The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 92

Episode Date: December 6, 2025

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the piquignano show dot com everything's there i want to welcome everyone back to our reading of two hundred years together by alexander solzhenison not only is this episode 92 but it is the start of chapter 19 in the 1930s dr johnson how are you doing today i'm doing very well Well, you guys have known, I've been working on this book on the Ukraine War for a ridiculous amount of time. I've been going to bed at like three in the morning. But it's been accepted. It's been reviewed. It's finished.

It's done. It should be available in a couple of days. And I am extremely proud of what I've done. what I've done with it. This is, this is, and I don't know what's going to happen afterwards, you know, with current event books, but I make it very clear this is the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2020,

to 2025, where, again, most of the fighting took place, because right now, Ukraine doesn't have an army, really, to fight with. So it's been, it's been burnt to ashes. And so, so, so I'm, it's, it's, it's, I'm finally done with it. I feel, I feel like something's been taken off my neck. A noose from my neck has been, been lifted.

Awesome. Monkey on my back. That's the frame. That's the free. Yeah. The, um, yep. So we will, uh, definitely schedule and, uh, time to do an episode on it and, uh, see by getting you on some other shows, we can start promoting it around.

Yes, I would appreciate that. Of course. Of course. All right. Like I said in the beginning, start a new chapter in the 1930s. And as before we went live, Dr. Johnson said, this is a lot of what people are waiting for. So, yeah. All right, here we go. The 1930s were years of an intense industrialized spurt which crushed a peasantry and altered the life of the entire country.

Mere existence demanded adaptation and the development of new skills. but through crippling sacrifices, and despite the many absurdities of the Soviet organizational system, the horrible epoch somehow led to the creation of an industrialized power. Yeah, the sacrifices were not voluntary, of course. Keep in mind that, you know, Tsarist Russia was heading in this same direction, under state direction, although not state ownership, and workers were treated infinitely better in the czarist era than they were what we're going to talk about now. Yet the first and second five-year plans came into existence and were carried out not through the miracle of spontaneous generation,

nor as a result of the simple violent roundup of large masses of laborers. It demanded many technical provisions, advanced equipment, and the collaboration of specialists experienced in this technical. all this flowed plentifully from the capitalist west and most of all from the united states not in the form of a gift of course and not in the form of generous help the soviet communists paid for all this abundantly with russia's mineral wealth and timber with concessions for raw materials markets with trade areas promised to the west and with plundered goods from the empire of the czars such deals flowed with the help and approval of international financial most of all those on Wall Street in a persisting continuation of the first commercial ties that the Soviet communists developed on the American stock exchanges as early as during the Civil War. The new partnership was strengthened by shiploads of Tsarist gold and treasures from the hermitage. Yeah, these priceless artifacts as well as from churches too. You know, when I discovered this, I don't know.

when it was. It was quite a while ago. But I was, and then I found Anthony Sutton. And when I discovered him, everything, my whole world changed in terms of the USSR. The 20th century is so mangled in history books. This isn't supposed to happen. You know, any Marxist would think that the capitalist powers would despise it and be threatened by it, right? but not only they will they not they they will actually sacrifice for it during the depression no less commercial ties you know talking about a cold war you kind of kind of have to use air quotes because you know there were no no this is the opposite of sanctions now keep in mind that the the sacrifices that the peasantry

I had to make these were done in the Leninist era too but as I said before they just didn't have the technology for it to make it a regularized thing now they were established solemnness more or less established

and the bureaucracy is much larger once more sure of itself but under Lenin it wasn't now you still have peasant revolts all over, this new empire all over. That will never end, well, at least until the defeat of the Germans. But discovering this, it completely altered my entire historical understanding what the 20th century meant. Remember, you know, so much was destroyed in the World War I, Civil War, I mean, not really, it wasn't fought on Russian soil, but, you know, the Civil War especially, they lost all of their, you know, there was a huge brain drain.

