https://nationalvanguard.org/2014/10/je ... communism/
Below I will show some of Pierce's claims in the article that have particularly caught my attention.
IT IS AN ARTICLE of faith among the members of the so-called “radical right” that the Soviet Union today is as firmly under the thumb of a ruling minority of Jewish commissars as it was in the years immediately after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
All the wails by world Jewry about “Soviet anti-Semitism,” just as the lukewarm Soviet backing of Israel’s Arab opponents, are seen as pure subterfuge aimed at deceiving the Gentile West as to the true state of affairs behind the Iron Curtain.
It is, on the other hand, an article of faith among nearly everyone else — from “responsible conservatives” to the AFL-CIO’s George Meany to those who take their ideological cues from the New York Times or the Washington Post — that the Soviet Union is run by fanatical anti-Semites who single out Soviet citizens of the Jewish faith for especially harsh persecution.
To question the first article of faith is to lay oneself open to the suspicion of being in cahoots with the Jews, while to question the second is to bring down on one’s head the immediate charge of being an anti-Semite.
The fact is that neither article of faith has any correspondence with reality, as we shall see in what follows. Before we can understand the true situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union today, however, we must understand how that situation has developed and changed during the last few decades. Indeed, it will be helpful for us to look much further back than that.
In other words, according to Pierce, there had been important "political changes" in the USSR and the Jewish influence in the Soviet Union in the 1970s was very small and the claim that the Jews continued to dominate Soviet politics it's a "radical right conspiracy theory". However, the truth is that it's an obvious fact that the great majority of Bolshevik revolutionaries and leaders were Jews, that the Soviet Union served to the Jews as a fiefdom of power similar to what the USA were and continue to be today for them and that one of the declared and most important principles on which the Soviet Union was created was to end the "anti-Semitic tradition and tyranny" of the Russian Empire of the Tsars. Therefore, it's impossible for me to believe that the Jewish influence in the USSR was decreasing from the last years of Stalin's rule, if this had been the case, one of the main principles on which the USSR was built would have been delegitimized, which would have could have led to a severe questioning of the Soviet and communist system itself and even to its fall, which would have been very dangerous for the Soviet authorities (even the de-Stalinization it did not go that far, there was no real questioning of the Soviet system until Gorbachev's policies arrived in the late 1980s).
The series of arrests and show trials of the late 1930s, known as “the Great Terror,” were primarily a manifestation of Stalin’s paranoia. During the years of the Great Terror Stalin more-or-less continuously purged and repurged the Communist Party, destroying in the process all enemies, both real and imaginary, and liquidating all factions, actual or potential, which might conceivably challenge his rule.
It is true that during the years 1937-1939 a great many Jewish communists were killed, and that when the smoke had cleared there were fewer Jews and more Russians in the upper ranks of the party than before. Stalin’s purges can in no way be interpreted as an anti-Semitic move, however. Jewish party members were liquidated, not because they were Jews, but because every party official was regarded as a potential threat by Stalin. More often than not the secret police official who fired the fatal bullet into the back of the Jewish victim’s head in the cellars of the NKVD was himself a Jew.
And Russians also were killed in droves during the purges — in far greater numbers, in fact, than Jews. And, although the liquidation of so many high-ranking officials brought a flux of non-Jews up from the lower ranks of the hierarchy as replacements, Jews still remained by far the largest ethnic group in the Soviet power structure at the outbreak of World War II.
At least Pierce debunks here the myth that 1930s Stalinist purges were "anti-Semitic" and claims that after these purges the Jews continued to retain their hegemonic power in the Soviet Union.
When Hitler launched his blitzkrieg attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, determined to stamp out the menace of Jewish Marxism once and for all, Stalin’s worries turned in a new direction. The Jews, not only in Russia but everywhere, had suddenly become his most important allies in the death struggle with Hitler.
As soon as the Germans invaded the Soviet Union Stalin could count on the moral backing of Jewry everywhere. More importantly, with their enormous power of the press and of the purse, they could insure him the material support of the United States government.
