The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 90

Episode Date: November 29, 2025

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Dr. Johnson, how are you doing today? You know, we mentioned this already, but I was just, you know, it bothers me that for our washer and dryer and refrigerator, there's an app for it. I can't imagine what use that is or what kind of information is being sent to God knows who. But it's just, it's something that it doesn't really serve much of a purpose as far as I can see. So it, I have to admit, it bugs me a little bit. honest with you, I never minded, you know, if, you know, our opponents are listening in, you know, I love that idea because, you know, this is probably the only truth they ever hear. I never had

any problem with, with that, you know, I always thought that was a wonderful thing. If, if someone's tapping in, law enforcement or whatever, I say, well, good, thank God. I don't say anything, you know, illegal or wrong. And that's probably the only good things, only intelligent things they hear all day so i have no problem with it yeah no when we bought the house it came with um like a generation old stuff that isn't quote unquote smart and um perfectly happy with that and we just replaced we had to replace a dishwasher and just replaced it with the next generation of the same model nothing nope i don't need any of that i mean it just i don't know just seems like more stuff to break, you know?

Yeah, more moving parts. It's ridiculous. But thank God I have nothing to do with any of that stuff. Well, I have the refrigerator, but my wife takes care of the laundry, thank God. So I don't have to worry about it. But it does seem ridiculous to me. All right. Picking up where we left off last time.

Page 451 of 656. We're actually going to get this done one day. I, well, I mean, I believe it when I see it. All right, here we go. And what was the status of the Jewish religion and the new conditions? Bolshevik power was hostile to all religions. During the years of the hardest blows against the Orthodox Church, Jewish religious practice was treated with restraint. Really?

In March, 1922 Dharamos noted that the Department of the Department of, of adjutop of the Central Committee would not offend religious feelings. In the 20s, this tolerance did not extend to Russian Orthodoxy, which the authorities considered one of the main enemies of the Soviet order, end quote. Nevertheless, the confiscation of church valuables extended to synagogues as well. E. Yaroslavsky wrote in Izvestia, an article titled, What can be taken from a synagogue? Often rabbis will say there is nothing of value in a synagogue.

Usually that is the case. The walls are usually bare, but minors are often made of silver. These must be confiscated. Three weeks before that, 16 silver objects were taken from Jewish preaching house on Spasso-Gleneshevsky Avenue and in the neighboring Coral Synagogue, 57 silver objects and two of gold.

Yaroslovsky further proposes a progressive tax on those who buy costly seats in the synagogue. Apparently, this proposal went nowhere. Sorry. Yeah, I bet you people don't realize that you buy seats there. I forget about that from time to time. You know, you know someone doesn't know what they're talking about or who's just virtue signaling when they say a lot of e-ocons are like this, they'll say, the Soviets tried to destroy the Orthodox Church. They shut down churches and synagogues and Islamic places of worship and all that.

You know, they don't know what they're talking about or they're trying to. Very few synagogues were damaged. Taking a menorah is no big deal. and yeah that was a period of desperation during the famines early on they weren't demolished they weren't sent to the to the camps you know and half the time you know a lot of them were already part of the Soviet state and that you know it implies that they treated because I never considered Judaism to be a religion I barely consider Islam omnipar religion. It's um, it's, uh, you know, it's an ethno political doctrine with some

religious symbolism, which really holds them all together. You know, they have their, you know, metaphysics and stuff like that, but, um, you know, you have a handful, I think, of the most extreme, um, you know, rabbis who may, who may believe in God, but for the most part, it's material, even, even, you know, in Christ's day, um, the Sadducees were, were materialist. They, there was God there. What they did was for public consumption, as we know. A New Testament says it all the time, especially the Pharisees. That was just to gain popularity. God is often themselves. God is often the unsoft or the or the or the Nietzschean flux that, you know, they have to imprint their ideas on as they as they fix it. You know, God is the is the demiurge, which

created a faulty earth they don't worship that god by any means but their job is to fix it and to repair it as we all know coming straight from the cabala any any religion that has God reading the Talmud you know their their sacred text standing in other words he is inferior to the words of the the text of the Talmud well there you know there is no God there, then. These are not the Israelites of old. We are the Israelites of old. We are, you know, the defenders of the Old Testament. We are the ones, our church fathers have, were the only ones who had the right to interpret the Old Testament, the prophets, and the historical books, and the rest of it, because the Kabbalah had completely misinterpreted them completely out of existence.

