The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 66

Episode Date: August 30, 2025

58 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 mean, how many wars is he going to, you know, people, I mean, I don't vote, but people voted for him on the basis of being the peace president. How many fronts is the, you know, overstretched and poorly manned U.S. military going to, uh, going to fight on. I don't know. It's very worrying. It may just be a scare tactic, but I thought when I woke up this morning, I said, I just dreamed it.

I just dreamt it. But no, it's true. The Navy's, you know, a whole bunch of ships off the coast. I'm sure there are people who are going to respond with more information than I have, but it always seems weird to me. So if it was just over oil, their oil is amongst the dirt,

considered the dirtiest on the planet. And I think there's only two refineries in the country that can actually refine it properly. And one of them, I think, is in Texas and owned by Coke industries. But yeah, it just seems odd when we have our own oil. And even if we get Saudi oil, Saudi oil is clean and naturally cleaner.

by a great measure than Venezuela. So I always, I just assume there's a personal thing going on there. Well, I mean, if there's, you know, designating the narco groups as terrorists, I have no problem with that. I have no problem with using military force in our own region against groups like that. I have no problem with that. that has, you know, a hundred time zones away, it's a totally different story. But it turns out, I think, designating them as terror groups was just an excuse.

And of course, you know, there are no real cartels in Venezuela. So they had to invent them. The cartel of the Sons, which does not exist, is officially one of the main reasons that the Navy is there. It's sort of like the invasion of Afghanistan that had nothing to do with 9-11 whatsoever. It's almost like they're trying to be as absurd as possible, seeing what happens. All right. Picking one before we left off last... Sorry, what?

No, no, no. I was just oi-veying. Oh, I thought he said, wait, but oi-ve, yes. I agree. All right. Where we were last time. And what about the profanation of reliance? How could the masses understand such an obvious outrage, so provocative?

Could the Russians, the Orthodox, have done such things? They asked each other across Russia. All that, it is the Jews who have plotted it. It makes no difference to those who crucified Christ. And who is responsible for this state of mind, if not the Bolshevik power, by offering to the people's spectacles of such savagery. You know, it's interesting. They went out of their way to make themselves incredibly unpopular.

You know, the Tsar and the church were trusted popular institutions as far as Russians are concerned. Of course, they always have problems with them. Like, we have problems with people we love. But to deliberately go out of their way to alienate these people in the worst possible way, they clearly didn't care about their popularity. they knew that no one liked them. So now, pretty soon, they're going to take over totally after the end of the Civil War. Then they have to pass a million laws to make sure that no one talks about it,

especially about the Jewish connection. But, you know, we talked about a few weeks ago the founders of, for example, anarchism, Bakunin and J.J. Prudholm, or J. Prudhomme, who were vehemently opposed to a Jewish power and Jewish control. And these were, and even Karl Marxism on the Jewish question. You know, the left early on at its kind of modern founding was well aware about what the Jews were. This was also unnecessary.

If this movement actually cared about workers or peasants, this would be the last thing they would do. No, this shows the incredibly irrational hatred, the contempt that the Bolsheviks had, and you know just from this alone, that it's a Jewish ethnic movement. And of course, the West had no problem with any of this. S. Bulgakov, who followed closely what happened to Orthodoxy under the Bolsheviks,

wrote in 1941. In the USSR, the persecution of Christians surpassed in violence and amplitude all previous persecutions known throughout history. Of course, we should not blame everything on the Jews, but we should not downplay their influence. We're manifested in Bolshevism, above all, the force of will and the energy of Judaism. The part played by the Jews in Bolshevism is, alas, disproportionately great, and it is above all the sin of Judaism against Ben Israel, and it is not the sacred Israel, but the strong will-election.

of Judaism that, in power, manifested itself in Bolshevism and the crushing of the Russian people. Although derived from the ideological and practical program of Bolshevism, without distinction of nationality, the persecution of Christians found its most zealous actors among Jewish commissioners of militant atheism, and to have put a goobelman, Ayerslavsky, at the head of the union of the goddess was to commit in the face of all the Russian Orthodox people an act of religious effrontery. I have a whole lecture out. I don't know. I think the paper is in very rough form about Goobelman. It was called the godless five-year plan, and it was Jewish from top to bottom. Now, Sergei Bulgakov, the priest, known, I mean, for the time,

vaguely liberal. I don't want to stress that too much. Vaguely liberal. Had no choice. But, I mean, he was honest. He's, you know, regardless what his political views were, you know, this is a Jewish movement. This was, this is why, you know, they, you figure, you know, they're in a war. They're in a civil war. And this is what they spend their time on. Clearly, this is a hearts and minds kind of thing. And this is what they do.

