The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 63

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

54 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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I'm going to say, well, you know, Pete, I'm doing very well. Because, frankly, I am. And I can't believe we've come this far. And this is chapter 15. This is what our listeners, our friends, have been waiting for, for God knows how long. And I definitely encourage people to, you know, take you whatever, however you're seeing this or hearing this to repost it in different places. This is the stuff that everyone is, everyone talks about.

And it's very important that everyone talk about it. And have someone like Charles Anitin backing us up. It was a wonderful thing he did before he died, just before he died. All right. Chapter 15, alongside the Bolsheviks. This theme, the Jews alongside the Bolsheviks, is not new far from it. How many pages already written on this subject? The one who wants to demonstrate that the revolution was anything but Russian, foreign by nature, invokes Jewish surnames and pseudonyms,

thus claiming to exonerate the Russians from all responsibility in the Revolution of 17. As for the Jewish authors, those who denied the Jews sharing, the revolution as well as those who have always recognized it, all agreed that these Jews were not Jews by spirit. They were renegades. We also agree on that. We must judge people for their spirit. Yes, they were renegades. But the Russian leaders of the Bolshevik party were also not Russians by spirit. They were very anti-Russian and certainly anti-Orthodox. With them, the great Russian culture reduced to a doctrine into political calculations, was distorted. Well, there's one thing I want to say in no way, and I've read countless Russian authors in the original talking about this, there's no way I could list them all.

And none of them talking about the Jews and Bolshevism ever say that, therefore, the Russians are exonerated. They realize that ethnic Russians do have a share in this, permitting them to do what they did. you know, becoming degenerate, at least at the nobility. No one has ever said that. Now, Solzhenitsyn here is talking about the Russian press. How many thousands of pages? Well, for your average norming in the U.S., he has never come across this. Professors, alleged specialists in this have never come across it.

It's, you know, it's censored. It's not in libraries. If they find it, they find it by accident. They're not going to find it on Google. So in Russia, however, it's extremely common. You find it everywhere. But he's right to say that, yes, there are thousands and thousands of pages on the Jewish connection to Bolivism. It's absolutely absurd now, ridiculous for Jews to try to deny it or anyone to try to deny it.

And as Michael Jones will say, the very nature of of, you know, Khazar Judaism is to be renegade. They weren't renegades. The whole spirit was as a renegade. That's what the rejection of logos leads to. That's what the Jews were and are wherever they go. The question should be asked in another way, namely, how many scattered renegades should be brought together to form a homogenous political current? What proportion of nationals?

As far as the Russian renegades are concerned, the answer is no. alongside the Bolsheviks there were enormous numbers and unforgivable number. But for the Jewish renegades, what was, by the enrollment and by the energy deployed, their share in establishment of Bolshevik power. Another question concerns the attitude of the nation towards its own renegades. However, the latter was contrasted ranging from abomination to admiration, from mistrust to adherence. it has manifested itself in the very reactions of the popular masses, whether Russian, Jewish, or Lithuanian, and life itself much more than in the briefings of historians. And finally, can nations deny their renegades? Is there any sense in this denial? Should a nation remember or not remember them? Can it forget the monster they have begotten? To this question, the answer is no doubt. It is necessary to remember.

Every people must remember its own renegades. Remember them as their own. So that there is no escape. Yeah, that's good as far as it goes. But, you know, we've been through the numbers before. All of our listeners know what the numbers are in terms of their radically disproportionate element, at least in leadership positions. but there's no way that something like this could function without a Russian, Ukrainian, whatever it is, element.

But there were foreigners, not just among Jews, but from Western Europe, from the U.S., and we talked about in our discussion of Shinebaum in Mexico, that the party in Mexico was founded by an Indian, a Japanese guy, and a bunch of Jews. You know, so it's not merely Jews, but it certainly was, it certainly was foreign and keep something very important in mind. The average, I want to say the average Russian at the time, the average literate Russian at the time, I think would, I think would struggle to tell you what a Bolshevist is. And that's their own fault because the Bolsheviks would never tell the truth about what they believed in.