And keep in mind that, you know, the Talmud has the prophets burning in hell along with Christ because they, well, their whole world was criticizing Israel, sometimes in the most vehement sense. I mean, Christ, you know, followed their lead in doing the exact same thing. The prophets were extremely harsh. So, but as far as this goes, synagogues were not damaged. they were not repressed I'm sure some of the Kabbalists weren't that happy with the pure materialism

but that didn't lead to any kind of real real and any kind of clashes but Sultan Ethan is right this is probably the worst that happened however functionaries from the Yev sect

demanded of authorities that the same policy applied towards Christianity to be carried out towards Judaism. In the Jewish New Year, in 1921, the Yevsec orchestrated a public trial of the Jewish religion in Kiev. The Book of Russian Jewry describes this in other show trials in 1921 and 1922. There was a court proceeding against a Haider, a traditional elementary school with instruction in Hebrew, in Vitebsk, against a yeshiva, a Jewish school for study of the traditional

text, the Talmud, the Torah, and the rabbinical literature. in Rostov, and even against Day of Atonement in Odessa. They were intentionally conducted in Yiddish, as the Evesek, as the Evesex explained so that Jewish Bolsheviks would judge Judaism. Yes, so in other words, they, in public, they would use Yiddish. But to the extent that anything was closed down, because they were using Hebrew. And that was the real issue. The Soviet, the progressive language, according to Soviet Jews.

Remember, Yevstek is Jewish, is Yiddish, certainly not Hebrew. Hebrew is reactionary and would remind people maybe of the old ways, and they can't have that. Religious schools were closed by administrative order, and in December 1920, the Jewish section of the Narcumad of Education issued an encyclical about the liquidation of haters and yeshivas. Nevertheless, large numbers of haters and yeshivas continued teaching semi-legally or completely underground for a long time after that. In spite of the ban on religious education, as a whole, the 20s were rather a liberal period for Jewish religious life in the USSR. It seems that any decree to close down a yeshiva was propaganda. It was just to say, see, we go after Jews, too. It's not just the Christians here. But it was never really enforced.

They continued to function. The Hebrew issue was the only one. And it was a period of actually, in fact, and it's also going to get to this a bit later, that it's a period of growth for this kind of Jewish teaching at the time. But always keep in mind, this is the F sect. These are Jews, judging Jews and so yeah they may say it might be on paper that they're shutting this down or shutting that down no one went to the camps or anything like that but it was it was only on paper and they continued to function normally at the request of jewish laborers of course there were several attempts to close synagogues but this met with bitter opposition from believers Still, during the 20s, the central synagogues were closed into Vitebsk, Minsk, Gommel, Karkov, and Brabursk.

The central Moscow synagogue of Maroseca managed to stay open thanks to the efforts of Rabbi Mays in the face of Zerzinski and Kalinen. In 1926, the choral synagogue in Kiev was closed, and Children's Yiddish Theater opened in its place. But the majority of synagogues continued to find. In 1927, 1,034 synagogues and prayer halls were functioning in Ukraine, and the number of synagogues toward the end of the 20s exceeded the number in 1917. So again, this is all on paper. This would be something like the Soviets going to the Orthodox Church and saying, we demand that you do the liturgy in modern Russian rather than, than Slavonic or going to the Catholics and saying, we demand you do it in modern Russian

rather than Latin. That seems to be the issue here. The language seemed to be the main problem. But when they shut down Orthodox parishes, which by now hundreds, if not thousands, were in the early 20s already had been shut down in the precinct, God knows where, this is one of the things that caused the rebellion of the peasantry. They did everything in their power to keep them open. And as a result, many of them were shot. They shot back. There was a firefight. Something tells me that was not the case with synagogues. And clearly here, as I said, they grew in numbers. The Jewish population grew in this period of time in the central Jewish areas in Belarus and Ukraine.

