran for election, they didn't give out their agenda right away. They gave very bland kind of standard, you know, liberal opinions. Only later when they take power, will they show the world what their agenda is all based on deceit.

You have to be very careful. and the whole purpose of being a scholar. This is what a scholar is, is to read this stuff and tear it apart, realizing that they don't mean what they say. You rip the veil off the noble rhetoric of these people and expose what's really underneath, which is the last thing that today's academics

in American universities are going to do. Academics, for the most part, To this day, take them at their word. And it's just something they have to do. It's ideologically convenient. And it maintains them in their very easy jobs. Air Grid, operator of Ireland's electricity grid, is powering up the Northwest. We're planning to upgrade the electricity grid in your area,

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party's uncompromising program of class warfare. Quote, through the efforts of Jewish revolutionary democracy, the power over destinies of the Jewish nation was, rested from the dirty grip of wealthy and settled Jews, despite all the resistance of bourgeoisie to the right and the bun to the left. do not allow the bourgeois parties to bring in the garbage of the old order. Do not let the hypocrites speak. They do not fight but sweated out the rights of our people on the bended knees in the office of anti-Semitic ministers. They did not believe in the revolutionary action of the masses. End quote.

Then in April 1917, when the party had split the radical socialist Poles-Zion, move toward the Zionists, breaking away from the main social democratic Poles-Zion, which later, would join the third international. And remember, this doesn't even mention so far the Masonic groups, the other smaller leftist sex all over the place. Those groups, you know, the Masons had penetrated the upper classes of late Imperial Russian society. To what extent, I mean, there's been studies on it.

It's kind of hard in academia to talk about that, but it has been done in academia, though. And certainly in Russian it's been done. But that's an entirely separate group of people. Paul is Zion always remind, there was a Masonic lodge with that name or something very close to it.

Because Zion is always in their nomenclature throughout Russian and throughout everywhere. The more radical freemations. That's a whole separate category that because of their secret of nature, it's hard to get a lot of solid information on. But here he's just talking about the

Jews, because really what he's getting at is that Jews and Marxist revolutionaries were overwhelmingly one in the same people. Now, you notice they condemn wealthy and settled Jews. That's interesting, because that's exactly, it sounds like something straight out of Marxist on the Jewish question. But that kind of language will go away after October. Like the two above-mentioned parties, the SJWP also held its statewide conference at which it had merged with the socialist Zionists, forming the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party, Farinicta, and parting with the idea of any extraterritorial Jewish nation with its own parliament and national autonomy. Fari Nicta appealed to the provisional government, asking it to declare equality of languages and to establish a council on the affairs of nationalities, which would specifically fund Jewish schools and public agencies. At the same time, Farynicta closely collaborated with the socialist revolutionaries.

However, it was Zionism that became the most influential political force in the Jewish milieu. As early as the beginning of March, the resolution of Petrograd's Zionist Assembly contained the following wording. Quote, The Russian Jewry is called upon to support the provisional government in every possible way to enthusiastic work, to national consolidation and organization for the sake of the prosperity of Jewish national life in Russia and the national and political renaissance of Jewish nation in Palestine.

End quote. And what an inspiring historical moment it was, March, 1917, with the British troops closing on Jerusalem right at that time. Already on March 19th, the proclamation of Odessa, Zionists stated, quote, Today is the time when states rearrange themselves on national foundations. Woe to us if we missed a historic opportunity, end quote. In April, the Zionist movement was strongly reinforced by the public announcement of Jacob Schiff, who had decided to join Zionists, quote,

because of fear of Jewish assimilation as a result of Jewish civil equality in Russia, He believes that Palestine could become the center to spread ideas of Jewish culture all over the world. End quote. In the beginning of May, Zionists held a large meeting in the building of Petrograd Stock Exchange when Zionist hymns performed several times. In the end of May, the All-Russian Zionist Conference was held in the Petrograd Conservatory. It outlined major Zionist objectives. Cultural Revival of the Jewish Nation.

