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Title: Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Jews
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Published: Nov 17, 2007
Author: Friedrich Braun
Post Date: 2007-11-21 17:40:20 by robin
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I just finished reading the French translation of Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together (2003) on Russian-Jewish relations since 1772 in two volumes (still no English translation available…”are we powerful or what?”). It’s both a quick and fascinating read; among other things, we learn that not only the October 1917 Revolution (really a just a well-organized, well-carried out Jewish coup) was dominated by Jewish agitators (a documented fact) but so was the 1905 Revolution (something I didn’t know). We also learn from the grand old man the awe-inspiring extent of the Jewish domination of the Soviet Union during its first two decades of existence, including its ruthless and murderous internal security system: Tcheka, OGPU, NKGB, and NKVD. A Russian in the hands of the Tcheka, etc. was almost certain to be in the hands of Jewish torturers and executioners. The litany of Jewish crimes committed against the long-suffering Russians (and other Slavic peoples: Ukrainians and Belarussians) and coldly listed by the author is simply nauseating and one should approach both volumes on an empty stomach. To this day there has been no acknowledgment on the part of international Jewry of Jews overwhelming support of the Bolshevik dictatorship during its first two decades. No asking for forgiveness. No reparations paid out to Russians. No chest-beating. No calls for repentance. No nothing…how un-Jewish that would be! Those few, rare Jewish voices who dared to speak about the Jewish role in the establishment of the communist terror machine in Russia were inevitably greeted with hostiliy and enmity by other Jews and told to shut their “self-hating” mouths. Another interesting aspect brought up by the author concerns the so-called era of “National Bolshevism” (a real misnomer) allegedly inaugurated by Stalin. Solzhenitsyn points out that Stalin was as much hostile to Russian interests as Lenin and Trotsky. How many millions of Russian peasants and Russian Orthodox clergy perished under Stalin? To speak of a Russian nationalism on the part of Stalin is simply laughable when one considers the the slaughter accompanying Stalin’s and Kaganovich’s collectivisation and religious persecutions. Additionally, Jews continued to be overrepresented at all levels of the Soviet bureaucracy (including their overwhelming participation in the administration of the Gulag system) during Stalin’s years at the helm. Furthermore, Solzhenitsyn speaks of his personal contacts with Soviet Jews and their typical detached relativism on all issues, including communist crimes with their tens of millions of victims. However, all that cool, intellectual relativism and reluctance to see the world in black and white terms would disappear in the blink of an eye as soon as Hitlerism was mentioned. Another example of Jewish hypocrisy highlighted by the author concerns the Jews admonishing of Russians (namely Solzhenitsyn) to reject global generalisations regarding Jews and aspects of the Jewish character at the same time that they would form and propagate the most negative opinions on the Russian character and how it was the Russians’ fault that the fundamentally noble communist experiment failed. Expressing generalisations about Russians while demandind from them that they abstain from seeing in Jews some distinct personality traits is very Jewish and pure chuzpah. Nothing is ever the Jews’ fault. It’s always someone else’s fault. One standard for the Jews, another standard for the goyim. 17 Comments »
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#1. To: Cynicom, Eoghan, JiminyC, BroNathaniel, AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, Jethro Tull (#0)
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Solzhenitsyn and the Jews, Revisited by Richard Pipes. Still, Solzhenitsyn's book is a notable achievement in its attempt to place the "problem" of Russian Jewry in political and social perspective, and one that does credit to its author's reputation. If Solzhenitsyn does not quite succeed in exonerating pre-revolutionary Russia of responsibility for subjecting its Jewish citizens to uncivilized discrimination--after all, it was the only Christian country that in the nineteenth century still subjected its Jewish citizens to medieval disabilities--and even if he does not fully understand the latter's predicament, at least he absolves himself of the taint of anti-Semitism. This item is available on the Benador Associates website, at http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/141
Oy!
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
Stereotypes become stereotypes for a reason.