Authorities attempted to institute living synagogues based on the model of the living church imposed upon the Russian Orthodox Church. A portrait of Lenin was to be hung in a prominent place of such a synagogue. The authorities brought in red rabbis and communized rabbis. However, they failed to bring about a split among the believers and the vast majority of religious Jews were decisive against the living synagogue. bringing the plan of Soviet authorities to not? Russian Orthodox people know what the living church was.

It was a bit of a joke. It was a church structure created by the Soviets. It was very liberal in many things. Of course, things were done in modern Russian. You know, Bissif didn't have to be celibate. It was against monasticism. You know, fasting wasn't necessary, and they had liberal bishops, you know, that were placed in charge of it. Unfortunately, the Patriarch of Constantinople recognized and accepted the Living Church and, in fact, condemned St. Tikon, you know, the patriarch and the overwhelming majority of the Orthodox people in Russia for not supporting it.

And just like in this case, the Living Church was a miserable failure. will point out too that the Communist Party also founded several right-wing anti-communist churches, Orthodox churches. The Gregorians were one of them. And they were very good at this. And that's how they figured out who was who. And they'd have a bishop go out there and condemn the Soviets in public. And of course, that's how they knew who they needed to go after. So, Remember, these Jews were masters at this kind of thing, as far as psychology goes. And so they had, they tried, they manipulated both sides. But at this point, the true church had, was, depending on the year, was either dead, in exile or underground, the so-called catacomb church, which became quite large, actually, over the next few decades.

and sometimes they'd be they'd be found out but we have you know underground synods underground bishops and and in the 90s they they came out from underground they had tremendous authority but of course the first thing they did is reject the current Moscow Patriarcharchic because it does come from the Stalinist era in 1944 and unfortunately that's what caused tremendousism continuing to this day because you have you know, you had hundreds of thousands of people, maybe more, coming out from underground. They have names like, you know, the true Russian Orthodox Church, this kind of thing. The numbers were far larger than anyone realized.

But the living church was a miserable failure. No one went. And people kind of knew what was going on. The fake right-wing ones were briefly successful, but it was just very strange that they were openly preaching these things, you know, like we know when someone goes into a forum, one of our forums and starts preaching violence, we know what he's doing. We know who he's working for. We know that he's a fraud and we kick him out immediately. And this was kind of the same mentality here. And so that was eventually abolished too. So I don't know if they did this with

the synagogues, but that's what the Soviets were doing to manipulate religions. But, but the living synagogue. You know, it was just a very liberal synagogue. It was, it was perfectly normal, but of course, it was in, everything was in Yiddish. So, you know, it was not, nowhere near the same thing. I don't know if you still had to pay for a seat, but, you know, this was just, it was totally politicized. And, you know, synagogues are politicized to begin with, but this was so blatant and so ham-handed that that failed as well. at the end at the end of 1930 a group of rabbis from Minsk was arrested they were freed after two weeks and made to sign a document prepared by the GPU agreeing that one the jewish religion was not persecuted in the ussr and two during the entire soviet era not one rabbi had been shot authorities tried to declare the day of rest to be sunday or monday in jewish areas school studies were held in the Sabbath by order of the Yevsec. In 1929, authorities tried the five-day work week and the

six-day work week with a day of rest upon the fifth or six-day respectively. Christians lost Sunday and Jews lost the Sabbath. Members of the Yevsec rampaged in front of synagogues on holidays and in Odessa broke into the Brodsky Synagogue and demonstratively ate bread in front of those fasting and praying. They instituted community service days during sacred holidays like Yom Kippur. During holidays, especially when the Syngog was closed, they requisition Talas, Torah scrolls, prayer shawls, and religious books. Import of Mata from abroad was sometimes allowed and sometimes forbidden.

In 1929, they started taxing Mata preparation. Laren notes the amazing permission granted to bring Mata from Konigsberg to Moscow for Passover in 1929. You'll have mainstream authors, you know, they will, you know, speak very honestly about the persecution of the orthodoxures. But of course, they have to then cherry pick and list this kind of thing as if it mattered. None of it mattered. Amazing permission, meaning I can't believe they're allowing this to happen. Well, they didn't really see Judaism as religion, and they certainly saw them as allies, plus the fact that so many members of the party,

he probably knew half the congregants there. And yes, sometimes we forget. I go into some detail on this in my book, the Soviet experiment, that Stalin had ended Sunday. So it was a labor shortage. He was industrializing with Western capital. And labor exploitation was gone through the absolute roof. The rest day, you know,

was also on paper and they, of course, they tried to do the same thing with Jews. But again, that was on paper. As far as the Christians were concerned, that it was not on paper. They absolutely went through with it. So mainstream writers will list all of this saying, you know, it wasn't just the, see, this proves that it wasn't a Jewish party, not saying that, number one, the Yvessec was doing all of this. and even when they did anything, you know, arrest, whatever, it didn't go anywhere. And signing the document here, Jewish religion was not persecuted, okay, that's true.

