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Jewish authors tend to conceal the shameful acts ofJewish communist executioners; however, on the otherhand, they occasionally refer with pride to the high positionssome members of their “tribe” enjoyed under theBolsheviks. For example, M. Zarubeznyi, author of the1925 Yearbook of the People’s Commissariat for ForeignAffairs, has a special list in his publication, The Jews inthe Kremlin, 27 with the names and functions of variousJews in the Foreign Commissariat, and he notes thatamong the key figures in the literary and publishing sectionof the People’s Commissariat he found “not one gentile.”In a list of colleagues in the foreign offices andconsulates of the USSR he found that “there was no countryin the world at that time to which the Kremlin had notsent its faithful Jew.” A detailed list followed.Solzhenitsyn adds:Not a few Jewish names would have been found byany author in the 1920s at the Supreme Court of theRussian Federation, as well as in the attorney general’soffice and in the inspection agencies dealing with workersand farmers.Solzhenitsyn adds further names and curricula vitae ofprominent Bolshevik functionaries found in governmentcommittees, cultural affairs, academics, economics, bankingand construction, and quotes further Jewish authors:More noticeable than anything else is . . . the significantnumber of Jews who became Soviet officials, and frequentlyin very high positions. Particularly, there weremany Jewish colleagues in the People’s Commissariatsdealing with economic functions. The Jewish intelligentsiastreamed in hordes into government service for the victoriousrevolution, recognizing an access that had been forbiddenthem in former times. 28As early as 1919 Jewish youth was already heading intremendous numbers into film, that art form whose immediateagitational effect Lenin had praised for controllingthe masses psychologically.Many of them ran film studios but others went into therepublican [referring to the provincial republics of theUSSR] and central [Moscow] agencies that governed thefilm industry, training centers and film teams.Impressive achievements of early Soviet film can unquestionablybe considered as Jewish contributions. TheJewish Encyclopedia provides a long list of Jewish filmfunctionaries, directors, actors, scriptwriters and film theoreticians.29But, according to Solzhenitsyn, there were also Jewswho fled the USSR:The first Soviet commissar of justice, Isaac Steinberg,resigned from his fight against the Cheka and emigrated. 30The president of the State Bank, A.L. Sheinmann,whose signature was on every Soviet banknote, and after1924 was additionally the People’s Commissar of theUSSR for Domestic Trade . . . remained abroad in April1929, thus opting for the cursed world of capitalism. 31 ✦LAZAR KAGANOVICH: DEDICATED KILLERAs Stalin's brother-in-law and closest collaborator, Lazar Kaganovich was one ofthe most powerful and dangerous men in the world, an executioner with the blood of 20million people on his hands. He also organized the gruesome persecution of his own ethnicgroup in Stalin’s kingdom. Kaganovich was responsible for the death of an entiregeneration of intellectuals and the personal signer of execution orders for 36,000 people.Kaganovich also ordered the wholesale destruction of Christian monuments andchurches, including the shocking demolition in downtown Moscow of the Cathedral ofChrist the Savior in 1931. It was replaced by a giant public swimming pool, but was gloriouslyrebuilt at a cost of over $100 million by the Russian people and reconsecrated inAugust 2000. From being the son of a shoe store owner he rose by 1924 into the CentralCommittee of the USSR, by 1930 into the Politburo (where he remained in until 1957);by 1935 he became a minister in several ministries and ran the Central Commission forthe Examination of Party Cadres, and thus the innumerable purges, with lethal outcome.Two of his own brothers—one the munitions minister—were victims. During World WarII he belonged to the State Committee for Defense. In 1957 he was removed from all hispositions after a failed coup attempt against Nikita Khrushchev.LAZAR KAGANOVICHT B R • P. O . B O X 1 5 8 7 7 • W A S H I N G T O N , D . C . 2 0 0 0 3 T H E B A R N E S R E V I E W 13