Solzhenitsyn breaks last taboo of the revolution by Nick Paton Walsh for guardian.co.uk
From http://www.reason.com/news/show/29241.html (August/September 2004 Print Edition) I was dismayed to read Cathy Young's unbelievably shoddy account of the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ("Traditional Prejudices," May). Despite a deceptively calm and authoritative tone, she engages in nothing less than character assassination. She eschews anything that resembles explication de texte and instead relies upon the prosecutorial-conspiratorial musings of Semyon Reznik. Even more damning, she ignores everything in Solzhenitsyn's writings that might militate against her claims. A reader of her column would never learn about Solzhenitsyn's condemnation of "scandalous restrictions" against Jews under the Russian old regime, his criticisms of the Russian state for its "impardonable inaction" in anticipating and responding to brutal anti-Jewish pogroms, his admiration for Pyotr Stolypin's efforts to end the Jewish disabilities, or his criticism of the White forces during the Russian Civil War for their inexcusable toleration of anti-Semitic violence and propaganda in territories under their control. Nor would a reader learn anything about Solzhenitsyn's principled rejection of fascism and all its works, or his moving and somber discussion in Chapter 21 of Dvesti Let Vmeste (Two Hundred Years Together) of the Holocaust unleashed against Jews on Soviet territory. Nor would one come across anything about Solzhenitsyn's admiration for Jews such as D.O. Linski, Iosif Bikerman, Michel Heller, Mikhail Agurski, Aleksandr Ginzburg, and Dora Sturman, nor about his highlighting of the "disproportionate" role played by Jews in the anti-Communist resistance of the 1960s and '70s. Perhaps most egregious is Young's claim that the author of The Gulag Archipelago is somehow not a true friend of human liberty, that he is instead a partisan of a "traditionalist" collectivism. She simply ignores Solzhenitsyn's eloquent defense of the rule of law and the importance of local self-government to a healthy and well-constituted civic life. More fundamentally, she shows no appreciation of the "personalism" that informs almost every page of The Gulag Archipelago. The portraits of freedom-loving individuals and indomitable souls such as the young Zoya Leshcheva, the defiant Anna Skripnikova, the committed escaper Georgi Tenno, and the religious poet Anatoli Silin are simply unforgettable. As any serious reader of Gulag will immediately discern, Solzhenitsyn is no collectivist. It is dishonest, and worse, to accuse this honorable man of the monstrosity which is anti-Semitism or to facilely dismiss him as an enemy of human freedom. Daniel J. Mahoney
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FOH - you should read the "about" link of this website to give you a clue about why birth rates/abortion rates matter - it's not just a question of immigration vs anti-immigration - we are not replacing ourselves and that in itself is a big problem that is getting bigger and bigger: "...Furthermore, since the West faces a demographic crisis of unprecedented proportions (for example, in 1950 Whites represented 30 percent of the world’s population. This number will plummet to 8 percent by 2050)..."
Want to start a pool as to how many posts go by before hasbara halibut or Mister Kline show up calling me a nazi for merely pointing out that Pipes may have a few prejudices of his own? You're right, stereotypes are grounded in reality, otherwise they would be simple foolishness, along the lines of "Chinese women love goat cheese", or "Italians can't stop themselves from dancing whenever a banjo is played".
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
No, I'm sure there's not enough time. Maybe we should concentrate on finishing up the screenplay for Freaks II.
I went to public school in the late 70's and early 80's, and we were fed a constant barrage of Zero Population Growth propaganda. As a result, most people of my socio-economic background have limited themselves to having smaller families, usually one or two kids, hardly ever more than three. Then in the 90's we were told that massive immigration was necessary to keep the nation from becoming one giant ghost town. I saw an article about Europe in the past couple weeks making the same case.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
Absolutely. I agree with your sentiments. The problems Western societies face today did not happen by happenstance. It was a multi-pronged approach by the int'l elites to convince Western nations to have fewer children either thru population explosion hokum and/or through promotion of decadence to the masses. The generation born in the post WWII years and thereafter were fed self- defeating prop. Russia, ironically enough, after suffering so much under communism maybe the only major power today who is making inroads in setting its birth rates back on course. Putin - instead of working against his people like our own political punks do - is actually giving financial perks to hetero Mommy and Daddy family units to have babies.
