WALENDYsolje-Russia-and-the-Jews

The Black RavensThese “black ravens,” as the Moscovites calledthem, transported prisoners from the Cheka’sLubyanka headquarters into the infamous jails ofLefortovo or Butyrka, both also in Moscow. Theblack ravens looked similar to those "poison gaswagons" camouflaged as delivery vans for bakeryshops, by whose exhaust gases uncounted kulakswere killed at the beginning of the 1930s in theUSSR while being driven from the prisons. The formerRed Army general Peter Grigorenko, who himselfwas later arrested, described them in hismemoirs (Erinnerungen, Munich 1981, p. 274-276.See Historische Tatsachen No. 48, pp. 35-36.On the other hand, in 1953 nearly all Jewish generalsand about 300 colonels and lieutenant colonels were sentinto retirement. [Vol. II, Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 418]Two facts seem important from the time after Stalin’sdeath:1) “After Stalin’s death many Jews who had lost theirjobs would return: during the thaw phase many of the oldZionists were . . . released from the [gulag] camps.” [Vol.II, The Jews in the Soviet Union, p. 424] Thus we readonce again of many—whole groups.2) A country-wide census in 1959 in the USSR indicatedthat 2,268,000 Jews lived there.However there are also voices warning not to trust thisnumber: “It is well known that there are more Jews in theUSSR than the censuses indicated.” For the count, a Jewwould indicate his desired nationality, not the nationalitylisted in his passport. [Vol. II, The Jews in the SovietUnion, p. 433]How could this high Soviet Jewish number be possibleif the Eastern European and Russian Jews had been totallydestroyed 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-occupiedareas.” [Vol. II, The Jews in the SovietUnion, p. 365] This is all the more amazing since the mainSoviet mass-murder advocate Ilya Ehrenburg was “proudto be a Jew.” [Ernste de Todes: Stalin’s Holocaust in derUkraine, p. 133], and in all the psychopathic excesses ofhis 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 pogromsjust as gladly as did the czarist regime. Hitler’s party is aparty . . . of medieval reaction and of pogroms like theBlack Hundreds. [From roughly 1900 to 1917, the BlackHundreds, and their street activists, the Yellow Shirts,verbally and physically attacked leftist revolutionariesand Jews.—Ed.]This was the only time before May 8, 1945, the date ofthe German surrender, when the Generalissimo publiclyaddressed this topic. [Vol. II, The Jews in the Soviet Union,p. 365]B) On January 7, 1942 Izvestia cited a report from ForeignCommissar Vyacheslav Molotov according to whichGerman troops supposedly shot Jews in numerous placessuch as in Kiev, Lvov (“Lemberg” in German), Odessa andKamenets Podolsk. Molotov gave numbers but no detailsas to place with the exception of Kiev.There, it was claimed, “in a terrible slaughter, womenand children of all age groups were driven together. Theyhad to strip naked and were beaten before they all wereshot with machine pistols.” [Vol. II, The Jews in the SovietUnion, p. 365]None of these data were verifiable, contained exact localities,dates or names of the persons responsible or ofthe informants. The case of Kiev, the Ukrainian capital,(where the Moscow rulers had not yet begun pointing thefinger at the ravine of Babi Yar) later on was fleshed outwith at first 33,771 shot, allegedly under the guidance ofSS Colonel Paul Blobel and his Einsatzkommando. By theend of the war this figure had expanded to over 100,000.But all of this turned out to be a crude wartime lie. Nomass remains of corpses could be found. The Soviets didnot even look for them. Instead, immediately after the RedT 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 49