And during the era, entire Soviet era, so what, from 1920 to 1930, not one rabbi had been shot. That's probably true as well. In the 20s, private presses still published Jewish religious literature. In Leningrad, Hasid's managed. to print prayer books in several runs, a few thousand copies each, while Katznelson, a rabbi from Leningrad, was able to use the printing house Red Agitator. During the 1920s, Jewish calendars were printed and distributed in tens of thousands of copies. The Jewish community was the only religious group in Moscow, allowed to build religious

buildings. A second synagogue was built in Vichelis-Slavis alley near Sushesky embankment and a third in Cherkazov. These three synagogues stayed open throughout the 30s. And the 30s were, you know,

the persecution, the Orthodox Church went through, you know, it was went in waves. Stalin did not stop the persecution at any point, but there comes to a point where there was really no one left. The underground church was really all there was. But the Jewish community was the only religious group in Moscow allowed to build religious buildings. Why would that be? The only reason that that could possibly be is that the party was Jewish. And this went throughout the Stalinistera as well. I have paper after paper after paper and my book as well.

Stalin was not nice to the Orthodox Church at any point in time. He was not a royalist, like some idiots want to argue, including academics. But sometimes the persecution would lessen largely because the main people were already dead or in exile. And the persecution was consistent. And then under Khrushchev, it went up again because a new generation was coming around. So they reduced the world's second largest church. The Roman church was the largest, of course, to almost nothing by the time the Germans invaded in 1941. The first thing the Germans did was permit, well, among other things, was to permit the reopening of these churches.

And it's one of the things that made them so popular in Ukraine especially, but also Belarus and elsewhere. But young Jewish writers and poets gleefully wrote about the empty synagogues, the lonely rabbi who had no one to teach and about the boys from the villages who grew up to become the terrible red commissars. And we saw the Russian members of Kamsumal rampaging on Easter Sunday, knocking candles and holy bread out of worshippers' hands, tearing the crosses from the cupolas. And we saw thousands of beautiful churches broken into a rubble of bricks. and we remember the thousands of priests that were shot and the thousands of others who were sent to the camps. In orthodoxy, they were called the New Martyrs. The New Martyrs, sometimes New Mortars of the Soviet Yoke.

These are people who refused to give in. They fought the police, whoever was trying to take over the church. Were they Russians? you know, the artwork at the time and even some of the photographs of the time show people who do not look Russian to me. Those in charge of destroying the Orthodox Church were absolutely not Russian. They did not have Russian names, and they were very enthusiastic about all of this. And I should note the same thing is going on in Ukraine today.

You have an entirely Jewish government who, on some ridiculous pretext, that any Orthodox Church connected to Moscow, well, they're all connected to Moscow in one way or another is going to be shut down. They can come up with any reason. It's just whenever Jews get power at a certain level, that's one of the first things that they do is trying to destroy the church whenever they can

and by any means necessary. Thousands of priests were shot, sent to the camps. I think those sent to the camps really wished that they had been shot, especially if they were sent up north. And it's something that Sulte Nietzsche knew, of course, new firsthand. In those years, we all drove God out. Now, why did he say that? We all drove.

You know, there's, I read the literature, you know, Russian language of literature on why this happened. Why did the revolution occur? Why were the white armies unsuccessful? Why did people go along with it, you know, after, after the fact. And, you know, you have, you have a hundred, you know, thousands of answers to this. But the we, you know, there's a group of a very pious, very good Orthodox people who say, you know, we didn't do enough. The upper classes were totally secularized by 1900.

