The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 8

Episode Date: February 1, 2025

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Thank you. I want to welcome everyone back to part eight of our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenyson. Dr. Johnson, how are you doing today? You know, we're at part eight, and we're only at page 44. This is going to be one hell of a year. I'm telling you. It's somebody said that I should probably start numbering the episodes. Like right now, it should be zero zero eight. Yeah, at least. All right. Let's jump right in. We are, yep, here we go. at the same time in 1823, a decree of His Majesty's orders that in the provinces of Baila Russia, the Jews shall cease all their distillery activities in 1824, abandoned farmhouses and relay stations, and settled permanently in the towns and agglomerations.

The transfer was implemented. By January 1824, some 20,000 people had already been displaced. The emperor demanded to see. see to it that the Jews were provided with activities and substance during this displacement, so that without home base, they would not suffer under these conditions or more pressing needs, such as that of food. The creation of a committee composed of four ministers, the fourth ministerial cabinet created for the Jewish affairs, produced no tangible results either in terms of funding, nor in administrative capacities, nor in the social structure of the Jewish community,

which was impossible to rebuild from the outside. In this, as before in many other domains, the Emperor Alexander I appears to us to be weak-willed in his impulses, inconsistent and inconsistent with his resolves, as we can see him passive in the face of strengthening secret societies which were preparing to overthrow the throne. But in no case should his decisions be attributed to a lack of respect for the Jews, the contrary, he was listening to their needs, and even during the war of 1812 through 1814,

he had kept at headquarters the Jewish delegate Zendl Sonnenberg and Licin-Burton, who defended the interests of the Jews. Dylan, it is true, was soon to be judged for having appropriated 250,000 rubles of public money, and for having extorted funds from landowners. Sondonberg, on the other hand, remained for a long time one of Alexander's close friends. on the orders of the Tsar, 1814, a permanent Jewish deputation functioned for a number of years in St. Petersburg for which the Jews had themselves raised funds, for there were plans for major secret expenditures within government departments. These deputies demanded that throughout Russia, the Jews should have the right to engage in the trade, farming, and distillation of spirits, that they be granted privileges in matters of taxation, that the backlogs be handed over. that the number of Jews admitted to the members of the magistrate no longer be limited. The emperor benevolently listened to them, made promises, but no concrete measures were taken.

A lot of the Russian and Polish elite in the Senate were in a really rough position because although they profited from their relationships with the Jews, they also got scammed over and over again. you bring someone into this new department and the first thing they do is embezzle a quarter of a million rubles and then and extract rents from from landowners so this was always a double-edged sword these aren't the older 17th century polish landowners who really didn't care or never even kept records this is a this is a very different story and it is important to note that he was, none of it was Alexander passive for these secret societies that will attempt a revolution upon his death, the elite of the elite, but he initially supported them. Bringing someone like Gleitzen into head the Synod of all things and a church that he really didn't like, and this was a case with these procurators of the synod. of the synod. Many of them were Masons, many of them were non-Orthodox.

He laid the groundwork for his own demise. The Bible Society was a strictly Masonic Western institution that he was promoting. They were pushing all of these very bizarre translations. Eventually it was ended. But when the Decemberist revolt was put down and Nicholas I took over, this is all going to change, and that goes along with his policy towards the Jews.

But Alexander, I think, is learning slowly but truly that the more you do for them, the worst things you're going to get for you, because they see any concession as a matter of weakness. And that's not something that Nicholas I'm not a mistake that he was going to make later on. In 1817, the English Missionary Society sent the lawyer Lewis Weil an equal rights activist for the Jews to Russia for the specific purpose of acquainting himself with the situation of the Jews of Russia. He had an interview with Alexander I, to whom he handed a note. Deeply convinced that the Jews represented a sovereign nation, Wilde affirmed that all Christian peoples, since they had received salvation of the Jews,

were to render to them the highest homage and to show them their gratitude by benefits. In this last period of his life, marked by mystical dispositions, Alexander had to be sensitive to such arguments. Both he and his government were afraid of touching with an imprudent hand the religious rules of the Jews. Alexander had great respect for the venerable people of the Old Covenant and was sympathetic to their present situation. Hence his utopian quest to make this people access the New Testament. To this, and in 1817 with the help of the emperor,

the Society of Christians of Israel was created, meaning Jews who converted to Christianity, not necessarily Orthodoxy, and because of this enjoyed considerable privileges, they had the right everywhere in Russia to trade and carry on various trades without belonging to guilds or workshops, and they were freed, they and their descendants, forever of any civil and military service. Nevertheless, the society experienced no influx of converted Jews and soon ceased to exist. I should note that the English missionary society, These are, this is connected to the Bible society. This was a strictly ecumenical mission, which Alexander was a part of, at least for a while.

