Russia and the Jews

The Black Ravens
These “black ravens,” as the Moscovites called
them, transported prisoners from the Cheka’s
Lubyanka headquarters into the infamous jails of
Lefortovo or Butyrka, both also in Moscow. The
black ravens looked similar to those "poison gas
wagons" camouflaged as delivery vans for bakery
shops, by whose exhaust gases uncounted kulaks
were killed at the beginning of the 1930s in the
USSR while being driven from the prisons. The former
Red Army general Peter Grigorenko, who himself
was later arrested, described them in his
memoirs (Erinnerungen, Munich 1981, p. 274-276.
See Historische Tatsachen No. 48, pp. 35-36.
On the other hand, in 1953 nearly all Jewish generals
and about 300 colonels and lieutenant colonels were sent
into retirement. [Vol. II, Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 418]
Two facts seem important from the time after Stalin’s
death:
1) “After Stalin’s death many Jews who had lost their
jobs would return: during the thaw phase many of the old
Zionists were . . . released from the [gulag] camps.” [Vol.
II, The Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 424] Thus we read
once again of many—whole groups.
2) A country-wide census in 1959 in the USSR indicated
that 2,268,000 Jews lived there.
However there are also voices warning not to trust this
number: “It is well known that there are more Jews in the
USSR than the censuses indicated.” For the count, a Jew
would indicate his desired nationality, not the nationality
listed in his passport. [Vol. II, The Jews in the Soviet
Union, p. 433]
How could this high Soviet Jewish number be possible
if the Eastern European and Russian Jews had been totally
destroyed in World War II
CASE 2:
During the entire German-Soviet war there were only
“a few public mentions of the fate of the Jews in the German-occupied
areas.” [Vol. II, The Jews in the Soviet
Union, p. 365] This is all the more amazing since the main
Soviet mass-murder advocate Ilya Ehrenburg was “proud
to be a Jew.” [Ernste de Todes: Stalin’s Holocaust in der
Ukraine, p. 133], and in all the psychopathic excesses of
his flaming hate propaganda against the German people,
the Jewish topic was an additional personal priority.
A) We read in a Stalin speech of November 6, 1941,
without reference to any specific incident:
The Nazis organize medieval anti-Jewish pogroms
just as gladly as did the czarist regime. Hitler’s party is a
party . . . of medieval reaction and of pogroms like the
Black Hundreds. [From roughly 1900 to 1917, the Black
Hundreds, and their street activists, the Yellow Shirts,
verbally and physically attacked leftist revolutionaries
and Jews.—Ed.]
This was the only time before May 8, 1945, the date of
the German surrender, when the Generalissimo publicly
addressed this topic. [Vol. II, The Jews in the Soviet Union,
p. 365]
B) On January 7, 1942 Izvestia cited a report from Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov according to which
German troops supposedly shot Jews in numerous places
such as in Kiev, Lvov (“Lemberg” in German), Odessa and
Kamenets Podolsk. Molotov gave numbers but no details
as to place with the exception of Kiev.
There, it was claimed, “in a terrible slaughter, women
and children of all age groups were driven together. They
had to strip naked and were beaten before they all were
shot with machine pistols.” [Vol. II, The Jews in the Soviet
Union, p. 365]
None of these data were verifiable, contained exact localities,
dates or names of the persons responsible or of
the informants. The case of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital,
(where the Moscow rulers had not yet begun pointing the
finger at the ravine of Babi Yar) later on was fleshed out
with at first 33,771 shot, allegedly under the guidance of
SS Colonel Paul Blobel and his Einsatzkommando. By the
end of the war this figure had expanded to over 100,000.
But all of this turned out to be a crude wartime lie. No
mass remains of corpses could be found. The Soviets did
not even look for them. Instead, immediately after the Red
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