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Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Mikhail Kalinin (photo from the 8thCongress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, March 1919). Thesecond party program, adopted at its 8th Congress, was aimed at “themaximum centralization of production, simultaneously striving to establisha unified economic plan.” In their commentary on this program, Bukharinand Preobrazhensky explained what lay behind this phrase. They statedthat under communism, “society will be transformed into a huge workingorganization for cooperative production. There will then be neither disintegrationof production nor anarchy of production. . . . No longer will oneenterprise compete with another; the factories, workshops, mines andother productive institutions will all be subdivisions, as it were, of one vastpeople’s workshop, which will embrace the entire national economy ofproduction. . . . This is how the organization of communist production willbe effected.” In other words, Big Brother would control everything.In Hungary Jews represented up to 95% of the leaders inthe Bolshevik movement. . . . The legal status of the Jewswas excellent in Hungary. For a long time there had been nolegal restrictions. On the contrary, the Jews enjoyed a positionthat could tempt anti-Semites to speak of Jewish supremacyin the cultural and economic life of Hungary. 166One should add that these were the conditions in theAustro-Hungarian monarchy of the time, and similar conditionsalso prevailed to a large extent in Imperial Germany.Solzhenitsyn recognized the international situation correctlyin his remarks regarding the Zionists of the eastcoast of the U.S., who, independent of Russian events,used their power in 1919 at the Versailles “peace treaty”—which they ignored —to set forth to bring all Western traditionscrashing down. His comments:That which united all those insurgent—and also manyJews on the other side of the ocean—was a sudden flamingup of unchecked revolutionary internationalist fervor, astormy urge for revolution that they wanted to carry outas a “world revolution” or even “permanent revolution.”The rapid advancement of the Jews in the Bolshevikadministration naturally did not remain unnoticed amongJews in Europe and in the U.S. and called forth, shamefully,nothing but joyful approval. 167Solzhenitsyn wrote, referring to Jewish sources, onceagain on the immigrants from the U.S: “Especially themany Jews . . . these people displayed a brutality and rigorousnessin Russia with their repressive measures againstthe middle class [that provoked discussion even in the U.S.Senate—Ed.]:They only speak the Russian language badly. The peopleover whom they had seized power was strange to them, andthey behaved like conquerors in a defeated country. Whereasin czarist Russia, Jews were not given any important positions,and schools and the civil service were closed to them,there were Jews everywhere in the Soviet republics in everycommittee and commissariat. Often they changed their Jewishnames into Russian ones. But this masquerade could notdeceive anybody. Vol. II, Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 111]T 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 35