It shows you that this is what Protestantism is, and this is why both Poles and Russians called Protestants a Judaism of the church going that. This far back, Protestants were saying these ridiculous things. about the Jews actually believing that they're the people of the Old Testament. It's not like they were ignorant of the Talmud. It just was something that wasn't accessible to them. They believe the superficial explanations that many of the Jews had given them. And ever since Cromwell, for Christ's sake, Judaism was deeply a part of the other British elite and ruling class.

Alexander had been so badly misled by people like this and I'm one of these people who believes that he absconded the throne and became Kuzmich actually I did a lecture on that some time ago to atone for many of these errors. The worst thing that could have happened to the Russian Empire at the time was the murder of Zar Paul because things like this would not have gone this far. but it was just this promotion of ignorance by groups like the Bible Society, the English Missionary Society, showing them homage.

You know, these are the people who claim to be against idolatry. You see how little has changed with the bulk of these Protestants, especially from Britain. The good dispositions of Alexander I, in regards to the Jews, made him express his convictions, put an end to the accusations of ritual murders, which arose against them. These accusations were unknown in Russia until the division of Poland from where they came. In Poland, they appeared in the 16th century transmitted from Europe where they were born in England in 1144 before resurfacing in the 12th to 13th century in Spain, France, Germany, and Great Britain. Popes and monarchs fought off these accusations without them disappearing in the 14th nor 15th century. The first trial in Russia took place in Seno near Wittivetsk in a 18th. 16 was not only stopped by Her Majesty's decision, but incited the Minister of Religious Affairs

Galitzin, to send the authorities of all provinces the following injunction. Henceforth, not to accuse the Jews of having to put to death Christian children solely supported by prejudices and without proof. In 1822 to 23, another affair of this kind broke out in Ville, also in the province of Vibetepsk. the Tepsk. However, the court decreed in 1824, the Jews accused in many uncertain Christian testimonies of having killed this boy, supposedly to collect his blood, must be exonerated of all suspicion. Nevertheless, in the 25 years of his reign, Alexander I did not sufficiently study the questions

to conceive and put into practice a methodical solution satisfactory to all, regarding the Jewish problem as it was in Russia at the time. a lot of this shouldn't make any sense to you. It isn't so much that if there's an accusation that a Jew murdered somebody we should have a trial. It's that these accusations are not allowed. I was very impressed. I did a whole lecture last year, I think,

on the Belize case in Kiev. And then, of course, I also read Ariel Tov's book. I think he was from a whole lecture last year, I think he was from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, giving credence to a lot of these rituals from these very extreme, um, histic and extreme orthodox groups,

small though they are. I was very impressed by Toav's book. Uh, there was a strong amount of evidence. Golitsyn, this shouldn't surprise you. That he was outraged, that anyone would,

would, uh, accuse the Jews of this kind of thing. Um, the assumption, I guess, is that it's impossible. They're incapable of this. this wasn't just a matter of prejudice

where did it come from in the legal system at the time you can't just have something based on prejudice and without proof go before a judge it was a normal system at the time and it improved under Alexander the second

so this was just almost a veneration of the Jews by these people the masons were deeply you know hated any this was their master race and you know this is getting you give them an inch and this is the kind of crap that you get Golitsyn certainly was profiting from this was profiting from them and they wouldn't have reacted with this irrationality saying that you're not allowed to even say this unless there was

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how to act what to do with this separated people who has not yet grafted onto russia and which continues to grow in number is also the question to which the decemberist pestle who opposed the emperor sought an answer for the for the russia of the future which he proposed to direct in the truth of russia he proposed two solutions either make the jews merge for good in the christian population of russia above all it is necessary to deflect the effect harmful to Christians of the close length that unites the Jews amongst themselves, or which is directed against Christians, which completely isolates the Jews from all other citizens.

Convene the most knowledgeable rabbis and Jewish personalities, listen to their proposals, and then take action. If Russia does not expel the Jews, all the more they shouldn't adopt unfriendly attitudes towards Christians. The second solution would consist in helping the Jews create a separate state in one of the regions of Asia Minor, To this end, it is necessary to establish a gathering point for the Jewish people and to send several armies to support it. We are not very far from the future Zionist idea.

The Russian and Polish Jews together will form a people of more than two million souls. Such a mass of men in search of a country will have no difficulty in overcoming obstacles such as the opposition of the Turks. Crossing Turkey from Europe, they will pass into Asiatic Turkey and occupy their enough place, and land to create a specifically Jewish state. However, Pestl acknowledges that such an enormous undertaking requires special circumstances and an entrepreneurial spirit of genius. Nikita Mourav, another Decemberist, stipulated in his proposed constitution, that Jews can enjoy civil rights in the places where they live,

but that the freedom to settle in other places will depend on the particular decisions of the people's supreme assembly. I'm not sure if this is one of the first proposals about this mass relocation to either Asia Minor, which is Turkey, or elsewhere in the Middle East. And I'm not even sure that they're referring to the fact, well, these are so-called people of the Old Testament, therefore they should go back to what we call Israel today. Jews did very, very well under the Ottoman Empire. that's going to change the dawn of the 20th century. And it also goes to show what the Decemberist movement was. They attempted to essentially overthrow the monarchy at the death of Alexander I.