The behavior of the Jews in the USSR in the early days of the war caused him considerable worry, however. As the Germans advanced, tens of thousands of Russia’s Jews loaded their suitcases with currency and headed for the Far Eastern provinces, where they immediately went into business as black marketeers. This had a very bad effect on the morale of the Russian masses, who were being exhorted to sacrifice everything in the fight against the fascist invaders.
Stalin kept the problem in check by having a few hundred Jewish currency speculators and black market dealers publicly shot, but he could hardly afford to take any stronger measures against them, or the Jews in America and Britain might simply call off the war, and he would be left alone to deal with Hitler.
World War II convinced Stalin of one thing: he could never again feel safe against external enemies with the Soviet bureaucracy in the grip of a people who had no fundamental loyalty to Russia, like the pharaoh who “knew not Joseph,” he asked himself whether it might not happen that “when there falleth out any war” — a war against a philo-Semitic power instead of an anti-Semitic one next time, perhaps — Russia’s Jews would “join also unto our enemies.” He began taking steps to remedy this dangerous situation as soon as the war was over.
Acting with great discretion at first, Stalin started weeding Jews out of the upper levels of the Soviet hierarchy. It was necessary to proceed slowly for two reasons.
First, Jewish communists in the United States, Canada, and Britain were still funneling very valuable atomic and military secrets to him. Like U.S. atom-spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Jews everywhere still regarded the Soviet Union as a Jewish paradise.
Second, Soviet society was utterly dependent upon its Jewish managers and technocrats for its continued functioning. For three decades Jews had virtually monopolized the bureaucracy and the professions, and it was necessary to train a new generation of Russians to replace them.
After the Zionist seizure of Palestine in 1948 — which was immediately given an official blessing by the Soviet Union — Stalin greatly accelerated his weeding-out program. Zionism — loyalty to a foreign power — was equivalent to treason, and every Jew, whether he professed loyalty to Israel or not, was regarded as at least a potential Zionist.
Well, there are quite a few things to comment on here. Pierce claims that after Hitler's preemptive attack on the Soviet Union, many Soviet Jews fled to the Russian Far East. Aren't supposed that the Nazis allegedly murdered millions of Jews in the German-occupied Soviet territories? Pierce also claims that Stalin had a few hundred Jewish currency speculators and black marketers publicly shot. I was completely unaware of that fact, I don't know what is true and false in it, can anyone give more information about it?
Pierce also claims that World War II convinced Stalin that he could never again feel secure against external enemies with the Soviet bureaucracy in the hands of a people [the Jews] who had no fundamental loyalty to Russia. However, I ask myself, what fundamental loyalty to Russia mattered to Stalin? He wasn't Russian (he was Georgian) and the Soviet Union wasn't Russia, it was an artificial amalgamation of 15 "Socialist Republics" (of which Russia was only one of these countries). What loyalty to Russia? The Soviet Union was a communist dictatorship, therefore internationalist and opposed to Nationalism.
Pierce goes on to claim that Stalin thereafter began to eradicate (albeit initially discreetly) the Jewish influence in the Soviet Union, removing Jewish communists from the upper echelons of the party, his government, and the Soviet cultural establishment. If this was so, then why did Jews like Lazar Kaganovich, Lev Mekhlis or Ilya Ehrenburg mantained their important positions in the Soviet establishment and remain highly influential in Soviet politics until Stalin's death?
Pierce then admits that Stalin was one of the first rulers to recognize and give his blessing to the State of Israel, but goes on to claim that Stalin "accelerated" his alleged "program to eradicate" the Jewish influence in the Soviet Union. Big contradiction, If Stalin really wanted to eradicate Jewish supremacism in the Soviet Union, then why did he give the blessing to the State of Israel? It is a pure contradiction.