this is how they waste their energy by alienating as many people as humanly possible it's just just in this in this kind of action you know that Marxism Leninism is not what they what it says it is that you can't take anything they say at face value

and anyone except for the Jews themselves those who supported Lenin anyone alive at the time. And even once in Churchill agreed with this assessment. You know, only in recent years has, you know, propaganda and laws, especially in the EU, smashed any kind of discussion about this. I mean, you can't say this on a university campus. You will be removed, whether a student or a professor, especially if you talk about it a lot. But back then,

It was a normal thing to say. It was undeniable. It's still undeniable today. You're just not allowed to talk about. But for someone like Bogokov to talk like this, it's, you know, and he was not a far leftist. I'm not saying that. But you have all of these people, whether on the far left or just, you know, liberals talking about the Jews this way, there's no question.

And we're still debating this point, whether or not Bolivism was a Jewish movement or not. There is no debating this point anymore. And that's one of the reasons this book is so valuable. Another very obstensible effrontery, this way of rechristening cities and places. Custom, in fact, less Jewish than typically Soviet. But can we affirm that for the inhabitants of Gashina, the new name of their city, Trotsk, did not have a foreign residence? Likewise, for Pavlosk, now Slutsk, Yuritsky gives its name to the place.

to the square of the palace, Vorovsky to the St. Isaac Place, Voladarski to the prospect of the founders, Nakimson to the St. Vladimir prospect, Rochal to the barge of the Admiralty. And the second class painter Isaac Brodsky gives his name to the so beautiful St. Michael Street. I want to recommend the work of Vladimir Moss in Britain.

We've had our disagreements in the past. He is a monarchist. but his work on what we call the new martyrs, those murdered by the Jewish communists. His work on that, he has volume after volume, after volume. He goes person by person by person, bishops, priest, prominent layman, and he has a much stronger stomach than I do. It isn't just these people were thrown in the gulag or murdered. So many of them were tortured to death in bizarre ways.

that a normal person would never even think of to cause pain. And so this was even beyond neurotic hatred. It was even beyond the rejection of logos. The Jews were a manifestation of evil. And it finally dawned on so many Russians in exile that that's the case. This is different from any evil that had shown itself before. Everything seemed to have been just a precursor. This is a different phenomenon.

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I mean, this is what they're doing now and openly and on camera. And they're filming. I mean, the only thing that's changed is technology. Right. they can no longer stand each other their heads were turning through the immensity of russia it flashes by elizabeth elizabeth graid becomes xenov zinovizk and let's go boldly the city where the czar was assassinated takes the name of the assassin zvdlovsk it is obvious that what that was present in the russian national consciousness as early as 1920 the idea of a national

national revenge on the part of Bolshevik Jews, since it even appeared in the papers of the Soviet government. It serves as an argument to Kalinin. Well, revenge in the Jewish mind. That's a delusion. From the, you know, when we started talking about modern Russia, let's say with Tsar, you know, Zar Paul and Alexander I, Alexander I, Alexander I, the first, the Russian government bent over backwards to, to settle the Jews, to have them live a normal life. spent a fortune on them. Any anti-Jewish acts was done at that local level, and usually for very good reason,

the czars stopped the pogrom such as they were. You know, people went to prison over it. So what, revenge? You know, that kind of mythology took on a life of its own by this point, that the monarchy somehow created these pogromes, And the pogroms were done for absolutely no reason. And the pogroms were Russians against defenseless Jews. It's one lie attached to another one.

You have a delusion on a foundation of sand. But over time, when you hear it enough, and everyone around you says the same thing, it becomes an obvious truth. In the Jewish mind, because they were a separate people, often not even speaking Russian, this took on almost a mythic character that was absolutely true and beyond denial. There was nothing to take revenge on. It was pure delusion.

They had to, you know, this is how they rationalized it. But whenever Jews took power over Christians, this is what they did. Of course, Pasmannock's refutation was right. For the wicked and narrow-minded, everything could not be explained more simply. The Jewish Gahal had decided to seize Russia, or is it the revengeful Judaism that settles its accounts with Russia for the humiliations undergone in the past? Of course, we cannot explain the victory in the maintenance of the Bolsheviks. But if the pogrom of 1905 burns in the memory of your family, and if, in 1915, were driven out of the Western territories, with the strikes of a whip, your brothers by blood, you can very well, three or four years later, want to avenge yourself in your turn with a whip or a revolver bullet.