The infrastructure was gone from this attempt to industrialize, and under this knowledge, it was very slow, but sure. keep in mind that all Western Europe was overwhelmingly agrarian in a few cities they had the industry and that was the same thing in the Tsar's Empire but they needed to replace capital and they needed to replace the people who could run it so many of them were either dead or in exile or underground

or in a gulag somewhere. So they had to start over again. And in this case, you know, it was provided for my, by the, I still, to this day, I can't get over the fact that Henry Ford built the largest truck plant he's ever built in the 30s in near Kharkov in eastern Ukraine. during the depression. You know, I thought he would know better, right? But profits are profits.

And that may have been, if I'm not mistaken, that may have been the first thing to get me to wonder, wait a minute, what else did Westerners do? Bringing me to Anthony Sutton. But wait a second. Were we not thoroughly taught by Marx that capitalists are the fierce enemies of proletarian socialism, and that we should not expect

help from them, but rather a destructive bloody war? Well, it's not that simple. Despite the official diplomatic non-recognition, trade links were completely out in the open and even written about it in a vestia. Quote, American merchants are interested in broadening of economic ties with the Soviet Union. American unions came out against such an expansion, defending their markets from the products of cheap and even slave Soviet labor. The Russian American Chamber of Commerce that's in quotes, created at that time, simply did not want to hear about any political opposition to opposition to communism or to mix politics with business relations. It's very interesting that the unions came out against it, and it makes sense.

And at this point, by eliminating Sundays and increasing working hours, which Stalin will do throughout the 30s, it was something very close to slave labor. As I've said before, the Gulag of economy at its height would account for maybe 10% of Russian production, maybe more. And not just in, you know, building canals and stuff like that, but even in more specialized areas, scientific areas, which he also writes about in his other books. But this is shocking to most people. How the hell could this possibly be? It shows you that, you know, Marx was full of it.

But at the same time, Marx also hated Russia and Slavs, as he said many, many times. Every click, every connection, every moment your business is online, a threat is evolving. With Nostra as your trusted technology partner, you're not just reacting. You're ready, turning concern into confidence. From cybersecurity that protects what matters most to cloud solutions that scale as you grow, and AI that transforms how you work. Nostra delivers secure, innovative and reliable IT for Ireland's leading businesses.

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Subject to a monthly fee of 6.0.50 and government stamp duty of 30 euro. Bank of Ireland is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Anthony Sutton, a modern American scholar, researched a recently opened diplomatic and financial archives, and followed the connections of Wall Street with the Bolsheviks. He pointed to the amoral logic of this long and consistent relationship. From as early as the Marburg plan at the beginning of the 20th century, which was based on the vast capital of Carnegie, the idea was to strengthen the authority of international finance through global socialization for control and for the forced appeasement. Sutton concluded that international financiers prefer to do business with central

governments. The banking community, least of all, once a free economy and decentralized authority. Revolution and international finance did not quite contradict each other if the results of revolution should be to establish a more centralized authority, and therefore to make the markets of these countries manageable. And there was the second line of agreement. Bolsheviks and bankers shared an essential common platform, internationalism. You know, I've been through the fundamental similarities between late capitalism and Marxism, Leninism. And it's a huge list.

Your basic fundamental agreements, internationalism being one, secularism and atheism being another. But bankers, you have a country that now is setting up a system, where the entire economy is going to be planned from one place that is their that is a wet dream for these guys and and this is part of the reason why they couldn't get it they loved it

anti-communists you know what did they do to Joe McCarthy in the 50s this stuff didn't go away anti-communism was not fashionable and And so many of the, as I've said, the exiles who were, you know, traditionalists, royalists and stuff, you know, they were followed by the FBI and other police agencies. They were not trusted. It's not an exaggeration to say that American capital, Western Capitol, built the, you know, paradise of the Soviet Union, the utopia of the workers.

and therefore they're responsible for what happened there, at least partly. In that light, the subsequent support of collective enterprises and the mass destruction of individual rights by Morgan Rockefeller was not surprising. In justification of this support, they claimed in Senate hearings, quote, Why should a great industrial country like America desire the creation and subsequent competition of another great industrial rival. Well, they rightly believe that with such an obviously uncompetitive, centralized, and totalitarian regime, Soviet Union could not rival America.