quote, social revolution and the economic structure of Jewish society to transform the nation of merchants and artisans into the nation of farmers and workers, an increase in emigration to Palestine and mobilization of Jewish capital to finance the Jewish settlers. Both Jabotinsky's plan on creation of a Jewish Legion in the British Army and the I Trumpleddorf's plan for the formation of a Jewish army in Russia, which would cross the Caucasian. and liberate Eritz Israel, the land of Israel, from Turkish occupation, have been discussed and rejected on the basis of the neutrality of Zionists in World War I. I didn't know that Zionism had hymns, but it's very important that World War I has a year and a half left, and the Turkish Empire is on its last legs. And if they're going to be able to squeeze in somewhere there, this is a time. And they have such power, such influence among the Rothschilds and powerful Jews in Britain that they could make that happen.

It didn't happen right away. But that might be a reason for the uptick and interest in Zionism among Jews. but, you know, your shift is talking about, yes, we want, and by the way, this comes straight out of the Jewish question from Karl Marx. This is what they mean by the transformation of a nation of merchants and artisans, a nation of farmers and workers in their own state. They would never do that for Royal Russian, but for their own state, even domestically, even in New Qazardia, they would do it. but in and of itself, of course, remember, you know, so Jacob Schiff says, I'm worried about assimilation if given the emancipation.

So no one could ever win with them. They got what they've been complaining about for a long time, and now there's more complaints. And that was a fear that was an unfounded fear. But, yeah, I know you laugh when they say cultural revival, farmers and workers. That's only funny if it concerned a state run by going. Now, they're talking about now this is becoming their state,

both domestically and certainly if the British are able to wheel and deal with the, especially Russian Jews, to get them to Jerusalem. And of course, the plan to create this army, and all of a sudden they want to fight, and possibly Turkey was you know the Ottoman state at the time was very weak it had been weak for a long time

it's artificially propped up you know okay that was very unrealistic but they'd be crossing the Caucasus well Caucasus is the fundamental notal point of the Khazar Empire so in a sense

now you see somewhat of a merger between and Schiff is financing all this between certain elements of Zionism and and socialism. The state of Israel will then be as Schiff says, a center to spread the ideals of Jewish culture all over the world. No, it turned out that Jews in locally, in countries in Europe and in the U.S.,

they were the people who spread all of this through media and everything else. But before that could be done, the revival of the Jewish nation, I didn't realize they needed to be revived. They were extremely coherent at this point. So you have two forces going on, both the,

what we would call a social nationalist idea, because you have both nationalism and socialism going on. It's okay for them, but not for anyone else. And then the possibility of immigrating to Palestine. This actually became an issue in the 1970s. I've spoken about this at great length. The only time there were ever any sanctions on the Soviet Union

was concerning Jewish immigration to the Middle East. Even then, communist states were so Jewish at the higher levels any kind of mass immigration meant there were, you know, there was no one to run a bureaucracy, which is why they had to stop it. So there's a lot going on in this, in this paragraph. But the historic opportunity, yeah, you could picture Zionists being very excited about all of this. It didn't work out. You know, a new turkey took over who was very, you know, philosemitic and Masonic,

but it simply didn't happen. but those are the two elements and both elements are being financed by Jacob Schiff. 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. So together, we can create a more. reliable, sustainable electricity supply for your community. Find out more at airgrid.i.4 slash

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meaningless. It looked like the entire Russian jury with its petty and large bourgeoisie are socialists. His bewilderment was not unfounded. The Congress of Student Zionist Organization, Gekover, with delegates from 25 cities and all Russian universities had taken place in the beginning of April in Petrograd. Their resolution stated that the Jews were suffering not for the sake of equality in Russia, but for the rebirth of Jewish nation in the native Palestine. They decided to form legions in Russia to conquer Palestine. Overall, quote, during the summer and fall of 1917, Zionism and Russia continued to gain strength. By September, its members numbered 300,000, end quote.

