SEPTEMBER 2005
Zaporozhtsi writes a letter to the turkish sultan, by I. Repin, circa 1880-1891. Kharkiv Art Museum. Apparently, this is a letter in reply to the Sultan's demand to the Cossacks of Ukraine to voluntarily
accept Turkish rule. NO SUCH LETTER WAS WRITTEN TO LENIN HOWEVER.......
In 1932, the Soviets increased the grain procurement quota for Ukraine by 44%. They were aware that this extraordinarly high quota would result in a grain shortage, therefore resulting in the inability of the Ukrainian peasant to feed themselves. Soviet law was quite clear in that no grain could be given to feed the peasants until the quota was met. Communist party officials with the aid of military trrops and NKVD secret police units were used to move against peasants who may be hiding grain from the Soviet government. Even worse, an internal passport system was implemented to restrict movements of Ukrainian peasants so that they could not travel in search of food. Ukrainian grain was collected and stored in grain elevators that were guarded by military units & NKVD secret police units while Ukrainians were starving in the immediate area. The actions of this Moscow
programme was a deliberate act of genocide against the Ukrainian peasant.
Peasants in Ukraine in 1929 listening to collectivization propaganda. Collectivization was presented as a way to increase agricultural yield, but its implementation caused a terrible famine.
The History of Anti-Semitism in Europe between and after
the Two World Wars
| "Comrades, the Ukrainian countryside has endured unparalleled sufferings under the yoke of the landowners. The latter have more than once been able to overthrow the Soviets, the workers' and peasants' power; more than once they have been helped by the kulaks, the rich peasants, who either went over openly to their side or hampered the poor and working peasants' efforts to introduce the new order, the new way of life, the new organisation in the villages. Each such attempt to restore the rule of the landowners has ended in a new victory for the workers and peasants. Today, all over the Ukraine, the poor villagers have begun to set up their committees so as to smash the resistance of the handful of the rich, and finally to establish the rule of the working people. " Lenin.30th May 1920 |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prizewinner and author of The Gulag Archipelago, in a speech in Washington in 1975 had this to say of the Soviet system which was so admired for so long by many western intellectuals:
(Alexander
Solzhenitsyn Speaks to the West
(1978) p 16)
Who were these people, and why was and is their fate unknown to the ordinary man in the street in western countries?
Franklin Roosevelt’s ally and associate Joseph Stalin was the supreme dictator of Russia for almost a quarter of a century, from 1929 until his death in 1953. Born as Iosif Djugashvili, he adopted the very indicative name 'Stalin', 'man of steel'. He lived up to this name in every respect. Soviet Russia under Stalin was a despotic police state that relied on espionage and terror, with a profound gulf in manner of living between the rulers and the ruled.
Stalin's first Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) sought to bring about the 'collectivization of agriculture' in accordance with the 'abolition of property in land' put forward in Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto. But back in 1861 Czar Alexander II had liberated 23 million serfs, four years before slavery was abolished in the United States. In the period before the Revolution, millions of these peasants had been enabled to get title to their own individual plots, boosting Russian agricultural productivity. These independent peasant farmers became known as kulaks. When Communism was imposed on Russia, the kulaks as private property owners now stood in the way of the idea of Communism. In 1929 Stalin called for 'the liquidation of the kulaks', and their small family farms, animals, implements and crops were declared to belong to the state. "(The Jews) Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev had always argued that the peasant would never surrender enough food voluntarily, and must be coerced and, if need be, crushed" (*Paul Johnson A History of the Modern World (1983) p 268). The Red Army and the GPU secret police were used to implement the policy. All peasants who resisted were treated with violence. A very large number were killed or sent in cattle or freight trains to exile in remote areas in the frozen north or the desert steppes. Rather than give up their animals to the collective farms, many peasants killed and ate them. As a result, the number of farm animals in the Soviet Union was catastrophically reduced:
| 1928 | 1933 | |
| Cattle | 30,7 million | 19,6 million |
| Sheep and goats | 146,7 million | 50,2 million |
| Hogs | 26 million | 12,1 million |
| Horses | 33,5 million | 16,6 million |
(*Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p 398).
