The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 87

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

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Alexander Solzhenycin's 200 years together. This is episode 87. Dr. Johnson, how are you this fine afternoon? Well, I don't know. I got some bad news from the surgeon as far as Marcel goes. The tumor is so big that if you took it out, you would have to take the entire lower jaw out. Well, I can't pitch. How do you be a cat without a lower jaw?

Whether it's cancerous or not is irrelevant. his blood work is perfect he's happy he's eating um he's running around i mean he's his old self but um it's also very slow growing i'm just kind of getting used to it we have some a pain medication for when he eats you know it just makes eating easier for him um but he's not in pain as a matter of course so um i visited him this morning and he the surgeon went you know this surgery would be so aggressive dogs do better with it than cats do a lot of cats just shut down stop eating i don't know how they could be you know the lower the entire not just a piece of it the entire lower jaw i i said i said no there's no way we're doing that and um so

how long it takes I don't know he wasn't sure but in the meantime he gets more attention than any cat I've ever known and he's extremely happy so

you know his blood work is perfect everything is fine until I guess at some point it won't be so that's Stanley's brother who used to you know and there they have sibling rivalries they still you know scruff each other get out of the way kind of thing so so that that sucks it really does he's he's he's 10 and a half and he's been with me for a long thing is he's a he's a very very good

boy um beyond that now remember I promised everybody I would look up the paraffin affair which we didn't know and there's probably good reason we didn't know it it's really the kerosene affair I thought it had something to do with candles but no no this is one of the reasons

the new economic policy was shut down I finally found a Russian source that deals with it every name is Jewish you see private entrepreneurs they didn't have legal access to resources I mean this wasn't yeah they were they were allowed a certain freedom of trade but that was pretty much it as far as contract law goes so they became agents of the state in possession of scarce materials

they sold goods belonging to one Soviet organization to another one in fighting the price as they went the profits would then share with the state officials who then sold and i'm reading about this and of course you know the high profits would be hidden with these numerous sales in the paraffin case tried in 1922 um and it uh levin rivosh kaikin uh abramov every every one uh jew you know there was a there was a shortage of kerosene, which was a staple good. And they had illegally purchased it abroad. We talked about their Jewish interest in smuggling.

And they simply moved it from place to place where there was very high demand. They all knew each other, of course, at increasingly inflated prices. The final price was 2.3 million rubles per poo. to pood back then was like 30 37 pounds and they agreed to um divide the profits among them uh actually no it was it was it was three million was the final price and um they were taken they were taken a court by the state and and people got convicted but um it it it gave and it was it was jewish And this, we talked about the anti-semitism coming from the party. Well, here we go.

You know, the NEP lasted, what, two and a half years, barely. And the people who benefited were Jews up and down wherever you went. Soviet propaganda at the time, because they were going to phase it out because of this stuff. And the paraffin affair was just one of them. Remember, there was a huge shortage of this stuff. People needed it. um the propaganda really um made them out to look you know your typical nEP the netmen the new capitalist all of this to look terrible you know there were rapists and they had they

had you know Jewish looking guy with with five blonde women around them started to look and look like our stuff I don't even think they they put it together but um that's where some of the anti-Jewish thought and the party came from every one of these scams because they were all scams and it started right from the very beginning um the minute they were allowed to trade freely they just ran with it and it was one scam after another and um now by the way i don't know the their conviction was overturned which I find interesting

I don't know what happened with their money but you know this is a very obscure case but it really shouldn't be because it answers those two questions

you know one of the reasons the NEP was removed we had a whole lot of people arguing against it the propaganda is hilarious coming out of the you know official party party publications the the netman started looking more and more Jewish because they were even though it was put out often by Jews too

and you know so both you know why the NEP was canceled as well as where this anti-semitism in the party came from and that's what it was you didn't have it you didn't have a normal, you know, it was like the 1990s in Russia. You didn't have a regular legal structure for any kind of contract law that actually didn't exist. So, well, that's perfect for these people who've been doing this kind of thing for a very long time. This is why they dominated the NEP.