They were high-ranking masons, Judeo-files. And I'm not sure had they taken over what they would have done. They were very unpopular, unlike Nicholas I, who eventually prosecuted them, although they got fairly weak sentences. I'm not sure if this is the first time this has been mentioned, but the Zionist idea had very few followers amongst Jews at the time. But this is at least a very early mention of the Zionist ideal. But, you know, almost, I mean, several armies, well, who are they going to be fighting?

Were they going to invade the Turkish Empire? And this seems to be the kind of mentality that's all over. the elite Russian impolishment attitude towards the Jews. Just one unrealistic idea after another. Nevertheless, the instances proper to the Jewish population, the Kahalam, opposed with all their might the interference of state power and all external influence. On this subject, opinions differ. From the religious point of view, as many Jewish writers explain,

living in the diaspora's historical punishment that weighs on Israel for its former sins, scattering must be assumed to merit God's forgiveness and the return to Palestine. For this it is necessary to live without failing according to the law and not to mingle with the surrounding peoples. That is the ordeal. But for a liberal Jewish historian of the early 20th century, the dominant class and capable of any creative work, deaf to the influences of its time, devoted all its energies to preserving from the attacks of time, both external and internal, a petrified national and religious life. The Cahal drastically stifled the protests to the weakest.

The cultural and educational reform of 1804 confined itself to illusory-elusory blurring the distinctive and foreign character of the Jews without having recourse to coercion or even taking mercy on prejudices. These decisions sowed a great disturbance within the Cahal, and that they harbored a threat to the power it exercised over the population. In the regulation, the most sensitive point for the Kahl was the prohibition of delivering the unruly to the Harem, or even more severe, the observation that to keep the population and servile submission to a social order,

as it had been for centuries, it was forbidden to change garb. But it cannot be denied that the Kham also had reasonable regulatory requirements for the life of the Jews, such as the Kasaki rule, allowing and forbidding the members of the community from taking on a particular type of farming or occupation, which put an end to excessive competition between Jews. Thou shalt not move the bounds of thy neighbor, Deuteronomy 1914. In 1808, an unidentified Jew transmitted an anonymous note during reprisals from the Kahal to the Minister of Internal Affairs entitled Some Remarks Concerning the Management of the Life of the Jews. He wrote,

Many do not regard as sacred the innumerable rights and rules, which divert attention from all this is useful, enslave the people to prejudices, take by their multiplication an enormous amount of time, and deprive the Jews of the advantage of being good citizens. He noted that the rabbis, pursuing only their interests, have enclosed life in an intertwining of rules, have concentrated in their hands all the police, legal, and spiritual authority, more precisely the study of the Talmud and the observance of rights as a unique means of distinguishing oneself and acquiring affluence have become the first dream and aspiration of the Jews. And although the governmental regulation limits the prerogatives of the rabbi and calahim, the spirit of the people remain the same,

the author of this note considered the rabbis and the kaha'al as the main culprits of the ignorance and misery of the people. Despite the fact that this system of rule in Eastern Europe is long gone, there is a kind of neo-Kahal amongst Jews, especially in places like Ukraine, that have a very similar system. The Talmudic idea, even if it's not directly studied, its basic prejudices are still instilled in young Jews all the time. We have this rule that they're already, and I know what certain type of farming. It was farming in general. So any attempt to settle them on land by the very rule of the Kahul is is not going to work. And you notice here that competition among Jews is out of the question. We're in competition with

Gentiles. It can never be amongst each other. I know Willis Cardo used to say when I was working for him years ago that, you know, if the Jews didn't have us, they'd be slaughtering each other because they, you know, they function by this creation of an enemy, this prejudice that they, that the Gentile world is savage and inhuman and literally inhuman. But now the German Jewish, mostly confined to Germany, the Jewish Enlightenment, you did have this kind of talk in the second paragraph you mentioned about how wicked, not so much the Talmud as such. But we know it is the Talmud as such, but how it's being applied, that the Kahal uses these

prejudices. I mean, there's nothing in that series of books, that evil series of books that, that, you know, it's a totalitarian system. It regulates everything you do, even in the bathroom, even in how you eat and everything else. But this is one of the means that poor Jews who are put upon by the elites were kept in line. So with a series of And so this is more or less a rejection of the Talmud by a lot of these people

