Stalin's Jews
Stalin's Jews
We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern
times were Jewish
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
December 21, 2006
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. |