Between 1948 and 1953, Stalin’s changed attitude toward the Jews filtered down to the Russian masses. On the law books anti-Semitism was still equivalent to anti-Sovietism — an equivalence established by Lenin’s infamous edict of August 9, 1918 — and, as revealed by Solzhenitsyn in his First Circle, an ordinary Russian could still be given a 10-year sentence at hard labor for casually using the word “zheed” (kike) — but, at least, one was no longer shot for such an offense, as was the case before the war. A few bold Russians defied the law, and poems, short stories, and a few pamphlets began circulating surreptitiously, which reflected, for the first time in 30 years, the deep-smoldering resentment of the people against the Jews.
In Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other Soviet satellites Stalin’s program was also underway. The Soviet-puppet governments which had been installed in these countries in the wake of their “liberation” by the Red Army were almost completely “kosher.” Now the Jewish party bosses and commissars — Ana Pauker in Romania, Rudolf Slansky in Czechoslovakia, Matyas Rakosi in Hungary — were being summarily deposed and replaced by Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, etc.
More contradictions, Pierce claims that the alleged Stalin's "change of attitude" toward the Jews reached the knowledge of the Soviet population, however he admits that Soviet legislation still considered anti-Semitism to be equivalent to anti-Sovietism, and therefore it was still being very serious crime, but despite this fact there were Russian citizens who began to publish clandestinely and in defiance of Soviet law (as Pierce himself claims) anti-Semitic material who was still illegal in the Soviet Union. Beyond the fact that the Soviet laws to combat anti-Semitism were relaxed a bit, where was the change here? As Pierce himself claims, anti-Semitism was still considered a very serious crime in the last years of Stalin's government and therefore it was still highly persecuted.
He also claims that under Stalin there was an alleged "anti-Semitic purge" in the Soviet puppet states in Eastern Europe and that the Jewish leaders of the USSR's satellite countries were replaced by non-Jewish communist leaders. Pierce mentions Ana Pauker, Matyas Rakosi, and Rudolf Slansky as examples. Except for Slansky, all the other examples of purged Jewish leaders that Pierce mentions were, in fact, replaced by other communist Jews and Pierce also ignored the context and reasons why Rakosi and Pauker were purged. In the case of Ana Pauker, who held the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs from December 30, 1947 to July 9, 1952 and during this time she is also considered to have been the unofficial supremme leader of communist Romania. Pauker was arrested (at as in the case of Slansky) due to accusations of being a "Zionist spy" at the service of the United States and Israel, but nevertheless, she was replaced as Minister of Foreign Affairs by another Jewish communist, Simion Bughici, who held this position until on October 3, 1955 (more than two years after Stalin's death, that is, that the "Anti-Semitic" Soviet dictator tolerated another Jew replacing Pauker as Minister of Foreign Affairs of communist Romania). And the case of Matyas Rakosi is even more striking. Rakosi was of Jewish origin and he was the first dictator of communist Hungary, he ruled the country with an iron fist until he was forced to resign as General Secretary by the Soviet authorities on July 18 1956, for being a fanatical Stalinist and refusing to introduce de-Stalinization policies in communist Hungary (this fact contradicts the claim that Stalin was "anti-Semitic" and in the last years of his life he eradicated the Jewish influence in the Soviet Union and in the international communist movement). He was replaced by another Jew, Ernö Gerö who was the leader of communist Hungary until he was removed due to the heroic Hungarian anti-communist revolution of October 1956.
It was in this period — the period of the “Cold War” — that Jews began their public wailing about “Soviet anti-Semitism.” In fact, there is a fundamental connection between Stalin’s weeding-out program and the onset of the Cold War. It was the postwar recognition by the Jewish masters of America’s mass media that their fortunes had changed in the USSR that led to a deliberate effort on their part to shift American public opinion and governmental policy away from the pro-Soviet stance which they themselves had generated during World War II. But that is another story in itself.
Stalin died on March 5, 1953. There are persistent rumors that his death came just on the eve of a planned roundup of all the remaining Jews in the Soviet Union — and that it was Stalin’s plan for this “final solution” of Russia’s Jewish problem which led to his death by poison at the hands of one of his associates or doctors. At this time we have no way of knowing the truth of the matter. We do know, however, that Stalin’s program to Russify the upper ranks of the Soviet bureaucracy had been largely accomplished by the time of his death.