And it's part of the reason why it ended. and and why, you know, we'd be talked about Jews that were badly affected by the communist regime. Well, this might be part of it. The Gentile communists, sort of looking at these Jews, I don't think they're really, I don't think they're really communists. So anyway, that's the short version of the paraffin or the kerosy.

controversy in in Russia. I wish I could say I was surprised, but I'm not. All right, picking up where we left off last time. G. Simon, a former immigrant, came to USSR in the end of the 1920s as an American businessman with a mission to investigate shortages of Jewish craftsmen in tools. Later, in Paris, he published a book with an emotional and ironic title, Jules a Jews, rule over Russia. Describing the situation with Jewish manufacturing and trade, its oppression and destruction by Soviets, he also shares his impressions. Quoting many conversations, the general mood of the populace is pretty gloomy.

Quote, many bad things, many crimes happen in Russia these days, but it's better to suppress that blinding hatred. They often fear that the revolution will inevitably end in the Russian manner, i.e., by mass murder of Jews. A local Bolshevik Jews suggests that, quote, it's only the revolution that stands between the Jews and those wishing to aggrandize Russia by the rape of Jewish women and the spilling of the blood of Jewish children. You know, it's like telephone games. You know, when you're like high school girls, you make one statement, and then she tells her friend, and then by the end of it, it becomes so exaggerated and distorted. And when you only hear that point of view, you don't get into arguments with people.

That's the only point of view you hear over generations, you start to believe it. Despite everything that we've gone over in this book about how privileged they were during the Tsarist era, the Tsar's bent over backwards, spent a fortune, trying to make them into normal people. But I think the Zionists should have told them. We're not normal people. We're not Europeans. We're not Christians. We don't live in your world.

And it's just a shame with all these stupid commissions and everything else that it took so long, well, it was probably too late for them to grasp what they were talking about. But even now, with the NEP in the mid-20s, we're even in the party, they're starting to get upset. you know, they had scams that I could, I could barely figure out because they're so, they're so complex and contrived. Who would come up with this? You know, but this is, you know, the reference to, just like in the Kahal, the reference to, they're going to murder you if you step out of line, if you step out of the Kahul, is still alive. And this mythology that they truly believed was the only point of view they heard. A well-known economist B.D. Britskus, who in 1920 provided a damning analysis of the socialist economy. He was expelled from the country in 1922 by Lenin, published an extensive article, quote, Jewish population under communist power in contemporary notes in 1928, chronicling the NEP and the former Paleo of Settlement areas of Ukraine and Belarusia. The relative importance of private enterprise was declining. as even the smallest merchants were deprived of their political rights. They became disenfranchised lichinets and couldn't vote in Soviet elections, and thus their civil rights.

In contrast, hands craftsmen still enjoyed a certain semblance of rights. Quote, the fight of Soviet authorities against private enterprise and entrepreneurs is in large part a fight against the Jewish populace. Because in those days, quote, not only, almost the entire private city enterprise in Ukraine and Belarusia was represented by Jews, but the Jewish participation in the small capitalist upper class in capital cities of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kharkoff had also become very substantial. Brutzges distinguished three periods during the NEP, 1921 to 23, 23 to 25, and 25 to 27.

Quote, development of private enterprise was least in person. by communists during the first two and a half years when Bolsheviks were still overwhelmed by their economic debacles. The first communist reaction followed between the end of 1923 and the spring of 1925. Wholesale and shop trade in the former pale of settlement was destroyed with only a small flea market, when only small flea market trade still permitted. Crafts were burdened by taxation. Artisans lost their last tools and materials. The latter often belonged. to their peasant customers, to confiscations. The concept of Jewish equality virtually turned into fiction as two-thirds of Jews lost their voting rights.