We should have done more. So many of us just simply took it for granted. You know, there's always going to be there. The church is always going to be there. you know, it's not like the communists at the time we're going around saying this is what we're going to do when we take power. They would never say that in public. That was an esoteric doctrine just they knew.

And that because they took it for granted, because that, you know, many, many views are simply falling away, but that's why this was allowed to happen. I know they all believe that. But that was a common concept amongst the emigrades in the 30s, you know, right up until the end of the USSR. And that's why he used that we all drove God out, because all of Russia bears a certain responsibility for that, not him personally, but that's not what he means.

And to a great extent, you know, Tsar Nicholas, as he said just before he was murdered, he said, you know, if I have to be the sacrifice for all of Russia, then that's what I'll be. And to a great extent, the new martyrs, that blood was a means to atone, so to speak. And there is many churchmen in Russia who hold to that view today. From the early Soviet years, the path for Jewish intelligentsia and youth was open as wide as possible in science and culture, given Soviet restrictions. Olga Kameneva, Trotsky's sister, patronized high culture in the very early Soviet years. Already in 1919, a large number of Jewish youth went into movie making, an art praised by

Lenin for its ability to govern the psychology of the masses. Many of them took charge of movie studios, film schools, and film crews. For example, B. Shumyatsky, one of the founders of the Mongolian Republic and S. Dukulski, were heads of the main department of the movie industry at different times. Impressive works of early Soviet. motion cinematography were certainly a Jewish contribution. The Jewish Encyclopedia lists numerous administrators, producers, directors, actors, script writers, and motion picture theorists. Producer Ziga Vertov is considered a classic figure in Soviet cinema, mostly non-fiction.

His works include Lenin's Truth, Go Soviets, Symphony of Donbass, and the last three songs about Lenin. It is less known that he also orchestrated desecration of the whole. holy relics of St. Sergis of Rodenas. In the documentary genre, Esther Schube, by tendentious cutting and editing of fragments of old documentaries, produced full-length propaganda movies, the fall of the Romanoffs, 1927, and others, and later glorifying ones. Other famous Soviet names include S. Yutkevich, G. Kaczyv, and L. Traubberg, F. Em, Ermler organized the experimental movie studio, among notable others are G. Rochold, the Skottenens, Y. Risman, Hard Labor Camps, craving of Earth, among others.

By far, the largest figure of Soviet cinematography was Sergei Eisenstein. He introduced the epic spirit and grandeur of huge crowd scenes, tempo, new technique of editing and emotionality into the art of cinematography. However, he used his gifts as ordered. The worldwide fame of Battleship Potemkin was a battering ram for the purposes of the Soviets, and in its irresponsibly falsified history encouraged the Soviet public to further curse Tsarist Russia. Made up events such as the massacre on Odessa Steps scene, and the scene where a crowd of rebellious seaman is covered with tarpa, tarpaulin for execution, entered the world's consciousness. as if they were facts. First, it was necessary to serve Stalin's totalitarian plans and then

his nationalistic idea. Eisenstein was there to help. Well, I don't know what Shultzhenits means by his nationalistic idea. I think he's going to clarify that as we go on. But even during the Civil War, these young Jews, one of the, you know, they'd go into movement. movie making, and they were aware of the propaganda value here. The right way never understood that, or at least not until too late. I watched a couple of these, the one on Dmitri Donskoy, who was a saint, was a very pious man. It was well done, but of course the church was completely vilified throughout. I'm saying, why, they're going to make Dmitri Donskoy, you know, a prince of, a great prince, a canonized man.

How do they? Well, they just totally secularized them. I watched a couple of others over the years. They remind you of how Star Trek looked in terms of how they, the original series. That's what reminded me of. But let me define a phrase here that's going to come up. Socialist realism. Socialist realism was the official aesthetic of the USSR and all communist countries.

Prior to the establishment of socialism, art was a cry for help. We were alienated. Things like fantasy and all of this. This was an oppressed people projecting their desires onto film. Now that Paradise was here, well, no one needs to do that anymore. So everything has to be purely realistic. Why are we going to have these, you know, flights of fancy? You know, this is the workers' paradise. So everything had to be pretty normal and pretty boring. Realism meant we depict people as they are.