Another thing is that Wall Street could not predict further development of the Bolshevik system, nor its extraordinary ability to control people, working them to the very bone, which eventually led to the creation of a powerful, if misshapen, industry. And this fascinated, these elites, the just the incredible use of coercion, not just not just physically, but later on psychologically. Yeah, it was not going to be a great rival. That's true. That was not an issue. I've been through these Senate hearings many years ago.

And it's not just. investment over there, Russians and others came to the U.S. and went to American schools at all levels, from military to business, to science, everything, and then went back to to build the socialist paradise. You know, Vladimir Putin takes over, you know, clearly manifests himself as some very. version of a nationalist or Eurasianist, and that's it. It's over. Total sanctions and we will lose huge amounts of money to enforce them. That's the one other agreement that the two systems have is they hate nationalism. But how does this tie in with our basic theme? Because, as we

have seen, American financiers completely refuse loans to pre-revolutionary Russia, due to the infringement of the rights of Jews there, even though Russia was always a profitable financial prospect. And clearly, if they were prepared to sacrifice profits at that time, then now, despite all their counting on the Soviet markets, the Morgan Rockefeller Empire would not assist the Bolsheviks if the persecution of the Jews was looming on horizon in the USSR at the start of the 1930s.

got to remember this these people are already ridiculously wealthy their income I mean Rockefeller's income would make you wealthy today and how much more would that be in the in the 20s and 30s it wasn't just about profits we've talked about this in terms of how Hollywood operates you know

the regime does things they know they're going to lose money. But it doesn't matter. They're already wealthy people. They'll get it back some other way. But now, of course, the Jews front and center

that this was the issue. The Tsars did a I think did a terrible job of explaining how they treat the Jews and why and what's going on. And it's not like, you know, I'm not saying Rockefeller was reading Lenin,

although the Rockefeller Foundation would subsidize many, many, many, many Leninists in the American universities as time went on. So there was no question at one point or another. This was the wave of the future. They saw it as a wave of the future. Anything opposing it was just reactionary and should be eliminated. That's just the point. For the West, the previously described Soviet oppression of the traditional Jewish culture and of Zionists easily disappeared under the contemporary general impression that the Soviet power would not oppress the Jews. But on the contrary, that many of them would remain at the levers of power. Certain pictures of the past have the ability to conveniently rearrange in our mind in order to soothe our consciousness. And today a perception has formed that in the 1930s, the Jews were already forced out of the Soviet ruling elite and had nothing to do with the administration of the country.

In the 1980s, we see assertions like this. In the Soviet times, the Jews in the USSR were, quote, practically destroyed as a people. They had to be turned into a social group which was settled in the large cities as a social stratum to serve the ruling class, end quote. and we've been through we've been through this before um the regime especially their academic uh elements in in america in the west um blaming everything on stalin made everything else seem okay it was very common to hear that Stalin distorted the um the USSR and the promises of socialism despite the fact that lennon and trottyky wanted the exact same thing. We see it in the Middle East where the regime says, oh, no, this is all Netanyahu.

He's distorted the Zionist idea. This would never have happened before. And, of course, we're going to read here, and this is one of the places where I read this nonsense, that somehow there was an anti-Jewish policy under Stalin. But, you know, again, you're an American academic, you're looking at this. What do I do? I noticed that so many of the people that Stalin purges are Jews. So either I have to admit that the Bolsheviks were mostly Jewish, or I could say that Stalin was an anti-Semite. That was the choice that they had. They can't say the former, so they had to say the latter.