In Eastern Europe you didn't have a lot of that Especially at this point Because the Kahal was so powerful In Western Europe you had a stronger Jewish enlightenment that realized what was going on But since the bulk The overwhelming majority of the world's Jews were within The old Polish and Russian Empire This is the mentality that still exists today

and this is exactly where it comes from. Another Jewish public man, Gila Markovic, a native of Prussia, wrote that the members of the Vilnius Kahal, with the help of the local administration, exerted a severe repression against all those who denounced their illegal acts. Now deprived of the right to the harem, they kept their accusers for long years in prison, and if one of them succeeded in getting a message from his cell to the higher authorities,

they sent him without any other form of trials to the next trial. world. When this kind of crime was revealed, the Kahal spent large sums to stifle the affair. Other Jewish historians give examples of assassinations directly commissioned by the Jewish Kahal. In their opposition to governmental measures, the Kahulam relied essentially on the religious sense of their action. Thus, the union of the Kahul and the rabbis, desirous of maintaining the power over the masses, made the government believe that every act of a Jew was subject to such and such a religious prescription. The role of religion was thereby increased.

As a result, the people of the administration saw in the Jews not members of different social groups, but a single entity closely knit together. The vices and infractions of the Jews were explained not by individual motives, but by the alleged land amorality of the Jewish religion. The cahal is not that far off from any other form of organized crime. and in this case it's not so much the religious element that, you know,

veils their action, but it really relies then and now. Jewish power relies on public ignorance, which is why they're so obsessed with censorship and have always been even in pre-modern times. Public ignorance is absolutely essential. The Kabbalah,

the Talmud, and all these associated books are almost entirely closed to the Gentiles. And of course, that's that's on purpose. Now, I think, you know, fat Americans are such that that even if they knew

they wouldn't know what to do. I think they'd rather kill themselves than do any harm to their social bedders. But the knowledge of this kind of thing is what they fear the most. So keeping all their books closed, their practice is secret. And the kaha'al was essential.

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Trump on Dunbiog, Kush Faragea. The Union of Kahalam and Rabbis did not want to see or hear anything. It extended its lead and cover over the masses. The power of the Kahul only increased while the rights of the elders and rabbis were limited by the regulation of 1804. This loss is offset by the fact that the Kahal acquired, it is true only in a certain measure, the role of a representative administration which it had enjoyed in Poland. The Kahul owed the strengthening of its authority to the institution of deputies. This deputation of the Jewish communities established in the Western provinces

in charge of debating at leisure with the government the problems of Jewish life was elected in 1807 and sat intermittently for 18 years. These deputies endeavored above all to restore to the rabbis the right to the harem. They declared that to deprive the rabbis of the right to chastise the disobedient is contrary to the religious aspect which the Jews are obliged by law to have for the rabbis. These deputies succeeded in persuading a member of the committee of Senator Popov 1809 that the authority of the rabbis was a support for the Russian governmental power. The members of the committee did not resist in front of the threat

that the Jews would escape the authority of the rabbis to delve into depravity. The committee was prepared to maintain in its integrity all this archaic structure to avoid the terrible consequences evoked by the deputies. Its members did not seek to know who the deputies considered to be violators of the spiritual law. They did not suspect that they were those who aspired to education. The deputies exerted all their efforts to strengthen the authority of the kaha'al and to drink at the source of the movement towards culture.

They succeeded in deferring the limitations previously taken to the wearing of traditional Jewish garb, which dated back to the Middle Ages and so blatantly separated the Jews from the surrounding world. Even in Riga, the law that ordered the Jews to wear another garment was not applied anywhere, and it was reported by the emperor himself, while the waiting. new legislation. All requests of the deputies were not satisfied. Far from it. They needed money, and to get it, the deputies frightened their communities by ominously announcing the intentions of the government and by amplifying the rumors of the capital. In 1820, Markovic accused the deputies of intentionally spreading false news to force the population to pay to the khal the sums demanded. in 1825, the institution of the Jewish deputies was suppressed. You know, the Cahal couldn't function unless it was able to influence the state itself,

both local and, you know, federal. And that was the case all over the place, you know. Zionism, and this is one of the reasons that may Natura Carter, the Hasidic group that's against Israel, they say that Zionism can't exist unless Jews take over the foreign policy establishment of their host countries which is something that they're repulsed by in other words is very good reason

to distrust the Jews in this respect but here you have a state within a state very wealthy completely unified at least in Eastern Europe and to to maintain its secrecy in its ideology

especially secret is one of the reasons that they were able to function. They had the money to penetrate the governing system, the elites around them, who did profit from their connection with the Jews. So all of this is based on