The peasants stopped farming on ground that suddenly, officially, no longer belonged to them. As a result, food production decreased drastically. After a while, the cities started running out of food. Orders were given for grain to be confiscated from the peasants, whether they had sufficient for themselves and their families or not. Those caught trying to reserve food for their families were ‘severely dealt with’. By the winter of 1932-3, virtually no food was left in the countryside. By early March 1933, 'death on a mass scale really began' (Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow (1986) p243). The main farming areas of Russia, in the regions of the Ukraine and North Caucasus, were utterly devastated. Millions of people were forced to eat anything that was available, mice, rats, birds, grass, nettles, bark and even cats and dogs, but even then did not survive. It was a time of great and terrible hunger, a catastrophic man-made famine.
The American journalist Eugene Lyons was sent to Russia in 1928 as chief correspondent for the United Press agency. Arriving as an enthusiastic communist, he was able to experience the Soviet experiment at first hand. He became extremely disillusioned. He described the famine in his book Assignment in Utopia (published in 1937) in the following terms:
"Hell broke loose in seventy thousand Russian villages.. A population as large as all of Switzerland's or Denmark's was stripped clean of all their belongings.. They were herded with bayonets at railroad stations, packed indiscriminately into cattle cars and freight cars and dumped weeks later in the lumber regions of the frozen North, the deserts of central Asia, wherever labor was needed, there to live or die..". The number of people that died is unknown, but the famine alone is estimated conservatively to have been responsible for 6 million deaths, almost half of them children (*Conquest, p 303-4). Other millions died from the killings and sickness as a result of the deportations (*p 304-7). At the famous Yalta conference in 1945, Winston Churchill was able to question his friend and fellow ally Stalin about the process. Stalin said 'ten million' had been 'dealt with', but that it had been 'absolutely necessary'. Churchill records that he 'sustained the strong impression of millions of men and women being blotted out or displaced forever' (*Churchill, The Second World War, vol. IV p448). However Churchill had no further comment to make on the matter. Controlling the agenda is always so important!
Lyons, himself Jewish, credits the Jewish commissar Lazar Kaganovich with the major portion of responsibility for this major crime against humanity:
"Lazar
Kaganovich… it was his mind that invented the
Political Departments to lead collectivized agriculture,
his iron hand that applied Bolshevik mercilessness."
(*Lyons, p 578). The Encyclopaedia Britannica says
tersely, "(Kaganovich) was one of the small
group of Stalin's top advisors pushing for very high
rates of collectivization after 1929.. Within the
Politburo, Kaganovich and Molotov led the
opposition to Kirov's proposed concessions to the
peasantry and to his attempts to relax the harshness of
Stalin's control.. (Kaganovich) opposed
Krushchev's de-Stalinization..". Kaganovich died at
the ripe old age of 98 in 1991 (Encl. Brit.), ethnically
safe from pursuit by the Israeli secret service, the
Simon Wiesenthal organization, the New York
media-intelligentsia or other hunters of real or imagined
war criminals or human rights violators.
STALIN'S DEATH CAMPS
The roots of Marxist-Leninism are perhaps not to be
found in Marx at all, but in a deviant version of
Darwinism, applied to social questions with the same
catastrophic results that occur when such ideas are
applied to racial issues.Stephane Courtois
The suffering caused by the great man-made famine was covered by some reports in newspapers in Britain, Europe and the United States. Books dating from before World War Two can still be found in second-hand bookshops which describe the ferocity… Arthur Koestler, Soviet Myth and Reality in The Yogi and the Commissar (1945) Muggeridge, Lyons, Chamberlin… Yet this episode has been completely, entirely, totally ignored by our guardians of history, morality and political correctness…
NO MEMORIAL EXISTS IN WASHINGTON DC
(obviously) to record the indescribable scale of human suffering which resulted, undoubtedly because such a high burden of responsibility for it lies with the Jew Kaganovitch, and because the victims were not Jewish. No chance exists for such a monument, according to a private consensus, owing to certain political realities.
