Stalin's Jews
We mustn't forget that some of
greatest murderers of modern times were
Jewish
By Sever Plocker
Ynetnews.com, Israel Opinion,
12.21.2006
" [...] '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.
[...]
Turns out that Jews too, when they
become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great
murderers, among the greatest known by modern
history."
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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.