That's not the worst thing in the world. That would have taken that many away from the revolutionary movement. You know, I have no problem with the creation of a Jewish state somewhere. They're an ethnic group. They have a right to their own state like any of us do. it's the power that they wield and what they do to the local population and their claims to you know

all this stuff, the reason the reasoning for being there and the Khazar issue and all that's a big problem they have no claim to the Middle East that doesn't mean they don't have a claim somewhere and that somewhere was never really decided until the end of World War II and that was decided and completely

false pretenses well what we came to learn was even after they get their own country. They have to have a diaspora to control other nations and to get resources from other nations. So they basically don't have to work. So the people in Israel don't have to work. Yeah, I said that, what was that? A couple of months ago, I think it came up that they all can't go to Israel. Rabbi Weiss used to say, you know, the anti-Ey. the anti-Zionist

um you know Hasidics in Jerusalem that you know this was a secular movement first of all it was an ethnic movement uh

and in order for little Israel function there has to be a substantial diaspora that's able to take control of the foreign policy or at least the Middle Eastern foreign policy of some of the more powerful countries

especially you know after World War II was the U.S. the U.S. was in no position. So there has to be that still, that level of control because, yeah, it can't function otherwise. The so-called Talmud students in Jerusalem don't work. The settlers don't work.

Their economy, and we don't know. It's not just American aid, German reparations, and everything else. It's also the Rothschild family. It's also BlackRock. So many other private organizations sending money to that country. The whole thing turns out to be just a scam. It's no different

than if the Gambino family founded their own country somewhere. How would they create it? They're not going to till the fields. And that metaphor, I know it's come up many times, and I think it works. It is less known that in 1917,

Jewish Orthodox movements enjoyed substantial popularity second only to Zionists, and ahead of the socialist parties, as illustrated by their success during elections of leadership of reorganized Jewish communities. Is that they wanted to go back to the Stettel system? Is that what that is that desire? Is that what they were desiring? They were all, they were just excited, that's all. How on were killed?

There were rallies. The Jews are together with the Democratic Russia in both love and hatred, public elections, public lectures, the Jewish question, and the Russian Revolution, citywide assemblies of Jewish high school students in Petrograd and other cities, aside from the general student meetings. In Petrograd, the central organ of Jewish students was established, though not recognized by the Bund and other leftist parties, while many provincial committees for the assistance to the victims of the war,

for example, to Jewish refugees and deportees, ceased to exist because at this time Democratic forces needed to engage in broader social activities and so the Central Jewish Committee for providing such aid was formed in April I'll stop you right there I'll stop you right there victims of the war victims of the war you had thousands of boys coming back with no arms or legs

all kinds of shell shock and blindness from the gas and their victims of the war are those who had an inconvenience because they were removed from the front lines. That says everything you need to know about this group of people. In May, the Jewish People's Union was established to facilitate consolidation of all Jewish forces to prepare for the convocation of the all-Russian Jewish Union and to get ready for the oncoming elections to the Constituent Assembly. In the end of May, there was another attempt of unification. The steering committee of the Jewish Democratic Alliance convened the conference of all Jewish democratic organizations in Russia. Meanwhile, lively public discussion went on regarding convocation of the all-Russian Jewish Congress.

The Bund rejected it as inconsistent with their plans. The Zionists demanded the Congress include on their agenda the question of Palestine and were themselves rejected by the rest. In July, the all-Russian conference on the Jewish Congress preparation took place in Petrograd. Because of social enthusiasm, Venevere was able to declare that the idea of a united Jewish nation dispersed among different countries is ripe. And that for now on the Russian Jews may not be indifferent to the situation of Jews in other countries, such as Romania and Poland. The Congress date was set for December. if you remember, I had speculated on this concept before. Zionism doesn't necessarily have to be.

And the British ended up colonizing the area. The Turks made it very difficult. At the end of World War I, it wasn't going to happen. I don't care what Jabotinsky says. And his army was ridiculous. But you could still have, given the total, I mean, the over-organization, of the Jewish population. They were so organized because there were few of them. But another version, it seems, of Zionism was you can have one single cohesive Jewish nation dispersed among many countries.