this obsession with unity, cohesion, which is why the herm was so important. And I think with that line that you you know, read very slowly. Movement towards culture, that means moving towards enlightenment, which did at the time threaten

the kaha'al. Life was very different in Western Europe for them than in Eastern Europe. Maintaining, especially younger and possibly more rebellious Jews and basic ignorance, except for the Talmud was very important. So the entire system was based on deceit,

control, and, you know, spreading false news. This is 1825. and we're talking about it. And this is how the, you know, and superb organization, and that's the case today. There are even for a handful of Jews in a country,

there are hundreds of organizations. They're at 100% mobilization. And that mentality didn't begin here, but it's very obvious here. And I don't think the suppression of the Jewish deputies really mattered one way or the other, because one thing about the Ghalas, despite the fact that it is very rigid,

it can also adapt to circumstances. One of the sources of tension between the authorities and Kahulam resided in the fact that the latter, the only ones authorized to levy the capitation on the Jewish population, hid the souls during the censuses, and concealed a large quantity of them. The government thought that it knew the exact numbers of the Jewish population in order to demand the corresponding amount of capitation,

but it was very difficult to establish it. Is capitation taxation, do you know? Oh, yeah, yeah, per capita. Okay, gotcha. For example, in Berdicev, the unrecorded Jewish population regularly accounted for nearly half the actual number of Jewish inhabitants. According to the official data that the government has succeeded in establishing for 1818, the Jews were 677,000, an already important number, for example, by comparison with the data of 1818. the number of male individuals had suddenly doubled,

but it was still an undervalued figure, for there were about 40,000 Jews from the Kingdom of Poland to add. Even with reduced figures of the, even with reduced figures of the Kahalam, there were unrecovered taxes every year, and not only were they not recuperated, but they augmented from year to year. Alexander I personally told the Jewish representatives of his discontent at seeing so many concealments in arrears,

not to mention the smuggling industry. In 1817, the remission of all fines and surcharges, penalties, and arrears was decreed, and a pardon was granted to all those who had been punished for not correctly recording souls, but on the condition that the Kahalam provide honest data from then on. But no improved...

Yeah, yeah. I mean, these people just don't learn. but no improvement ensued. In 1820, the Minister of Finance announced that all measures aimed at improving the economic situation of the Jews were unsuccessful. Many Jews were wandering without identity papers. A new census reported a number of souls two or three times greater, if not more, than those previously provided by Jewish societies. However, the Jewish population was constantly increasing. Most researchers see one of the main reasons for this growth as being the custom of early marriages prevalent at that time among the Jews as early as 13 years old for boys and from 12 years old onward for girls.

In the anonymous note of 1808 quoted above, the unknown Jewish author writes that this custom of early unions is at the root of innumerable evils and prevents the Jews from getting rid of inveterate customs and activities that draw upon them the general public's indignation and harms them as well as others. Tradition among the Jews is that those who are not married at a young age are held in contempt and even the most destitute draw on their last resources to marry their children as soon as possible even though these newlyweds incurred the vicissitudes of a miserable existence. Early marriages were introduced by the rabbis who took advantage of them, and one will be better able to contract a profitable marriage by devoting himself to the study of the Talmud and the strict observance of the rights. Those who married early were indeed only occupied with studying the Talmud,

and when finally came the time to lead an autonomous existence, these fathers, ill-prepared for labor, ignorant of the working life, turns to the manufacture of alcohol and petty trading. The same goes for crafts. By marrying the 15-year-old apprentice no longer learns his trade, but becomes his own boss and only ruins the work. In the mid-1920s, in the provinces of Grodna and Vilnius, there was a rumor that it would be forbidden to enter into marriage

before reaching the age of majority, which is why there was a hasty conclusion of marriages between children who were little more than nine years old. these early marriages debilitated the life of the Jews. How could such a swarming, such a desensification of the population, such competition in similar occupations, leads to anything else in misery?

The policy of the Caholam contributed to the worsening of the material conditions of the Jews. Well, keep in mind that, you know, as everyone knows, their relatively small numbers are always a source of anxiety and we all know

Kevin McDonald's book on these methods of adapting these cultural norms that compensated for the lack of numbers which is what essentially all conversation about the Jews for us revolve around

this is partly why they're the way that they are so having large families and you see this with the Hasidics today and clearly the lack of any work ethic for the bulk of these people didn't change their financial position. These are still very wealthy institutions. This is the ultimate in parasitism. There's still this huge controversy in Israel today about the Hasidics in Jerusalem who do not work.

They claim to study Talmud. They live on welfare. and all the other scams that they're involved in. And as the Israeli military situation gets worse and worse, they want to draft these people. But since they were there prior to the establishment of Israel, most of them opposed the state of Israel, but don't mind taking money from it.

