The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 84

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

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The Pekignana Show.com. Everything's there. I want to welcome everyone back to our reading of 200 years together by Alexander Solzhenycin. This is episode number 84. Dr. Johnson, how are you doing today? You know, I'm glad you asked me. I'm in a good mood. Not just because it's dick chaining, but I'm in a good mood because this is the first time.

I think I'm 100% since the hospital stay. I lost a lot of weight. I'm going to keep it off. I think I feel better than I have in a long time. And so I do appreciate you being patient. I was gone for a long time. or what seemed to be a long time to me, really only five, six days,

but I'm 100% now. Marcel, Stanley's brother is, he's doing all right. He can only eat. I have to feed him by hand. I'm feeding him the squishy stuff. If cat owners know what I'm talking about, it comes in a tube.

You have a lot of fun with that. He can't really, he has all these two tumors in his mouth. And he has, a his operation is uh is coming up we'll see i mean you know guarded guarded optimism but um either way whatever happens he's going to be happy and comfortable uh no matter what what actually occurs is medically speaking well that's good to hear i know that's a little depressing but you know um he's a family member he was with me 11 11 11 years now

well no worries about putting up with uh putting up with your absence uh you dealt with me when i had my uh my trials a month ago so um yep right but all right picking up where we left off last time and away we go regarding the army one israeli scholar painstakingly researched and proudly published a long list of jewish commanders of the red army during and after the Civil War. Another Israeli researcher published statistics obtained from the 1926 census to the effect that while Jews made up 1.7 percent of the male population in the USSR, they comprised 2.1 percent of the combat officers, 4.4 percent of the command staff, 10.3 percent of the political leadership, and 18.6 percent of military doctors. They had already developed the idea of the political

commissar, or it was in its infancy, that every officer in the Red Army was assigned a party member, often Jewish, to make sure that his actions were party approved. I had the feeling they couldn't have possibly liked each other, but this was something that was starting here, and they weren't military men at all. But because the party feared, like Zooka, popular military men who were not Jewish, as you see, you know, 2.1% of the combat officers. Yeah, the men on the field were not Jewish. And I have the feeling that political leadership, not just in the party, but the early commissar system was already developing. And the military doctors is to be understood.

I think the 10.3% is probably higher. and what did the west see if the government apparatus could operate in secret under the communist party which maintained this conspiratorial secrecy even after coming to power diplomats were on view everywhere in the world at the first diplomatic conferences with soviets in geneva and the hague in 1922 europe could not help but notice that soviet delegations and their staff were mostly Jewish. 50. I don't know if that's a footnote or if that's. Yeah, they're not doing the hot lengths this time, I guess. Due to the injustice of history, a long and successful career of Boris Yefimovich Stern is now completely forgotten. He wasn't even mentioned in the great Soviet

encyclopedia of 1971. Yet he was the second most important assistant to Chisharan during Geneva, during Genoa Conference and later at Hague Conference, and still later he led Soviet delegation during longstanding demilitarization negotiations. He was also a member of the Soviet delegation of the League of Nations. Stern was ambassador in Italy and Finland and conducted delicate negotiations with the Finns before the Soviet Finnish War. Finally, from 1946 to 1948, he was head of the Soviet delegation at UN. And he used to be a longstanding lecturer at the high diplomatic school at one point during anti-cosmopolitan purges he was fired, but in 1953, he was restored at that position. Yeah, we're going to get to the so-called Stalinist

anti-cosmopolitan purges and how Jews thrived and thrived and thrived in the Stalin years. I also want to note about the early Red Army. I've said this before, but we get into it in more detail, I think over the next few weeks. This wasn't a normal army. This was a revolutionary army. This was to fight a civil war. In terms of building up a normal army, like anywhere else in the world, this is what Stalin worried about. This is why he purged so many officers because they were from that crowd.