We are not going to ask whether communist Jews consciously wanted to take revenge on Russia by destroying, by breaking the Russian heritage, but totally denying this spirit of vengeance, would be denying any relationship between the inequality of rights under the Tsar and the participation in Jews in Bolshevism, a relationship that is constantly evoked. It's kind of a worrisome paragraph. But I think all he's doing here is he's speaking from the Sultanizun is speaking from the Russian point of view. Now, of course, this is Pasmatic at first, but everything from, of course, is Solzhenitsyn. This is how the Jews thought of things.

and when this list of alleged crimes by the Russian government, the way that they put it, happened for no reason. You can't give a reason. Context is their biggest enemy. Because context makes everything very complex, and complexity doesn't work. You can't have slogans and simple explanations with any kind of complexity. There was no pogrom of 1905. created it. It was their behavior. They were attacking churches even then.

They weren't driven out of Western territories for no reason and they were subsidized and they tried to give them free land and on and on and on. But in their minds, you know, Solzhenitsyn speaking from that neurotic point of view, that all this happened to us for no reason

and it's weird how it never happened in any other minority in Russia and never the Armenians or the Tartars or are the Germans just us? Well, that means that they must be jealous of us. And so they justified what they're doing as some kind of revenge. And you hear people like Gary Hamburg at Notre Dame, who I always single out as an idiot, denies that Bolshevism was Jewish loudly, you know, as a virtue signal, and then says, well, to the extent that it was, it was only because of Zaris anti-Semitism. And he doesn't understand context either.

And he says this stuff very proudly and very loudly because, you know, he needs people to know, I'm on board. That's the whole concept of virtue signaling. A virtue signaling comment is, I used to call it a membership slogan. You say something to let people more powerful than you know that you're no threat, that you're on board. You're with them. And he'll even shoe horn. this stuff into a lecture about, you know, something else, just to let everybody know where he stands.

I don't know whether he knows he's full of it or not, or he simply doesn't have access to the information because of the censorship, like we do. But I've always said that's the price you pay for tenure as having to say this nonsense. The fact of this is still being taught by people like Gary. professors at every major university. You're not getting an education.

You're simply getting the Jewish point of view repackaged as factual history. It just didn't happen this way. Whatever happened existed because of Jewish behavior. There was nothing to take revenge on. And there was always a handful of Jews who realized this at the time. We've cited a few of them.

in the past that knew that this was from Jewish behavior. But again, no one wants to muddy the waters. There's always a simple explanation. The Goyam are evil. The Jews are just better and more intelligent, and the Goyim react by violence. And that's why this is all going on. And this is how I am Beekerman

confronted with the fact of the disproportionate participation of the Jews and the work of barbaric destruction, to those who recognize the right of the Jews to avenge past persecutions, refutes this right. The destructive zeal of our co-religionists is blamed on the state, who, by its vexations and persecutions, would have pushed a Jews into the revolution. Well, no, he says, for it is to the manner in which an individual reacts to the evil suffered that he has distinguished from another, and the same is true of a community of men. Later in 1939, taking in the destiny of

Judaism under the black cloud of the coming new era, the same Beakerman wrote, the great difference between the Jews and the world around them was that they could only be the anvil and never the hammer. You see how irrational, even if it was true, even if the Jewish point of view was correct, they were taking this out on innocent people

by the thousands and eventually the millions. It was pure as collective punishment. So even if it were true, it's still irrational. It still doesn't make any sense. And it still alienated the people who they were claiming they were serving. You can't say that we're for the

Russian workers and then do things like this. Everything they did. That's how the left works. The left works either by deceit or at the barrel of a gun. Leftism, whatever part, whatever faction comes into existence at the barrel of a gun

or by deception. Sometimes both. It's such a bizarre and unnatural ideology, not speaking generally, that no one would voluntarily, not without a lot of propaganda and a lot of violence, accept it and be ruled by it or agree with it. The Bolsheviks were aware that the mass, especially at the peasantry,

were vehemently opposed to them. They were a lot of them world believers, a lot of them were or simply orthodox, and they actually believed in a communal way of living, but a very ancient form of communal living. one connected with natural law, you would think that any socialist was, oh, this is a great idea. We could just build on that. No, no, no, no. They had to have that completely destroyed. There's many different forms of social. I mean, there's national socialism and Christian socialism. There was a Christian socialist party in the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was anti-Jew, you know, anti-Semitic and talked about central bankers and everything else, you know, that we talked about.