With Stalin dead the Jews of Russia were out of any danger of being abandoned by the Soviet government to the wrath of the Russian people. During the period of “de-Stalinization” which followed, most of Stalin’s measures against the Jews were relaxed. But the government was not handed back over to the Jews. Russian communists were in the saddle now, and they intended to stay there.
And thus it has continued to the present. And the Jews in the United States and other Western countries maintain their nonstop serenade of the Gentile public with tales of woe and persecution in the USSR.
Undoubtedly, many Jews actually believe they are being persecuted by the Soviet government. After all, are they not God’s “chosen people,” who by right should rule over the Russians? Is it not “persecution” to deny them this right?
Pierce claimed here that the Jews of the United States and the rest of the Western capitalist Bloc launched a massive disinformation campaign aimed at trying to make the international public opinion to believe that the USSR (and the communist Bloc in general) was "anti-Semitic". During the Cold War both geopolitical sides used the Reductio ad Hitlerum card and accused each other of being "Nazis" and "Fascists" (reminds me of the stupid and shameful propaganda of the current Russo-Ukrainian war in which both sides accuse each other of being "Nazis"). The Soviet Union itself often compared the State of Israel to the Third Reich and the Zionism to Nazism (out of curiosity, does anyone know if the Soviet Cold War era propaganda launched a disinformation campaign too to counter the western capitalist propaganda by accusing the United States and the capitalist Bloc of also being anti -Semite as the Americans did against them?).
Pierce then claims that Stalin planned in 1953, shortly before his death, to exterminate all the remaining Jews in the Soviet Union and that this was what led to his sudden death (implying the posibility that he was assassinated).
Then he claims that after Stalin's death and the de-Stalinization process leaded by Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Jews were once again out of danger but that they definitively lost their political hegemony in the Soviet Union and now the new masters of the USSR were no longer them but the communists of Russian ethnicity, and therefore claiming that the post-Stalinist Soviet Union was stilling ruled by the Jews is a lie according to William L. Pierce's views.
In any event, believed by the Jews or not, this serenade is largely believed by their gullible Gentile audience, and it serves as a very useful means of maintaining the pressure of Western public opinion against the Soviet government. As long as the Soviets are dependent upon trade with the West, they are obliged to tread lightly where Soviet Jews are concerned.
Thus, Henry Kissinger’s policy of detente (rather, partial detente, the prospect of detente), which is facetiously attacked by many American Jews and their Gentile henchmen (Senator Jackson, for example) actually serves the Jews very well. It insures that their present position in the Soviet Union will not deteriorate further, as it did under Stalin. And what is that position today?
Jews, who today account for just under one per cent (0.9) of the total population of the Soviet Union, occupy approximately the same percentage (0.8%) of senior party and government positions in that country.
But Jews constitute 1.9 per cent of all students and 5.5 per cent of all faculty members at Soviet institutions of higher education. They account for 7 per cent of all Soviet scientists. They hold 14 per cent of the doctoral degrees in the Soviet Union. And they make up more than 20 per cent of the highly paid members of the performing arts, entertainment, and mass communications professions. These figures (except the last) are from the May 1974 issue of Commentary, a magazine published by the American Jewish Committee, which is in the forefront of those organizations lamenting the “persecution” of Soviet Jews.
The truth is that Jews are not now and never have been persecuted by a communist government. They constitute a privileged minority in the Soviet Union today, a minority which holds a higher percentage of soft jobs and enjoys a higher standard of living than any other ethnic group — including Russians — and which is the only minority which has been allowed to emigrate.
It is also true that Jews in the Soviet Union are not as privileged a group today as they were before World War II. But Stalin did not persecute Jews when he curtailed some of their privileges; he simply set out to correct the gross inequity which existed in the Soviet Union between the power wielded by Jews and that wielded by Russians and other ethnic groups. It is this long-overdue correction which the Jews of the world so indignantly refer to as “persecution.”