Very few of them were Jews. But they were very good guerrilla fighters. They were good in the civil war. But in terms of fighting someone like Germany or Japan. Um, they, you know, they, they didn't have the training. They were idiot. They were ideologs. Uh, we needed actual, uh, military men. Um, you know, we hear these numbers like, you know, 2.1% 10% 10.3% but wherever, especially when it comes to the police services, camps, um, Jews always dominate. It doesn't matter what the numbers really are. When it push comes to shove, the, the most important posts. And especially the punitive organizations, you have Jews everywhere. And that never stopped until maybe when Khrushchev fell. An associate of Chicheren, Leon Heikis, worked for many years at the Narcomat of the Foreign Affairs.

In 1937, he was sent to a warmer place as ambassador to the embattled Republican government of Spain, where he directed the Republican side during the Civil War, but was arrested and removed. Fyodor Rothstein founded the Communist Party in Great Britain in 1920, and in that very year, he was a member of the Soviet delegation and negotiations with England. Two years later, he represented RSFSR at the Hague Conference. As Litvinov's right-hand man, he independently negotiated with ambassadors to Russia in important matters until 1930, he was in the presidium of NKID, and for 30 years before his death, a professor at the Moscow State University.

Yeah, what careers these Jews have? It's absolutely incredible. Yeah, I love it. He's a founder of the Communist Party, but also then the ambassador. This guy was neither British nor Russian. We've seen already in a separate show, we did Jews founded the Communist Party in Cuba and Mexico. Just wherever you go. Yeah, I'm sure.

the Communist Party was, you know, 90% Spanish-speaking non-Jewish. Oh, and I did a paper, the Communist Party of Indonesia, was founded by a Dutch Jew because it was a Dutch colonial. I'd be everywhere you go. That actually got very, very big. So, yeah, it's a little funny if it wasn't so bloody. We also know all of us love Francisco Franco. Franco was, when I was in college.

I had a frame picture of him. My father did for me on my wall. And people always want kids always wonder what the hell. Who the hell's that? I would explain to them in great detail, especially after I read Stanley Payne's biography. And yeah, Stalin was financing the Republican side. Well, most of the West was financing the Republican side. And it was only Germany and Italy that was financing the right side.

And on the other side of the globe in southern China, M. Grusenberg Borodin had served for five years when the December 1927 Canton rebellion against the Kuomintang broke out. It is now recognized that the revolt was prepared by our vice-consul, Abram Hasis, who, at age of 33, was killed by Chinese soldiers. Izvestia ran several articles with obituaries and photographs of comrades and arms under Kwebyshev, comparing the fallen comrade with highly distinguished communists like Fermanov and Fruz. We just, anywhere in the world. Anywhere in the world. And at some point, the United States cut Shankajek off. I can't remember the names involved.

Maybe our listeners do. Jews involved in that. And of course, Mao was able to then take over and slaughter, I don't think anyone knows, 30 million people, and then became the student or the teacher of, oh, well, I shouldn't even say that because Pol Pot, Mao said to Pol Pot that he had more experience than he did. I should be a student of yours. So you have, you know, Pol Pot coming directly from Mao. That's what this leads to. And it simply didn't matter to them. how many these Chinese go away we're going to be killed

you know we hear Chinese communist Indonesia Communist Party Cuba and there's Jewish names up and down and it's just

it's funny but not in a in a comic sense I just looked up in my bookmarks I have a bookmark so I have a bookmark from the forward it's an article

I've read a few times a Jew and Mao's China and basically it describes how when Mao was coming to power, 80% of his foreign advisors were Jewish. And they brought and they, it's by the forward. So they're bragging about it. Oh yeah, Jewish forward. Right, right.

I thought you meant the forward. Yeah. No, the Jewish forward. No, the Jewish forward. Yeah. It's that old, it's that old, um, the old trope of is this article the daily, daily forward or the daily stormer? Because why are you, why are you giving us this information?

