The Pete Quiñones Show - Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 97

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

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Dr. Johnson, how are you doing today? I'm exhausted. I don't have any particular idea why I'm exhausted. There's no reason for it. I got a good, nice sleep. But I am completely, you know, everything's fine, you know, physically. But I don't know. I don't know.

What's going on? So I think this material, this bullshit we're going to be talking about here, that will set me aflame, hopefully. well let's get into it then and let's let's uh let's start that party here we go the voice of moscow was that of the people's artist uri levitin the voice of the usssr that incorruptible profit of our truth the main host of the radio station of the common turn and a favorite of Stalin. Entire generations grew up listening to his voice. He read Stalin's speeches and summaries of Sovin Form Bureau, the Soviet Information Bureau, and the famous announcements about

the beginning and the end of the war. In 1936, Samuil Samusud became the main conductor of the Bolshoi theater and served on that post for many years. Mikhail Nessen continued to produce music in the style of modern European music and in the style of so-called new Jewish music. Nesson's sisters successfully ran the music school, which developed into the Outstanding Musical Institute. The ballet of Alexander Crane was performed in the Marinsky and Bolshoi theaters. Well, Crane distinguished himself by his symphony, Rhapsody, that is, a Stalin speech set to music. Crane's brother and nephew flourished also. A number of brilliant musicians rose to national and later to international flame. Gimsberg, Gillills, Zach, Oberyn, Oistrock, Flyer, and many

others. Many established theater directors, theater and literary critics, and music scholars continued to work without hindrance. Yes, you heard that right. Solid speech is set to music. Because he was considered a deity of some type. And that's how bad it got. Clearly, Jews were not persecuted at any level. And the so-called cultural or anti-cultural side of the revolution was just as important as anything else. But I had heard about this before. these are all founded in the in the

in the czarist era but a Stalin speech set to music I don't I'd rather not hear that I haven't heard that before I don't want to hear it in the future the song of Stalin the Psalms of Stalin

examining the culture of the 19th examining the culture of the 19th examining the culture of the 1930s, it is impossible to miss the extraordinary achievements of the songwriter-composers. Isaac Dunevsky, a founder of genres of operetta and mass song in Soviet music, composed easily digestible songs, routinely glorifying the Soviet way of life, the March of Mary Ladd's 1933, the song of Karkova, 1935, the song about homeland, 1936, the song of Stalin,

hey, there it is, 1936, etc. official propaganda on the arts declared these songs, the embodiment of the thoughts and feelings of millions of Soviet people. Denevsky's tunes were used as the identifying melody of Moscow radio. He was heavily decorated for his service. He was the first of all composers to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the notorious year in 1937. Later, he was also awarded the Order of Lenin. He used to preach to composers is that the Soviet people

do not need symphonies. Well, what they mean by easily digestible is something we would call pop music. Something that any person can read and absorb. And

they knew then, the Jews today know now, that the control over music and which is really just poetry. and the culture in general is absolutely essential for any any revolutionary government to work

to be justified. Now I have not seen or I've heard these songs or if I did, it was a long time ago. The song with March of the Mary Lads, I have no idea. I'm sure they were quite forgettable, but the point was that they could be absorbed by the average person. They don't need symphonies because symphonies are a product of alienation. You know, why do we need these very complicated things that the average person can't comprehend?

They are complicated. It's true. So pop music was born in this Stalinist era. Matt V. Blatner and the brothers Daniel and Dimitri Pocross were famous for their complacent hit song If War Strikes Tomorrow, quote, we will instantly crush the enemy, end quote. And for their earlier hit, the Boudjani March, there were many other famous Jewish songwriters and composers in the 1930s and later. Feltzman, Sedoi, Frankl, Tannich, Safferan, Frankl, Schainsky, et cetera. I'm old God. They enjoyed copy numbers in the millions, fame, royalties.

They got royalties? Come on, who dares to name those celebrities among the oppressed? And after all, alongside the skillfully written songs, how much blaring Soviet propaganda did they churn out? Confusing, brainwashing, and deceiving the public and crippled. good taste and feelings. Yeah, what can I add to that possibly, you know? Royalties.

Realties imply private property. I guess when it glorifies Stalin, it's a different story. What about movie industry? The modern Israeli Jewish encyclopedia states that in the 1930s, the main role of movies was to glorify the success of socialism, a movie's entertainment value was minimal. Numerous Jewish filmmakers participated in the development of standards of a unified and open ideological film industry, conservative and form, and obsessively didactic. Many of them were already listed in the previous chapter.