Literature was seen to have changed, you know, the mentality. And I get from the Soviet point of view, it would make sense. Well, we've created paradise. So why would we create fantasy movies? we are the fantasy or anything like that so we just depict things as they are which of course was utter propaganda another nonsense but that's that's the purpose of of socialist realism um there is there is nothing that we're reaching for you know um you know a little bit forer about coral mark so many others uh an oppressed alienated man is always projecting something

including God. They were atheists, of course. But that's only because they're oppressed. They're creating in their own minds and escape. Well, they don't have to do that now. So now we have pure realism. And that's what socialist realism is. You know, there are some deviation, and it was pure propaganda.

But you're not going to see. There's no reason anymore to. to have flights of fancy in poetry or anything else. That's why you can have a whole movie about a factory. And that's how much of it. That's what socialist realism is. It's just normal life, everything as it is. But of course, it really wasn't like that.

But as the Soviet leadership thought it was, we are the fantasy. We are the purpose of history. It's all been accomplished. so that means our literature is going to do is going to explain that to people i don't know if you saw this this week but um this sarah hurwitz uh person who used to write speeches for obama she said in front of a jewish um like foundation you know one of these jewish conferences that you know when we taught when when we taught the goyam that about the nine

Nazi genocide, that wasn't supposed to be used against us for Gaza. Well, yeah, well, she, they, someone found another one that is just a classic. I mean, I think we've talked about this before, the forced into finance meme, you know, Jews, you know, Jews couldn't, because we couldn't own land, we, we had to, you know, they didn't want us to own land so they just let us run their money and everything. You know, so, oh, we were forced into finance. This same woman said that they were forced into Hollywood. She made some argument about how, oh, because we were kept out of the legitimate arts and they didn't want us in the legitimate art community. We just started making movies. Well, it seems like making

movies is kind of in something that they jumped into and the text that we um we see here um yeah I mean is it shocking that you know pretty much Russian Jews were the ones who took over Hollywood yeah and yeah of course and that's that's exactly where they were from and and the agenda was was very similar so we could say the same thing for um um our germany something that you know It was shocking. It was, it was, you know, G and PG movies make the money. But it doesn't matter. It isn't about money with these people.

It's about propaganda. They know that these movies with, you know, black, snow white or whatever it is, they know that these things are going to fail. It's true that they're testing the waters. They have income. They're already millionaires. They have income from many other sources. They can, it is, they will lose money.

They know that they're going to lose money. It doesn't matter. The agenda is far more important. They're already multi-millionaires. It doesn't matter what happens. And people don't realize everything, oh, they're just about profit for them. Now, yeah, to some extent, but it's also even more powerfully about ideology, about their propaganda, about humiliating white people, whoever it is that they're trying to humiliate. The first thing that they do, 1919, they rush to start making movies.

And Lennon wrote about this at the time, he wrote about this even early. earlier and you wrote about it later right up until this death how important the movies are stage plays are for for propaganda you know you're you know people people start thinking that this is reality you know Socialist realism was almost meant to convince people that this is really how it is and you see it with their statues. You know, a man and a woman, very muscular man, strong woman, they have a frown in their face, holding the sickle, you know, classic. That's classic socialist realism, you know, strength, but they're just people. Everything that all the other arts from the ancient Greeks to now

was striving for have been accomplished with us. We are the apogee. We are the completion of world history. We were the completion of the Enlightenment, and the Jews rushed in to promote this. Yeah, they did take orders. They usually took orders from other Jews. But if you go to Lenin's Collected Works, which are all online, a million different places, he has many essays on the importance of cinema and, you know, anything like that. Stage plays, literature for propagandizing people. And that's extremely important to them. And the Jews were, you know, pretty much had a monopoly on it. Though the Jewish Encyclopedia lists names in the arts by nationality, I must repeat, not in the nationalism does one find the main key to the epoch of the early Soviet years, but in the destructive whirlwind of internationalism, estranged from any feeling of nationality or traditions.

And here in the theater, but close to authorities, we see the global. glorious figure of Meyerhold, who became the leading and most authoritarian star of the Soviet theater. He had numerous impassioned admirers, but wasn't universally recognized. From late recollections of Tirkova, Weizamaskaya, Meyerhold appears as a dictator subjugating both actors and playwrights alike to his will by his dogmatism and dry formalism. Comisarshevskia sensed that his novelty lacks creative simplicity and ethical and aesthetical clarity. He clipped actors' wings, paid more attention to frame than to portrait. He was a steady adversary of Mikhail Bulkagov.