Yeah, voting rights for what? It wasn't exactly competitive elections, but I've read Bruchkas before. He's from Lithuania. It's actually a pretty famous series of books he wrote on the USSR early on. but this is this is you know capitalism in the wild west in his first period which as we've already well we all know benefits only one group of people um as it went on and as those kind of scandals began to erupt they canceled the NEP by as he says increasing taxation to the point where they couldn't you know they couldn't really function anymore and

they either, you know, simply left the country or they, they became part of the bureaucracy, pretty much doing the same kind of thing just now in, in an official capacity. Because Yevsec, the Jewish section of the Communist Party, quote, inherited specific hatred toward petty bourgeoisie, cultivated by earlier Jewish socialist parties and saw their own purpose in fighting it, its policy in the beginning of NEP was substantially different from the general party line. During the second part of NEP, the Yvesek attempted to complete the dismantling of Jewish bourgeoisie, which began with war communism. However, information about bleak life of Jewish population in the USSR was leaking out into the Jewish press abroad. Quote,

Yevsecs attempted to blame that on the Tsar's regime, which allegedly obstructed Jewish participation in productive labor, that is, by communist definition, in physical labor. And since Jews still prefer unproductive labor, they inevitably suffer. Soviet authorities had nothing to do with this. Yeah, to be a member of the party, whether you or Gentile, required a level of resistance to cognitive dissonance that was superhuman and the ability to just do these gymnastics to justify yourself. Well, that gets easier in a one-party state, although I've always found it interesting. Also, I mentioned this when I did my paper on Jewish settlement in the Far East. You know, it was a heavily Jewish party. And yet even within it, they needed their own section.

As if to say that even though we're in power, any interaction with the Gentiles are a problem. that we need our own we need our own little world even in totally you know as Jewish as the party was now I'm willing to accept this idea

but I think this has more to do with the Jewish behavior during the NEP more than anything else you know the Jewish bourgeoisie didn't suffer very much under the USSR. We've already, we've been through this already.

War communism, of course, was a far more centralized system as much as they possibly could during the Civil War. Well, okay, that makes sense. NEP came afterwards. And then through taxation, they canceled it, and now we have the planning and everything else. Also, as a detail, Spelling Tsar S-C-Z-A-R makes no sense whatsoever linguistically. It drives me crazy.

But Bruchus objected claiming that in reality it was opposite. Quote, the class of Jewish craftsmen nearly disappeared with the annihilation of petty Jewish manufacture. Indeed, professional the Jewish classes grew and became diversified while excessive numbers of petty Jewish businessmen slowly decreased under the czar because of the gradual development of ethnic Russian enterprise and deepening business connections between the palest settlement and inner Russia. But now the Jewish population again was turned into a massive petty middleman. I would, sorry, just before, a little bit before we came on, an hour before we came on, I was on one of my favorite Russian language pages, the Union of the Russian

people. My favorite authors are there. And there's a, there's a, there's a lengthy paper talking about all the different ethnic groups, even fairly small and number, the Czechs, the Germans, Armenians, who did very well financially within the old Russian Empire, even some of the Tartars. You know, he lists them all, even sometimes by name. And as if to say you know the jews weren't just picked out for no reason it was their behavior had nothing to do with their their success or anything else it's all of these other traders didn't fight russian customs they weren't anti-russian many of them became like the germans and the armenians and the tartars became incredibly loyal as the civil war showed

you know, you had colonies from all over Europe in different parts of Western Russia all doing fairly well which says something about the nature of the Tsarist Empire but the only group that ever, you know, was singled out with Jews and it has something to do. They were all, you know, these were merchant peoples. They did well.

Some of them had government jobs like in the German case. No one single them out. Jews and Jews alone and that's where you get them there is no other explanation other than their behavior their contempt their hatred which drives their cohesiveness

and their Machiavellian just drive for anything resembling power so yeah it's been a while since I've read Rootskos it's been many years actually and this is this is turning up a lot of stuff He was pretty famous in the anti-communist movement many years ago, even before my time, once

his stuff got translated into English. During the third period of NEP from spring of 1925 to Auburn to autumn of 1926, large tax remissions were made for craftsmen and street vendors and village fairs were relieved of taxation while activities of state financial inspectors supervising large businesses were brought under the law. The economy and well-being of the Jewish population started to recover rapidly. It was a boom for Jewish craftsmen and merchants specializing in agriculture. Petty manufacturing grew and successfully competed for raw materials and resources

with state manufacture in the western provinces. At the same time, a new decree granted political and therefore certain civil rights to many Jews. The second communist assault on private enterprise, which eventually resulted in the dismantling of NEP, began at the end of 1926. Quote, first, private grain trade was prohibited, followed by bans on raw skins, oil seeds, and tobacco trade. Private mills, creameries, tanneries, and tobacco houses were expropriated. Fixed prices on shop merchandise were introduced in the summer of 1927. Most craftsmen couldn't work because of shortage of raw materials. See, by this point, the Soviet state was more or less secure, despite the peasant uprisings.

