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On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:37:19 -0400, "Chairman MaObama" <...@acorn.com
Stalin's Jews
We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were
Jewish
Published: 12.21.06, 23:35 / Israel Opinion
Here's a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago, between
the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution
and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The
All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and
Sabotage, also known as Cheka.
Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state
security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few
years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to
KGB.
We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for
in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million,
including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges,
expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags.
Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic
minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals,
artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were defined
completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself.
In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World, "Historian Niall
Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind devoured its
children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet revolution.
In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University's Dr. Igal Halfin
writes that Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed
internally.
Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their deeds
without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined "terror officials," cruel
interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards, judges, perverts, and many
bleeding hearts who were members of the progressive Western Left and were
deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and even provided it with a kosher
certificate.
All these things are well-known to some extent or another, even though the
former Soviet Union's archives have not yet been fully opened
to the public. But who knows about this? Within Russia itself, very few
people have been brought to justice for their crimes in the NKVD's and KGB's
service. The Russian public discourse today completely ignores the question
of "How could it have happened to us?" As opposed to Eastern European
nations, the Russians did not settle the score with their Stalinist past.
And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever
hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th
Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the
NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is
responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish
deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer
viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as
chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the "bloodthirsty dwarf."
Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with an active Jewish wife. In his
Book "Stalin: Court of the Red Star", Jewish historian Sebag Montefiore
writes that during the darkest period of terror, when the Communist killing
machine worked in full force, Stalin was surrounded by beautiful, young
Jewish women.
Stalin's close associates and loyalists included member of the Central
Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him as
the "first Stalinist" and adds that those starving to death in Ukraine, an
unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind aside from the Nazi
horrors and Mao's terror in China, did not move Kaganovich.
Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have
blood on their hands for eternity. We'll mention just one more: Leonid
Reichman, head of the NKVD's special department and the organization's chief
interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.
In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding
the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish
origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges.
In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr.
Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a "carnival of mass murder,"
"fantasy of purges", and "essianism of evil." Turns out that Jews too, when
they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers,
among the greatest known by modern history.
The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses (In the Soviet
Union and abroad) and who at times led them, did not do this, obviously, as
Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and "Soviet people." Therefore,
we find it easy to ignore their origin and "play dumb": What do we have to
do with them? But let's not forget them. My own view is different. I find it
unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people
when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he
does amazingly despicable things.
Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of "our hangmen," who
served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its establishment.
After all, others will always remind us of their origin.
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