Of course, the time was such that artists had to pay for their privileges. Many paid, including Kasha Love. A bunch of people. God, I can't. The talented producer of chamber theater and a star of that unique early Soviet period. In 1930, Tyroff denounced Prompartia in the party newspapers. You have to remember, socialist realism was very, very specific. You can't have actors or directors or anyone else going off and doing whatever they want.

therefore the producers um the main director you know they're taking orders from from that bureaucracy and really there's no one with greater authority on this than then solson needs it because he was obviously a literary man and um you know some of these people he had he had come across personally and um so yeah director had to be a dictator because there was a specific reason why this thing whether it be a stage play or a movie is is being made and every actor uh everyone creating sets uh directors of photography all of them needed to know exactly what was going on therefore it was a totalitarian uh a mini totalitarian system even right there in the right there in the production studio artists mark schagel emigrated in 1923

majority artists in the 20s were required to contribute to Soviet mass propaganda. There, some Jewish artists distinguished themselves, beginning with A. Lizitsky, who greeted the revolution as a new beginning for humanity. He joined a number of various committees and commissions, made first banner of all Russian Central Executive Committee, which was displayed on the Red Square in 1918 by members of the government. He made the famous poster, Strike Whites with the Red Wedge, designed numerous Soviet expositions abroad from 1927, and propaganda albums for the West, USSR, build socialism, etc. A favorite with the authorities was Isaac Brodsky, who drew portraits of Lenin,

Trotsky, and others, including Voroshulov, Frunz, and Budeni. After completing his portrait of Stalin, he became the leading official portrait artist of the USSR in 1928, and in 1934 was named director of the all-Russian Academy of Arts I don't know about you but I would not want the job of being Stalin's portrait painter you know if you're doing something if you do something wrong or if it doesn't look exactly what he wants

God knows what's going to happen to you but I like the phrase a new beginning for humanity you know we know what the Talmud says about the non-Jews this is a new beginning for Jews. This was seen as a Jewish victory. I mean, everyone in this list with a handful of exceptions are Jews. And it's also, so this is what, this is what they're talking about. This is

our beginning. And, you know, most of us who, people who are listening to this, could probably picture your typical Soviet propaganda poster in their head. It has a very specific look to it. You see a lot of memes about it. And this was the beginning of it. These were the people who put that together. Classic, classic realism. I also like the idea that they're going off to the West and showing this off. You know, no problem. You know, the West couldn't do it in the USSR. But they were touring the Western world with all this stuff. This is a new beginning for humanity, not defining what humanity is, this is the workers' paradise, and this is at the beginning of the period of time where a huge portion of Western intellectuals began to think

this is the wave of the future. And especially after World War II, this most certainly is the wave of the future. And intellectuals all over the Western world started thinking this. And this is why, you know, to this day, if you support Mao and university, No problem. You could write books and you get promoted, get tenure. It doesn't matter. You start, I mean, I got in trouble for supporting Franco or the government in El Salvador, let alone someone like, you know, Hitler or, you know, not Muslim I always make fun of, but despite the fact that the communist, you know, murdered, God knows, a really countless number. It doesn't matter. To this day, it's accepted. And this was the beginning of it. the West, you know, there, there was a whole, the Smithsonian just did a whole exhibition on Rosa Luxembourg, you know, like it's like she's a, like, you know, and always, you know, just absolutely gushing about her. And this, it started then. Obviously, you couldn't do that in, in the USSR. So, so this was, you know, and if anyone knows about this, it should need to be, and he, he talks about it. at great length and many other publications too. During the early years after the revolution,

Jewish musical life was particularly rich. At the start of the century, the first in the world Jewish National School of Music in the entire world, which combined both traditional Jewish and contemporary European approaches, was established. The 1920 saw a number of works

inspired by traditional Jewish themes and stories, such as Youth of Abraham by M. Nesson, the Song of Songs by A. Crane and Jewish Rhapsody by his brother G. Crane. In that age of restrictions, the latter and his son, Yulian, were sent into eight-year studying trips to Vienna and Paris to perfect Yulian's performance. Jews were traditionally talented in music and many names of future stars were for the first time heard during that period. Many administrators from music appeared also, such as Matia Sikolsky Greenberg, who was chiefs.