No. not only far from serving, the Jews were to the large extent members of the ruling class and the large cities, the capitals of the constituent Soviet republics, were the very thing the authorities bought off through improved provisioning, furnishing, and maintenance, while the rest of the country languished from oppression and poverty. And now, after the shock of the Civil War, after the war communism, after the NEP and the first five-year plan, it was to peace, time life of the country that was increasingly managed by the government apparatus, in which the rule of the Jews was quite conspicuous, at least until 1937 to 1938. In 1936 at the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union, Molotov on orders from Stalin, perhaps to differ from Hitler in the eyes of the West, delivered this tirade. Quote, our brotherly feelings toward the Jewish people are determined by the fact that they begat the genius and the creator of the ideas of the communist liberation of mankind, Carl Marx,

that the Jewish people, alongside the most developed nations, brought forth countless prominent scientists, engineers, and artists, and gave many glorious heroes to the revolutionary struggle, and in our country they gave and are still giving new, remarkable, and talented leaders and managers in all areas of development and defense of the cause of socialism. and we've been through a lot of this too the Stalin anti-Semite thing stems from just a list of names this is what Stalin did

he removed all of these people and they tended to be Jewish there's entire books on this careers have been made on this in history departments often by Jews themselves I've read some of these books I've read some of these books a long time ago

I wasn't sure what to make of them in the 90th but I like how Marx is referring to the Jews like he's not one of them and Stalin although he was not a Jew was surrounded by them everywhere

Stalin maintained the persecution of anti-Semites that was passed by Lenin that was decreed by Lenin and Trotky that never went away that never went away in the entire history of the USSR Did you know

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No doubt it was said for propaganda purposes, but Molotov's declaration was appropriate. And the defense of the cause of socialism during all those years was in the hands of the GPU, the army, diplomacy, and the ideological front. The willing participation of so many Jews in these organs continued in the early and mid-1930s, until 1937 to 1938. Here we will briefly review, according to contemporary newspapers, later publications,

and modern Jewish encyclopedias, the most important posts and names had emerged mainly in the 1930s. Of course, such a review, complicated by the fact that we know nothing about how our characters identified themselves in regard to nationality, may contain, mistakes in individual cases and can in no way be considered comprehensive. Remember what Stalin was doing. Stalin had to make the shift from a revolutionary party trying to create and run a government, which they're not very good at, to an actual professional bureaucracy, whether it be military or the party itself

or the state, the economy. And that's why a lot of these guys had to be removed. Same thing for the military. The so-called military purges. These guys weren't shot. They were just retired. These were excellent Civil War commanders. But fighting a massive German invasion, a different story.

They're not trained in the military arts. These guys have to be, you know, They have to come from the regular surface. They have to work their way up like a true general would, not just be expert in guerrilla warfare or whatever. So the shifts from a revolutionary government to a regular government based on revolutionary principles is what Stalin thought he was doing at the time. After the destruction of the Trotskyite opposition,

the Jewish representation in the party apparatus became noticeably reduced, but that purge of the Supreme Party apparatus was absolutely not anti-Jewish. Lazar Kaganovich retained his extremely prominent position in the Politburo. He was an ominously merciless individual and, at the same time, a man of notoriously low professional level. Nevertheless, from the mid-1930s, he was the secretary of the Central Committee and simultaneously a member of the Organizational Bureau of the Central Committee. Only Stalin himself held both these positions at the same time. And he placed three of his brothers in quite important positions, a post.

Mikhail Kaganovich was deputy chair of the Supreme Soviet of the national economy beginning in 1931. From 1937, he was Narcom. Narcadmy commissar, that is people's commissar, of the defense industry. Later, he simultaneously headed the aviation industry. Yuley Kaganovich, passing through the leading party post. in Nizny Novgorod, as all the brothers did, became deputy Narcom of the foreign trade. Another absolutely untalented brother was a big gun in Rostov-on-dawn.