| Stuart
Kahan, The Wolf of the Kremlin Stuart Kahan is a Zionist (p. 5, p. 17, p. 307); on moving to America, the family changed its name from Kaganovich to Kahan (p. 190), a variant of Cohen (priest). Lazar Kaganovich .....he had returned to the heart of his birthplace, the Ukraine. The only other person he took with him was Khrushchev to handle most of the petty chores, like visiting the smaller villages ... A Jew himself Lazar thought that perhaps he could cultivate the Jews. They generally rallied behind the Bolsheviks. They had seen enough of the pogroms that had invaded their households under the czar, and anything seemed better. Moreover, in the Ukraine, Jewish youth represented more than half of the students then attending universities. But as Lazar consolidated his position, he found that the Jewish revolutionaries, to whom Lenin owed so much, had to be beaten down. There was no choice. They would not yield to the party line. They were too intent with keeping their own identity. "Goddamn them," he screamed at Khrushchev, his huge fist slamming against the door. "What do they think I will do? Bend over backward and kiss their ass? They won't learn Ukrainian, they won't use it, they insist on staying apart from what we are doing. They speak only Yiddish. They resist. Those pizdasosy - 'bastards' - resist. We try to do something better for them and they want the czar back. They fight us. What do they want, anyway, their own country? I wish there were such a place. I would send them there - all of them. Pizdasosy!" * * * * * * * * * * * In August 1927, he (Stalin) expelled Trotsky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee, and when in October Trotsky publicly revealed the existence of Lenin's testament, with its criticism of Stalin, both he and Zinoviev were expelled from the party along with some seventy-five of their constituents. (Both Kamenev and Zinoviev were executed in 1936, and Bukharin and Rykov in 1938.) {the Trotskyists, who make much of Lenin's testament, hide the Jewish nature of the leadership before Stalin, and deny the Bolshevik Holocaust. Their sympathy is for the Jewish conspirators Stalin executed, but not for the non-Jewish victims of those very same people} {p. 139} The leaders of the Left Opposition were all expelled from the Central Committee and even from the Communist party. Many were arrested. Stalin had issued the edict: "It is no accident that the opposition is led by Jews. This is a struggle between Russian socialism and aliens." * * * * * * * * * * * * Collectivization of agriculture: But the kulaks ... retaliated by killing their cattle, burning their crops, and destroying their homes; in effect, doing anything rather than allow their property to be appropriated by the state. It was here that Lazar Kaganovich began to feel increasingly stronger. Stalin would send him all over the country as a troubleshooter ... he was now invested with full power. Accordingly, he used force whenever he could, especially against the Cossacks, who were among these wealthy land .... {p. 164} owners and whom he had not forgotten from his days in Kabany. lt gave him immense pleasure to have sixteen major Cossack villages removed to Siberia. If there was a revenge motive, Lazar had it. He signed orders with reckless abandon. There was almost a perverse joy in being able to dictate to the Cossacks. He recalled too vividly what he and his family had experienced at the hands of these people His mind flashed back to horses, boots, swords, blood, arrogance, death. Now they would all pay - men, women, children. It didn't matter who. They became one and the same. That was the key to Lazar's being. He would never forgive and he would never forget. ... {p. 166} The Ukraine, in particular, was suffering from the worst famine in its history, a result of a combination crop failure and the collectivization program itself. In addition, high taxes had to be paid just after the harvest. More than 2 million Ukranians died of starvation. The situation was critical, and Stalin immediately recognized the need for a stronger individual. ... Molotov was replaced by Lazar. 1948 During Golda Meir's visit from Israel to Moscow Stalin stated to the Politburo: "The Jews? The Jews have still not been able to adapt themselves or become acclimatized like other minorities. Only very few can - or want to." "They constitute an ever-present danger. Every Muscovite Jew has foreign connections. We are threatened by the danger of Zionism." The level of sadism ran deep this time and touched every aspect of society, even those who had previously received the state's blessing. S. M. Mikhoels was a truly gifted actor who had been invited to give private performances of Shakespearean roles for Stalin. He had been a favorite, and each time he performed Stalin thanked him publicly and praised his acting. But in 1949 Mikhoels was shot to death in Minsk during a performance of King Lear. The order had been given by Lazar Kaganovich with Stalin's approval. After all, Mikhoels had been labeled as a spy for Anglo-American intelligence. ........August 12, 1952, twenty-four of the leading {p. 253} cultural figures in the Soviet Union were rounded up by the MGB and shot to death in the basement of Lubyanka prison. That same night, 217 Yiddish writers and poets, 108 actors, 87 painters and sculptors, and 19 musicians disappeared as well. Most were sent to the camps of the Gulag in Siberia as slave laborers. It was akin to death; many would not return. {yet Stuart Kahan does not show the same detailed concern for the Gulag's non-Jewish victims} * * * * * * * * * * * Trotsky: Admitting in 1937 the need for a palliative solution to the Jewish problem