It was only until this era where, because Marx was financed so well that socialism was entirely Marxism, maybe anarchistic. One of the two, materialists and all that, didn't have to be. A normal person, let's say in some weird way, this was a Russian, actual Russian revolution. The last thing they would do is destroy already existing socialist institutions. they would finance them, they would support them. No, the first thing they did was destroy them. And that's, you know, my book, the Soviet experiment, that's one of my many arguments, that revolution had nothing to do with workers or peasants. All of this stuff proves it. If you're dedicated to serving their interests, this isn't what you're going to do.

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I do not intend to dig here in this limited work, the great historical destinies, but I am expressing a categorical reservation on the point. Perhaps this was so since the beginning of time, but as of 1918 and Russia, and for another 15 years, the Jews who joined the revolution also served as hammer, at least a large part of them. Here in our review comes the voice of Boris Pasternak. In his Dr. Javago, he writes, it is true after the Second World War, thus after the cataclysm, which came down, crushing and sinister, over the Jews of Europe and which overturned our entire vision of the world, but in the novel itself, it is discussed the years of the revolution. He speaks of this modest, sacrificial way of remaining aloof, which only engenders misfortune, of their fragility and their inability to strike back.

yet did we not both have before us the same country at different ages, certainly, but where we live the same 20s and 30s? The contemporary of those years remains mute with astonishment. Pasternak would thus not have seen, I believe, what was happening. His parents, his painter father, his pianist mother, belong to a highly cultivated Jewish milieu, living in perfect harmony with the Russian intelligentsia. He himself grew up in a tradition already quite rich, a tradition that led the Rubinstein brothers, the moving levitin, the subtle Gorsuchin, the philosopher's Franken Chestov to give themselves to Russia and Russian culture. It is probable that this unambiguous choice, the perfect equilibrium between life and service, which was theirs,

appeared to Pasternak as the norm, while the monstrous gaps, frightening relative to this norm, did not reach the retina of his eye. I want to note that I have a book out on the Orthodox tradition in Russian literature, which I put out a long time ago. I cringe at a few lines here and there. It was a long time ago. And I have an essay on Pastornak. I would have to go and reread.

It's been a little while. But I think everything that Shultzhen Heast is saying here is true. Frank, of course, he mentions Frank, who was a Jewish convert. and who became a conservative in Russian history and argued against the Jewish point of view on a lot of these things. He was not the easiest person to read, but you do have exceptions like that amongst the Jewish intellectual world. On the other hand, these differences penetrated the field of view of thousands of others. Thus witness of these years, Beekerman writes, the two visible participation of the Jews in the Bolshevik in the Bolshevik Saturnalia attracts the eyes of the Russians and those of the whole world.

No, the Jews were not the great driving force of the October coup. The latter, moreover, brought them nothing since the February Revolution had already granted them full and complete freedom. But after the coup of force took place, it was then that the younger Lake generation quickly changed horses and launched themselves with no less assurance into the infernal gallop of Bolshevism. I think, you know, we may have a bit of a disagreement with him here. I think they were the driving force. Um, um, um, so, you know, uh, and I wonder if this, this new translation that's coming out, if this is what they're going to stress, if they're going to say, well, he said things like this. That means your point of view. What we're talking about is absolutely, uh,

correct. What he seems to be arguing here. is that after October, they realized that this is where the power and the money is going to be, so they joined up. That's not true. I mean, Solzniitin's already mentioned this, that it's not true. They were the driving force, and yeah, they had people like Lenin at the top, not only because he was, you know, he was an important writer and, you know, certainly a great organization, but he also didn't have an obviously Jewish last name. Obviously, it was not the Melamides that produced this, but the reasonable part of the Jewish people let itself be overwhelmed by hotheads, and thus an almost entire generation became

renegade, and the race was launched. G. Landau looked for the motives that led the younger generation to join the camp of the new victors. He writes, here was the rancor with regard to the old world and the exclusion of political life and Russian life in general, as well as a certain rationalism peculiar to the Jewish people, and willpower which, in mediocre beings, can take the form of insolence and ruthless ambition. Some people seek an apology by the way of explanations. The material conditions of life after the October coup created a climate such that the Jews were forced to join the Bolsheviks. This explanation is widespread.