In 1917, Lenin's agenda, which he put out in front of everybody, was a lie. He believed in none of it, no more than he believed in Ukrainian nationalism, which he tried to promote briefly to destroy its connection to Russia. So, depending on the audience, Bolshevism was whatever Lenin needed it to be. He and Trenzky knew exactly what it was. And it was even worse for Englishmen and Americans. I also want you to keep in mind that in America, not so much in Britain, in America, there were like eight people who knew anything about Russia. It really was at the end of World War II that you started having people who specialized in Russian history. There were no, Russian history was something you didn't study in the U.S. in the early 20th century. There were, at Harvard, I think, had a Russian language program.

you had very few people in government who knew anything about it. God knows in Congress, the military who knew anything about it. This was a huge black spot. So how much more would Bolshevism be? We've already discussed all the factions or semi-factions of the far left,

all of them Jewish, you know, on their leadership levels, making it even more complicated. So you think of the average literate Russian and I'm not sure he knew what Bolshevism was really all about, not until the Civil War began. You catch them in the corner of your eye, distinctive by design.

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all Russian history and a fortiori Orthodoxy. From Russian literature, he had retained only Shernashevsky and Soltakov Chirdrin, Turgenev, with his liberal spirit, amused him and Tolstoy, the accuser, too. He never showed the least feeling of affection for anything, not even for the river, the Volga, on whose banks his childhood took place, and he did not hesitate a lawsuit against his peasants for damage to his lands. Moreover, it was he who pitilessly delivered the whole region to the appalling famine of 1921. Yes, all this is true. But it was we, the Russians, who created the climate in which Lenin grew up and filled him with hatred.

It is in us that the Orthodox faith has lost its vigor, this faith in which he could have grown instead of declaring it a merciless war. How can one not see him as a renegade? And yet, he is Russian, and we Russians, we answer for him. His ethnic origins are sometimes invoked. Lenin was a mestizo issued from different races. His paternal grandfather, Nikolai Vailashevsky, was of Kalmik and Shuvash blood. His grandmother, Anna Smirnova, was a Kalmik.

His other grandfather, Israel, Alexander of his name, baptism. Dividovich Blank, was a Jew. his other grandmother, Anna Ivanova Gropov, was the daughter of a German and a swede, Anna Bida Estad. But that does not change the case. For nothing of this makes it possible to exclude him from the Russian people. We must recognize him in him a Russian phenomenon on the one hand, for all the ethnic groups which gave him birth, have been implicated in the history of the Russian Empire, and on the other hand, a Russian phenomenon, the fruit of the country we have built, we Russians in a social climate, even if he appears to us because of his spirit

always indifferent to Russia, or even completely anti-Russian, as a phenomenon completely foreign to us. We cannot, in spite of everything, disown him. Well, maybe that's going too far. London was obviously a foreigner. We've spoken about this. I think it was last week. People loved to believe that Lenin and Solomon were Jews. They were not. I did mention the grandfather here, Israel Blanc.

That's pretty much as close as he got. But because it wasn't obvious in his appearance or in his name, he was very useful. as the head of this movement, which was heavily Jewish. You know, the whole question of ethnicity, ethnic nationalism has been my obsession since I was, you know, I grew up in a town, heavily ethnic between Italians and Jews and us.

I don't have a drop of Russian blood in me as far as I know, but I'm Russian Orthodox and an expert in Russian-Ukrainian history. and I've had major people, as we've talked about before, Russian imperial union orders saying that I understand Russia more than most Russians do at an intuitive level, not merely at an intellectual level. That's been said of me before. It was also said of Sarah from Rose, who is Anglo-Saxon as far as I know. I'm an Irishman.

So to some extent, I know St. John Maximovic said this too, The only kind of positive thing about the revolution is you had so many Russian Orthodox exiles that the faith was spread all over the planet. People who had no connection to it before were coming across it. Now, the problem there was that the exiles, unlike the Jews, were extremely closed dog. It was difficult to me. They didn't speak English, even if they could. They were wary of outsiders.

I had to kind of be patient. And I know other people have come across this as well, because everyone I came across was a native. I had to be patient until they accepted me. So all the newspapers were in Russian. But still, people like myself, I'm not comparing myself to them, but Sarah from Rose, that whole bunch of people,

so many abbots now. So many bishops that have German names who have, you know, Anglo names, that we've had to, you know, take the torch, so to speak, take the baton, while so many with V at the end of their name in Russia just refuse. And, you know, it's kind of odd being, you know, a specialist in an area where you were in. not a member of the ethnicity. But so many people have mentioned this to me that I can't, you know, I'm not going to deny it anymore. But it's true. You know, masonry had deeply infiltrated the Russian nobility.