It reminds me of a story by Saltyakov Shrederin, where one vus Oshmiansky tried to place his brother Lazar in a profitable post. However, both the ethnic Russian opposition factions, that of Rikov, Bukharin, and Tomsky, and that of Sirtsov, Reitin, and Uglanov, were destroyed by Stalin in the beginning of the 1930s, which supported the Jewish Bolsheviks. He drew necessary replacements from their ranks. Gaganovich was the principal and the most reliable of Stalin supporters in the Politburo. He demanded the execution of Rutan October 1932 to January 1933, but even Stalin wasn't able to manage it then. The purge of 1930 to 1933 dealt with the Russian elements in the party. Yeah, they were called the, colloquially, they were called the Russian Party.

I've already talked about the post-World War II Lenin-Grad purges when there were superheroes of resistance to the Germans, every one of whom were Russian, and they started asking questions. you know exactly why are you know why are these why have our people have been purged so much how come russia is being so ruthlessly exploited for the sake of the outer uh republic and that led to leningrad purges so this is not the only purge of i mean you can't even call them vaguely russian nationalists 1930 1933 uh you don't then it's not talked about very much and it shouldn't surprise you that was about uh russia well remember Lennon goes on and on about Russian chauvinism and stuff like that.

Sometimes nationalism from one group against another serves the interest of the party, sometimes. But because of the size of Russia within the U.S.S.R. That could never be allowed to develop. And a lot of very talented men were shot as a result. Out of 25 members in the Presidium of the Central Control Commission after the 16th Party Congress, 1930, 10 were Jews. A. Soltz, the conscience of the party in the bloodiest years from 1934 to 1938, was assistant to Vishinsky, the general prosecutor of the USSR. Z. Belenke, one of the three above-mentioned Bellewski brothers, A. Goltzman, who supported Trotsky in the debate on trade unions, ferocious Rosalia Zemlaca, Zalkind, M. Kaganovich, another of the brothers,

the Czechos trilliser, the militant atheist Yaroslovsky, B. Roissiman, and A. P. Rosengoltz, the surviving assistant of Trotsky. If one compares the composition of the party central committee in the 1920s, with that in the early 1930s, he would find that it was almost unchanged. Both in 1925 as well as after the 16th Party Congress, Jews comprised about one-sixth of the membership. Which is saying something. Now, whatever disagreement Stalin had with Trotsky was over issues of not great import. They were identical in terms of what they thought socialism should be. It was only in exile that Trotky started to all of a sudden become this.

libertarian. So this isn't, this isn't Marxism, this isn't socialism. He wasn't wonderful like Lenin was. And that's where a lot of that came from. To be a Trotskyite is almost to be fashionable today. It wasn't so much where the Soviet Union existed. But because that's really the official view of the court historians that Stalin distorted socialism.

He did no such thing. simply brought it to the next level because he had the ability to do so. And, you know, one-sixth of the membership is pretty huge when you consider they're 2% of the population. It's very extraordinary. In the upper echelons of the Communist Party after the 17th Congress, the Congress of the Victors, in 1934, Jews remained at one-sixth of the membership of the Central Committee

in the Party Control Commission about one-third and a similar proportion in the Revision Commission of the Central Committee. It was headed for quite a while by M. Vladimir. Vladimirski. From 1934, Lazare Kaganovich took the reins of the Central Control Commission. Jews made up the same proportion, one-third of the members of the Commission of the Soviet control. For five years, filled with upheaval, the Deputy General Prosecutor of the USSR was Gregori Leplesky. Remember, in this era, there was a very strict distinction between the party and the state. Now, of course, the party ran the state.