As we move towards 1930, most people worldwide and domestically, okay, the Soviets apparently aren't going anywhere. We don't know how they did it, but they're not going anywhere. but part of the reason we've already been over part of the reason why the NEP was eliminated the other reason of course was because they were now secure and they were you know farmers were planting farmers were willing to trade they were doing far better than they had certainly in the previous few years they never did as well as they did them to the Tsars at any point But, relatively speaking, they started doing very well. They hated the system, and pretty soon they're going to be reminded as to why.

The state of affairs and the Stettles of Western Russia alarmed international jury. When I use that term, I get in trouble. For instance, Pasmatic wrote in 1922 that Jews as people are doomed to disappear under Bolsheviks and that communists reduced all Russian Jewry into a crowd of paupers. However, the Western public, including Jews, did not want to hear all this. The West saw the USSR in good light partly because of the general left-leaning of European intelligentsia, but mainly because the world and American jury were now confident in a bright future and security of Russian Jews and skillful Soviet propaganda only deepened this impression.

benevolent public opinion was extremely instrumental for Soviet leaders in securing Western and especially American financial aid, which was indispensable for... Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait just one second. I thought the West was anti-communist. I thought there were, I thought the Bolsheviks were a threat to capitalists, capitalists in the Western world. You're getting financial aid now? Okay, I'm sorry. Keep going. It's okay. It's starting over again. benevolent public opinion was extremely instrumental for Soviet leaders in securing Western and especially American financial aid, which was indispensable for economical recovery after their brave

war communism. As Lenin said at the party Congress in 1921, quote, as of the revolution didn't spread to other countries, we should do anything possible to secure assistance of big progressive capitalism. And for that, we are ready to pay hundreds of millions and even billions for our immense wealth, our vast resources, because otherwise our recovery would take decades. End quote. And the business went smoothly as progressive capitalism showed no scruples about acquiring Russian wealth.

The first Soviet International Bank, Romscom Bank, was founded in 22. It was headed by the already mentioned Olaf Ashberg, who was reliably delivering aid to Lenin during the entire revolutionary period and by former Russian private bankers Schlezinger, Kalishkin, and Ternovsky. There was also Max May of Morgan Guarantee Bank

trust in the U.S., who was of great assistance to the Soviets. Now they developed a scheme along Ruscom Bank to directly purchase goods in the U.S. despite the feudal protest from the Secretary of State, Charles Hughes, who asserted that the kind of relations meant a de facto recognition of the Soviet regime. A Ruscombank, Swedish advisor, Professor G. Kassel, said that it is reckless to leave Russia with all her resources alone. Yeah, that's exactly what it is.

It is a de facto recognition of the USSR. They realized that, you know, as rapidly industrializing as Russia was prior to 1914. a lot of that was gone and a lot of that talent was gone. They were dead, they were in prison, they were underground, they were in America. But remember, none of this stuff ever ended. This continued right up to the computer revolution in the late 70s. And I like the idea here, and this happened. Ronald Reagan said the same thing.

I love it when, you know, I make a big distinction. between sometimes the state and the regime or the ruling class don't always agree like in vietnam or uh or nixon or trump here's one of these cases where the state pulls back from other you know banks and everything else that that are extreme just as powerful as they are and say what are you doing um we we know congress knew what the soviets were doing the prison camps the mass murder of dissidents, the one party state, the destruction of churches, and the people who were investing in the USSR, we're well aware of that too. But, you know, prophets to profits, they saw Russia as the ultimate trophy. We talked about that already. There were

several English politicians saying that. You know, the czar, his control over the the currency, you know, this directed growth, that has to go. They're saying the exact same thing now about Putin. That has to go, which means we move in there and we colonize it. There's only one of two options. Either the state takes a strong role in developing the national socialist way, like in South Korea, you know, vaguely under Putin and Lukashenko, where it's not state ownership, but it's state direction versus the Lenin and Stalinist way, which is total state ownership and state

direction. Two very, it creates two very different types of systems. In both cases, the capitalists are not, or those who own capital, it's not a capitalist system at that point. The capitalists are always seen as untrustworthy. And which is, you know, it's a part of our tradition. Aristotle placed, you know, the merchant at the very bottom of the moral scale. They may be necessary, but that you're still at the bottom of the moral scale. They're useful, but they can never be trusted. And whether it be national or regardless, that's what, that's what really, you know, that's the difference between the two systems.