The sexual revolution had taken over, which we were with Peter the Great's purpose in St. Petersburg, the wealthy. The church had been silenced in the 18th century. I've I've I've I've I've I've a book coming out on that at some point It recovered in the 19th Produced many many great saints So and then it began a tremendous missionary and social Movement just before just before the war

I mentioned st. John of Cronstadt he's your art typo result of that So even from the Petrine era, the very beginning of the 18th century, being Russian in St. Petersburg was a negative. That's why he shaved off beards. You couldn't wear Russian dress.

He used Roman style architecture. So that would mean someone like me would be far more Russian than anyone over there at the time. You know, regardless of my ethnic background. Alexander Dugan always said that Russia is a civilization, far more than it is just an ethnicity or race. It's obviously an ethnicity, but Russian culture is based on the church. I can't think of pretty much anything, culturally speaking, even to the cuisine that isn't connected to the church or the calendar at one form or another.

So if you're going to destroy the church, Russian culture ends up being purely symbolic. You know, you read Tolstoy once in a while or something. And that's pretty much as far as it goes. It becomes symbolic. You go to the Russian tea room in New York City. That's all it is. Making matters worse, we have the entirely Jewish mafia in America being called Russian, including by a very important guy on YouTube,

social media with tremendous following, Michael Francis, who worked with them, and he keeps calling them Russian. None of them have Russian names, but he keeps calling them Russians. They weren't, one Jew after another.

And what was their headquarters? The Odessa in Brooklyn, a bar. They were, you know, and they spoke Russian, I guess most of them, But, you know, that's the complexity we're dealing with here. And it's a culture. And the church was at the center.

You can convert to Russian Orthodoxy. You can't convert to an ethnicity. But over time, especially when you live the life I do, you try to cut yourself off from the world as much as humanly possible, you can become immersed into, you know, Sobarnost, Subonopravna, whatever you want to call it. and live that way. But it is a struggle.

So these Russians, and Sultan Easton talks about it in his other books, I think all of his other books, all of these guys who just were Licksbittles when it was clear that the Red were going to win the war. Oh, I was with you all along. You know, they joined the party just to get a good job. You know, they spouted all the slogans. They did what they were told.

And believe what they read in Pravda. you know, and toss and places like that. So it's the same situation over and over again. But the ethnic part of it, because of the Russian dispersal, because of the revolution, has been, it's been shown that the church really is the core of it. And because you convert to that, they have converts to essentially Russian civilization. What about the Jewish renegades? as we have seen during the year 1917, there was no particular attraction for the Bolsheviks that manifested among the Jews,

but their activism has played its part in the revolutionary upheavals. At the last Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, London 1907, which was, it is true, common with the Mensheviks, of 302 to 305 delegates, 160 were Jews, more than half. It was promising. then after the April 1917 conference, just after the announcement of the explosive April thesis of Lenin, among the nine members of the new Central Committee were G. Zonoviev, L. Komenov, I.A. Svarydlov, at the sixth summer Congress of the RK.P, the Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the new name of the RSDLP, 11 members were elected to the Central Committee, including Zinoviev, Svardloff, Trotsky, Yuritsky.

Then at a historic meeting at Karpakov Street, Carpcov Street, in the apartment of Himmer and Flaxerman on October 10, 1917, when the decision to launch the Bolshevik coup was taken, among the 12 participants were Trotsky, Zinoviev, Khamov, Svarylov, Yurikov. It was there that was elected the first Politburo, which was to have such a brilliant future, and among its seven members, also the same, Trotsky's, and Oviyev, Kaminov, Sakonikov, which is already a lot. Diaspastmanic clearly states, there is no doubt that the Jewish renegades outnumbered the normal percentage. They occupied too great a place among the Bolshevik commissioners. Yeah, and I want to say they weren't renegades.

That's the whole point. We discussed that going back to 1905. They used the pogroms to create this false sense of, well, a mythical world that created their tremendous cohesion. That didn't go away. This was a Jewish movement. You did have some of the more extreme, you know, Hesedem who were worried about the atheism and stuff. But that didn't really matter. This was a Jewish movement supported. by Russian Jews overwhelmingly, especially once the Reds won. Inflation pushes up building costs, so it's important to review your home insurance cover to make sure you have the right cover for your needs.