And that, too, is a form of Zionism, not necessarily just going to the Middle East. You could have another version, as I've written about more recently, in New Kazadia, which I think now is in possible based around Rabbi Schneerson in eastern Ukraine having no connection because they don't have any connection with with Middle East. Snerson and this, you know, the massive, you know, the largest Jewish community centers, the largest synagogue, the largest Jewish centers in the world were built by the oligarchs in eastern Ukraine. This was going to be in the new center of the Jewish nation.

of course this was before the war so and we talked about that it's not necessarily Zionism means that we leave that maybe but Zionism means at least in part that domestically we have we're a state within a state and then all the other major countries were states within a state there

and we function together as one single unit that too is Zionism What an upsurge of Jewish national energy it was. Even amid the upheavals of 1917, Jewish social and political activities stood out in their diversity, vigor, and organization. The period between February and November 1917 was the time of blossoming of Jewish culture and health care. In addition to the Petrograd publication, the Jews of Russia, the publisher of the Jewish Week had moved to Petrograd, publication of the Petrograd Torgblot in Yiddish had begun. A similar publications were started in other cities.

The Tarbat and Culture League, a network of secular Hebrew language schools, had established dozens of kindergartens, secondary in high schools, and pedagogic colleges, teaching both in Yiddish and in Hebrew. A Jewish grammar school was founded in Kiev. In April, the first all-Russian Congress on Jewish culture and education was held in Moscow. It requested state funding for Jewish schools, a conference of the Society of Admires of Jewish Language and Culture took place. The Habima Theater, the first professional theater in Hebrew in the world, opened in Moscow. There was an exposition of Jewish artists in a conference of the Society on Jewish Healthcare in April in Moscow.

These Jewish activities are all the more amazing given the state of general governmental, administrative, and cultural confusion in Russia, 1917. It's easy when you have all this money, when you have all these myths about pogroms. Russians were doing nothing of the kind at this period of time, having no idea what was coming to them. It was heading for them. The Jews were, this was why the Jews dominated. This is how the Jews dominate because they're so over-organized. And they're starting with the kids. As you see all these kindergartens and everything else,

to create these tamotic fanatics at a young age. And they get their way as they always do. A major event in the Jewish life at the time was a granting of official permission for Jewish youth to enlist as officers in the Russian army. It was a large-scale move. In April, the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District had issued an order to the commanders of guards' military units to immediately post all Jewish students to the training battalion at Niznyny Novgorod, with the purpose of their further assignment to military academies.

This is virtually mass-scale promotion of young Jews into the officer ranks. What could go wrong? Already in the beginning of June, 1917, 131 Jews graduated from the accelerated military courses at the Konstantinovsky Military Academy in Kiev's officers. In the summer, in 1917, Odessa, 160 Jewish cadets were promoted into officers. In June, 2,600 Jews were promoted to warrant officer rank all over Russia. Don't think they're going to the front, though. No, they're building not just a state within a state,

but you can't have a state within a state without an army, within an army. We talked about order number one and what a disaster it was, you know, Kerenzky's idea, Cornelov revolt. And, of course, with that level of chaos, the Jews took advantage and made it even more cohesive. They definitely listened to their officers. This was something that the Jews financed and promoted. The war only had a year left.

It was accelerated to get more Jews, as many Jews as humanly possible, into the army. It was seen as their army at the time. You know, Kerenzky was a high-level Freemason. However, how many went to the front? I don't know. I don't think it was that many. But it was just czarism.

an orthodoxy that they despise. Once that was gone, everything changed. Nothing to do with the freedom to do it. It was that now they have to defend it. And this, of course, became the core of what we know as the Red Army later. There is evidence that in some military academy's junkers used in Zaris, Russia for cadets and young officers, met Jewish newcomers unkindly, as in the Alexandrovsky military academy after more than 300 Jews had been posted to it. In the Mikhailovsky Military Academy, a group of junkers proposed a resolution that, quote, although we are not against the Jews in general, we consider it inconceivable to let them in the command ranks of the Russian army, end quote.