Well, it's great because they bragged about all the Jews in, uh, Biden's, administration. So when I did the, when I wrote on that, it was, oh, I have a Jewish source for this. Who's going to argue with them? They said, how wonderful this is. So they're not, they're not shy. Now, in the future, maybe they won't be so confident. But yeah, this is, you know, once they feel comfortable, they can do things, I can do things like that. But it's no shock. And the Rockefeller Foundation is a group that came in to enforce the one child policy. Now, India has overtaken China. I mean, most of China is empty. they're not overpopulated but um now they're struggling with with reproduction because they're

they're a first world country and they've been for a long time that's what happens and uh that was a rockefellers were brought in for that and i thought the chinese were pretty good at eliminating people but that whole one-child policy came from the west as well in 1922 gorky told the academic epahti of that 98% of the soviet trade mission in berlin was jewish and then this probably was not much of an exaggeration. A similar picture would be found in other Western capitals where the Soviets were ensconced. The work that was performed in early Soviet trade missions is colorfully described in a book by G.A. Solomon, the first Soviet trade representative in Tallinn, Estonia, the first European capital to recognize the Bolsheviks. There are simply

no words to describe the boundless theft by the early Bolsheviks in Russia, along with covert actions against the West, and the corruption of the soul these activities brought to their affectors. My Lord. Shortly after Gorky's conversation with the Patiev, he, quote, was criticized in the Soviet press for an article where he reproached the Soviet government for its placement of so many Jews in positions of responsibility in government and industry. He had nothing against Jews per se, but departing from views he expressed in 1918, he thought the Russian should be in charged. And quote. And Pravda's twin publication Dar Amas, Pravda in Yiddish, objected strongly. Do they,

Gorky and Shalom Ash, the interviewer, really want for Jews to refuse to serve in any government position? For them to go out of the way? That kind of decision could only be made by counter-revolutionaries or cowards. Oh, boy. You know, I tend to agree with how he would put it. We're not talking about individuals here. I've had many Jewish friends growing up. I lived in a fairly heavily Jewish area in central New Jersey, Union County school. And of course, I went to the University of Hartford, which was disproportionately Jewish. Yeah, I had some problem with people there, but we're not talking about individuals here. We're talking about a collective. We're talking about their collective impact. Hence, my dentist, for example, would not, you know, I'm not talking about

him. I have to actually explain to grown men. the difference between individuals and groups. But this idea that Russians should be in charge, this is something that they smashed. I mentioned many times already, the Leningrad purge. Very few people talk about that. I've been talking about that for a while, which came from World War II, where Jews and the party began to be alarmed because these 100% Russians were defending, you know, the famous, uh,

siege of Leningrad and all that, became very famous. And they started talking about Russians should be in charge. And there was a massive attack on them. And many of them were either sent to the camps or disappeared or sent to prison or humiliated or whatever happened to them. I have a paper on that too, which I'd love to send you. I should probably send you that anyway for you to post. But this, the Russian question, in quote, is it never.

ends only really in the 70s you know and then you got to the point where in the 80s russian nationalist you know orthodox people had sympathizers in the party unfortunately they tended to rely on those sympathizers in the party near the very end these were these were paid he's like Putin's era when he was a young man that's how radically things changed um roughly somewhere in in the in the brezna era and later So, in the 80s, you had the explosion of groups like pomming it, although I, you know, I knew the leader of their vascular, that they were iffy. But once the Jews kind of disconnected, you had Russian nationalism became the norm, or Soviet patriotism as they would disguise it as. Putin comes straight out of that, guys, his age came straight out of that.

At this era, though, very different story. Russians were the most persecuted group, Russians and Ukrainians, for different reasons. So, Ukraine, it was a peasantry. Russians, it was everybody in the early history, first half of the Soviet Union. Because nationalism remains, especially a nation as large as that, remains the enemy of both capitalism and Marxism, wherever you go. And Lenin was obsessed with the issue. Stalin was big on the issue Russians were not allowed to have much power in their own country when it all possible

and Russia as a nation which was sunk into the Soviet Union was exploited for all the other poor republics so that became one of the big issues and then things changed in the 70s and 80s In Jews and the Kremlin the author, using the 1925 annual report of NKID,

