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Stalin’s War Against the Jews, by Louis Rapoport. 1990. Collier MacMillan Canada, Toronto

Jews 1968 Trend: Jews Got a Good Thing Going in Communism, So Goyisch Communists Eventually Push Them Out

This book shows the early part of the Jews 1968 trend. It focuses on Stalin’s increasing attempt to limit the power of Soviet Communist Jews, culminating in the aborted Doctor’s Plot. This suspicion extended to gentile Communists married to Jewish wives. (p. 208).

All this must be put in broader context, including the later events of 1968. Insofar as Jewish elitists had massively supported Communism out of a desire to expand their power and influence, gentile Communist newcomers increasingly sought to take the power and influence for themselves. This was exacerbated by the fact that Communism had always thrived on intrigue and duplicity.

JEWISH ELITISTS, NOT JEWISH COMMONERS, DETERMINE JEWISH POLICY

What ordinary Russian Jews thought was not as significant as what the Jewish elitists thought. Rapoport writes, “Although there was a great outpouring of support for the Bolsheviks among Jewish intellectuals, the broad masses of Jews were not at all enthusiastic. But many young educated Jews, including the majority of Bundists (as opposed to the Jewish anarchists) identified completely with the Bolshevik revolution…” (p. 30. Emphasis added). (We see once again that the “mainstream” Jewish Socialist Bund effortlessly folded itself into Communism.)

JEWS AS THE BRAINS OF COMMUNISM

As an example of the intellectual caliber of Jewish Communists, Rapoport writes, “On one point about Trotsky, there is no disagreement: he was brilliant, probably a genius. While still in his late teens in Odessa, he displayed extraordinary talent as a mathematician, linguist, theorist, and writer.” (p. 15. Emphasis added).

The author discusses another Jewish luminary, “Throughout this period, Lazar Kaganovich accumulated increasing power as a remarkable administrator who soon became known as the Iron Commissar. Kaganovich’s extraordinary organizing skills, which included planning mass terror under Stalin’s direction, would be noted by his protégé and future enemy Nikita Khrushchev…” (p. 43. Emphasis added). Concerning Kaganovich, Rapoport adds that, “Like Adolf Eichmann, he oversaw the train schedules and governed the massive human cargos.” (p. 49). For more on this, see:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/katyn-jewish-complicity-rees/

Rapoport makes this generalization about the Jewish brains behind Communism, “They [Jews] also formed an exceedingly high percentage of political commissars, secret police officials, and army officers, while about 11 percent of all Soviet doctors were Jews. This disproportionate representation was true of the intelligentsia as a whole, the art world, and top government bureaucrats.” (p. 244).

We clearly see the Jews 1968 trend already in the making.

IT’S NOT THE ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF JEWS: IT IS THE NUMBER OF JEWS IN KEY POSITIONS

Rapoport is frank about the pivotal role of Jewish Communists, “Many of the victims of the main show trials were men of Jewish origin who had been at the forefront of the Revolution and who had been instrumental in the creation of the first Communist state…” (p. 49. Emphasis added).

He continues, “Immediately after the Revolution, many Jews were euphoric over their high representation in the new government. Lenin’s first Politburo was dominated by men of Jewish origins: Trotsky, the leader of the Petrograd coup and founder of the Red Army; Kamenev and Zinoviev, Lenin’s righthand man despite ‘the betrayal’. Sverdlov was now the president of the Party’s Central Committee, and Karl Radek, Maxim Litvinov, A. A. Yoffe, and others all held prominent positions. With the exception of Litvinov, they all registered their nationalities as Great Russian, not Jewish…Under Lenin, Jews became involved in all aspects of the Revolution, including its dirtiest work.” (p. 30. Emphasis added).

We again see the Jews 1968 trend in the making.

JEWS IN PIVOTAL POSITIONS IN THE SOVIET COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT

“The collective leadership that emerged in Lenin’s dying days was headed by the Jew Zinoviev, a loquacious, mean-spirited, curly-headed Adonis, whose vanity knew no bounds.” (p. 37. Emphasis added).

“When the Terror was instigated, Stalin’s chief hangman was Yagoda, the Jewish former pharmacist who kept a special chest in his office filled with vials of poison, which he dispensed to his agents whenever the occasion required.” (p. 50. Emphasis added).

We have more of the Jews 1968 trend in the making.

JEWS TURN AGAINST OTHER JEWS TO MAINTAIN THEIR POWER AND PRIVILEGES

Author Rapoport focuses on the Great Terror, “Many of the prosecution witnesses and agents provocateurs used against these Kremlin Jews were Jews themselves. Some of the main instruments of the Terror were also of Jewish origin…” (p. 49. Emphasis added).

WAS LAVRENTY BERIA JEWISH?

The author does not dismiss Beria’s Jewishness as do most other authors. He writes, “Throughout his life rumors persisted that Beria was at least half-Jewish, but this has never been substantiated…Beria’s mother came from the village of Tekle, inhabited mainly by Jews and their kin, the Kariates. One author cites a paternal connection to the Jews, linking the name Beriah to the biblical tribe of Ephraim.” (p. 56).