Russia and the Jews

Solzhenitsyn also refers to an article by the then war
minister of the British Cabinet, Winston Churchill of February
1920 in The London Illustrated Sunday Herald:
And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities
from the underground of the great cities of Europe and
America has gripped the Russian people by the hair of
their heads and has become practically the undisputed
master of that enormous [Russian] empire. 168
In this connection, Solzhenitsyn mentions that the
British intervention troops in the Baku area “shot 26 Bolshevik
commissars on September 20, 1918 in Baku in the
desert on the Caspian Sea, without this exciting the slightest
interest on the part of the world public.”
It never bothered the many humanitarian moral apostles
of the Western world that “the English were in a hurry
to occupy the oil fields of Baku.” 169
The authors of the anthology Russia
and Russian Jewry, G. Aronson
and I.M. Bikermann, confessed in
1924 their worry:
Naturally it is clear that not all
Jews are Bolsheviks, and not all
Bolsheviks are Jews, but it does not
take long to prove how excessively,
and above all how over-zealously,
Jews took part in the abuse of the
half-dead Russia by the Bolsheviks.
. . . The Russian people have never before experienced
Jews in power.
Now, however, one experiences them at every step and
turn, and their power is brutal and unlimited. . . . One must
understand the psychological reaction of the Russians
when they feel themselves suddenly exposed to the power
of this whole rotten scum, with its arrogance and crudity,
its self-centeredness and churlish behavior. 170
When in 1929 the forced collectivization of agriculture
was introduced, which led to at least 6 million dead by programmed
famine, although it was ordered by Stalin it was
carried out by a variegated team of Jewish communist executioners.
Solzhenitsyn tells us in The Jews in the Soviet
Union:
In the national planning authority “Gosplan,” Stalin
maintained the previous Jewish majority.
Of course J. Larin was among them, [the founder of
“It is clear that not all Jews
are Bolsheviks, and not all
Bolsheviks are Jews, but it does
not take long to prove how how
over-zealously Jews took part in
the abuse of the half-dead
Russia by the Bolsheviks.”
the economics of “war communism”—Ed.] and one of the
leading lights and theoreticians of collectivization. Levi
Krizman began functioning in 1928 as the director of the
Agricultural Institute and from 1931-1933 he was the
Deputy Chairman of the Gosplan. . . .
Jacob-Levi-Epstein was the head of the People’s Agricultural
Commissariat. . . . Afterward [around the end of
of 1929] he led the “Great Reform,” the collectivization
attack, which affected millions, along with the eager fulfillers
of his plan. 171
[He] belonged, together with M. Kalmanovich to the
highest Government Council for Work and Defense
(whose composition is nearly completely mentioned with
Stalin, Molotov, Mikoyan, Orjonikidse and Voroshilov). 172
S. Margolina writes in her book Das Ende der Lügen
[The End of the Lies—Ed.]:
Besides this, at the end of the 1920s
not a few Jewish communists began
showing up for the first time out in the flat
country as military commanders and as
lords of life and death. It was only over
the course of the collectivization that the
picture of the Jew as the hated enemy of
the farmer was formed—even in areas
where no one had ever previously seen a
Jew face-to-face. 173
Solzhenitsyn takes a stand against
the view that it there was merely a Jewish “layer of implementers”
and stresses instead that “Jews also belonged in
no small measure to the dominant class of that time,” 174
which, after 1937/38, and centered in the large cities, kept
the whole enormous country under lock and key, ever forgetting
to put forth that the exponent of their idea, Karl
Marx, was “the creative genius behind the ideas for the
communist liberation of mankind.”
The “pitiless and disastrous” Lazar Kaganovich, a
member after 1930 of the Politburo and head of the Central
Committee’s Control Commission, and after the mid-
1930s CC Secretary, was co-responsible for the forced collectivization
of agriculture and for the great purges of
1934-1938. Solzhenitsyn says that, “outside of Stalin, he
was the only one at this height.” 175 His three brothers in
high positions also received Solzhenitsyn’s mention. The
press, the political administration of the Red Army and the
guidance of the Komsomol [the communist youth organization]
lay in Jewish hands.
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