This very important and historically incisive analysis, left by commenter Whites Unite on a website, was made in response to the claim that Jews played no special role in the Bolshevik Revolution and Government:
YOSEMITE,
Ethnic Jews were very overrepresented at the highest levels of the original Bolshevik leadership.
Consider the following list of the most important leaders, vital to the success of the Bolshevik takeover. This list includes Lenin himself and Bolshevik leaders mentioned by name in Lenin’s “Testament”:
Lenin - Leader of Bolsheviks
Trotsky - Creator of Red Army
Stalin - Organizer of the Soviet bureacracy
Kamenev - Party boss in Moscow
Zinoviev - Party Boss in Leningrad, leader of Comintern
Bukharin - Editor in chief of Bolshevik newspaper
Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev were ethnically Jewish. Stalin was Georgian, Bukharin Russian, and Lenin was of mixed Russian, Jewish, Tartar and German ethnic background. Even if you ignore Lenin’s part-Jewish ethnic background, you are still confronted with a 50% Jewish composition of the top leadership of an empire with less than 4% Jewish population.
The situation is even worse when you consider the left/right divide within the ranks of the top leadership after Lenin’s death. The Bolshevik left, led by Trotsky, wanted a foreign policy based on “exporting revolution”, which risked involving the Soviet Union in the miseries of a foreign war, and a domestic policy of collectivization/de-kulakization, certain to cause mass-misery in the countryside. (A program more antithetical to the slogan “Land, peace, bread” is difficult to imagine.) Kamenev and Zinoviev adhered to the left position. The Bolshevik right, led by Bukharin, advocated a foreign policy based on “socialism in one country” and a domestic policy based on the continuation of the NEP. In essence, the right policy was designed to give rural Russians and Ukrainians a reprieve from the miseries inflicted upon them during the civil war.
Stalin adopted a centrist position which enabled him to play the right and left factions off against each other, and thus consolidate his own power. Once this was acheived, Stalin proceeded to implement the domestic policy advocated by Trotsky and the foreign policy advocated by Bukharin. Of Lenin’s 5 most important successors, therefore, all three Jews supported the cruel left position, the Russian supported the humane right position and the non-Russian/non-Jew supported a position between these two extremes.
In case you consider inclusion in Lenin’s testament to be too restrictive a definition of “early Bolshevik leaders”, lets consider other figures who were absolutely essential to the Bolshevik seizure of power:
Alexander Helphand, aka “Parvus” - arranged German funding and right of way through German territory for Bolsheviks
Dhrzinsky - First leader of the Cheka
Tukhachevsky - Although not a Bolshevik, this collaborator’s military leadership was an important contributor to Bolshevik success in the civil war
Litvinov - His brilliant but devious diplomacy gained diplomatic recognition for the Soviet Union and staved off the threat of renewed foreign intervention.
Helphand and Litvinov were Jews, Dhrzinsky was a Pole, and Tukhachevsky a Russian.
Thus, a top ten list of the most important contributors to Bolshevik success is 50% Jewish, including the leading advocate of the atrocious collectivization/dekulackization - Trotsky. The two indisputable Russians on the list are Bukharin, the most humane of the major Bolsheviks, and Tukhachevsky, a reluctant collaborator.
For a consideration of Jewish overrepresentation in the middle and lower ranks of Bolshevik/CPSU leadership during the bloodiest years of European Communism - the Russian Civil War and collectivization - I recommend volume 2 of Solzhenitsyn’s “Two Hundred Years Together”. If you are unable to read Russian or French, unfortunately the only two languages in which this book is currently available, please see the serialized summary in “The Occidental Quarterly”.
To understand the magnitude of the horrors perpetrated 1918-1934, see Robert Conquest’s “Harvest of Sorrow” and the pertinant sections of “The Black Book of Communism”
Please note, Kevin MacDonald does NOT use the early Marxists or the Bolsheviks as examples of secular Jewish movements, because:
1. Marx and Trotsky vehemently rejected their Jewish roots.
2. Marx and Trotsky do not explicitly state that their movements advanced Jewish interests.
3. The early Marxists and the Bolsheviks were obviously not overwhelmingly Jewish in membership, and non-Jews such as Engels, Lenin, Stalin etc. had real influence, as opposed to marginalized figurehead/window dressing status.
There is a chapter in “Culture of Critique”, however, in which MacDonald features Leninist groups which DO fulfill his criteria of “Jewish Movements”: the post WW2 communist regimes in Poland and Hungary, and the CPUSA. If your prejudice against MacDonald is so great that you refuse to read the pertinant sections of “CofC”, at least read the books which he references - many written by Jews or other writers who are definitely not anti-semetic - to support his contention that in 1950 the Communist Parties of Poland, Hungary and the USA were overwhelmingly Jewish in composition, in which all the most important leadership positions were held by Jews proud of their ethnic heritage and self-consciously intent on promoting Jewish ethnic interests.
The crimes perpetrated by communists in Eastern Europe from 1918-1953 were colossal and horrendous. The Black Book of Communism estimates 20 million people were murdered by communists in the Soviet Union 1918-1953 and a further 1 million were murdered by communists in other Eastern European countries after WW2. That is an average of more than 1600 Eastern Europeans murdered per day, every day for 35 years! To put that into perspective, 1600 is more than the total number of Jews executed by the Czarist government or killed in pogroms during the entire period 1795-1916!
Yosemite, I do not know who you are or what your motives are, whether you are an honest man who argues in good faith or a sabotuer intent on creating division and confusion. Either way, if you have any consideration for historical truth, I implore you in the name of the 21 million - open your mind and take a fresh look at the evidence. Do not join with those who would prevent all possibility of a discussion, by politely ignoring/censoring/misrepresenting/nit-picking Solzhenitsyn and damning every other writer who addresses this topic as a mentally deranged hate filled anti-semite. Only by boldly confronting the unvarnished truth can white gentiles and Jews hope to live in true harmony.
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