introduces leading figures and positions in the central apparatus. Quote, in the publishing arm, there is not one non-Jew. And further, end quote. And further, with evident pride, the author, quote, examines the staff in the Soviet consulates around the world and finds there is not one country in the world where the Kremlin has not placed a trusted Jew, end quote. If he was interested,

the author of Aleph could find no small number of Jews in the Supreme Court of R.S.F.S.R. of the 1920s in the procurator's office, N. R.K.I. Here, we can find already familiar, A. Goykbarg, who, after sharing the lesser Sovnarcum, worked out the legal system for the NEP era, supervised development of civil code of RSFSR and was director of the Institute of Soviet Law. My Lord. You know, law in the USSR was very different than law in the West. The only thing that mattered was the promotion of the proletariat, meaning the power of the party.

You know, the law also, you know, the Constitution provided full freedom of religion. But that obviously, or freedom of succession, too, really. but obviously that was just those are just words on a page. Words on a page don't mean very much, especially when you're dealing with this. But yes, this is another place where you're going to find Jews everywhere in the law. Now, I never looked too much into the so-called Supreme Court.

I mean, I'm not sure how significant it was. They didn't have an army attached to them, so it really didn't matter. But you have Jews everywhere. It's still a Jewish domain in the West. and the legal profession, especially among the academics in the U.S. It's just no shock there. You say RSFSR. You're talking about just the Russian Soviet Republic.

So, you know, legal system for the NEP era and then everything. So it continually changed whenever they needed it at the, just for the convenience of the party. So law, you know, I don't, citing a law didn't mean a whole. a lot citing evidence in a court didn't mean very much courts did what they were told and um you're kind of like kind of like normberg you know evidence really didn't matter um and there was really no set procedure not until uh recent recent years to to enforce it this was simply uh soviet legality socialist legality with you know lenin used to mock it calling it uh bourgeois legalism that we have to follow some law for everybody. That's not how it works. Not how a revolution works. That's not how

a revolutionary works. Law is what we needed to be at any given moment. It is much harder to examine lower provincial level authorities and not only because of their lower exposure to the press, but also due to the rapid fluidity and frequent turnover of cadres from post to post from region to region. And we've noticed that. This amazing earth Soviet shuffling of personnel might have been caused either by an acute deficit of reliable men as in Lenin era or by mistrust and the tearing of a functionary from the developed connections in Stalin's time. Yeah, this is interesting. When I first got into the USSR and I read many, many books on, you know, I was just 1819. I was blown away.

by this and we've we've talked about it already these guys especially these jews they go from place to place but they have no expertise in any of it at least a doctor went to medical school you know um we hope but but these other people you know they come in from brooklyn and now they're head of agriculture in kuzine or something like that and then they become head of the air force you know uh that's what we've been seeing this whole time um yeah you you know, reliable. That might mean Jew, but not necessarily. I think both are true. Reliable men, distrust. I mean, how many Jews are there? I mean, you can't, you know, so you're looking at, you know, if something has 20% Jews, that's really impressive. That means they control it entirely.

And, you know, they're not, especially if everyone else is Russian. But this is, and of course, the other issue, too, is the party didn't want anyone getting to know local people. And they may be sympathizing with them. So they were always moving around. Some military organizations are like that. Some even state police are like that. But you did have, you know, a deficit of Jews. There were only so many Jews in the world.

And these guys, you know, I just, I'm shocked about how these, no wonder the economy was a total disaster. It's not just their policy. It's just that these Jews were put in places. Can you imagine everything we've talked about, Jews and agriculture? You had Jewish names all over agricultural policy in the USSR. are. They're overseeing collective farms. They've never seen a farm before. And then the next time they're in the Navy, then they're in a diplomatic corps, and then they're working on the nuclear bomb. It's just shocking. I've never come across this elsewhere. I mean, there's a lot of shuffling

in other countries, but not like this. Here are several such career trajectories. Lev Mariosin was Secretary of Gubkum of Oral Gubernia, later chair of Sav Narcaz of Tardar Republic, later head of the Department of C.K. of Ukraine. Later, chair of board of directors of Goss Bank of USSR and later deputy Narcombe of finances of the USSR. My God. Morris Balotsky was head of Polish. Pullet Totdel of the First Cavalry Army, a very powerful position. Participated in suppression of the Kronstadt uprising.