Take, for example, Verthoff Symphony of the Donbass, 1931, released immediately after the industrial party trial. Here are a few of the then-celebrated names, Ermler, the coming, the great citizen, virgin, uh, Yetkovich, I mean, all this crap. Yeah. Obviously, filmmakers were not persecuted in the 1930s, though many cinematography, production, and film distribution managers were arrested. Two high-ranking bosses of the central management

of the cinema industry, Shumyatsky and Dukkelski were even shot. Well, they probably didn't put any of solemn speeches to music or to cinema. but this is you know it was Jewish to the core so you can't talk to me

about any persecution here this is you know how can you possibly have a I always always laughed at Soviet slogans you know we're going to we're going to surpass the West in the production of butter

this was supposed to motivate people. You know, everything was based entirely around production and what the Soviet Union can produce versus the West. And that's the only thing that they cared about. Simple production methods and therefore our system was superior. That's how all of this stuff came to be. The miners, all of this stuff the miners I have come across and it has nothing to do

with it with their better treated or anything else it's just that they produce more and it's not any kind of a nationalist kind of a way there's nothing like this Symphony of the Dombas well

it's not much of a symphony you know and those shot were likely those who didn't go along it's interesting that the they ran the movie industry in Russia yeah I know I'm shocked

the propaganda to propagandize people I'm I'm I think I'm past the shock phase I'm just at the I'm just at the tired stage. Yeah, well, it doesn't take a lot of work. It's just a matter of manipulating those who have talent.

They don't have talent, but they can manipulate those who do have talent. In the 1930s, Jews clearly comprised a majority among filmmakers. So who was really the victim? To see viewers whose souls were steamrolled with lies and rude didactics, or the filmmakers who forged documentaries, biographies, and produce pseudo-historical and essentially unimportant propaganda films characterized by phony monumentality and the inner emptiness. The Jewish Encyclopedia adds sternly, quote,

huge numbers of Jewish operators and directors were engaged in making popular science, educational, and documentary films in the most official sphere of the Soviet cinematography, where a droid editing helped to produce a genuine documentary out of a fraud. For example, R. Carmen did it rate? without scruples, end quote. He was a glorified Soviet director, producer of many documentaries about the civil war in Spain and the Nuremberg trials. He made the anniversary glorifying film The Great Patriotic War, Vietnam, and a film about

Cuba. He was a recipient of three USSR state prizes, the Stalin Prize, and the Lenin Prize. He held the titles of the people's artists of the USSR and the hero of the socialist labor. Let's not forget filmmaker Conrad Wolfe, the brother of the president. the famous Soviets by Marcus Wolfe. No, the official, no, the official Soviet atmosphere of 1930s was absolutely free of ill will towards Jews. Let me repeat that sentence.

No, the official Soviet atmosphere of the 1930s was absolutely free of ill will toward Jews. And until the war, the overwhelming majority of Soviet jury sympathized with the Soviet ideology and sided with the Soviet regime. Quote, there was no Jewish question indeed in the USSR before the war or almost none. Then, the open anti-Semites were not yet in charge of newspapers and journals. They did not control personnel departments. Quite the opposite. Many such positions were occupied by Jews.

Which tends to contradict what, you know, has been said before. And, you know, what we said, yes, the last time, the time before. And as Hitler began to grow in power and success, the Soviet Union was seen as the homeland. That was the promised land, whether you were a Zionist or not. And you can't, you can never overestimate what Hitler did relative to the Jewish mind, even if there was no so-called you know but the fact that he was successful

he was actually doing what these songs and movies promised and that's that was the worst part of it but these were to watch these movies or listen to these songs

is to be in pain the entire time it's so over the top with the propaganda that no normal person could possibly believe it and I don't believe anyone did at the time I think it either just made people feel better or or you know

there really wasn't much that they can do about it but you know I've watched a lot of these things heard a lot of these things the propaganda was blatantly over the top you know

all superlatives all the way through so you know it's just it's what you would expect they were never able to do that in the U.S. because they had to build a market. They had to appeal to people but they didn't have to appeal to anyone here.