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Basically, because of his internationalism and following his dispute with Abundance in 1903, Lenin adhered to the opinion that there was not and never would be such a thing as a Jewish nationality, that this was a reactionary action which disunited the revolutionary forces. In agreement with him, Stalin held the Jews for a paper nation and considered their assimilation inevitable. Lenin, therefore, saw anti-Semitism as a maneuver of capitalism, an easy weapon in the hands of the counter-revolution, something that was not natural. He understood very well, however, what mobilizing force the Jewish question represented in the ideological struggle in general.

And to exploit, for the good of the revolution, the feeling of bitterness particularly prevalent among the Jews, Lenin was always ready to do so. From the first days of the revolution, however, this appeal proved to be oh so, necessary. Lenin clung to it. He who had not foreseen anything on the plane of the state had not yet perceived how much the cultivated layer of the Jewish nation, and even more so its semi-cultivated layer, which, as a result of the war, was found scattered throughout the whole of Russia, was going to save the day throughout decisive months and years. To begin with, it was going to take the place of the Russian officials massively determined to boycott the Bolshevik power.

This population was composed of border residents who had been driven out of their villages and who had not returned there after the end of the war. For example, Jews expelled from Lithuania during the war had not all returned after the revolution. Only the small rural people had returned, while the urban contingent of the Jews of Lithuania and the young had stayed to live in big cities of Russia. Yeah, we also discussed, believe it or not, in the Mexican case, Seinbaum comes from the, her grandfather and uncle were from that part of the world prior to the revolution. And there was a Lithuanian Soviet, sorry, Lithuanian Soviet war roughly around this time, and they had to leave. There was a brief Lithuanian People's Republic.

It wasn't entirely Jewish, unlike the Hungarian and some of the German, but it was about the names. the names were maybe a quarter from what I could see. Some were very obvious. Some were clearly, and I looked them all up and they're not pseudonyms for the most part. But again, that has more to do with separatism and their opposition to Russia than Bolivism. So it's not just that people didn't know what Bolshevism was. People used it. I mean, Lenin's organization, Trotsky's organization, and the money they received was such that regardless of their low, you know, low level of support and population, ridiculously low levels of support. They were always well funded. And as I've written before, they were willing to use methods of warfare that no one else is willing to do. The Red Army was commanded by so many Russian officers from the Imperial era that had their families taken hostage. Well, the whites didn't do anything like that.

So even though there was a small number, methods like this and Jewish money, foreign money coming in, created a what was artificially large movement. And even the Red Army during the Civil War had plenty of foreigners in it in it too. In fact, many of them were. You talked about, you know, Transky going back and forth, Seinbaum's family going back and forth, you know, starting a movement here, starting movement. there getting money from here, getting money from there, signing a contract here, to make sure that they had the money. White, there were soldiers. They had no capability of this.

And so that just adds to the complexity here. I think at this point, people were starting to learn exactly what Bolshevism was, but they had to see it. They had to witness it. Because even the Cossacks at first were kind of neutral. until they saw what they did with their own eyes during the Civil War in the southern part of Russia. So so many Russians, Ukrainian and Cossacks, they had to see for themselves, and then they were able to some extent mobilize. But the mobilization was nothing like the Bolsheviks were capable of doing, like the Jews were capable of doing.

And it was precisely after the abolition of the Pala settlement in 1917 that the great exodus of Jews from its boundaries into the interior of the country ensued. This exodus is no longer that of refugees or ex-spellees, but indeed of new settlers. Information from a Soviet source from the year 1920 testifies in the city of Samara in recent years. Tens of thousands of Jewish refugees and espalese have established themselves. In Erkutsk, the Jewish population has increased reaching 15,000 people. Important Jewish settlements were formed in central Russia as well as on the banks of the Volga and the Urals. However, the majority continue to live in sub-Subil, subsidies from social welfare and other philanthropic organizations.