and but they couldn't resist the the profits here and the fact that you know GE the big mining concerns in the U.S. they built the Soviet Union from from the ground up they built the workers paradise and this is why the history of the 20th century has to be totally rewritten concessioners flocked into the USSR where they were very welcome here we see Lennon's favorite, Armand Hammer, who in 1921 decided to help rebuild ural industry and procured a concession on asbestos mines in Alapayevsk. Lennon mentioned in 1921 that Hammer's father will provide two million stones of bread on very favorable terms, 5% in exchange for your old jewelry to be sold in America.

And Hammer shamelessly exported Russian art treasures in exchange for the development of pencil manufacturing. Later in the times of Stalin and Khrushchev, Hammer frequented Moscow continuing to export Russian cultural treasures, church utensils, icons, paintings, China, etc., in high volumes. Yeah, the Jews had no use for this. They hated it. They destroyed some of it, but they were also used in this case, from one Jew to another. And it was the ultimate, the ultimate blast me if you've ever seen the movie the social network about the founding of Facebook the Winklevox twins were played by an actor named Army Hammer and yes that is Armand Hammer's great-grandson that's run I forgot about him he's been

in a few things yep however in 1921 to 22 large sums were donated by American Jewry and distributed in Russia by the American Relief Administration for assistance to the victims of bloody pogroms for the rescue of towns in the south of Russia and for the peasantry of the Volga region. Many ARA associates were Jews. Yeah, this was a creation of Wilson. This is why the Soviets knew they didn't have to worry about a rational economy right away. They didn't go hungry.

The peasantry did. They weren't cold because of a lack of a few. or anything else, the peasantry was. And of course, this was beyond recognition. This is almost like the relationship between the U.S. and Israel. And, of course, the state, this wasn't directly a state organization, but it might as well have been. But with all the destruction of World War I, the Civil War, the Civil War, the peasant uprisings, They're going to donate money for buddy pogroms that didn't happen at that era anyway,

the post-Soviet era, just did not happen. And something tells me that the peasantry got zero. I have to think this next paragraph is complete sarcasm by Solzhenyson. Another novel idea from the 20s, not so much an idea originating among Jews, as one dreamed up to a to them was Jewish colonization of agricultural land. It has said their history of dispersion had denied them possibilities in agriculture and forced them to engage in money lending, commerce, and trade. Now at last, Jews could occupy the land and thereby renounce the harmful ways of the past to their labor productively under Soviet skies and thus putting to flight

the unflattering myths which had grown up about them. Yeah, you know, When you're as great of a writer as Solzhenitin, you can put sarcasm like that where, you know, people, you know, Normies read this and they go, I don't, I can't tell. Is he being serious? And he could always point to that. See, I'm not an answer somebody. You know, the whole, of course, it's, it's sarcasm. The entire, what was it? You know, first half of the book refuted that whole thing. So yeah, he's being funny. And writers like him could get away with this kind of thing. Soviet authorities turned to the idea of colonization partially to improve productivity, but mostly for political reasons. This was sure to bring a swell of sympathy, but more important financial aid. Burschus Breitz, the Soviet government needing credits, searched for support among the foreign bourgeoisie and highly valued its relations with the foreign Jewish bourgeoisie. However, toward 1924, the donations stopped pouring in, and even the Jewish-American charity, Joint Committee, was forced to halt its work in Europe.