They had to appeal to one person. Sure, the Soviet culture consisted of Soviet patriotism, i.e. of producing art in accordance with directives from above. Unfortunately, many Jews were engaged in the pseudo-cultural sphere, and some of them even rose to supervise the Russian language culture. In the early 1930s, we see BM Volenfratkin at the head of the main administration for literary and publishing affairs, Glavelit, the organ of official censorship directing the development of the culture. Many of the glavelet personnel were Jewish. For example, in Glavelet from 1932 to 1941, we see A.I. Bendik, who had become the director

of the book palace during the war. Emma Kaganova, the spouse of Chequist Pavel Sudaplatov, was trusted to manage the activities of informants among the Ukrainian intelligentsia. After private publishers were abolished, a significant contribution to the organization and management of Soviet government publishers was made by Alliansky, Wolfson, Ianov, Bernstein, Katorovich, Malken, Berreit, Feldman, and many others. Soon, all book publishing was centralized in the state publishing house, and there was no other place for an author to get his work published. Yeah, and I think Shulton Eaton felt that pretty badly at the time. But, you know, again, they didn't have to worry about a market.

They'd worry about appealing to one person or one very small group of people. And that's all that mattered. They were reforming the language, which is the Russian language that we use today, to a great extent. Mound did the same thing with the Chinese characters, try to simplify them as much as possible. And I hate to say it, it made my life much easier. I can't read the older orthography and stuff like that, but I like this, to manage the informants among Ukrainian intelligentsia, meaning people who are writing, intelligentsia just means people who are writing, you know, poetry or scholarship or anything else. This was just, yeah, remember, this was all state funded. This is all under state control.

And there's no way you could do anything else. As the last phrase says, you couldn't go anywhere else to get your work published. So Sultan Easton says in a whole bunch of his other works, you know, these people who will just completely edit themselves and censor themselves just to appeal to these people, how disgusting they are to him, that they'll do anything to conform to this group of people without even questioning it. and every last one was a Jew. The Jewish presence was also apparent in all breaches of the printed propaganda.

Works of the clumsy caricaturist Boris Ephemov could be found in the press every day. He produced extremely filthy images of Western leaders. For instance, he had portrayed Nicholas II in a crown carrying a rifle trampling corpses. Every two to three days, sketches of other dirty satirists, like Ricklin, the piercingly caustic, Zislavski, the adroit raddick, the persistent shinen, and the brothers tour appeared in press. A future writer, Castle, wrote essays for Izvestia. There were many others, Carmen, Tess Rapaport, Cherna, that's a stolen Russian name.

Kantorovich, Perilman. These names I found in Izvestia only, and there were two dozen more major names. newspapers feeding the public with blatant lies. In addition, there existed a whole sea of ignoble mass propaganda brochures saturated with lies. When they urgently needed a mass propaganda brochure devoted to the Industrial Party trial, such things were in acute demand that for all of the 1930s, one B. Isaacson knocked it out under the title, Crush the Viper of Intervention. Diplomat E. Nadin, the son of Parvus, wrote lying articles about the incurable wounds of Europe and the imminent death of the West.

He also wrote a rebuttal article, Socialist labor in the forests of the Soviet North in response to Western slanders about the allegedly forced labor of camp inmates felling timber. When in the 1950s, Naden returned from a camp after a long term, though it appears not having experienced tree felling himself,

he was accepted as a venerable sufferer and no one reminded him of his lives in the past. Yeah, of course, they weren't doing any of this themselves. They weren't producing anything. You had a handful of writers. These were people who manipulate the writers. That was the important thing. But I guess the concept was that the generation that came of age under Nicholas II

was solely dying off. And this was a new generation now in the 30s, late 30s. 30s. And if they didn't know any better, if they were totally cut off through censorship for any reality, then they would actually believe this stuff. I think it's the case with the U.S. today. Stuff, you know, my lord, I mean, stuff, every generation seems to be propagandized in a different way by the same group of people. But Nicholas I second was a very popular figure. But they're going to deny that, of course, now because there weren't a whole lot of

people around who remembered that or who cared about that or who, you know, because anyone supporting him would be, would be long gone. And the only thing that you had was the exiles in the U.S., in a few other places, Paris, keeping his name alive, Nicholas I second's name alive. And the church is named alive. And, of course, the underground groups, the true Orthodox Church of Russia, which they, which was actually far larger than anyone ever realized. So, but you're risking so much to go underground.