And here are the Izvestia, calling for the party organizations, the Jewish sections, and the departments of the National Commissariat, to organize a vast campaign for the non-returned to the tombs of the ancestors and for the participation in the work of production in Soviet Russia. But put yourself in the place of the Bolsheviks. They were only a small handful that had seized power, a power that was so fragile, in whom great gods could one have confidence? Who could be called to rescue? Simon Dementstein, a Bolshevik from the very beginning,

and who, since January 1918, was at the head of the European Committee, specifically created within the Commissariat of Nationalities, gives us the thought of Lenin on this subject. Quote, the fact that a large part of the Middle Jewish intelligentsia settled in Russian cities has rendered a proud service to the revolution. They defeated the vast sabotage and a prize we faced after the October Revolution, which was a great danger to us.

They were numerous, not all, of course, far from it, to sabotage this sabotage, and it was they who, at that fateful hour, saved the revolution, end quote. Lennon considered it inappropriate to emphasize this episode in the press, but he remarked that if we succeeded in seizing and restructuring the state apparatus, it was exclusively thanks to the pool of new civil servants, lucid, educated, and reasonably competent. It's really hard to separate the individual from the ethnic group here. Jews really functioned as one unit. They may have disagreed. They may have been like the old Soviet types. They may have been Mensavics, but the Red Army and the very early Soviet government absolutely depended on them.

and they were paid well. You know, they didn't have to work very hard in the beginning. The dying was done by others, of course. But that's, you know, you said that. You know, you said, I think it was a week ago, two weeks ago, you said, it seems that all of these movements lead to Jews not working, not having to work. We were talking about Israel. We were talking about the Hasidim in,

in Jerusalem. And again, what Bolshebism ultimately became, and no one was talking about central planning at this point. But central planning implies ownership of all productive capital

in the country. And this is how Lennon, Trotsky became extremely wealthy men. I've said that they acted like mafia group and they did. They were skimming consistently. They didn't believe in revolution as a way to protect the workers.

They despise the workers. This was a form of enrichment. And this is kind of a new argument. The literature doesn't talk about it too much for obvious, but not even the Russian literature talks about it too much, is that Jews leaving the massive pale of settlement, which they could do anyway, but now it was, I guess, official.

and taking up residence in these cities, immediately becoming the backbone of the far left. Even if not Bolshevik, they became Bolshevik when they realized that they had no other choice. Inflation pushes up building costs, so it's important to review your home insurance cover to make sure you have the right cover for your needs. Under-insurance happens where there's a difference

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Get the facts. Be drinkaware. Visit drinkaware.com. The Bolsheviks thus appealed to the Jews from the very first hours of their takeover, offering to some executive positions to others' tasks of execution within the Soviet state apparatus. Oh, that word. And many, many answered the call and immediately entered. The new power was in the desperate. need of executors who were faithful in every way. And there were many of them among the young

secularized Jews who thus mingled with their colleagues, Slavs and others. These were not necessarily renegades. There were among them, some without political party affiliation, persons outside the revolution who had hitherto remained indifference of politics. For some, this approach was not ideological. It could be dictated only by personal interest. It was a mass phenomenon. And for From that time, the Jews no longer sought to settle in the forbidden countryside. They endeavored to reach the capitals. Quote, thousands of Jews joined the Bolsheviks in crowds, seeing them as the most fierce defenders of the revolution and the most reliable internationalists.

The Jews abounded in the lower levels of the party apparatus. So remember, I mean, there's only so many Jews there. And now became a problem, which is why Trotsky and so many others had to go abroad and bring them back. So not just the Jews from the pale of settlement, but throughout Europe and even the U.S. had to be brought back. It wasn't just the domination of the leadership. It was also within the lower levels, especially of the media and the punitive organs, like De Cheka. The Jew who obviously could not have come from the nobility, the clergy or the civil service, found himself among the ranks of the personalities of the future of the new clueless.

clan. In order to promote the Jews' commitment to Bolshevism at the end of 1917, while the Bolsheviks were still sketching out their institutions, a Jewish department within the Commissariat of nationalities began to function. The department was, since 1918, transformed into a separate European commissariat. And in March 1919, at the 8th Congress of the RKP, the Communist European Union of Soviet Russia was to be proclaimed as an integral but autonomous as part of the RKP. The intention was to integrate this union into the common turn and thereby permanently undermine the Bund, especially European section within the Russian telegraph agency was also created.