Later, in NK. ID, then later, the first secretary of North Ossession, Upgum, and even later, was first secretary of C.K. of Kyrgyzstan. A versatile functionary, Gregori Kaminsky, was Secretary of Guvgum of Tula Gubernaya. later, Secretary of C.K. of Azurban, later, chair of Colc Center, and later, Narcom of Healthcare Service. Abram Komenzki was Narcom of State Control Commission of Donetsk Krivoy, Royal Republic, later deputy Narcom of nationalities of RSFSR. Later, Secretary of Guptom of Donetsk later served in Narcum. of agriculture, then director of industrial academy, and still later, he served in the Narcomat

of finances. There were many Jewish leaders of the Kamsamaul. This is really extraordinary. You can't have a functional country like this. There was no skilled civil service that you would need, no matter what kind of system you have, you need a professional civil service, or at least any kind of a modern state or even an empire. But look at these jobs. I guarantee you none of these guys had any particular expertise in any of them. And they go from, I love the one that goes from agriculture to industry, you know, without expertise in either one. The agriculture ones really blow me away.

And this is part of the reasons why people starve. They didn't starve. But others starved. The ascendant career of Ephem Zetland began with the post of the first chairman of C.K. R.K.S.m., fall of 1918, after the Civil War, he became Secretary of C.K. and Moscow Committee of R.K.S.M. Since 1922, a member of Executive Committee of K.I.M., young Communist International. In 1923 to 24, a spy in Germany. Later, he worked in Secretariat of Executive Committee of Communist International, still later, in editorial office of Providence. even later, he was head of Bucharan's secretariat, where this latter post eventually proved fatal for him. The career of Isaiah Corgan was truly amazing. In 1917, he was a member of the Ukrainian Rada, parliament, served both in the central and lesser chambers and worked on the draft of legislation on Jewish autonomy in Ukraine. Since 1920, we see him as a speaker, as a member VKPB,

He, in 1921, he was a trade commissioner of Ukraine and Poland. In 1923, he represented German American transport society in the USA, serving as a de facto Soviet plenipotentiary. He found that in shared Amtorg, American Trading Corporation. His future seemed incredibly bright, but alas, at the age of 38 in 1925, he was drowned in a lake in the USA. What a life he had. The American Trading Corporation It was very clear And they had many of these

As well as the German-American transfer There's a whole bunch of these Where American and German investment Could be streamlined into The Soviet Union Everyone who knows The Soviet Union cares about one thing That's industry

They wanted to industrialize They make the entire planet As Lenin said in one big factory And they tried to do that through the collective farm system, too. Only capitalism was able to do that in reality today with GMOs and everything else. I don't know if he's intimating that he was murdered

or he actually just didn't swim. But at least in this guy's case, he seems to be fairly consistent that he's dealing with foreign trade in the sense that he's bringing investment from the so-called anti-communist west into the USSR. You know, keep in mind that even Hitler, when he was re-arming, had to do a lot of it in the Soviet Union.

Stalin had his own agenda. But both Mussolini and Hitler sold their most advanced ships without weapons to Stalin. They just got renamed. If you look at Joe Kham Hoffman's, Stalin's War of Extermination, but he goes into great detail. As to all this,

They kind of, you know, they had to do this. But the U.S., Germany, France, Great Britain, they created, first of all, they assisted the Red Army. Then they financed the early years with food aid of the Soviet Union. Then they industrialized it. They had so many Soviet students in, you know, universities, Ivy League and elsewhere, learning, engineering and everything else. they went back so you can't talk to me about a cold war you can't really talk to me about and this continued even the computer system computer computer era i remember reagan uh struggling to stop this but he couldn't um because there were never any sanctions didn't matter how many people were

in the gulag only putin gets sanctions um so you know when you talk to me about a cold war or the anti you know this is this is such a mockery of marchism marchism says this is impossible there's no way capitalists were going to assist their enemies. Well, they didn't see themselves as enemies. I think the Soviets saw the West as enemies in some sense, but the West didn't see the Soviets as enemies. You know what happened. Look at the reputation of Joe McCarthy.