But there was always this worry that the state very much like, you know, the Russian party, that the state may get ideas of its own, especially the army. And that's where these commissars came from. these commissars, which we've talked about before, that were attached and control commission, not just they were attached to every high-ranking officer, making sure that he, can you imagine trying to do your job with this Jew, you know, in your ear,

everything had to, you know, making sure, listening to everything you have to say, making sure that you supported the party. These control, elements. That's where the Jews really thrive. And it was very difficult to function as a high-ranking military officer or a high-ranking, you know, manager, because you always had a party person very close by, making sure you didn't have any ideas of your own. And that was, you know, of course there was always a distinction between those two things,

state and party they can never you know obviously they can never become one thing but wherever you know you had a lot of

Gentiles like in the army you're going to have these commissars that were right next to wherever he went you had the commissar right here

overwhelmingly Jewish Hitler used to make fun of them all the time during the war um and part of the high level of

losses in World War II came from that. You know, there'd no retreat. You know, slaughter the Gentile Russians and Ukrainians at the front. You know, making sure that that took place. You know, making sure that all

party commands went through, no matter how irrational they were. And it was, I can't imagine doing my job with someone like that right next to me. the time. Did you know, employers can gift up to 1,500 euro tax-free to employees in a tax year. Many of Ireland's largest employers choose MeToU, a guaranteed Irish-owned multi-store gift card, accepted in over 8,000 retailers nationwide, including pennies, Brown Thomas, lifestyle sports,

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For more, visit Understandinginsurance.I.E. forward slash under insurance brought to you by insurance Ireland occupants of many crucial party posts were not even announced in Pravda for instance in autumn 1936 the secretary of the central committee of comsumal the union of communist youth was e feinberg the department of the press and publishing of the central committee the key ideological establishment was managed by b tahl previously the department was headed by lev mechlus who had by then shifted to managing Pravda full-time. From 1937, Meckless became Deputy Narcom of Defense and the head of political

administration of the Red Army. We see many Jews in the command posts and provinces in the Central Asia Bureau, the Eastern Siberia-Cri-Party Committee, Crycom in the post of the first secretaries of the Opcoms of the Volga German Republic, the Tatar, the Bashkir, Tomsk, Kalinin, and Veronis Oblas, and in many others. For example, Mendel Katayevich, a member of the Central Committee from 1930, was consequently Secretary of Gommel, Odessa, Tadar, and Denepp Petrovsk, Obcams,

Secretary of the Middle Volga Crycom, and second Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Yacob Chubin was Secretary of the Chernobyl, and Akbalensk Obkams and the Shatinsk District Party Committee. Later, he served in several commissions and the party control in Moscow, Crimea, Kursk, and Turkmenia, and from 1937, he was the first secretary of the Central Committee of Turkmenia. There is no need to list all such names, but let's not overlook the real contribution of these secretaries into the Bolshevik cause.

also note their striking geographical mobility, as in the 1920s. Reliable cadres were still in much demand and indispensable, and there was no concern that they lacked knowledge of each new locality in which they took charge. If you were a subscriber to the Barnes Review, I'm talking to the listeners. I was the editor there in the early 2000s, Willis Cardo's publication. I published on the genocide in Kazakhstan under a Jewish leadership who

prior to that you know, had no conception of what nomadic herding was let alone how to oversee it and needless to say, policy was completely irrational. the population went down and actually went down very much to the point where they were really worried about its survival. They were running to China. They were running to elsewhere. And, you know, this was Jewish way.

The Kazakh members of the party were very few. They were educated in the USSR. And then they were Persia. so it was you know it had to be a jewish thing because of how you know it was the starvation they were fine before of course they were fine under the czars or they were fine otherwise but communism can't deal with nomadic herders that frightens them it's so you know to them unless they figure out a way to make a factory out of that which i don't think they can You know, forcing them to settle led to mass.

Oh, so the revolt was constant. And no one talks about it. That, that, it's a true, it's a true genocide. Cazaks became a minority in their own country, which had never happened before. And it was from, it was from basically this era where it happened. So that's one example of how. this operates. Yeah, you still had the idea that

if Jews could be sent anywhere whether you were competent or not and that had to be somewhat, you know, tamed, because you can't have it incompetent. You realize, especially in the late 30s, that was very much tamed.