Roste. D. Shubb justifies these initiatives by saying that, quote, large contingents of the Jewish youth joined the Communist Party, following the pogroms and the territories occupied by the whites from 1919 onwards. but this explanation does not hold the road. For the massive entry of the Jews into the Soviet apparatus occurred toward the end of the year 1917 and during 1918, there is no doubt that the events of 1919, C. Chapter 16, strengthened the link between the Jewish elites and the Bolsheviks, but they in no way

provoked it. Another author, a communist, explains the particularly important role of the Jewish revolutionary in our labor movement by the fact that we can observe with the Jewish workers, highly developed the traits of character required of any leading role, traits which are still in draft form among the Russian workers, an exceptional energy, a sense of solidarity, a systematic mind. I think that by now, people who have been listening to this from the beginning, know that the word ethnic cohesiveness has been one of the core links in this entire story.

But that solidarity needs to be created, even if it has to be invented, the pogroms and everything else. They have to create at least some level of anti-Semitism so that they remain, just like the shuttle used to function. That's how they kept poor Jews within it. So this was the core idea. And the whites were accused of pogroms that, of course, never happened. And this was a way of any any, any, any, any. Jews who eventually, of course, you had a clash between Stalin and Trotsky, you had a bunch of Jews leaving. And following Trotsky, we've talked about that already before he was asked. They eventually became neoconservatives.

But, you know, what we just read here, there's no getting out of it. And Jews, this will never happen, of course, but Jews have to take stock of themselves. They have to reflect on who they are that they created. this level of misery and pain and agony in the world. And they took what was a very healthy, prosperous society run by the monarchy that I'll put up against any European power in terms of prosperity, wages, whatever you want, religiosity, and destroyed it solely for their own profit. They're going to have to, you know, and they'll never take stock of themselves. They'll never reflect. They demand that of everybody else.

They'll never do it. Every once in a while, you come across one who realizes this. Maybe one is listening right now. But the Jewish mentality is such that it really can't take stock of themselves. They can't reflect on what they've done. There's no question here. And I've come across mainstream writers in the Russian language who agree with all of this. There's no getting out of it anymore.

You just, you have to lie if you want to deny that this was a Judaic movement. And the Bund, of course, this wasn't necessary anymore because the Bolsheviks for now, the Jewish left. What was a Bund there for? So you had personal, probably, you had turf issues. No real issues in terms of ideology. There was no ideological issues between Lenin and Stalin, at least not before Stalin, Trotsky left. Then all of a sudden, everything Stalin did was wrong. But prior to that, he was, you know, there were all the same.

same mind, ideologically speaking, which is, which is impressive. You can't say that about the whites, but Jews, you know, however you want to slice it in Russia, this was their movement. It would not have existed if the Russian Empire hadn't taken those chunks of Poland during the late 18th century and the partitions after the destruction of the Polish Empire. Few authors deny the role of organizers that was that of the Jews in Bolshevism. D.S. Pazmanek points out, The appearance of Bolshevism is linked to the peculiarities of Russian history, but its excellent organization, Bolshevism, is due in parts of the action of the Jewish commissioners.

The active role of the Jews in Bolshevism did not escape the notice of observers, notably in America. Quote, the Russian Revolution rapidly moved from the destructive phase, to the constructive phase, and this is clearly attributable to the edifying genius inherent to Jewish dissatisfaction. In the midst of the euphoria of October, how many were not, the Jews themselves admit it, with their heads held high, their action within Bolshevism? Well, that first sentence bothers me a little bit. A few authors deny organizers for the Jews.

Well, in America, they certainly do deny it. I know this from personal experience. I was a professor for 20 years all over the country. I never pushed an agenda, unlike my colleagues who did all the time. Because I truly believe that if all the systems were given a rational and objective description to people, ours would win. And of course, the stuff is going to come up, but I'm not going to lie about it. Yes, this was a simple fact. Here are the names.

and that was enough to get you into trouble because, of course, that's not true or that's just Nazi propaganda or whatever it is. Truth wasn't relevant. Now, I wasn't removed from a few places for that, but I got into trouble for it. As I've mentioned to you before,

only one Jewish professor came to my defense at that point. But, you know, truth is no defense in these cases, but in the U.S., tenured professors dealing with Russian-Ukrainian history, they will deny that the Jews controlled Bolivism. It's not an issue that they bring up. The only people who might specialists, who are actually of Jewish background,

they may get away with it. But in that case, they're not even saying it as a negative. They're saying it as a positive because so many professors love the red victory in them in the civil war. so and because Russia's always front page news, Russia is the center of the world. This stuff is of crucial importance. Let us remember, just as before the revolutionaries and liberal radicals had been quick to exploit for political purposes and not for charity. The restrictions imposed on Jews.