The field department works on many fronts to inform the general public about environmental and reproductive rights issues pertaining to population growth. As part of our strategy, we are working with Population Connection members and community activists at the local level in twelve key U.S. cities. We chose cities that are historically progressive, include a large college or university, and are home to a number of Population Connection members. In each of these cities organizers conduct member meetings, host tables at environmental and rights-related events, write letters to the editor, and circulate petitions on important legislation. Each of the organizers focuses on outreach in their communities and their local universities. They work on the ground, face-to-face with concerned citizens; they discuss the effects population growth has on the world, both socially and environmentally, and humane ways to slow this detrimental growth. Activities they have done include film screenings, hosting guest speakers on campus, presenting at conferences, and tabling at farmers' markets. In Michigan, Rachel Steel has made contact with Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), and in Texas, Bernadette Donahue has spoken with Austin's Mayor Will Wynn. Many of the organizers have held district constituent meetings. All organizers brought local activists to the Capitol Hill Days lobby training in Washington, DC in April and subsequently lobbied their representatives. The organizers have also made the papers! They have received media coverage for events they have participated in, such as the Step It Up rally, and have published 44 (and counting!) opinion pieces in their local and statewide newspapers. Georgia Gann of Berkeley, CA recently published the first opinion-editorial for the program, entitled "To Be Green, Pay Attention to the Numbers", in the widely circulated Daily Californian. These successes are paving the way for greater accomplishments. As the program grows in outreach by city, more cities will likely be added. We are aggressively pursuing our goal of getting more college students involved in the issues that concern population, as our member base has tended in recent years to be a bit more 'seasoned'. College students have the energy and enthusiasm to approach activism in a different and often more innovative way, and have the staying power to influence changes in the future. Please feel free to contact us at our Washington, DC office for more information about Making the Global Local, or email our organizers directly to learn how to become active in your community.
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
spooky
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has." - William S Burroughs
Hairy women love sex. Silliness or stereotype?
(still no English translation available…”are we powerful or what?”)
#2. To: robin (#0)
Recently Alexander Solzhenitsyn published a long book called Dvesti let vmeste, or Two Hundred Years Together, the first of two volumes devoted to the history of Jews in Russia from the third partition of Poland in 1795, when Russia, until then effectively without Jews, suddenly acquired one million Jewish subjects. It covers the years between 1795 and 1916. The follow-up volume will bring the story up to the year 1995.
Concluding with:
#3. To: buckeye (#2)
Richard Pipes
#4. To: Dakmar (#3)
#5. To: robin (#0)
Yet others failed to see the need for Solzhenitsyn's pursuit of this particular subject at present. Vassili Berezhkov, a retired KGB colonel and historian of the secret services and the NKVD (the precursor of the KGB), said: "The question of ethnicity did not have any importance either in the revolution or the story of the NKVD. This was a social revolution and those who served in the NKVD and cheka were serving ideas of social change.
"If Solzhenitsyn writes that there were many Jews in the NKVD, it will increase the passions of anti-semitism, which has deep roots in Russian history. I think it is better not to discuss such a question now."
#6. To: Dakmar (#3)
Traditional Prejudices
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#7. To: robin (#0)
Additionally, Jews continued to be overrepresented at all levels of the Soviet bureaucracy (including their overwhelming participation in the administration of the Gulag system) during Stalin’s years at the helm.
#8. To: FOH (#0)
#9. To: Esso (#4)
Stereotypes become stereotypes for a reason.
#10. To: Dakmar (#9)
(Edited)
Want to start a pool as to how many posts go by before hasbara halibut or Mister Kline show up calling me a nazi for merely pointing out that Pipes may have a few prejudices of his own?
#11. To: scrapper2 (#8)
"...Furthermore, since the West faces a demographic crisis of unprecedented proportions (for example, in 1950 Whites represented 30 percent of the world’s population. This number will plummet to 8 percent by 2050)..."
#12. To: Dakmar (#11)
I went to public school in the late 70's and early 80's, and we were fed a constant barrage of Zero Population Growth propaganda. As a result, most people of my socio-economic background have limited themselves to having smaller families, usually one or two kids, hardly ever more than three. Then in the 90's we were told that massive immigration was necessary to keep the nation from becoming one giant ghost town. I saw an article about Europe in the past couple weeks making the same case.
#13. To: scrapper2 (#12)
Zero Population Growth (tm) changed its name to Population Connection:
#14. To: christine, lodwick (#13)
in Texas, Bernadette Donahue has spoken with Austin's Mayor Will Wynn.
#15. To: Dakmar (#9)
You're right, stereotypes are grounded in reality, otherwise they would be simple foolishness, along the lines of "Chinese women love goat cheese", or "Italians can't stop themselves from dancing whenever a banjo is played".
 | In many places they have the monopoly of the wine and spirit shops, and retail trade generally; and as they are always willing to advance money on usury, and are more intelligent and better educated than the ordinary peasant, there is little doubt that in a country where the large landowners are proverbially extravagant, and the peasant proprietors needy, the soil would soon fall into the hands of the Jews were it not for the stringent laws which prevent them from owning land outside the towns. |
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