You needed a regular bureaucracy, but also like in a lot of places, they can't be allowed to stay at one place for very long geographically because then they may become sympathetic to them may make friends there they may when we can't have that we need them to be able to shoot them at any moment

and that's where the mobility comes from it's not a matter of you know it is a matter well primarily it's a matter of of these guys never putting down roots anywhere which is not exactly a Jewish thing anyway but it's a big deal you cannot develop sympathy for these people so they have to be sent all around the place all around the empire there of course with the total strangers you know like like herders destroying them is is much less of a problem

yet much more power was in the hands of the narcoms in 1936 we see nine Jewish narcoms in the government take the worldwide famous narcoms of Foreign Affairs Litvenov. In the friendly cartoons in Vestia, in Izvestia, he is portrayed as a knight of peace with a spear and shield taking a stand against foreign filth. No less remarkable, but only within the limits of the USSR, was the narcom of Internal Affairs, Yegota, the ascending and all-glorious iron narcom of railroads, Lazar Kaganovich. Foreign trade was headed by A. Rosengoltz. Before that, saw him in the Central Control Commission. I.Y.A. Whitzer was in charge of domestic trade. M. Kalmanovich was in charge of Sofkosis, state-owned farms that paid wages. He was the first

commasar from the end of 1917. I.E. Lubimov was Narcom of Light Industry. G. Kaminsky was Narcom of Healthcare. His instructive articles were often published in Izvestia, and the above-mentioned Z. Belenki was head of the commission of the Soviet control. In the same government, we can find many Jewish names among the deputy Narcoms and various people's commissariats, finance, communications, railroad transport, water, agriculture, the timber industry, the foodstuffs industry, education, justice. Among the most important deputy narcoms were Y.A. Gamarnik defense, A. Gurevich, he made a significant contribution to the creation of the mettleurgical industry in the country. Semyon Ginsburg, he was deputy Narcom of heavy industry, and later he became

Narcom of construction, and even later, Minister of Construction of Military Enterprises. Therefore, the entire conception of Stalin adds this wild, crazy anti-Sanelan, is thrown out the window. It's clearly not the case. But you're not allowed to say that because otherwise you have to admit that the early Bolsheviks were Jews. You have to admit that. And of course, they can't professionally. That's why they're court historians.

That's why that's the price you pay for tenure, I suppose. Jews still dominated the system regardless of any Trotsky-lined opposition and so that whole theory is destroyed right in this one paragraph. Did you know, employers can gift up to 1,500 euro tax-free to employees in a tax year? Many of Ireland's largest employers choose Me to You, a guaranteed Irish-owned multi-store gift card,

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His portraits and photos and drawings by I Brodsky were prominently reproduced in newspapers then and later from year to year. Together with the already mentioned M. Kalmanovich, he was a member of the very top Soviet of labor and defense. There was hardly anyone apart from Stalin, Molotov, yada, yada, yada, yada in that organ. In March of 1931, at the sixth session

of Soviets, Yakovlev reported on the progress of collectivization about the development of sov-sov-cozes and Kolk-Koses, that is, the destruction of the way of life of the people. On this glorious path to the ruination of Russia among Yakovlev's collaborators, we can see deputy Narcom VG Vigin, Fagan, members of the Board of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture M.M. Volf, G.G. Rochall, and other experts. The important organization, the Grain Trust, was attached to the People's Commissariat of Agriculture to pump out grain from peasants to the state. The chairman of the board of directors was M. Gershevkov. His portraits appeared in as Vestia and Stalin himself sent him a telegram of encouragement.