Part of the thing that Joe McCarthy was going to talk about was all the corporations who invested in the Soviet Union then and now, then in the 50s. And I think that's part of the reason why they went after him. And being anti-communist, it was brutal. during a Vietnam War, you know, I'm sorry, anti-communism was to be found among a certain group. Sometimes, you know, they took the credit like Nixon or Reagan, but the, just for the U.S. or was not anti-communist in general. Yeah, sometimes the empire got too large. That's true.

But they would have attacked, you know, in Korea or Vietnam, no, what kind of empire was there. It didn't matter what was Marxist or otherwise. Despite the fact that in, you know, they murdered Diem in Viedom, and in the 70s, absolutely sided with North Korea against General Park in Korea. So even that is iffy. It's just, you know, there was a big difference sometimes, as I've said before, between the regime and the state, just like between the party and the state and the USSR. Now, the regime is the ruling class, which was international. on. Everything from military to, to, you know, industry to services to, you know, the people who show up at Bilderberg meetings. The state usually plays along, but every once in a while,

you get someone like Nixon, sometimes Reagan and Trump that separate from it. And then there's a war that happened in Vietnam, absolutely. So I really question this is, so the point of Kergan's life was to make sure that Western investment in everything, whatever they needed, which was everything, and their expertise was coming into the USSR to build it into a modern power. And that's who actually built it into a modern power. It says Western capital and Western labor. Let's glance at the economy. Moses Rakimovich was deputy chair of Supreme Soviet of Supreme Soviet of the national economy. Ruvim Levin was a member of Presidium of Gospon,

Ministry of Economic Planning of USSR, and Chair of Gospon of RSFSR. Later, Deputy Narcom of finances of USSR. Zachary Katzenellenbaum, that's the most Russian name I've ever seen in my life. I know, I know. I feel like doing a dance. Katzen Nellenbaum. Yeah, that's that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, Russian was the inventor of the governmental loan for industrialization in 1927 and therefore of all subsequent loans.

He also was one of the founders of Soviet Goss Bank. Moses Frumpkin, this is comical. This is just comical at this point. It is, but he was a big deal. Yeah. Moses Frumkin was Deputy Narcom of foreign trade for 1920, from 1920, from 1920, but in fact he was in charge of the entire Narcomat. He and A.I. Vainstein were long-serving members of the panel of Narcomat of finances of USSR.

Get ready. Vladimir off Scheinfinkel. Let's say get ready. I mean. I say get ready for it. I know it's all coming. I have to pause. Okay.

I know you do. Vladimir off Scheinfinkel was Narcom of Provonde of. of Ukraine, later Narcom of agriculture of Ukraine, and even later he served as notcom of finances of RSFSR and deputy Narcom of finances of the USSR. You know, people focus on the huge man-made famines, you know, like in the 30s, but keep in mind all over the USSR, there were regular famines. And the party knew that the peasants hated them from day one, especially when they started blowing up churches for no obvious reason.

Lenin saying that these were black hundred clergy or whatever it was. And there were always riots and stuff like that. Throughout all of this, remember, there were also armed rebellions everywhere, sometimes small, sometimes large, some didn't even make into the Western press, all put down with violence that I couldn't even think of because I'm a normal person. In that regard, and to be head of the bureaucracy dealing with agriculture in Ukraine is certainly nothing at this era, nothing that's to your credit. That's like being Minister of Economic Stability in 1994. You know, this is, and he sees him going from place to place.