They want to draft these people. And so there's riots and all this stuff. And so work, other than studying the Talmud, is out of the question for a bulk of these people. Therefore, the elite engaged. in what they say, petty training, trading scams, alcohol, extracting rents, crimes of all kinds to maintain themselves as a very powerful organization. They were parasites in every sense of the word, and the Jews themselves were not shy about talking

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feed than hands to work. It is important to make the masses understand that it is necessary to earn a living by the sweat of their brow. Young people who have no income contract marriage by counting on the mercy of God and on the purse of their father, and when this support is lacking, ladenwood family, they throw themselves on the first occupation come, even if it is dishonest. In droves, they devote themselves to commerce, but later cannot feed them all. They are obliged to resort to deceit. This is why it is desirable that the Jews turn to agriculture. An army of idlers under the appearance of educated people live by charity and at the expense of the community. No one cures the people.

The rich only think of enriching themselves. The rabbis think only of the disputes between Hasidim and Minogdis, Jewish Orthodox, and the only concern of the Jewish activists is to short circuit the misfortune presented in the form of governmental decrees, even if they contribute to the good of the people. Thus, the great majority of the Jews in Russia lived on small trade, crafts, and small industries, or served as intermediaries. They have inundated the cities of factories and retail shops. How could the economic life of the Jewish people be healthy under these conditions?

However, a much later Jewish author of the mid-20th century was able to write, recalling this time, it is true that the Jewish mass lived cheaply and poorly, but the Jewish community as a whole was not miserable. Well, the solution to the problem was organized crime. Remember that there were no gun laws in the Russian Empire, really, of any substance. The Cahal was armed, and later in the 19th and early 20th century, they were heavily armed. This old myth of these poor scholars wandering around being attacked for no reason by the animal Gentiles, It's just that.

It's a myth. It's a story. They, you know, despite all of these alleged problems, they continued to do very well. And the only way that that could be is through crime, through the extraction of rents, things like prostitution. Because, you know, the distillery issue and owning these taverns that wasn't just about alcohol. These are also, you know, hostels, really, or maybe like we would call a motel. where prostitution was promoted. Of course, so long as it's

Gentile women. And this is why they were so despised, but an increase in numbers meant that they were able to defend themselves. And that really, you know, that really hasn't changed. This is one of the reasons that Zionism, you mean the Black Hundreds supported

some version of Zionism in the early 20th century. They simply don't belong here. They contribute very little. especially at the local level, and everyone is starting to hate them. Again, which is why secrecy is so important then and now. There is no lack of interest in the rather unexpected testimonies of the life of the Jews in the Western provinces, seen by the participants in the Napoleonic expedition of 1812 who passed through the region.

On the outskirts of Dojitza, the Jews are rich and wealthy. They trade intensively with Russia, Poland, and even go to the Leipzig Fair. At Klovovoki, the Jews had the rights to distill alcohol and make vodka and mead. They established our own cabarets, inns, and relays located on highways. The Jews of Mogulov are well-off, undertake large-scale trading, although a terrible misery reigns around the area. Almost all the Jews in those places had a license to sell spirits. Financial transactions were largely developed there. Here again is the testimony of an impartial observer.

In Kiev, the Jews are no longer counted. The general characteristic of Jewish life is ease, although it is not the lot of all. On the level of psychology and everyday life, the Russian Jews have the following specific traits, a constant concern about their fate, their identity, how to fight, defend themselves. Cohesion stems from established customs, the existence of an authoritarian and powerful social structure charged with preserving, the uniqueness of their way of life. adaption to new conditions is to a very large extent collective and not individual. And this is how they were able to function.

If you go to Wikipedia and put in Cahal, which I don't recommend you do, or the Pail of Settlement, you'll get this story about how awful it was, and the Jews were so terribly repressed. But everyone at the time knew that that was a complete lie. by using these methods that got them hated everywhere, promoting alcoholism, cabarets, what the heck is that at the time? You know, that's essentially your adult bookstore, hotel relays on highways. Just like the Khazar Empire, they controlled these trade routes.

And trade routes were difficult in a place as large as Russia with the weather and the mud as well as the ice and snow. So they were absolutely dominant in this respect. And the increase in numbers just meant that they were able to go to more places. Jews were not confined to the pale of settlement. They weren't confined to anything. The only thing that the Cahol demanded was that they be confined to them because that is the nature of cohesion. That is their one and only concern because the more cohesive and organized they are, the more powerful they are.