42% of the Jewish population of Russia were engaged in commercial activity. They lost it. found themselves in a dead-end situation, where to go. In order not to die of hunger, they were forced to take service with the government without paying too much attention to the kind of work they were asked to do. It was necessary to enter the Soviet apparatus where the number of Jewish officials from the beginning of the October Revolution was very high. Yeah, I mean, they went from one to another. There was still merchant activity going on, certainly in the new economic program, new economic policy, whatever it is, that spirit was dominant. They controlled and

completely dominated the NEP. But whether or not they worked for the Cheka or were selling something off a push cart, they did well either way. And I have the feeling that having power, like being a Chekker's officer or something, was far more appealing than selling trinkets from a store. They had no way out. The tens of thousands of Russian officials who refused to serve Bolshevism have somewhere to go to starve,

but how we're living the others, especially since they were receiving food aid from organizations such as the joint, the ORT, financed by wealthy Jews from the West. Enlisting in the Czechos was never the only way out. There was at least another, not to do it, to resist. The result, Pasmatic, concludes, is that Bolshevism became for the hungry Jews of cities a trade equal to the previous trades, Taylor, broker, or apothecary.

Yeah, that's kind of what I just said. The food aid is always interesting. The West, not just wealthy Jews, but the Western general was propping up the early Soviet government. But what he's talking about is. here is you know he's kind of making fun of this justification material life was such that they had to join the bolsheviks as if bolsheviks were separate from uh jewish life um you know and also we've we've shown that we don't really know what jews were doing um we talked about that god for the last few months that yeah they may claim to be a tailor or something

but there's evidence that they really weren't. They were just saying that for the sake of certain benefits. They were very much a mafia-style organization. And what they claimed to be doing professionally, what they actually were doing, are two very different things. But if this is so, it may be said 70 years later, in good conscience for those who did not want to immigrate to the United States and become American,

who did not want to immigrate to palisades. to remain Jews. For those, the only issue was communism. Again, the only way out? It is precisely this that is called renouncing one's historical responsibility. Other arguments have more substance and weight. Quote, a people that has suffered such persecution, and this throughout its history, could not, in its great majority, not become bearers of the revolutionary doctrine and internationalism of socialism, for it gave its Jewish followers the hope of never again being pariahs on this very earth and not in the chimerical Palestine of the great ancestors. Further on, during the Civil War already and immediately afterward, they were stronger in

competition with the newcomers from the ethnic population, and they filled many of the voids that the revolution had created in society. In doing so, they had for the most part broken with their national and spiritual tradition, after which all those who wanted to assimilate, especially the first generation and at the time of their massive apparition took root in the relatively superficial layers of a culture that was new to them. I'm not sure if that's true, you know, breaking with the so-called national and spiritual tradition. You know, Trotky talks about this a lot. He saw it as, in Moses, Hest really, as the completion of their national and spiritual tradition.

They may not have been doing the rituals anymore. But as far as Tikunulam is concerned, they were manifesting Judaism at its highest level. We were healing the world. We were ridding the world of monarchy and Christianity. Moses has said that's when paradise is going to come down to us is when that happens. So breaking with, and again, there were a handful of very spiritual decent Jews who didn't like this. who knew it was going to cause nothing but trouble, but they certainly weren't persecuted. Now, later on, that might have been the case, but at this point, so many Jews saw this as the manifestation of the spiritual tradition, the completion, the zenith, not abandoning it.

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and Marley Park in Dublin and Photohouse in Cork. follow the enchanting walking trail that will captivate all ages as the night comes alive with dazzling displays and unforgettable moments. Who will you Wonderlights with? For dates and bookings, visit wonderlights.I.E. One wonders, however, how it is possible that the centuries-old traditions of this ancient culture have proved powerless to counteract the infatuation with the barbaric slogans of the Bolshevik revolutionaries. when socialism, the companion of the revolution, melted onto Russia, not only were the Jews, numerous and dynamic, brought to life on the crest of the devastating wave, but the rest of the Jewish people found itself deprived of any idea of resistance and was invited to look at what was happening with a perplexed sympathy, wondering, impotent, what was going to result from it? How is it that in every circle of Jewish society, the revolution was welcomed with enthusiasm, an inexplicable enthusiasm when one, knows of what disillusionments composed the history of this people. How could the Jewish people,

rationalist and lucid, allow itself to indulge in the intoxication of revolutionary phraseology? You know, he's, yeah, there's a certain sarcasm here. But, you know, deprived of any idea of resistance. Of course, that's obviously not true. He's laying out, you know, the idea that that's simply impossible under those circumstances. It's kind of what I just, said this is this is Judaism in action um in every circle of jewish society the revolution was welcomed not just welcomed but with enthusiasm and it's not inexplicable at all they realized that something had changed this was different no other um at no other time had the jews taken over since

Qazadia with such violence and such vehemence the Jews had to hold together that was the core of Bolsheism that's how it worked that's how it got the sympathy

of the West that's how it was financed we've been saying from the beginning that the Jewish mind is you know even a religious mind is perfectly consistent with materialism and historical detourable We've been saying that for quite a while.