To again collect large amounts of money, as they had through the American Relief Administration in 1922, they needed to create, as they say in the U.S., a boom. Colonization became the boom for Jewish charities. The grandiose project for resettling 100,000 Jewish families on their own land was, apparently, mostly a public relations ploy. The Committee for the State Land Trust for Jewish Laborers, Comzette, was founded in 1924, followed by the All-Soviet Volunteer Land Society of Jewish Laborers, OZet. I remember as schoolchildren, this is Solzhenitsyn talking now, I remember as schoolchildren were made to join and pay membership dues by bringing money from home to ODD, Society of Friends of the Children and OZet. in many countries sister organizations to OZet sprung up.

That tells you how important that myth is to Jewish PR, that, oh, we would love to be farmers. But as you all know, and as every academic knows, we weren't allowed to have land or to farm it. Because if we were given that opportunity, we'd be farmed, we'd have everything growing. And, you know, there's no way that this was organized with a straight face, knowing full well the history of the matter. Of course, the entire thing was the public relations ploy. By boom, I think he means this, you know, this economic growth spurt. But since propaganda is really all that matters in this case, whether it worked or not, they could still say it worked. there's nothing more absurd than the volunteer land society of Jewish laborers

there are words in there that should never be put together and how many hours did we spend talking about the Tsarist plans for settling Jews on land paying for everything bringing in bringing it even during the days of serfdom bringing in serfs to teach them how to do this how many hours do we spend on this over and over and over again 50 episodes there's yeah oh yeah I mean over and over and over again to the point where we're

saying the same things um yeah would you say how many i would say 40 to 50 episodes yeah that was a huge theme in the first half of the book the pre-soviet part of the book but they're still using it so yeah it's a PR ploy uh under johnson's law that, you know, Americans really don't know anything. The Brits don't know anything about Russian history. So we could say this stuff. They're not going to say anything because there's too few people to refute it. And, of course, it's true.

It was immediately clear that the assistance of the Soviet government in the passage of poor Jews to the land was a matter of international significance. Through this, the foreign proletariat could judge the power and solidity of the Soviet. government. This development had the active participation and financial support of the powerful American joint, the Jewish Chronicle of London, October 16, 1925. Quote, the Crimea has been offered as replacement for Palestine. Why send Jews to Palestine? Oh, this is so good. Why send Jews to Palestine, which is so unproductive, and which will mean so much sacrifice and hard work when the rich land of Ukraine and fruited fields of the Crimea are smiling upon suffering. This is so damn good.

So I can't believe this. Moscow will be the benefactor and defender of Russian jury and will be able to seek moral support from Jews around the globe. As well, the plan will cost nothing as American Jews are covering all the expenses. It's, we've been through this so many times. but we all know what Crimea refers to and even that part of Ukraine it refers to Nukazaria. I've written on the movement

several others have too I've been writing on it for many years I think that that plan is out of the question now but it wasn't in fact Kulmoyski and a whole bunch of the Jewish oligarch in Ukraine were, you know, as I mentioned before, building these huge Jewish cultural centers

in Dinepra and places in the east. And as I said, and I didn't need to be context for this, but using the body of Rebbe Schneerson, the Messiah for, you know, Shabod and so many other Orthodox Jews, what do we need Jerusalem for? And since he was the Messiah to many, I don't know, maybe millions of Orthodox Jews, you know, the whole point, the issue against Zionism was always that it can only, from the Jewish point of view, was we can only go to Israel when the Messiah is here. Well, the Messiah is here. And this was the concept of New Qazaria. And this is why Kolomoisky and the other billionaire, created these huge, the menorah center, for example, the largest Jewish cultural center on the planet. It didn't take the Russian emigre press long to recognize the Soviet maneuver. P. Struv in the Parisian journal Renaissance wrote, quote, this entire undertaking serves to bind

Jewry, both Russian and international, to communist power and definitely mark Jews with the brand of communism, end quote. In a lead editorial from the Berlin, rule. Quote, it's true. The world identifies the Bolsheviks with the Jews. There is a need to further connect them with shared responsibility for the fate of hundreds of thousands of poor. Then you can trick wealthy American Jews with a threat. The fall of Soviet power followed by a mass pogrom which sweeps away the Jewish societies they founded. Therefore, they will support Soviet power at all costs. End quote. In a fateful irony, the Bolshevik bluff met American Enterprise and the Americans fell for it,

not knowing what was going on in the USSR. Well, that's, you know, in using different words, I've said that probably a thousand times in my career. That Americans don't know. Rather than try to understand Russia or jury or nationalism, for that matter, they create it in their minds. It's an enemy.

so we have to project all of our faults onto it and create essentially this non-existent entity. You know, you hear Lindy Graham talking about Russia. I don't even know. Where's he getting this stuff from? Over time, it's just been constructed out of absolutely nothing. This has happened a few times before in American history. Even World War I propaganda with the hun, you know, with a baby hanging from the bayonet.