but realizing, of course, that Zionism was basically a territorial movement. Trotsky took issue with it, not on the grounds of substance, but rather practical viability. He said so explicitly: We must bear in mind that the Jewish people will exist a long time. The nation cannot normally exist without common territory. Zionism springs from this very idea. But the facts of every passing day demon- {p. 205} strate to us that Zionism is incapable of resolving the Jewish question. The conflict between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine acquires a more and more tragic and more and more menacing character. I do not at all believe that the Jewish question can be resolved within the framework of rotting capitalism and under the control of British imperialism. In his interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Trotsky recalled that he had been inclined toward the idea of assimilation of Jews, but had changed his attitude because of "historical developments." He then brought up a new concept, which had never before preoccupied the minds of Marxist doctrinaires: emigration. Orthodox socialism, which claims to be anchored in the underlying fraternity of the human race, does not envisage the need for transplanting peoples in order to solve social problems. Trotsky, however, admits to the peculiarity of the Jewish problem in this respect too: Socialism will open the possibility of great migrations on the basis of the most developed technique and culture. It goes without saying that what is here involved is not compulsory displacements, that is, the creation of new ghettos for certain nationalities, but displacements freely consented to, or rather demanded, by certain nationalities or parts of nationalities. The dispersed Jews who would want to be reassembled in the same community will find a sufficiently extensive and rich spot under the sun. The same possibility will be opened for the Arabs, as for all other scattered nations. National topography will become a part of the planned economy. This is the great historic perspective as I see it. To work for international Socialism means to work also for the solution of the Jewish question.* {Why does Trotsky mention the Arabs, if not implying that Palestine would be given to the Jews? H. G. Wells also envisaged mass migration in his world state.} * * * * * * * * * From a book by Juri Lina, Under the Sign of Scorpion : Stalin was brutal, but his brutality was, in part, directed against the non-theistic Jewish Bolsheviks ... who in time, came to reassess Trotsky and coalesce around him as the rival leader, the exiled pretender to the throne. Thus Isaac Deutscher, in his book The Prophet Outcast, records Trotsky's aspiration - even in 1939 - to return to the USSR in the wake of Stalin's overthrow (Victory in Defeat: pp. 510ff). |
This six million is the ‘incorrect’ six million, because their inconvenient story is not and has not been useful to today’s elite. The tribal affiliations of the chief perpetrator (Jew) and the victims (non-Jews) are the wrong ones, not fitting into the ‘correct’ pattern.
According to Solzhenitsyn in the eighty years that preceded the Revolution in Russia, - years of revolutionary activity, uprisings and the assassination of a Czar, an average of ten persons a year were executed. After the Revolution, in 1918 and 1919, according to the figures of the Cheka, the secret police itself - more than a thousand persons were executed per month without trial. In 1937-8, at the height of Stalin's terror, more than 40 000 persons were executed per month. (*Solzhenitsyn p17).
Millions of persons were executed or sent to labour camps. In his magnum opus The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn credits Naftaly Frenkel, a ‘Turkish-born Jew’, with being works chief / chief overseer of the one-hundred-and-forty-mile-long Belomor (Baltic-White Sea) canal, built entirely with slave labour (paperback edition, vol 2 p 72). Solzhenitsyn quotes the official Soviet history of the project which describes Frenkel as having ‘..the eyes of an interrogator and prosecutor.. A man with enormous love of power and pride, for whom the main thing is unlimited power. If it is necessary for him to be feared, then let him be feared. He spoke harshly to the engineers, attempting to humiliate them.’ (ibid p 75). Other Jews were also involved in influential positions. Yakov Rappoport was deputy chief of construction (p 78) and Matvei Berman was the Chief of Gulag (p 79). Frenkel, Berman and Rappoport are amongst six men described by Solzhenitsyn as ‘hired murderers’, ‘each of whom accounted for thirty thousand lives’ (p 91). Is Solzhenitsyn alone in his accusations? Why are these names generally unknown to ordinary citizens in the West?
"The major role Jewish leaders played in the November (Russian) revolution was probably more important than any other factor in confirming (Hitler's) anti-Semitic beliefs." (J&S Pool, Who Financed Hitler, p.164).
"There has been a tendency to circumvent or simply ignore the significant role of Jewish intellectuals in the German Communist Party, and thereby seriously neglect one of the genuine and objective reasons for increased anti-Semitism during and after World War 1.. The prominence of Jews in the revolution and early Weimar Republic is indisputable, and this was a very serious contributing cause for increased anti-Semitism in post-war years.. It is clear then that the stereotype of Jews as socialists and communists.. led many Germans to distrust the Jewish minority as a whole and to brand Jews as enemies of the German nation." (Sarah Gordon Hitler, Germans and the ‘Jewish Question’ Princeton University Press (1984) p 23).