Espinoza has anything to say about it. I've written quite a bit on Spinoza. I think I like him. I always thought that he was misunderstood. But if he's significant and he was normally considered a determinist, well, how is that, you know, well, he was also thrown out of the synagogue, but the point being is that he was a symbol of Judaism for centuries. Moses has talked about him all the time. same thing. This wasn't, you know, allowing themselves to indulge. The intoxication comes from

their entire so-called spiritual history. The revolutionary, especially, you know, he says, phraseology specifically. That means propaganda. That comes directly from the Jews. You know, those bureaus were run 100% by Jews. It wasn't imposed on them. They created it. D.S. Pesmanic evokes in 1924, those Jews who proclaim loudly and clearly the genetic link between Bolshevism and Judaism, who openly boasted about the sentiments of sympathy which the mass of the Jewish people nourished towards the power of the commissars of the commissioners. At the same time, Pesmanich himself pointed out the points which may at first be the foundation of rapprochement between Bolshevism and Jews. Judaism. These are the concern for happiness on earth and that of social justice. Judaism was the first to put forward these two great principles. We read in an issue of the London newspaper

Jewish Chronicle of 1919 when the revolution had not yet cooled down, an interesting debate on the issue. The permanent correspondent of this paper, a certain mentor writes that it is not fitting for the Jews to pretend that they have no connection with the Bolsheviks. Thus, in America, the rabbi and Dr. Judah Magnus supported the Bolsheviks, which means that he did not regard Bolshevism as incompatible with Judaism. He writes again the following week, Bolshevism is in itself a great evil, but paradoxically, it also represents the hope of humanity. Was the French Revolution not bloody? It is well, and yet it was justified by history. The Jew is idealistic by nature, and it is not surprising. It is even logical that he believed

the promises of Bolshevism. There is much room for reflection in the very fact of Bolshevism, and the adherence of many Jews to Bolshevism, and the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism in many respects join those of Judaism, a great number of which have been taken up by the founder of Christianity. The Jews who think must examine all this carefully. One must be foolish to see in Bolshevism, only its off-putting aspects. All the same is not Judaism above all the recognition of one God, but this in itself is enough to make it incompatible with Bolshevism, the denier of God. Yeah, that's a very naive statement.

That's Sultan-Etsin talking here. That quote from the Jewish Chronicle is over. I've heard that many times that how can a Jew be a Bolshevik? How could they be controlling this thing? Bolivism was officially atheist and materialist. And of course, the answer to that is that apparently you don't know anything about Judaism. You assume that they are the followers of the Old Testament, which is absolutely nonsense. It is perfectly consistent.

But this cut, now, I've heard this before. In fact, it rings a bell. I've heard this even when I was in college that, well, it was bloody. But, you know, so was a French Revolution. We all love that, right? I mean, you know, the Jew is such a lover of justice that how could he possibly resist being a part of the Bolshevik revolution? Oh, stop worrying about their off-putting aspects. Worry about what they say that they're going to do.

The truth of the matter is that national socialist states actually did the things that the Bolsheviks promised they were going to do with. as far as the workers and peasants were concerned. They actually did it. And they did it fairly quickly. This is why they were so successful. But Bolivism was just that. It was promises that it gave to the Gentiles. But the Jewish inner core knew exactly that was nonsense.

They knew exactly the esoteric meaning of those promises. Happiness on earth and social justice. Well, for whom? And that question is unanswered. It's not even asked anymore. There's a right. a Russian book called Jewish Happiness. I always thought that was an odd title, but it comes directly from this.

Pure happiness on our utopia of social justice, that's the foundation of Judaism. And hence, you know, that explains why there was any flirtation with Bolshevism at all on the point of the Jews. They were fooled. They were they were bamboozled by it. but the connection with the French Revolution always made me laugh and it comes up quite a bit you know Lenin and Trotsky didn't deny it they talk about the use of terrorism early on they talk about the use of bank robbery killing people get to remember when you're when you're an atheist and a materialist well if you're an atheist

you have to be a materialist um what's a human being a human being is just a a blob It's matter in motion. It's just nerve endings. There's nothing special about them. So killing them for the sake of social justice is not really a big deal, especially when you don't like them. Remember, whenever anyone tries to tell you, you know, the right windkill people and, you know, death squads and all that nonsense,

well, you could say, well, yes, of course, in the course of a war, you're going to have excesses. Those are aberrations. But the concept of cleansing society, of destroying whole strata, that's part of the ideology of Bolshevism. You know, from St. Petersburg to Hanoi, that's what Bolivism is, and they don't shy away from it. Mass murder is an aspect of Bolshevik ideology. You have to eliminate your enemies. You have to get rid of these people.