The officers of the academy disassociated themselves from this statement, and a group of socialist junkers 141 strong had expressed her disapproval, quote, finding anti-Jewish protest shameful for the revolutionary army. end quote, and the resolution did not pass. When Jewish warrant officers arrived to their regiments, they often encountered mistrust and enmity on the part of the soldiers for whom having Jews as officers was extremely unusual and strange. Yet the newly minted officers who adopted new revolutionary style of behavior

gained popularity lightning fast. I see, that line I don't fully understand what that means. They were quite unpopular. You just had order number one that pretty much dissolves the army. That was the purpose was to dissolve the chain of command. Now the Jews are being minted in these accelerated programs. Order number one is no more. Now you really have to obey your officers in this case.

On the other hand, the way Jewish junkers from the military academy in Odessa behaved was simply striking. In the end of March, 240 Jews had been accepted and see the academy. barely three weeks later on April 18th, Old Style, there was a first of May parade in Odessa, and the Jewish junkers marched ostentatiously singing ancient Jewish songs. Did they not understand that Russian soldiers would hardly follow such officers? What kind of officers were they going to become?

It would be fine if they were being prepared for the separate Jewish battalions. Yet, according to General Denneken, the year 1917 saw successful formation of all kinds of national regiments, Polish, Ukrainian, Transcaucasian, the Latvian units were already in place for a while, except the Jewish ones. It was the only nationality not demanding national self-determination and military. And every time when in response to complaints about bad acceptance of Jewish officers and army formation of separate Jewish regiments was suggested, such a proposal was met with a storm of indignation on the part of the Jews and the left, and with accusations of a spiteful provocation.

newspapers had reported that Germans also plan to form separate Jewish regiments, but the project was dismissed. It appears, though, that new Jewish officers still wanted some national organization in the military. In Odessa, on August 18th, the Convention of Jewish Officers decided to establish a section, which would be responsible for connections between different fronts, to report on the situation of Jewish officers in the field. In August, unions of Jewish warriors appeared. By October, such unions were present, at all fronts and in many garrisons. During the October 10th through 15th, 1917 conference in Kiev, the all-Russian Union of Jewish Warriors was founded. Although it was a new revolutionary army, some reporters still harbored hostility toward officer corps in general and to officers

epaulets in particular. For instance, A. Alperovich whipped up emotions against officers in general in Bergev-Vidimosti stock exchange news as late as May 5th. They didn't see this as a Russian army. They saw it as a revolutionary army, and they had to be in it to make sure that if someone they don't like takes over, it's not going to be able to use the army to shut down leftist protest. That's what this was all about. It was simply infiltration.

This was the beginning of the Red Army. We're going to do this next paragraph, and then there's a natural cutoff right there. Okay. Various sources indicate that Jews were not eager to be drafted as common soldiers even in 1917. Apparently, there were instances when to avoid the draft sick individuals passed off as genuine conscripts at the medical examining boards. And as a result, some district draft commissions began demanding photo ideas from Jewish conscripts. an unusual practice in those simple times. It immediately triggered angry protests that such a requirement goes against the repulsion of national restrictions

and the Ministry of Internal Affairs forbade asking for such IDs. Yeah, of course not. They weren't going to be drafted as common soldiers. Can you imagine? I suppose it would be willing to be drafted that way if they had Jewish officers, but there was no way to know that at the time. the Jews had become genius at dodging the draft, straight up until the Vietnam War, you know, which was sort of the American leftist revolution that we're still suffering under, started then.

But this is, yeah, they see it here. This was a new revolutionary army, and hence it's a Jewish army. we have to make sure that if someone we don't like takes over if Kerenzky is replaced by someone else or if there's a military coup there's going to be a lot of Jewish officers and Jewish soldiers that can fight back. That's the point here. That's the purpose here.

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