How could he possibly know? He has no specialized knowledge in any of this stuff. but by far the most important person in this paragraph is Moses Frumkin he's one of the people who brought a lot of money from the big banks in not just Rothschild but from the U.S. too

into France into the U.S.S.R. They were trading in the gold market at the time. It's part of the reason why they were shutting down churches because they were finding anything with gold in it and melting it down, and they were selling it.

They tried to, you know, so in other words, they were a part of various markets. You know, I didn't think communists did this kind of thing, but this is what they were. And they were fully accepted. It didn't matter whether they were recognized by a country. They were trading with them. You can't trade with the country and send your people there.

And even if you don't recognize them, of course you recognize them. De facto be recognizing them. So these guys are serious and chair of Goss Plan, the beginning of the central planning system, this is just of Russia. But, you know, of course, these are all connected agencies, but again, they're passed around from place to place. It's really, and so whatever expertise they had usually got lost because they were given a new job two seconds later. If you are building a mill, you're responsible for a possible flood. A newspaper article by Z. Zangville described celebratory jubilee meeting of the Gosbank

Board of Directors in 1927, five years after introduction of Shervonuts, and explains the importance of Shervonuts and displays a group photograph. The article allows Loudshineman, the chairman of the board and Katzenellenbaum, a member of the board. Scheidman's signature was reproduced on every Soviet chevonne, and he simultaneously held the post of Narcom of domestic commerce from 1924. And hold your breath, my reader. He didn't return from a foreign visit in 1929. He preferred to live in bloody capitalism.

Yeah, I held my breath. Yeah, I didn't see that one coming either. you don't hear about the shiverinets very often it was but you know they kept they stuck with the ruble and you have domestic commerce

during the NEP was one thing but later on you didn't really have any domestic commerce that wasn't ruled by the party Gulf Bank Goss Plan that were connected you know when you get down to it the plan system was extremely complicated and as you know the west exploded in technology computers it was very hard for a institution like that to keep up and as a soviet union got older um those who

wanted to maintain the focus on heavy industry tended to tended to win and um even though khrushchev said otherwise you know heavy industry the only you know the west built the heavy industry with the heavy industry meaning the foundational industries the industries that you need to make anything else in the future so steel um you know like power that kind of thing uh but um i have the feeling he this guy might not be the only guy who uh um decided to live uh where he could make a lot more money in in probably in new york somewhere institutions, the well-known economist and professor B.D. Bruskas asks, did not the revolution open up new opportunities for the Jewish population? Among these opportunities would be government

service. More than anything, it is obvious the large number of Jews in government, particularly in higher posts, and most of the Jewish government employees come from the higher classes, not the Jewish masses. But upper-class Jews required to serve the Soviet government did not gain, but lost in comparison and what they would have had in their own businesses or freely pursuing professions. As well, those who moved through the Soviet hierarchy had to display the utmost of tact to avoid arousing and dissatisfaction. A larger number of Jewish public servants, regardless of talent and qualities, would not lessen anti-Semitism, but would strengthen it among other workers and among the intelligentsia. He maintained, there are many Jewish public servants,

particularly in the commissariates, devoted to economic force. functions. Yeah, let me comment on this, because I've come across this elsewhere, the idea that, you know, this is right now, 22, 23, this is an impoverished country. Why are you sticking with it? And that's clearly, he's not the only guy that Latin, you know, the guy who defected in previous paragraph. But, and he's right. In terms of dollars and cents, they would have, they were better off. in the actual under the monarchy. But the power that they have here, the rent that they're able to charge here, the destruction of the Goyim, the murder of the Tsar, Chief Goyim, chief Goy of them all,

seeing the church is destroyed, I think that is very much a form of compensation. They may have had money. They may have had influence in their own community. and under the Tsars but now they have the possibility of ruling and entirely the most Christian society

of Eastern Europe and I think that more than compensates for the problems that they had and once you know the U.S. and everyone started investing heavily profits went up they called this economic growth you know and I guess technically it was

but there was no market relations here you know um so um uh yeah they they didn't make as much in dollars and rubles and but they had a lot more things that they didn't have under under the monarchy laran put it more simply the jewish intelligentsia and large numbers served the victorious revolution readily realizing access to previously denied government service i mean yeah they They don't care about government service. Yeah, that's nothing to that. They care about the fact that now they could charge rents,

rent in the economic sense of the term, that they could extract resources from these positions. Now, government service in Israel may be a different story. But in this system, which they saw is pretty much their own, although on foreign territory, government service wasn't the issue. It's what I said before. This is the power that they had to hurt the glory.