Today’s Soviet leaders are not passionate men, not idealistic men, not religious men. They are not the sort of men burning with a sense of justice, with a craving to right old wrongs and settle old scores. They are not the sort of men, in short, to persecute Jews, for what is the profit in that?
They are cold-blooded businessmen-gangsters, not basically unlike the sort we are familiar with in this country. They do what is necessary to protect their power, but they do not waste their time and energy on such trifles as justice.
But the day may come when the Russian masses will rise up and throw off the communist yoke which was put on their necks nearly 60 years ago. If that day does come, then the Jews will really have something to scream about.
Here Pierce implies that if the 1970s Soviet Union treated Soviet Jews decently, it was among other reasons because they were dependent on Western trade. He then analyzed the detente policy of the United States toward the Soviet Union led by the Jew Henry Kissinger, stating that Kissinger's foreign policy was very valuable for the Soviet Jews because it helped them to prevent their situation from getting worse again as it allegedly was been under in the last years of Stalin's era.
Pierce then gives data and percentages on the representation that Jews still had in the Communist Party, the Soviet government and the spheres of influence of the Soviet Union in general during the 1970s. These figures (assuming that they were true and not manipulated data) shows that in the 1970s Soviet Union the Jews allegedly occupied levels of power proportional to the number of Jewish residents in the Soviet Union (and therefore they had a very little influence in the 1970s Soviet Union), so if those percentages are true, in the 1970s there would no longer been any Jewish influence in the USSR, and claming otherwise would be lying. However, Pierce claimed that except the last of the percentages that he mentioned in the article, all other percentages he mentioned are sourced from the May 1974 issue of Commentary, a monthly magazine published by the American Jewish Committee, which as Pierce admitted, it was one of the most notorious organizations who promoted the myth of the Soviet "anti-Semitism". So I ask the following question, Is there any possibility that the figures, data and percentages about the Jewish influence in the Soviet Union during the 1970s produced by the American Jewish Committee were deceitful and (apart from continuing to promote the lie of the Soviet "anti-Semitism") it tryed to minimize the true influence that their Jewish communists counterparts continued conserving in the 1970s Soviet Union and that it was actually much greater than the AJC claimed?
Pierce continues to contradict himself, because despite claiming (with data offered by the AJC) that the Jews had little influence in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, he also stated that in the 1970s Soviet Union, the Jews continued to be a privileged minority and that they still enjoyed a higher standard of living in the USSR than the average Russian. How can it be that the Jews (representing only 0.9 percent of the population of the Soviet Union) allegedly had little political influence in the USSR but at the same time they remained a privileged minority? Either one or the other, but it is impossible to be a privileged minority in a so titanic country and with so many nations and ethnicities as the Soviet Union if they have little or no political influence there.
His latest claims have also caught my attention, he claimed that if the Russian people rise up and free themselves from the tyrannical yoke of Bolshevism (in other words, if the Russian people overthrow the Soviet Union in a popular revolution in the 1970s) then the Jews would have good reason to mourn and weep. If it's true that the Jews had lost their political hegemony in the Soviet Union and if by the 1970s their influence was low, then what would they have had to "regret"?
And to finish the thread, I would like those of you who read it to give me your opinion about this topic and answer the following questions. Was Stalin really anti-Semitic? It's true or false that the Soviet dictator eradicated the Jewish supremacism in the Soviet Union in the late 1940s and early 1950s? How strong or weak was the Jewish influence in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union's (and in the Communist Bloc in general) establishment? Was William L. Pierce right when he claimed that the Jewish influence in the USSR since the last years of Stalin's era was insignificant? Did the Jews retain their political supremacy and hegemony in the Soviet Union and in the international communist movement until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the USSR itself? I am not any expert on this topic nor do I have the absolute truth, in fact I have decided to open this thread as it seems very contradictory to me, I have doubts and don't know in which version to believe with on the matter, so I am willing to listen and debate all kinds of opinions and points of view.
Greetings, Kmut00
