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party machinery, and in the diplomatic corps as among thearmy generals and the university professors there were stillsome Jews. . . . Thus we enter the year 1939.” [Vol. II, TheJews in the Soviet Union, p. 332]Solzhenitsyn found the summarizing confession of TheJewish Encyclopedia impressive: “It was precisely at theend of the 1930s that the Jews reached the high point oftheir importance in the different areas of life in Soviet societywithin the whole era that Soviet power existed.” [Vol.II, The Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 338]But it was during this “high point” that, as historicalscience proves, there were 40 million victims of politicalterror, among whom, it should not be overlooked, therewere at least some thousands, if not more, of hapless Jewishvictims.Here Solzhenitsyn has correctly recognized that doubtsare appropriate about the representations of the Jewish encyclopediasand all the authors who write the history oftheir own brethren in connection with the Stalin era. Afterall, they stand before the delicate task of explaining to theworld why their brethren served the Bolshevik system andfrom the outset could support those responsible for the persecutions.It could not have been for humanitarianism, forthe Red Terror of Lenin and Stalin was its exact opposite.The very concealment and playing down of these singularcrimes, which were world-historical in their natureand scope, could not forever remain hidden as to the methods,the order of magnitude and the perpetrators. And assignmentsof blame to others are unconvincing. And sothey become entangled in constant contradictions and lies,on the one hand praising their “clever brethren,” so numerousin high state positions, in the economy, in academicoccupations, receiving titles and medals, and on the otherhand attempt to serve their mandatory role as poor victimswho need the compassion of the world.After all, postwar they had to display without reservationtheir enthusiasm for the “great, peace-loving SovietUnion” in its “liberation struggle for civilization” and withits “Jewish ‘Heroes of the Soviet Union.” This was necessaryto maintain their dogmatic and singular defamationof National Socialist Germany and drive from the consciousnessof mankind the incredible performance of theThird Reich during the peace years in building a solid,happy country.For all that, one fact remains: The Germans did not firstbring up this small people in their evaluation of Bolshevism!It was the Russians themselves and the other peoplesof the world!✦The Ukrainian independence movement actually predated theStalin era. Ukraine, which is about the size of France, had beenunder the domination of the czars of Russia for 200 years. Withthe collapse of Russian rule in March 1917, it seemed the longawaitedopportunity for independence had finally arrived. Ukrainiansdeclared their country to be an independent republic andre-established the ancient capital city of Kiev as their seat of government.However, by the end of 1917, Vladimir Lenin sought toreclaim all the areas formerly controlled by the czars, especiallyUkraine. As a result, four years of chaos and conflict followed inwhich Ukrainian nationalist troops fought against Lenin’s RedArmy, and also against Russia’s White Army (troops still loyal tothe czar) as well as other invading forces, including the Germansand Poles. By 1921, the battles ended with a Soviet victory. Butthe resistance continued. The people refused to become cogsin the Soviet farm machine and remained stubbornly determinedto return to their pre-Soviet farming lifestyle. Some refused towork at all, leaving the wheat and oats to rot in unharvestedfields. Once again, they were placing themselves in conflict withStalin. Stalin responded to their unyielding defiance by dictatinga policy that would deliberately cause mass starvation and resultin the deaths of millions. An estimated 7-10 million persons perishedin the farming area of Ukraine, known as the breadbasketof Europe, with the people deprived of the food they had grownwith their own hands. Shown are victims of the terror famine.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 45
This topic undoubtedly was too much for Solzhenitsyn.He did not investigate it as a researcher,but instead copied everything, unverified, fromJewish sources, in certain cases from Pravda andIzvestia, from three Russian books as well as from the proceedingsof the Nuremberg military tribunal held by thevictors in 1945-46. For this whole chapter with its 179footnotes—he did not consult one single neutral or Germanhistorical source.This is extraordinarily shameful for this man whom weotherwise must highly respect. Here he remains a captainof the Red Army that marched in 1945 into East Prussia.Thus he serves up all our “old acquaintances,” the talesfrom Allied reeducation literature, as if they were “provenhistorical facts.” The fact that they have long been scientificallydisproved, or that any furtherexamination and doubting of certainhappenings is punishment in the FederalRepublic of Germany by up tofive years in prison, is something thatSolzhenitsyn does not mention withone word.Therefore, one could ignore thischapter with its 45 pages and 179source references without comment asunsubstantiated—were there not detailsplaced to the fore over and overagain of which the reader cannot be expected to have specificknowledge and concerning which he gets no referencepoints for testing these details. Besides this, thenormal reader does not expect the sudden break in stylebetween the previous excellent source investigations andthe subsequent unchecked copying from party publicationsand superficial propaganda.“The systematically accomplished plan for the destructionof millions of Jewish lives” [Vol. II, The Jews in theSoviet Union, p. 401] is a “plan” neither submitted for ourinspection by Solzhenitsyn, nor described, nor examinedon the basis of concrete facts, but simply claimed by himunder the motto “We assume from the fact that. . . .” [Vol.II, The Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 393] The author alsodoes not refer to the fact that there has not been one internationalinvestigation of this momentous topic, neitherduring the war nor afterward.The beginning of the Russia campaign, we are heretold, rang in a new phase for German National Socialism,“the total physical destruction of the Jews.” [Vol. II, TheAt War With Germany“It was far better to know thatthe Jews were in the Russianhinterland and leave Hitlernothing, rather than to handthem over to him as workslaves as well as their livestock,food supplies and materials.”Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 358] Here already Solzhenitsynhas demonstrably shot himself in the foot.CASE 1:On pages 404-536 he concerns himself with all themany Jewish survivors in Russia and occasionally also inthe rest of Eastern Europe. We read that those Jews willingto emigrate to Palestine were offered the former Volga Republic[Vol. II, The Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 407], welearn that “Jewish requests to have the Crimea” are beingstudied [p. 408], and that in 1946/47 “5,000-6,000 Jewishsettlers from the Ukraine were sent to Birobijan,” [p. 408]But let us stay first in the year 1941. Solzhenitsyn confirmswith various proofs, even from “a number of Jewishsources,” that the Soviet leadership after the beginning ofthe war there on June 22, 1941 gaveorders for the preferential evacuationof the Jews from the western borderdistricts issue and to move, with“many thousands of train cars andmany thousands of carts . . . 1 to 1.1million” Jews into safer hinterlandproduction areas. [Vol. II, The Jews inthe Soviet Union, pp. 359-361] Therefugee ratio of 80% was surely notreached everywhere, but the effortsfor Jewish evacuation probably approximatedthis figure.Stuart Kahan confirms the preferential evacuation ofJews in his biography of Lazar Kaganovich:At the urging of Lazar Kaganovich, Stalin ordered theevacuation of all persons living in the border areas, particularlyJews, who made up most of the area. Stalin didnot love the Jews, but the order they received was to burntheir houses down, kill their livestock and retreat to the interiorof Russia. . . . It was far better to know that the Jewswere in the Russian hinterland and leave Hitler nothing,rather than to hand them over to him as work slaves as wellas their livestock, food supplies and other materials. [TheWolf of the Kremlin, p. 205]Solzhenitsyn notes that there are Jewish writers—suchas Schwartz and later researchers—who deny both the existenceof such an instruction and the evacuation of theJews as such by the Soviet government with the argumentthat this never appeared “in the press.” The latter is true46 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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