to hurt their enemies jewish or otherwise and to charge rents that's that's the big deal here g pomerance speaking 50 years later justified this quote history dragged jews into the government apparatus oh that's like how they were forced into finance too huh yeah yeah history what what history i you know i just saw history outside in the hallway i wave to him yeah jews all they wanted to do was till the land till the land and um you know king the kings wouldn't let them so the kings forced them into charge yeah the kings forced them to charge them interest charge their people interest but a total crock of fucking shit yeah sorry but that kids are being taught that right now in universities all over the country yeah

history dragged jews into the government apparatus jews had nowhere else to go besides to government institutions including the checka as we commented earlier the bolsheviks also had no place to go. The Jewish Tribune from Paris explains there were so many Jews in various Soviet functions because of the need for literate, sober bureaucrats. Well, they're just better than everyone else. Of course, government, this was a totalitarian system. There was nothing else but government institutions. So what's that stupid statement? I know where to go besides government institution. That's all there was. It was in construction now, but there was nothing else technically. And certainly in a few years, it would be absolutely nothing else. If the entire

economy is being planned from Moscow, that implies that the party owns and controls every aspect of economic life. So it's hilarious for them to still, they still use a language of victimization. History dragged the Jews into the government apparatus. History, they personify it. whenever you read anyone using a passive voice like that personifying an abstract concept you know that they're hiding something you know he knows better pomerance is highly literate jewish writer anyone who uses language like that is hiding he knows we're going to do one more paragraph and then we have a natural stopping point we do however yeah however one can read in jewish world a parisian publication that quote there is no denying that a large percentage of jewish youth from lower social elements some completely hopeless failures were drawn to bolshevism by the sudden prospect of power for others it was the world proletarian revolution and for still others it was a mixture of adventurous

idealism and practical utilitarianism all of these things they're not they're not they don't conflict. To what extent ideology mattered at all was up in the air. Of course, you had plenty of doctrinaire Marxists, but you also had those who used that as a springboard into other things. And yes, I'm glad that they mentioned that these, even the revolutionaries in the 19th century, all them were from the upper classes. Again, another mockery of Karl Marx. I mean, look at the left today. Who is their enemy? Who do they hate more than anybody else?

The white working class. I love it when Marxists talk like that, you know, assuming that they even do, you know, working class. I mean, working class that you hate, the working class is just voted for Trump, especially the white males. Don't talk about the working class to me. We know what happened in the Soviet Union. We know what happened in every socialist country, except maybe Yugoslavia for a while. idealism doesn't make any sense of course is the materialist system

utilitarianism well Russell Kirk always used to say that that Marxism was the form of utilitarianism that the basic bottom line is that there are more workers than there are owners so you know

this is what I said earlier this gives them far more than just a salary a bigger salary it gives them tremendous power and they're creating an empire of their own. They can't really say so openly,

but I have plenty of PDS right now of Jewish publications, Pittsburgh Jewish News and so many others forward that brags about this. This is our country. We're bringing this. We're bringing the world into a new world, you know, the future. You know, and they list all the Jews that are involved. We should be pleased with this.

And that always is being repeated. That's why we always use Jewish sources. We come up with our arguments and stuff about this stuff. So, you know, and he says with the very next sentence is not all we're drawn to Bolivism, meaning some variant of Leninism. So it's very important to bring that out. All right. Please go over to the show notes and go over to the description on the videos and donate to Dr. Johnson's work

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