And it's a collective mentality, not an individual one. So if they promote individualism and free market and capitalism to Europe, that just weakens Gentiles. They don't think in those terms. And there's all these punishments for intra-Jewish competition, going to the non-Jewish authorities to report a crime of the Jew, which is Rodef, which is their death. So cohesion, cohesion, cohesion. this is how they functioned and that's how they function today. I think it's interesting that you're starting to see mention of early ideas of having their own homeland back in Palestine and that people are promoting it and because they want them to leave. But no one's taken into consideration that not every one of them is going to want to go back and that they can use.

it as they can use it as their center of power as they remain a diaspora in other nations. I mean, it's almost like they talk about it today. It's almost like Jews talk about it in the United States today. How are there a diaspora? Well, how are you a diaspora if you have a homeland? How are you a diaspora? You just don't want to live there. You just, your whole life is being somewhere else, being the other and being able to take advantage of that. Yeah, you know, the concept of Zionism in and of itself, and Sven Longshank, he used to say this all the time, I don't necessarily have a problem with it.

The problem with Zionism is, A, the fact that it has to wipe out people that it poses, imposes itself upon, and number two, it can't function unless it completely dominates the major powers, the dominant power surrounding them. And especially the U.S. and Western Europe. But the concept that Jews should have their own state away from us in and of itself, and this was the right-wing position, the Christian Socialist Party and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Indian of the Russian people in Russia, this was their solution. But because, you know, there's only a certain number of people who are willing to go.

They're going to be surrounded. They're surrounded by enemies, no matter where they go. that their position will be very untenable unless they have sponsors all over the world. And that requires millions of Jews to stay behind and be that pipeline of money and support from one country to, you know, what we call Israel today. So Zionism in and of itself isn't the problem. It's what it has to do to function. That's the problem. Now, the Hasidic idea is to say that, well, Zionism only works when their Messiah comes.

And that will be the center of the world and all the wealth will flow to it. So, and that's what Natari Karta says, except for the last part. But prior to that, the Notary Karta position, some of the Hasidim say that trying to be the best neighbor that you can be to avoid being attacked, to avoid exactly doing this kind of thing. This may be unique to deter Ricardo, and I've had many conversations with Rabbi Weiss over the phone and in person about this kind of thing. Yes, maybe

it's a sanitized idea, but they put their money where their mouth is all the time. I mean, the JDL burnt down their main synagogue in Muncie, New York. But when these people were promoting the so-called Zionist idea at the time, of course, there's no way that they could have known

that in moving there, they're still going to need to dominate and have sponsors that they control and maintain that kind of secrecy and maintain that kind of cohesion. Right now, the position of Israel is extremely difficult. They are so overstretched in the security department. You have a lot of outmigration. You have a very weak economy now and very little social trust, especially given the Netanyahu administration and the people who are running it.

For the first time, if you recall, both prior to the Hamas invasion and even after, criticizing Israel sort of became mainstream, which was partially damage control, but it did frighten a lot of people, that a lot of Jews, that we can't have this. The reason that that happened, of course,

is that Netanyahu with his settler administration, was engaging in this overt but very conservative Jewish nationalism, you know, about homosexuals, you know, the religious rule, the country. And so secular Jews were, you know, really despised the guy, not to mention all of the constitutional legal reforms that gave his cabinet tremendous amount of power. Now, I don't believe that the Hamas invasion was staged. I don't believe that they incurred, that the Lakud, encouraged it. I have a paper out on that. I don't think that's true. It's a very dangerous game to play.

So the point of all this is that they're very difficult situation coupled with the total depopulation of much of Ukraine. Now, that's also dangerous. This is why you have, maybe not in public so much, but the new Khazdia idea, and you still have the Jewish oligarchs in charge of Ukrainian policy. But, you know, Ukraine is not an independent country, but the oligarchs have a tremendous amount of power and contacts with Jews around the world. You know, they control Kievan policy essentially as surrogates for Jewish, you know, the administration of so-called Joe Biden was heavily Jewish.

And under Trump, it's massively pro-Zionist. You couldn't get more Jewish if you tried here. So now the fall of the tragic fall of Assad may have allowed them to breathe a sign of relief, but what might happen as a result of that as settlers now are going into Golan? But, you know, there's there's only a few million of them there. They're tremendously divided now for the first time in a very long time. Thanks to Netanyahu. What happened at the so-called international criminal court, the South African case, this is now public. All of a sudden these Jews are coming out saying, oh, we're opposed to all of this.

But they would never say that back, you know, when they turned Gaza into an open-air prison in 2006, and especially 2006 and prior to that. So this is a lot of damage control. But the Israeli defense forces are so stretched. And the Iranians proved that they could penetrate the so-called Iron Dome with no problem. I think the best thing that happened to them was the fall of Assad, but that's all going to depend on what happens. Yes, these militias, ISIS, these are all Western creations. They're financed by the West, but anything could happen.

Even the West can't keep track of who's who. They're always changing their name to avoid detection. Israel is using this as an excuse to continue to attack Syrian territory. But they're really, you know, because of these developments, visions. The citadel in Jerusalem, that's just, you know, seems minor now by comparison. Out migration, a struggling economy. Shipping is still a problem, thanks to the Houthi in Yemen.