Inspector of Music at Department of Arts of Ministry of Education and a senior editor of ideological music and revolution. Later in 1930s, Moses Greenberg, a prominent organizer of musical performances was director of state publishing house and music and chief editor of the Department of Music Broadcasting at the state radio studio. There was the Jewish Conservatory in Odessa as well. Leonid Utesov, Lazar Weisbane, thundered from the stage. Many of his songs were written by A. Dijk-Tel. AP German and Y. Haidt wrote the March of Soviet Aviation.

This was the origin of Soviet mass singing culture. Yeah, when it's applied to music, you get things like the March of Soviet Aviation. as I mentioned before a movie about a factory well it's the same thing here and Soviet music which was Jewish music they were one in the same

really at the time you really couldn't deviate from socialist realism was meant to put forward the idea that the world would be a factory and order was tremendous

of course they did some traditional Jewish melodies too, and nothing that were, you know, Russian folk songs usually were banned, well, that was very hard to enforce, but not the case here. I'm not familiar with a Jewish rhapsody or any of these things. What they promoted in the West was a totally different story, a tonality, and I strongly recommend E. Michael Jones Dionysius Rising, which I read in grad school, which he put out a long,

91 is on Ignatius press where he deals with music and revolution and that really filled out my knowledge of the issue and how important it is for propaganda but he's just going through all the art forms and showing this first of all it's Judaic

E. Michael Jones will explain in great detail the psychological elements of how it affects and he's specifically Western people to disobeyed to disorder and to reject Christianity to reject. I mean, but Kunin, the anarchist said, I mean, he thought that Beethoven alone could start a revolution because of the tremendous excitement and power of the music. So just like anything else, music was now a former propaganda, and it was Judaic.

All right, two paragraphs to the break. Okay. Year after year, the stream of Soviet culture fell more and more under. the hand of the government. A number of various state organizations were created such as the state academic council, the monopolistic state publishing house, which choked off many private publishing firms and even had its own political commissar, certain David Shormor Shernomornikov in 1922 to 23, and the state commission for acquisition of art pieces de facto power over artist's livelihood. Political surveillance was established. The

case of A. G. Glazinov, rector of the Leningrad Conservatory, will be reviewed below. Of course, Jews were only a part of the forward triumphal march of proletarian culture. In the heady atmosphere of the early Soviet epoch, no one noticed the loss of Russian culture and that Soviet culture was driving Russian culture out, along with its strangled and might have been names. One of the great, when you read Sultan's novels, He has at least one character. That's a licksbiddle. A talentless guy could be a painter, could be a writer, who because he supports the regime,

gets the money, gets the attention, is called a genius. And there are others who, you know, Russians who, of course, reject socialist realism, who not only don't get any chance to publish or anything else, but end up in the camps. So Solzhen Easton had a particular hatred for that. And if there's, you know, one place where that's imitated, it's the U.S., people who are considered genius, people who are considered talented, and the people who are actively repressed in the arts, not necessarily put in the camp, but forbidden to earn a livelihood. It's very similar. The Soviets is just more ham-handed about it. And so this created, as far as art work we're concerned, but it.

It could be painting, could be literature, could be anything else. People with minimal talent who were promoted because they supported the regime and true geniuses who ended up, God knows where, sometimes in exile, who didn't get anything. And of course, Solstin Eastern had a particular hatred for that group of people. And he had plenty of characters in his book that, you know, he's very clear they became well-known, only because either they added their Jewish name, they supported the Soviet Union, and they kept this socialist, realist vulgarity

throughout their career. And that's the only reason that they're promoted. All right. We'll pick this up. I think on the next episode we're going to finish the chapter. This has been the longest chapter in the book so far. And it should be. And this kind of thing, we're just getting started here.

this gets heavier and heavier and heavier. We're not even into the Stalinist area yet. Yeah. All right. Everybody go over to the show notes and go over to the description in the videos and donate to Dr. Johnson's work. He's working on 17 books at the same time right now. So, you know, we need to keep him flush so he can get those done.

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