Likewise, in the months and years that followed October, the Bolsheviks with the utmost complacence used the Jews within the state apparatus in the party to, not because of sympathy, but because they found their interest in the competence, intelligence, and the particularism of the Jews towards the Russian population. On the spot, they used Latvians, Hungarians, Chinese. These were not going to be sentimental. Yeah. The Jewish population in its mass showed a suspicious, even hostile attitude toward the Bolsheviks.

But when, as a result of the revolution, it had acquired complete freedom which fostered a real expansion of Jewish activity, in the political, social, and cultural spheres, a well-organized activity to boot. It did nothing to prevent the Bolshevik Jews from occupying the key positions, and these made an exceedingly cruel use of this new power fallen into their hands. Yeah, they were suspicious of any power.

That first sentence has to be put in context. You know, they're not hostile to a group of people who say that we're going to ban all manifestations of anti-Semitism. People didn't know that about, them. You know, Jews were, Bolivism was the Jewish political expression at the time for the most part. The far left was the Jewish expression at the time. You know, any Jew that was a right winger, who was a royalist, will eventually convert it to orthodoxy, which there were several,

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cause make your awards more rewarding visit optionscar.i.e. today. From the 40s of the 20th century onwards after communist rule broke with international Judaism Jews and communists became embarrassed and afraid and they preferred to stay quiet and concealed the strong participation of Jews in the communist revolution. However, the inclinations to remember and name the phenomena were described by the Jews themselves as purely anti-Semitic intentions. In the 1970s and 1980s, under the pressure of new revelations, the vision of the revolutionary years was adjusted. A considerable number of voices were heard publicly. Thus, the poet Nehume Korsavin wrote,

If we make the participation of the Jews in the revolution a taboo subject, we can no longer talk about the revolution at all. There was a time when the pride of this participation was even prized. The Jews took part in the revolution and in abnormally high proportions. M. Agorski wrote on his part, the participation of the Jews in the revolution and the civil war has not been limited to a very active engagement in the state apparatus. It had been infinitely wider.

Similarly, the Israeli socialist T. Soril Nikoff asserts, at the beginning of the revolution, the Jews served as the foundation of the new regime. Again, you're not going to hear... I mean, I haven't been an academia in a while. the last time with probably 2017, maybe I'm missing something. I don't think so. I still think that, at least in the U.S., this isn't something that's going to be discussed.

Now, prior to the 40s, the Soviet state claimed that it was the October revolution of the Russian people. That's what created our legitimacy. afterwards. It was their victory in World War II. And it's something, unfortunately, that Vladimir Putin continues to support from the old Soviet nationalist point of view, the Eurasianist point of view. That's the one thing I disagree with him on heavily, even though I'm a big fan of his. But that's still the central core of his generation.

He's 72 now. that generation, you know, was not around many Jews, was hostile towards the Jews. Jews had removed themselves from the USSR roughly by the 1970s. Because the USSR was supporting Syria and Iraq and any anti-Zionist movement. This was a big problem. And of course, the whole Jackson-Vanagan Amendment and everything else. But World War II, at least at this point, is what kept Jews connected to the system.

We'll talk about this a bit later, because also in each, and we'll talk about the great myth that Solomon was his anti-Semite. He wasn't. He was surrounded by Jews. The purge was of people who really weren't modern state bureaucrats.

