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Solzhenitsyn adds:Fifteen million, declared noncitizensas “enemies of the state,”were not merely robbed of suchthings as the chance to study, theright to obtain a doctorate, or eligibilityto work for the state, buttheir farms were ruined and theywere shoved together like cattleand deported to their destructionin the taiga and the tundra. Amongthe fanaticized urban activistsstreaming out into the countrysidewere Jews, enthusiastically carryingout the collectivization of agricultureand leaving behind visibleand terrible memories. . . . 68The prevailing mentality (of themob) was described by “historian”Wassili Grossman, whose bias is apparentwhen he writes:They are insane, under a spell,they threaten with guns, call thechildren “kulak bitches’ brood,”scream “bloodsuckers”–the femaleis lower than a louse, theyview these humans whom they areabout to “de-kulakize” as cattle,pigs—everything is revolting about kulaks—they have noindividuality, no soul—the kulaks stink and have venerealdisease but mostly they are “enemies of the people” whoexploit others.And from the Black Book of Communism:Within a few years, from 1928 to 1931, 138,000 civilservants were removed from public service. Of them,23,000 were classified under “Category I,” “enemies ofSoviet power,” and lost their civil rights. . . . From January1930 to June 1931, 48% of the engineers in the Donets regionwere dismissed or arrested; in the transportation sectoralone, 4,500 “sabotage specialists” were “exposed.”A decree of December 12, 1930 enumerated more than30 categories of people from whom citizenship rights werewithdrawn: “former landowners, former traders, formernobles, former policemen, officials who worked under theLAVRENTY BERIALavrenty Pavlov Beria, by 1921 already in hisyoung years a feared and prominent perpetratorin the GPU in the merciless crushing ofcountless rebellions by workers, soldiers andfarmers (also in his native Georgia), was from1931 until 1936 First Party Secretary in Transcaucasiaand Georgia. In 1934 he became amember of the CC (Central Committee) andin 1938 People’s Commissar of the NKVD.He is considered responsible for the shootingof over 15,000 Polish officers held prisoner inApril-May 1940 in the forest of Katyn and twoother places. In 1945 he became marshal ofthe Soviet Union and in 1946 deputy primeminister and a member of the Politburo. AfterStalin’s death, he was shot as a traitor onDec. 23, 1953.czars, former kulaks, former lessors orowners of private enterprises, former officersof the White Army, clergymen,monks and nuns, former members of thepolitical parties” etc. 69Including their family members,about 7 million human beings wereaffected by this, losing not only theright to vote but also their right to anapartment, to medications, to foodrations and, after passage of a new“internal passport” law, the right tomove to another place.After the law of August 7, 1932was issued, “for each theft or wasteof socialist property”—such as thegathering of ears of corn from alreadyharvested fields—merely betweenAugust 1932 and December1933, more than 125,000 humanswere convicted, and of them 5,400were condemned to death. 70And from Solzhenitsyn’s TheJews in the Soviet Union:The number of farmers who floodedinto Soviet cities fleeing from collectivizationand “de-kulakization” between1928 and 1932 has been estimatedat some 12 million. 71Lazar Kaganovich, Genrikh Yagoda and VyacheslavMolotov pushed their requisition commandos out into thecountryside. Soon thereafter, in 1932-33, 5 or 6 millionhumans died like animals of hunger in Russia and Ukraine,right on the edge of Europe. “But the free press of the freeworld maintained its perfect silence! 72A not inconsiderable number of Jewish communistshad made themselves lords of life and death over the countryside.It should surprise no one that this has stuck in thememory of those millions affected throughout the Ukraine,the Volga and Urals areas of Russia, on the Crimean Peninsulaand elsewhere in Russia. Solzhenitsyn’s The Jews inthe Soviet Union explains:Yet another colleague of many years’ duration of N.Y.Yeshov [appointed people’s commissar of the interior inSeptember 1936] was Isaac Shapiro. He functioned afterT 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 21