If you get caught, you're going to suffer tremendously. And you will go, you know, fell trees in the far north, whether you like it or not. Or worse than that. And it's funny, yeah, he accepted the venerable suffer without, you know, of course he never was. I like all this stuff. This is exactly what we're talking about here. The crust of viper of intervention, you know. And talking about the death of the West.

Well, of course, we talk about that now. But the context couldn't be any more different. They're talking about the death. of the, you know, Christian West in terms of religion and, of course, you know, capitalism, which had no, you know, it's totally different than it is today.

But all, they focus entirely. They were obsessed. It's almost like without the, without the Western world, they wouldn't have anything to talk about. They had to focus entirely on how they, compared to the Western world. They denied that there was any underground movement. Of course, they were lying.

I don't know how, some of these guys were caught. It's true, and they suffered tremendously as a result of being caught. But there were millions of them. And they have come up from underground roughly in 1990 and 91. and boy, they were far larger than we ever realized. And, you know, of course, typical to them, there's fought the minute they came up from underground.

But yeah, the death of the West is imminent, but for a very different set of reasons than what they meant at the time. In 1929 through 31, Russian historical science was destroyed. The Archaeological Commission, the Northern Commission, Pushkin, House, the Library of the Academy of Science, where all abolished, traditions were smashed, and prominent Russian historians were sent to rotten camps. How much did we hear about that destruction? Third and fourth-rate Russian historians then surged into Occupy the vacant posts and brainwash us for the next half a century. Sure, quite a few Russian slackers made their careers then, but Jewish ones did not miss their chance. There's no doubt that the same thing is happening now.

the people who are being promoted in academia are second-rate historians. They're second-rate because they're willing to go along with an agenda and simply follow along this almost like a template of writing and researching. And each generation, they don't even realize there was anything before. Those who are getting their PhDs now, I don't think even realize. that there is censorship in the West their point of view is the truth

anything else is just some kind of a psychological anomaly and he talked about the same thing here it's the same this is simply being reproduced and but serious historians of course were being sent to rot and it's true

and nothing has changed wherever the Jews are involved nothing has changed Already in the 1930s, Jews played a prominent role in Soviet science, especially in the most important and technologically demanding frontiers, and their role was bound to become even more important in the future. Quote, by the end of the 1920s, Jews comprised 13.6% of all scientists in the country. By 1937, their share increased to 17.6%. In 1939, there were more than 15,000 or 15.7% Jewish scientists and lecturers in the institutions of higher learning end quote in physics member of the academy a iof nurtured a highly successful school as early as 1918 he founded the physical technical institute in petrograd later 15 affiliated scientific centers were created they were headed by ioff's disciples

his former students worked in many other institutes in many ways determining the scientific and technological potential of the Soviet Union. However, repressions did not bypass them. In 1938, in the Karkov Physics Technological Institute, six out of the eight heads of the department were arrested. Weisberg, Gorski, Landau, Lapunsky, Obermov, Schubnikov, and a seventh, Rumen, was exiled. Only Slitsky remained. The name of Semyon Aiskovich, the constructor of Levochen fighter aircraft was long unknown to the public. Names of many other personalities in military industry were kept secret as well. Even now, we did not know all of them.

For instance, M. Scrood oversaw a development of powerful radio stations, yet there were surely others whom we do not know, working on the development of no less powerful jammers. Yeah, we know now. at the time he wrote this it was what was this came out in 2003 something like that

it was very difficult the old archives were deliberately either destroyed or you mislabeled or something like that to keep people from understanding it

um you know these people weren't arrested as Jews they were arrested for other reasons and I don't know what arrested means they come right back again after a while I don't know so you know this is

you know it wasn't an anti-Semitic movement Stalin was not an anti-Semite we've already proven that we know that but the fact that there are Jews everywhere in the Soviet apparatus means that it looks like he is, and that's the key issue.

Numerous Jewish names in technology science and its applications prove that the flower of several Jewish generations went into these fields. Flipping through the pages of biographical tomes of the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia, which only lists the Jews who were born or lived in Russia, we see an abundance of successful and gifted people with real accomplishments, which also means the absence of obstacles to career entry and advancement in general. Of course, scientists had to pay political tribute, too. Take, for example, the first national conference for the planning of science in 1931.