When the Bolsheviks refer to the people or the workers or the peasants, they're not talking about everybody. They're talking about the party. They're talking about their supporters. And in some cases, they're just talking about the Jews. So, you know, but, you know, the funniest part is it has to be foolish to see Bolshevism only in its off-putting aspects. you know but but but and I'm willing to say that the 1919 article is probably completely representative of your typical Jew in 1919 in the West still on the search for

motives for such a broad participation of Jews in the Bolshevik adventure I Beekerman writes we must be four of the facts despair of the future of our people if we did not know that of all the contagions, the worst is that of words. Why was the Jewish consciousness so receptive to this infection? The question would be too long to develop here. The causes reside not only in the circumstances of yesterday, but also in the ideas inherited from ancient times, which predisposes Jews to be contaminated by ideology, even if it is null and subversive. I did a lecture on the, as I mentioned before, on the first laws and decrees against anti-Semitism that Lenin put out, and I quote a few major people who were alive at the time, so-called historians who were alive at the time.

And it's almost funny if it didn't lead to the murder of millions that they're trying to under, where is all this anti-Jewish thinking coming from? Where's all this anti-Semitism coming from? It's not that we're burning down their church. It's not that we're killing them. It's not that we're controlling the secret police. No, they have one theory after another, and they get funnier and funnier because they're so ridiculous. It's such very poor special pleading. The person I'm talking about is,

was actually a Mensovic, who, who, by the way, fled the U.S.S.R. Because they weren't anti- Gentile enough. And joined Trotsky. And actually, that paper is, I could finish that paper. I could send it to you. You could publish it right on your, right in your site. But, you know, it's almost funny to see the gymnastics, the mental gymnastics,

the Jews had to do to try to figure out, why does everyone hate us so much, you know, as they're sending Christians to the gulag? I wonder why that is. And they theorize about it. And that's actually being taken seriously by academics in the universities today. Espochakov also writes, the face that Judaism shows in Russian Bolshevism is by no means a true face of Israel. It reflects, even within Israel, a state of terrible spiritual crisis, which can lead to beastiality.

I think Michael Jones calls that what happens when you reject Logos. Right, precisely. As for the argument that the Jews of Russia have thrown themselves into the arms of Bolsheviks because of the vexations they have suffered in the past, it must be confronted with the two other communist shows of strength that occurred at the same time as that of Lenin, in Bavaria, and in Hungary. We read in I-Levin, quote, the number of Jews serving the Bolshevik regime is in these two countries very high.

In Bavaria, we find among the commissaries, the Jews, E. Levine, M. Levin, Axelrod, the anarchist ideologist Landauer, Ernst Toller, the proportion of Jews who took the lead of the Bolshevik movement in Hungary is of 95%. However, the situation of the Jews in terms of civic rights was excellent in Hungary, where there had not been any limitation for a long time already in the cultural and economic sphere. The Jews occupied such a position that the anti-Semites could even speak of a hold of the Jews. We may add here the remark of an eminent Jewish publisher of America. He writes that the Jews of Germany, quote, have prospered and gained a high position in society.

Let us not forget in this connection that the ferment of rebellion that was at the origin of the coup de force, of which we shall speak again in chapter 16, had been introduced by the Bolsheviks through the intermediary of repatriated prisoners stuffed with propaganda. Yeah, you know, Hungary is a great example. Marxism in America. You know, Michael Collins-Piper used to say, well, early on it was either Jewish or Irish. But they prospered in the Russian Empire, too. It's not just, you know, Hungary. These were the limitations on Jewish movement or universities.

were formalities they prospered completely there they prospered pretty much uh everywhere but that has nothing to do with their hatred of those who who were trying to support them in fact if anything it made him seem uh weaker so yeah the hungarian example uh i've you know i've been doing this for so long every i have the paper on that too um on the hungarian situation and that's that's the situation where Stalin said, you know, every single one of you is a Jew. You need to find a non-Jew and make him president of the people's, you know, because president would have no power and it would be run by Bella Cohen, or Bella Cohen, who actually ran things. And it took him a while. And they finally found someone, made him president, and that was the spokesman for the

for the society. Thank God it didn't last long. The great Miklos Horthy took over, who was a good man and a good ruler. But I'm glad he mentions this because Hungary was almost an extreme case because it was pretty much 100% to the point where Stalin was really worried. This is one place where it says, and they were treated extremely well there. So all this nonsense about anti-Semitism leading to mass murder, revenge, and that revenge takes the killing innocent people, it just doesn't make any sense, even if it were true, is nonsense. But that's why it's not just the manipulation of history. They also have to have laws in place that protect them against anyone talking like this for too long.

