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Even the veteran murder-inciter against the Germancivilian population (whose pro-rape slogan was, “Breakthe racial pride of the Germanic woman!”), Ilya Ehrenburg,was stripped of his power.The original galley proofs of his own Black Book, whichdealt with the suffering and destruction of the Soviet Jewsduring the war between the USSR and Germany, producedby Ehrenburg and Vassily Grossman, were pulped.” 218This fact is particularly interesting for historical researchersbecause Grossman—with his “scientific-appearing”official party propaganda works such as The Hell ofTreblinka (Moscow, 1946), his pieces on Majdanek, BabiYar, Auschwitz and similar “works”—had until then beenlargely touted as a “respectable researcher.”From this pulping in the year 1948 of his effusions, onemay conclude that the Soviet authorities themselves neverbelieved a word of it.In December 1952 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, RudolfSlansky, the first secretary of the Communist Party ofCzechoslovakia, the CPCS, along with 10 collaboratorsfrom that city and from the Communist Party, were executed;eight of the 11 were Jews.Solzhenitsyn says:The trial had an openly anti-Jewish character, includingthe naming in court of Jews such as the [founder of Israel],David Ben Gurion and [FDR’s Treasury Secretary 1933-45] Henry Morgenthau, as “world leaders,” with the Americanleaders Truman and Acheson decried as being undertheir control. . . .Summing up the sentiment de rigueur, Czech communistleader Klement Gottwald said: “During the investigationphase of the trial a new channel was uncovered,through which betrayal and espionage seeped into theCommunist Party. This channel is Zionism.” 219To mask Stalin’s main anti-Jewish thrust, several Russian-nationalistopposition figures also came under persecutorypressure.Thus, in the “Leningrad trials” of the early 1950s,about 200 party workers were arrested and later shot.After that, Stalin started, with vast diversionary maneuvers,the displacement of Jews from Soviet culture. Thefamous “campaign against the cosmopolitans” focused exclusivelyon Jews.Even the “faithful old communist,” history-falsifier,member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and holder ofthe Lenin Prize Isaac Israelevich Minz, was stripped ofall his honors. 220The majority of the victims in the 1951 series of dismissalsof directors and chief engineers in the airplane,metal and armaments industries were also Jews.In the [Red] army, the Soviet leadership did not limititself to pursuing Jewish generals. Officers of lower rankinvolved in the development of weapons and militaryequipment were likewise removed.Then the purges spread throughout the defense industry,to aviation, the automobile industry (without, however,touching the atomic industry) and they went on into theprimarily administrative posts. . . . 221Shortly before his death in 1953, Stalin had reputableKremlin physicians arrested (he had already begun withhis “Doctors’Plot” move in 1951), but then, country-wideas well, he commenced putting various Jewish doctors behindbars—and under the same motto as in 1937: “Certainphysicians treat national leaders in a criminal fashion.”The investigations were accompanied by grave abuseof the accused and by the wildest reproaches, developedever more along the lines of “espionage-terroristic conspiracieswith contacts to foreign intelligence services”and plots involving “American mercenaries,” “diversionistsin white smocks,” and “bourgeois nationalists,” andthe persecutions were directed primarily against Jews. 222After the death of the Soviet dictator on March 6, 1953,every one of these procedures was stopped, and the accuseddoctors were all rehabilitated.Finally in his book, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn deploresthe lack of repentance. The ideology and quasi-religiousstate cult called the shoah (“holocaust”) cannot divert, hewrites, from:“[T]heir own responsibility for their participation in theshootings by the Cheka, the barges sunk with the doomedinto the White and Caspian seas, their own participation inthe horrors of farm collectivization, the starvation inUkraine, the active co-responsibility in all the disgracefulelements of Soviet rule, and a talented zeal in the deliberatedumbing-down of the “natives.All these activities show the exact opposite of repentance.But we must share responsibility for those events,no matter whether we see the victims as brothers or asstrangers. Repentance, mutual regret for truly everythingthat happened, would be the cleanest and most purifyingpath. 223✦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 57