From 1923, the People's Commissariat of Sovkosis and Kolkosis with M. Kalmanovich at the helm was separated from the People's Commissariat of Agriculture. From 1934, the chairman of the National Soviet of Kolkosz was the same Yaakovlev Epstein. The chairman of the Commission of Preveillance was I. Kleiner, who was awarded the Order of Lenin. During the most terrible moments of collectivization, M. Kalmanovich was Deputy Narcom of Agriculture. But at the end of 1930, he was transferred into the People's Commissariat of Finance as Deputy Narcom. He also became chairman of the board of Goss Bank, the state bank, and in monetary affairs, a strong will was always much needed. In 1936, Lev Maraisen became chairman of the board of the

Goss Bank. He was replaced in that post by Solomon Krutikov in 1936. Let me explain. You did wonderfully. I think we may even stop there, given the pain you just went through reading that. Okay. You know, but collectivization was the formal term for the destruction of, as he says, the Russian way of life, which prior to the communists was excellent and doing better. Everything that the peasants knew, the location, everything was destroyed and they were brought to some other place,

random people thrown together, maybe 100 people, maybe more, maybe fewer, I don't know, and were given targets they had to create so much and it was a totalitarian system in and of itself it was a mini version of

the USSR to be in the collective everything was dictated to you um um um I mean Mao and and Pol Pot did a little bit

you know more extreme with it but um your your words your actions were watched by people who you know essentially it was almost prison labor it was prison labor and why not it was clear that the peasants hated the marxists hated lenin and Stalin there was no question about it these are some of the same people who were shooting at them and this was a way to hopefully control that and it didn't work clearly they never met their their targets and we with a few exceptions and it was overseen often as we see by by these Jews who didn't know what a plot of land looked like uh let alone how to how to form it it was a completely totalitarian system to live there. It was a nightmare. You had a very small amount of living space, which was

dictated to you like everything else. Child care was provided, believe it or not, by the collectives to make sure your wife can work in the fields to make sure you reach the target. It was a nightmare. And the difference between the two, you know, the co-coleses and tough closes is how you pay your dues, either in cash or in kind. That's really the only difference. And there's no way that the Soviets, me, they were well aware of what this was going to do. They were well aware of the famine this is going to create, the people who were going to be shot. I mean, you had massive executions here. Peasants are pretty shrewd and tough people and um you know it was the worst possible treatment they were infinitely worse than

any serf they were not allowed to leave that some some reforms came much later uh and it was it was as close to prison labor as you can get um and they didn't know each other which was kind of the point they come from you know they tried to mix as many people as possible Of course, there's no church. Shouldn't have to say that. The church was the center of the commune in Tsarist times. This was a, this is even considering it is a frightening concept of what these, you know, nameless people went through and how many of them have been executed for disobedience. And the fact that the Jews ran this system, you know, again, they're never going to take responsibility for anything.

That's the last thing a Jew knows how to do. But they should. This was a Jewish idea, a Jewish movement. It was overseen by Jews, was Stalin at the head. And this is why food production went down. And you had constant confrontations. You had guards, you know. So the collective was,

now again there were reforms a bit later but under Stalin it was a very different story Lenin had started the process same thing same concept but not to the extent that Solomon was able to do all right we'll wrap it there and next episode we'll pick up and I want to encourage everybody to go over to the show notes and donate to Dr. Johnson and go over to the description in the videos. And also look out for the announcement of his book coming out in a couple days and head on over and we'll tell you where you can get that. And there's another way to support and also get educated on what this, you know, what we've seen over the last three years plus, which is, you know, probably going to go down in as the worst, worse than anything in the

21st century so far. That's for darn sure. Even worse than the terror wars. Yeah. Yeah, the total, the total depopulation of a country. And now you have elites looking at Poland as the new Ukraine. We have to pray to God that doesn't happen.

But, you know, you're talking about roughly 1.8 million, 2 million battlefield deaths. it's a frightening concept and I go into much detail as to how I got these numbers and where they came from and how they're done these poor guys you know they don't have any supplies

they get wounded there's no way you know there's you know there's freedom of movement is very limited there and you have these guys dying all the time. And there's absolute hatred for the system developing on the front lines. And I'm telling you, the only solution is a military coup to overthrow this system with Cossack assistance or a Cossack military coup into establish a hetmanent. That is their only way out.

All right. I will meet up for episode 93 in a couple days. Dr. Johnson. Thank you, as always. Thank you, my friend. Thank you.