You know, the speech codes on campus from, that was from, you know, my era in the early 90s. Now they take far more substantial action against them. You're simply gone if you say anything like this. I don't know if I could have gotten my education if I was younger. You know, I made it. I mean, I didn't talk about this stuff. all that much. I couldn't. But I did ask questions once in a while. But even that, I don't think that would work today. I think, and now with the Trump attempts to shut down any discussion of

Judaism at all, unless it's, you know, worshipful over Israel, it's going to make it worse. So, but Jews were prosperous in all of these places. Russia treated them extremely well. And we've, We've proven that. We've discussed that from the very beginning. Hungary, you know, so these limitations, that was either from their own behavior or something that was only a formality. But they needed to use it. They needed to justify this to the world. They needed to make sure that people thought in the West that they had reason to be angry.

But I'll repeat myself here. Even if what they say is true, that still doesn't justify the murder of millions. One last paragraph. What brought all these rebels together and later beyond the seas was a flurry of unbridled revolutionary internationalism, an impulse towards revolution, a revolution that was global and permanent. The rapid success of the Jews and the Bolshevik administration could not be ignored in Europe and the United States. Even worse, they were admired there. At the time of the passage from February to October, Jewish public opinion in America did not mute its sympathies for the Russian Revolution. Well, that's really easy to do when the press is simply repeating what they've been told over there.

I've read, you know, the early American media, I mean, you know, a sample of it from this era. and it was not particularly anti-Bolshevik. I don't think they really understood what Bolivism was. I don't think they connected it with communism. All they cared about was that the Tsar is gone. And the only time they worried, this is the same thing with Woodrow Wilson, the only time they worried is if they wanted to export that. Oh, now they're acting like czars.

That was the famous quote from Woodrow Wilson. then all of a sudden you have a problem with it. Only if they act like Russians, do they have a problem with it? But in and of itself, the press was fully in support of the revolution, both of them. But it took a while for there to be any real understanding of Bolshevik ideology. I think one of the first, I mean, as far as American presidents, it was Nixon, who I think was the last man who had a firmly independent understanding of global politics.

I think he was the last president who actually knew in detail. And his work on Bolshevism was actually really good. And that's how he kind of made his, became famous in the alter his case. Now, you know, they don't know anything. But this is a new thing for them. And Russia was always this big black spot on the map. So they were quite willing to believe anything they were told. on what this revolution was,

that it was a Russian revolution, not a Jewish one, and they got the sympathy, not just of the Jews, but Bolivism, or later on, just straight out Marxism and communism, that was the wave of the future.

That was, Western intellectuals fell in love with it. You always had reactions against it, but, and this was, you know, in government and in media, this was the wave of the future this is

both you know socialism this is how it's going to be this is an inevitable conclusion to world history this is what the enlightenment is leading to that was extremely common in intellectuals especially in Western Europe

slightly less so in America but the press either through ignorance or through malice refused to talk about the evils what was going on the destruction of Russian life there and the mass murder there. They clearly hated the white armies.

They said that they were just monarchists and Russian nationalists or something like that. And there's always an anti-Semite and therefore he's evil. That's pretty much the point of view that you had in the New York Times. The very early version of the New York Times. So it was very easy to be sympathetic

when that's the information you were getting. and the Russians who went into exile, it took them a while to learn English well enough to explain themselves. Actually took them quite a while. Originally everything they did was in Russian. And remember, at this point, a lot of people in the West didn't think it was going to last, though.

It's so unstable. There's not that many of them. They only held St. Petersburg and a few other areas. So worrying about Bolshevism wasn't a big deal at the time. And I think it was common to think that it just wasn't going to last very long. So that was pretty. And the only thing, the other thing that the press had a problem with was the treaty that gave, you know, that drew a Breast Rlatovsk that took Russia out of the war and gave Germany a substantial part of Western Russia.

That had nothing to do with Marxism, had nothing to do with their behavior. But oh my God, this is a pro-German thing to do. It was an outrage. So the condemnations of the Bolsheviks for that, again, had nothing to do with Bolshevism. That was another, there was a handful of reasons why you did have some anti-Bolshevik thinking at the time, but none of it had anything to do with socialism or communism or the evils that they were promoting over there. All right.

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