Now, that kind of thing. This is, this is, I have said this so many times. The Americans fell for it, meaning the government as well as a rich capitalist, Jew and non-Jew, but especially the non-Jew, because they didn't know what was happening. They didn't have any historical background. They read it in the paper, and they said, oh, my God, this is great, and then they fell for it. Actually, the world Jewish community was excited by hope in the rehabilitation of Jewish agriculture. In September 1925 at the All-German Session, the Jewish bourgeoisie under the leadership of the director of the German National Bank, Heilmar Schacht, decided to support the project.

Leon Bloom founded the Jewish Construction Fund in France, which sent tractors to the settlers. The Society for Aid for Jewish Land Colonization was founded in New York. In countries around the globe, all the way to South Africa, money was collected for the colonization plan, from social democrats anarchists and so they say ordinary workers oh my guy i i yeah ordinary workers uh to give land to to jews in in in the ussr yeah that that makes sense um yeah you know um the only read the only way in the jewish mindset that they would ever work the land systematically anywhere, is if they thought it was their society, if they thought it was their promised land, which is why there is agriculture, although usually surf labor, using

surf labor, and the kubitum and things like that in Israel. If they thought this was remotely possible, again, this is yet another admission. This is a Jewish society. Now they can work. They couldn't do it under the Tsars, no way. But now they can, because this is their society, but there's also the variable that says they've been so used to their lifestyle as usurers, middlemen, smugglers, essentially organized crime, all these organized crime guys, the last thing they want to do is work, you know, that even if they thought it was their society, they're not about to go out there with a with a backhoe. And the tiny handful, we talked about it, it was always a tiny handful that might have.

But this was such a ridiculous propaganda effort. It assumed rightly at the time that Americans knew zero about Russia, Jews, or Russian history concerning the Jews. It's unfortunate that the emigres, the Orthodox Church abroad and wherever they were at the time, and the anti-communist emigres, they weren't writing in English at the time. and yeah yeah there were smuggling things back in but they didn't get their message out to a broader society like the like the jews were and for a long time that was a huge problem they were very very and you can't really blame them uh russian emigre circles were were very closed terrified of penetration from

Soviet you know KGB or NKB NKBD whatever again you can't really blame them for this it takes a while for them to get to trust you the problem with that is that they

usually just keep writing for themselves their own language and for in Russian to be smuggled into the USSR as far as convincing Americans it would take another generation where things started being translated

he had guys like Sarah from Rose eventually guys like me who are taking that stuff and now making sure that as many English language users know about it as possible but at the time they were awful I mean at the time the left was so much better at propaganda I think that's not the case anymore

but the right in the 20s it changed rapidly but they still were they were so much better of propaganda than the gentiles were seemingly innocent of that kind of thing again that was to change but the emigres you know it took a while for them to really matter in in the western world the editors of the american magazine morning journal posed the question as had many others is it ethical for russian jews to colonize land that was expropriated. The Jewish Chronicle recalled that most of the former landowners were in prison, shot, or exiled.

They were answered by the leading American jurist Louis Marshall and chairman of the World Joint Committee, who claimed the beneficent right of revolutionary expropriation. Indeed, during the years 1919 to 1923, more than 23,000 Jews had settled in former estates near the towns and villages in the former palest settlement. By spring 1923, no more of this land remained available, and the first small groups of Jews started to form for resettlement to the free steppe land in southern Ukraine. This movement picked up in speed after 1925. The International Jewish Agrojoint was formed by Marshall with the banker Paul Warburg

as the director. Here are chroniclers of the history of communism declined to issue a denouement. of class enemies and instead approve of their efforts yes he was all of a sudden Paul Warburg is a member of the proletariat you know a poor priest was being sent to the to the to the to the camps for being a lie with the bourgeoisie but Paul Warburg is considered an ally of the working class I mean this is this is the world that they lived in labels mattered not not reality now we've been through this already They could expand this all they want.

