An anti-Israel poster, apparently a Muslim, the other day went on about how the Jewish Bolsheviks took over Russia and murdered millions of Russian Christians.
First of all, I’m quite that there were a number of Jewish Bolsheviks. Thank you, Jews!
So many things about this lie are wrong.
First, the largest group of the original Bolsheviks were Latvians.
Second, in the election of 1917, 70
But only 10
The huge antisemitic lie about “Jewish bankers funding the Bolsheviks” is also nonsense. No wealthy capitalist would fund such a party. Actually, they supported the Menshevik formations which promised to protect capital. The motivation for overseas Jews to support anyone against the Czar was their feeling that the Czar was an antisemite. Whether that was true or not, I have no idea, but the Whites or Royalist Czarists in the Civil War were extremely antisemitic in a very bad Protocols of the Elders of Zion way. Sure, a lot of Jews rallied around the Bolsheviks after they seized power, but so did the majority of peasants and workers in Russia. So what? One must understand that in the USSR, nationalism was nearly a liability. Sure, nationalities and their languages were to be protected, but you were not supposed to be what they called a national chauvinist. They considered that a barbarous and bourgeois affliction. A Jewish nationality was not protected as it was considered illegitimate. Any Jewish Bolsheviks were probably atheists. For most of them, a Jewish identity was probably weak. Trotsky, asked his nationality, famously said, Working class. The notion that such a deracinated fellow still harbored strong Jewish tribal leanings is silly. It’s also toxic because it led straight to Nazism. The notion that Soviet Jews had a grudge against antisemitic peasants and hence slaughtered them is nonsense. The peasants were with the Reds. Yes, there was persecution of the church at least before Stalin. But the communists attacked synagogues and possibly mosques at the same rate. Yes, some people were killed under Lenin and more particularly under Stalin, but they were not killed for being Christian Orthodox. Instead they were killed for being contras. The USSR allowed freedom of religion and churches, synagogues, and mosques stayed open, especially after Stalin. Russians were 80
Furthermore, the “communist Jew” mass murderer of Gentiles, especially Christians, meme has a Nazi ring to it. The Nazis’ main charge against Jews was that they were a revolutionary people, so I would mess around with this “communist Jews” crap unless you want to feed Nazi antisemitism. My point is that none of this talk has any space in an argument about the state of Israel. If you don’t like Jews, fine, but that has nothing to do with the behavior of Israel vis a vis the native Arabs. Keep the vulgar antisemitism out of the anti-Israel critique!
If Jewish bankers were doing such great funding of the Bolshevik movement, why did Lenin and his cohorts have to resort to bank robbery because they were so desperate for funds?
As for Trotsky, he also said, “I am not a Jew, I am an internationalist!”
I translated that as someone asked him his ethnicity, and he said, “Working class.”
If Jewish bankers were doing such great funding of the Bolshevik movement, why did Lenin and his cohorts have to resort to bank robbery because they were so desperate for funds?
Sure. Stalin was a daring bank robber. Also a very handsome and dashing young man. And he fucked everything that moved, too. He was a real player! He sought refuge from the cops way up north in some ethnic village. They were all very much pro-revolution! He quickly fit right in to their culture and routine. He also banged a 14 year old girl and impregnated her. She had a baby. Stalin married another woman, but he supported that woman and her kid their whole lives.
I sort of like the young Stalin.
I believe the ball is too big to stop rolling now though. Jews will always be seen as tied to Communism. Robert’s the only one I’ve seen trying to clear their name.
The last Czar really dropped the ball. I believe Russia was ripe for the picking after that.
The classic Russian is Orthodox Christian not an atheist imo. I’ve also heard deep down Russians want a Czar they can believe in. Makes sense, we all want that in our leaders really.
Now you are finally understanding Russians! Yes! Putin is their Czar and so was Stalin, incredibly enough.
Russians want a “heroic” leader, almost “heroic” in the Homeric sense. It’s nearly archetypal and it’s deeply embedded in their racial memory.