Accomadition, Ioff, stated that modern capitalism is no longer capable of a technological revolution. It is only possible as a result of a social revolution, which has transformed the once barbaric and backward Russia into the the Socialist Union of Republics. He praised the leadership of the proletariat in science and said that science can be free only under Soviet stewardship. Militin philosopher E.Y.A. Coleman, one of the main ideologists of the Soviet sciences in 1930s, he fulminated against the Moscow School of Mathematics, asserted that we should introduce labor discipline in the sciences, adopt collective models, socialist competition,

and shock labor methods. He said that science advances thanks to the proletarian dictatorship and that each scientist should study Lenin's materialism and empirico-criticism. Accom academician A.G. Goldman,

Ukraine, enthusiastically chimed in, quote, the academy now became the leading force in the struggle for the Marxist dialectic in science. Again, that's one thing that makes the U.S. and the U.S.S.S. are different.

They were very similar in a lot of ways, and I've written on that a hundred times. But because there has to be some kind, I don't want to say a market, but people have to actually want to buy this stuff or read

the stuff. Unless you're an academic, of course, then of course it doesn't matter. You don't only read that stuff unless someone makes you. and I love how they say the backward in barbaric Russia in other words, Guillaume, the subhuman Russians were eliminated and now we have come in and taken over and have created a new way of thinking. That's something that, again, it says more than the speaker thought he was saying.

The Jewish Encyclopedia summarizes, quote, at the end of the 1930s, the role of the Jews in the various spheres of the Soviet life reached its apogee for the entire history of the Soviet regime, end quote. According to the 1939 science, 40% of all economically active Jews were state employees. Around 364,000 were categorized among the intelligentsia. of them a hundred and six thousand were engineers or technologists representing 14% of all professionals of this category nation a countrywide 139,000 were managers at various levels, 7% of all administrators in the USSR, 39,000 doctors or slightly less than 27% of all doctors, 38,000 teachers or more than 3% of all teachers, more than 6,500 writers, journalists, and editors, more than 5,000 actors and filmmakers, more than 6,000 musicians, a little less than 3,000 artists

and sculptors, and more than 5,000 lawyers. I don't understand everything in the Soviet Union then. Everything then was under, you were always a state employee. Economically active Jews, 40% were state employees. No, They all were. There was no private property. There was no, there was no, there was no alternative to that. Everyone was a state employee, so to speak. So I'm not sure he's talking about the Jewish encyclopedia,

trying to make it seem better than it was, but it's just not true. Everyone in the U.S.S.R. had to be a state employee or you went underground. Very simple. I'm going to do this last little paragraph here, and then it changes subject hard. So I think we should probably maybe make this a short one, considering you're tired and I'm, I don't know what I am today. Is that okay with you? Yeah, that's fine.

Okay. In the opinion of the encyclopedia, this is the Jewish encyclopedia, I think Jewish Russian encyclopedia. Such impressive representation by a national minority, even in the context of official internationalism and brotherhood of the peoples of the USSR, created the prerequisites for the backlash by the state. You know, we can't, we can't assume that every single Jew with any kind of talent scientifically or otherwise was an evil person. You know, when I was getting fired from Mount St. Mary's, it was the only one who defended me was a Jew who looked like Santa Claus. And so, you know, there's always going to be people who are tired of this,

who are tired of being told what to do. It's like American teachers today in the public school system who are given an agenda here's what you teach day one day two day three day four what's the point of being a teacher then if every every second of the day is going to be is federally mandated who would want to do any of this stuff and it only really um it only um rewarded mediocrities because if you were truly brilliant, you wouldn't want to be put on like this. You wouldn't want to be dealt with like this. You know, so they were either independent or they left the country or whatever it was.

But they certainly couldn't be a state employee for the very same reason. But it still was, especially in Germany, as Hitler grew in strength. um it was it was the soviet union was the uh um the homeland this was the place that's going to protect us and certainly uh right into the 19 1950s um even after the establishment of israel all right let's cut it right there and uh we'll come back on a couple of days and take a real um it looks like we're going to go into direct Stalin's direct

I always say conspiracy, but allying and of Jewish leaders of the Communist Party and how he, how they dealt with each other. And I think that should look and we even have mentioned a Hitler here. So we're getting to the good stuff.

It's a totally different topic. You know, this was just, this was very specific but this is what's coming on next time. It's going to be very, very different. Yeah. All right. Once again, always, I encourage you. Go over to the show notes.

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