Emancipation of the Russian Jews: The February 1917 Revolution“The feeling of releaseand the mood of excitementbrought about by the downfallof czarist rule led to a firstgreat wave of wide-rangingparticipation by Jewishactivists.”There had been 126 years of disadvantages forJews under the Russian state, which had begunwith a 1791 ukase by Catherine the Great andwas ended by the men of the 1917 February Revolution.[The February Revolution overthrew CzarNicholas II and the monarchy.]The 1917 Kerensky revolution provided immediatelyfor the equal treatment of all citizens of Russia, regardlessof faith and nationality. For the Jews this opened up areasof career advancement in all leadership areas. Already by1915 the Jewish areas of settlement had been abolished;these changes were now legally confirmed.The feeling of release and the mood of excitementbrought about by the downfall of czarist rule led to a firstgreat wave of wide-ranging participation by Jewish activistsin the politically relevant decisioncenters of the country. This wasconnected with a migration into thecities, above all to the large cities.The arrest and shooting hysteriathat the one-time oppressed of czarismwould manifest itself all acrossRussia during the February Revolutionwas still nothing in comparisonwith the killings that the Bolshevikswould perpetrate starting with the OctoberRevolution. The Little Jewish Encyclopedia (Jerusalem)noted “a powerful increase in political activity byJewry, which stood out even from the frenetic élan thatseized Russian society after February 1917.” 32For the first time in Russian history, Jews took high positionsin both the central and local administrations. 33Solzhenitsyn confirms this statement in many passages,according to which “in the first days of the FebruaryRevolution the large number of Jews at the meeting placeof the State Duma [Russian parliament] and on the mainsquares of Petrograd [St. Petersburg] was already noticeable,and that they as agitators were essential in getting theRevolution under way.”Even if Solzhenitsyn did stress the responsibility ofnon-Jewish Russians for the February 1917 revolution aswell, he nevertheless attributed its irreconcilable characteristicsto the behavior of Jews. The ethnic Russians themselveshad no cause for such depths of hatred. 34Here one must pay particular attention to the ExecutiveCommittee of the Soviet [“Council”] of Workers and Soldiers’Deputies, which de facto took power from Kerensky’sProvisional Government.Unlike Kerensky, it knew how to get its own ordersobeyed, for example in taking power away from the hierarchyof the czarist officer corps in the middle of war withGermany (via its “Order No. 1”).On the Executive Committee, behind the many conspiratoriallychanged names there were mostly elementsof foreign origin. Solzhenitsyn said, “of the 30 truly activemembers . . . about half proved to be Jewish socialists.” 35However, a multiplicity of Jewish energies also wentinto the Provisional Government. There were both domesticand foreign Jewish subscribers to the “Liberty Loan”for the Kerensky government. (Jacob Schiff in New Yorkand Rothschild in London each invested $1 million; fromthe Great Synagogue of Moscow 22 million rubles werecollected and lent.) Other Kerenskysupporters included the activists of theJewish Bund. There was also the Partyof the Jewish Proletariat, the PoaleZion (Zionist Workers Party), the Territorialists(who wanted a homeland inEast Africa from the British Empire)and the Socialist Labor Party.The Bolsheviks prevented a true“All-Russian Jewish Congress” fromever being held, 36 but before theirtakeover, in the spring of 1917, the two biggest Jewish partiesheld their own separate “All-Russian Jewish Congresses”and rapidly expanded their organizationscountry-wide. Their programs and measures were characterizedby extraordinary radicalism and included plans forall of Russia with its multi-ethnic citizens.If the development of Jewish cultural life and of theJewish press corresponded to their new liberties and opportunities,there were still some transformations that astonishedeven Solzhenitsyn. Thus, for example, theopening up of military officer careers to Jews ended up, asSolzhenitsyn says, “more or less a mass promotion ofyoung Jews as officers.” 37When Lenin returned to Russia from Switzerland in asealed German train with 30 other Bolsheviks, followedby 160 more of them with the Nathanson-Marov-Zederbaumgroup, predominantly Jews, nearly all of them laterwould occupy prominent positions with the Bolshevikgovernment. 38“In far greater numbers, by the hundreds, Jews pouredfrom the United States into Russia, some of whom had14 S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 0 8 B A R N E S R E V I E W . C O M • 1 - 8 7 7 - 7 7 3 - 9 0 7 7 O R D E R I N G
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