They were revolutionaries. Same thing goes for the army. These were guys that were very good in revolutionary guerrilla context, but not in a modern army. That's why he removed so many people. He didn't kill them. He removed all of these people. And since so many of them were Jews, it looks like he was anti-Semitic. Now, I mentioned this before, but that's the problem that

intellectuals have in the U.S. So you have to call Stalin anti-Semitic. Either that, or you have to admit that Bolshevism in the beginning prior to, you know, the World War II was Jewish. So him getting rid of the revolutionaries and keeping on the truly military, the Zhukovs, is that basically because of the icebreaker thesis is that he's going to invade Europe and it would be better he needs. Yes. Yeah, strong military minds. I came across that for the first time in Yolkim Hoffman's Stalin's War of Extermination,

which is the best similar icebreaker. thesis extremely well done. And that's the first time he goes through at great length what these purges were. Icebreaker Uh, yes, Suvorov does in a couple of books actually. Yeah, the men that he got rid of were great for a revolutionary style war, civil war, a guerrilla war, but not, yeah, if you're going to invade Europe, these are not the men for it.

You need actual normal military guys like Zukov. And you had a lot of young guys coming through the academies that were that were willing to take that role. Yeah, most of them were Jews. It's true. But that's why he purged it. That's why that all occurred. What was good in 1918 wasn't good in 1941. And it's precisely because he was going to invade Central Europe that he needed a fully professional army and fully professional civil service.

But there are also many Jewish writers who, up to this, date either deny the Jews contribution to Bolshevism or even reject the idea rashly or, this is the most frequent, consider it only reluctantly. However, the fact is proven. Jewish renegades have long been leaders in the Bolshevik party, heading the Red Army, Trotsky, the VTSIK, which is the all-Russian central executive committee, Svardloff, the two capitals, Zinoviev, the common turn, Zinoviev, the Pruffin turn, Drizzo-Lozovsky and the Komsomel, Oscar Rifkin, and later Lazar Shotskin, who also headed the international communist youth.

It is true that in the first Sovnarcom, there was only one Jew, but that one was Trotsky, the number two behind Lenin, whose authority surpassed that of all the others. And from November 1917 to the summer of 1918, the real organ of the government of the government was not the Sov-Sov-Narkum, but was what was called the little Sov-Sov-Norke, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Caroline, Proshian. After October, the VT-I-I-K-Syk-Sykoyk-Sykoyk-Kympkis, was of equal importance to that of the Sov-Norkev, Sov-Norkemkampkis. Keep in mind, remember, and those of us who have personal experience in dealing with Jews at the organizational level, they don't have to have a majority

to run an organization. All they need is the greatest level of cohesion. They could be a small minority and still run the organization. And this is something that they depended on throughout every, there's only so many Jews. And yet this state and party, the apparatus was massive. So it was just enough. I mean, some of them were completely dominated, but not all of them. And, but that's, that's irrelevant. They were still Judaic, even though they weren't necessarily all Jews. They thought like Jews.

Last paragraph. M. Agorski, M. Agorski. And when I say that, it sounds like one thing, but it's M. Agorski rightly points out, for a country where it was not customary to see Jews in power. What a contrast. A Jew in the presidency of the country, a Jew in the ministry of war. There was there something to which the ethnic population of Russia could hardly accustom itself to. Yes, what a contrast, especially when one knows of what president, of what minister it was. At this point, it's pretty clear to anyone who wasn't benefiting

from the Bolsheviks what this movement really was. It wasn't a movement anywhere. They were in power. There were civil wars going on, but these Jews hated them. They knew this before. We've been through it a thousand times

since in all the episodes here. We've proven it a million different ways. They hated them. They were in it for themselves. They didn't care about workers. God knows they didn't care about peasants. Because they were in power. Yes, but they were in power precisely against your typical Russian worker, your typical Russian peasant, who now is going to suffer beyond belief because they were in power.

There's a reason they weren't accustomed to Jews in power. It was a nightmare come true. We know exactly what happened. None of this stuff is secret. Everything's been declassified, especially since 1990. There's no secrets anymore. Get whatever you want. I could read Russian.

Okay. I can't speak it. I've read something. Everything's out in the open. Not a whole lot you could do about it if you want to deny it. But they saw a Jew in power. It wasn't just like, you know, my dentist up the street. This was someone who had an ideological and religious hatred of your average Russian.

That's the problem. All right. We hit a natural stopping point and we'll pick up the next one. We'll pick up from there on the next episode. So, as I do at the end of every episode, please go and go to the show notes and go to the description of the videos and please donate and pay your tuition to Dr. Johnson for this very long and very exhaustive college course that I haven't heard any complaints about yet. Well, yeah, I could make complaints to my own mind about myself.

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