Yes, Jews came into a certain ownership of land. They weren't out there with a backhoe. They used it as grounds for speculation. They certainly had surf labor using it just like they do or actually tilling it like they do, at least in some places in Yuckeyevite territories. So, yeah, they could have land. that doesn't mean that they've suddenly become farmers.

The agro joint concluded an agreement with Comzat about the contribution of tractors, farm machinery, seed, the digging artesian wells, and professional training for Jewish youth. E.K.O. assisted as well. At a 1926 session of Oset, Kalinin spoke out forcefully against any plans of Jewish assimilation and instead proposed a wide-ranging process. for Jewish autonomy, known in the West as the Kalinin Declaration. The early plans called for resettlement to the south of Ukraine and northern Crimea of approximately 100,000 families, or 20% of the entire Jewish population of the USSR. The plans contemplated separate Jewish national regions as well. Many remain jobless and nevertheless declined the opportunity to work, and only half of all Jews who agreed to resettle actually took up residents in the villages.

were supposed to resettle in. That's the exact same line he used, or was used by Shulton Eaton and others, at the other part of the book where the czarists were doing this. Now, the agenda was very different, of course. New Qazaria was a sort of a thing, if not a subconscious thing. But, yeah, they could say the expansion of Jewish agriculture. That doesn't mean any of them are working. you can't take, you know, what essentially was a mafia organization for years and all of a sudden, if they're going to be working the land, pulling weed, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, and last time. Um, claiming to be carpenters and, and welders and things like that, uh, that sometimes was true, but not always. You know, they use these job titles, these labels to gain certain benefits, and that's about it. It's like getting a, uh, um,

a no worker no show job out of a large a large construction project but this line is exactly what was said before 50 percent who agreed to resettle that's now so a percentage of a percentage uh took up residents there they still may have had a certain interest in it if there was no private property there but um they still may have had you know been able to to speculate on it to some extent but even even in this case i mean the the cleaning declaration was an early aspect of kazania it's no accident that this is where this is where they were going um now a bit of bishdan which will be talked about later under stalin is a separate issue that has nothing to do with gazadia or um middle east and it fails as we all know

but that phrase that within the parentheses there that must have been said eight times in this book in one form or another i think we should stop right there uh we go into talking about how american Zionists are going to react to this we're at uh my god this is this is intense yeah yeah i apologize for interrupting when i was reading that one paragraph but it was just so telling of how, you know, it just basically sounds like today. I mean, this is, you know, you talk about the capitalist takeover in the 1920s. You had, you also had it in the 1990s. As soon as, as soon as everything fell apart, the quote unquote capitalist moved in there again,

except this time with the, with the sole goal of basically raping everything. Yeah, and assets tripping at that point, as far as Soviet industry was concerned. They weren't going to refurbish anything. So, yeah, it's how many times, even just the number of times either one of us have said, oh, my God, that's the exact language used today, almost word for word. You know, this is, this is just, it doesn't really, the society, you know, Jews are Jews no matter what. And despite the Jewishness of communism and the party in the USSR, it was an ethnic movement, although with plenty of Gentiles in it, useful idiots, they still know. We needed our own thing.

We need to be isolated from you. Berizdong was actually sort of a part of that mentality. That's how far we're willing. In a Jewish party, well, there's a handful of Gentiles here. That's too much. it's like all these rich Jews when they take a cruise on Christmas because even now with the with the secularization of Christmas they still can't take it

and the Christmas cruises are to this day if you live in New Jersey you know this is kind of an old cliche you know Jews go on get out of the country or go on the water or something like that when Christmas comes around they simply can't handle it all right everyone go over to the show notes or go over to the description of the videos and support dr johnson's work he's got links to a patreon over there um bitcoin and dress uh multiple ways you can support his work please go do that and uh yeah this is one long chapter and we're not even close to being finished yet i mean there's just so much here so um support dr johnson's

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