"The second paroxysm of strong anti-Semitism came after the critical role of Jews in International Communism and the Russian Revolution and during the economic crises of the 1920s and 30s… Anti-Semitism intensified throughout Europe and North America following the perceived and actual centrality of Jews in the Russian Revolution.. Such feelings were not restricted to Germany, or to vulgar extremists like the Nazis. All over Northern Europe and North America, anti-Semitism became the norm in 'nice society', and 'nice society' included the universities." (Bernal, Black Athena vol. 1 pp. 367, 387).
"To many outside observers, the
Russian revolution looked like a Jewish conspiracy,
especially when it was followed by Jewish-led
revolutionary outbreaks in much of central Europe. The
leadership of the Bolshevik Party had a preponderance of
Jews and included Litvinov (real name Wallach), Liadov
(Mandelshtam), Shklovsky, Saltz, Gusev (Drabkin),
Zemliachka (Salkind), Helena Rozmirovich, Serafima
Gopner, Yaroslavsky (Gubelman), Yaklovlev (Epstein),
Riaznov (Goldendach), Uritsky and Larin. Of the seven
members of the Politburo, the inner cabinet of the
country, four, Trotsky (Bronstein), Zinoviev
(Radomsky), Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Sverdlov,
were Jews."
Lev Borisovich Kamenev (Russian: ??? ????????? ??????? - his original family name was Rosenfeld, ??????????) (July 6 (old calendar) / July 18 (new calendar) 1883 - August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician, an early member of the powerful Politburo.
He was born to a Jewish family in Moscow, Russia.
When Lenin died in 1924, Zinoviev
- the first chairman of the Communist International -
formed a triumvirate with Kamenev and Stalin to
govern Russia. This 'Troika' as it was known was formed
to keep Trotsky from the succession. Stalin was the only
one of the three members of the Troika who was not
Jewish. "Though Zinoviev and Kamenev
feared Trotsky as too militant and extreme, they shared
his belief in permanent revolution, which Stalin did not.
Russia had been
in almost continuous turmoil for twenty years and had
suffered revolutions and counter-revolutions, war,
invasions and a pitiless and drawn-out civil war. There
were limits to which the endurance of a people could be
stretched. The Russians wanted to bury their dead and
resume what they could of normal life. Stalin understood
this. Trotsky, Zinoviev
and Kamenev (the three Jews) did not."
"Jews had a prominent role in
Communist parties elsewhere.." (Chaim Bermant, The
Jews (1977)).
Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev , alternative
transliteration Grigorii Ovseyevish Zinoviev, real name
Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky , also known as Hirsch
Apfelbaum, primary revolutionary pseudonym Grigory,
privately Grisha), (September 23 [September
11, Old Style], 1883 - August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik
revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician.
| Professor Andrea
Graziosi :My impression from what
we know now is that the Bolsheviks did not plan
the Famine. They were not happy when they saw it
coming. They hoped to win easily. The Famine was
clearly a consequence of their policies and,
therefore, it was a man-made Famine. The fact is
that when the Famine came, at first the
Bolsheviks panicked, then they decided to use it
against the people. They decided this tragedy
could be put to "good use" to advance
their political goals of subduing the peasants.
...You may want to call it genocide. Of course,
it was a great tragedy in Ukraine. Millions of
people died. Famine was probably the most
catastrophic human tragedy that happened in
Europe before World War II. The real problem, I believe, is that the people who use the term "genocide" are right in the sense that this is an unrecognized tragedy. Up to the appearance of Robert Conquest's book "The Harvest of Sorrow" (1986) even in scholarly circles this tragedy was not recognized. Over the past ten-fifteen years the situation has improved among scholars, nobody doubts that there was such a major tragedy, that this was provoked by Stalin's policies. There are a few who still deny it, but the majority of scholars recognize the Famine.As the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of the archives, our knowledge of that period has greatly advanced. It takes time for what is known by the scholars to be accepted by the wider public. It takes time, books, journals, circulation of ideas, etc. Once the scholars agree on the general interpretation of the Famine, this will unavoidably become part of the wider public awareness. It will be taught at colleges and universities. Gradually this new approach to and interpretation of the Famine is spreading and will continue to do so. It will eventually become part of the standard view of Soviet history. This might take another 15 years though. Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, December 28, 2003, No. 52, Vol. LXXI
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