They're in a rough position, and I can't help but think, I know I don't want to jump the gun, but colonization of a depopulated Ukraine based on the new Khazardia idea, I mean, you know, Crimea is never going to go back. It's always going to be Russian. Much of eastern Ukraine is going to remain Russian. But that still leaves a large territory that is just traumatized beyond belief that is now very thinly populated. And it's just going to get worse? Is it possible that there may be outmigration there?

Of course, they certainly have the money to make this work. You know, Israel to me is, you know, the promised land of the Jews. is New York. It's really the U.S. today, far more so than this little state that's always on the verge of, you know, especially with the, with Iranian power. And, you know, Iran is a first world country. And that's, you know, the U.S. was driven out of Afghanistan. I mean, nothing is guaranteed with these people. And once the Ukraine wars, you know, it's drawing to a close, Russians may start to focus more on the Middle East In Gaza, the war of attrition is not going Israel's way.

They're suffering huge losses that they'll never admit to, and the same goes for Lebanon. And now that bombing hospitals, which is old news, they've been doing this for years, poisoning wells and early Zionism, you have Jews talking about this all the time. Now this is mainstream. Israel's position is iffy. anything can happen. So rather than use the Samson option, which is, you know, to destroy themselves with nuclear weapons, which is, I don't know if they would ever do that, their own nuclear weapons essentially come up and come back down again, the possibility of another community in a depopulated Ukraine, it's something that's still there. And so there's simply not enough of them in Israel. They're stretched all over the place.

place. Now with Golan, I mean, how many settlers can they possibly send out? Settlers don't work. They never do. They require tremendous military assistance to function because everyone hates them. They're heavily armed. For the first time you have, like normal people, talking about settlers. That was unthinkable 10 years ago. So it's, you know, it's conceivable that this may have, and there are organizations. I mean, no one's more organized than, Ukrainian Jews. You know, the largest Jewish institutions are in Ukraine. And you have so many organizations, tremendous control over the

Kiev state apparatus. It's Jewish from top to bottom, at least in ruling circles. You have now a Jewish, essentially a Jewish administration in the U.S. for God knows how many decades. That's definitely impossibility. I always thought that Israel

in the Jewish mind is it's not as important as we make it out to be their power is mostly in the U.S. and Britain it's in London, it's in D.C., it's in New York, and they have tremendous power, but it's not formally a Jewish state. So what comes out of all this, I don't know, but they still have a kind of neo-cahawal system in Ukraine.

but even there you see divisions he's in prison Zelensky who is very unstable is very erratic I mean he really is breaking down he's going to have to be killed and replaced if this is going to continue military isn't to be listening to him anymore

to the extent that there is a military these divisions are absolutely intolerable to Jews as we've been as we've been saying so what comes out of this this is these very interesting times to be a Jew. What ends up happening in Ukraine, as far as Jewish angle is concerned, versus what happens as the IDF really has continued, they're not winning. They're not winning in Gaza. They're not winning in Lebanon. They've lost in Lebanon several times now. Casualties

are very high. And with all of this criticism, something radical has to happen. And what that might be is we're not in any position to predict, but there may be a reversal of, of, you know, the delimination of the khal. It may return again on Ukrainian territory. Right. We have a few more sentences, and then we're at our natural stopping point. All right. We must do justice to this organic unity of land, which in the first half of the 19th century gave the Jewish people of Russia its original aspect. The world was compact, organic, subjective vexations, not spared of suffering and deprivation, but it was a world in itself. Man was not stifled within it. In this world, one could experience joie de vivre, one could find

one's food, one could build one's life to one's taste and in one's own way, both materially and spiritually. Central fact, the spiritual dimension of the community was linked to traditional knowledge and the Hebrew language. But in the same book devoted to the Russian Jewish world, and other writer notes that the lack of rights, material misery, and social humiliation hardly allowed self-respect to develop among the people. And things like cognitive dissonance, mental illness,

which is, you know, Jewish stock and trade, complete neuroticism is part of the results of this. This almost sociopathic, drive for power and control may well derive from this and it's modern guys anyway from this lack of self-respect

given the fact of they know that their history is nonsense and of course that's not always the case but some of them the bulk of them probably have to be aware that we are a deceptive people

which is really where initially the modern Zionism came from. We don't belong here. We're not of these people. We have to go. But that turns out to be a lot more difficult than they ever realized. So whichever side of the Jewish psyche ends up winning here is going to be very interesting. All right. We'll come back for episode nine in a few days. As always, I will encourage people to go to the show notes. There are multiple ways to support Dr. Johnson's work. And again, we thank you for providing the knowledge and the context that's required to understand

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