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I wonder if Roger Annis, Boris Kagarlitsky, and Renfrey Clarke have any
idea have any idea of the kind of filth that is coming out of the
nationalist circles in Russia they are orienting to. Someone posted a
link to an article from Oriental Review on Counterpunch Friends and
Supporters FB Page, where you see a load of this kind of shit (911
Truthers, etc.) I spent 5 minutes looking through this English-language
Russian journal and found this item. I am not forwarding the entire
article, just the more egregious portions.
http://orientalreview.org/2013/06/16/episode-11-a-soviet-quarter-century-1930-1955/
Episode 11. A Soviet Quarter Century (1930-1955)
First, let’s take a short step back into the 1920’s and check in on
Boris Savinkov. He was the Jewish leader of the Social Revolutionaries
which were Jewish in the main. He gave Fanny Kaplan the revolver with
which to shoot Lenin which she did. Lenin died a few years later . Boris
fled to the U.S. where he remained until Felix Dzerzhinsky (Stalin’s
chief of secret service who was a Polish nobleman by birth) lured him
back to the Soviet Union and had him and his cohorts executed in the mid
1920’s. Boris wrote a book titled “Memoirs of a Terrorist” published by
Albert & Charles Boni ( DK 254.S28 A3) in which he wrote about his
intent to assassinate the Russian generals and admirals who fought in
the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905 and key governmental officials.
Boris Savinkov had something to do with the Purges in the late 1930’s.
Boris admitted that he was a terrorist and wrote a book about being a
terrorist.
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Let’s start with the Purges or in Russian the chiska , translated as
“cleansing”. Did the Soviet Union have internal and external enemies? Of
course they did. With war on the horizon they had to address the
problem. Did they make mistakes ? YES. Was there a 5th column
(collaborators) in the Soviet Union when the Germans invaded in 1941?
NO. But the Germans had 5th column collaborators welcoming them in all
the other countries they invaded. Fascism and anti-Semitism had
supporters through out much of Europe. The Catholic church had
concordats (church/state agreements) with Nazi Germany and the other
fascist countries in Europe. In 1941 Joseph E. Davis [sic] , former
American Ambassador to the Soviet Union wrote: ”There were no 5th
columns in Russia in 1941—they had all been shot. The purge had cleansed
the country and rid it of treason. The Axis 5th column in the Soviet
Union had been smashed”. So the purges were both good and effective.
Again, some innocents were shot. But 10’s of millions of innocents
were killed during World War II. We need to quantify those who were
purged. The vast majority of those executed were Jews, Poles, and
non-Slavic citizens of the Soviet Union. Communist party members were
frequently shot. Why? Because they were not trusted and showed
hostility to the Soviet Government.
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The Jewish tragedy in Europe needs to be quantified. During the
Holocaust, the Nazi’s killed more Jews in ONE DAY then the Russian Tsar
was held accountable for killing in FIVE CENTURIES of Tsarist rule.
This figure is from a noted historian. Japan attacked Russia in 1904.
Jews refused to serve in the Russian army to defend Russia. The so
called pogroms took place starting in 1881 and lasting 30 plus years
until the start of WWI in 1914. The 1881 incident took place in Kiev in
which 3 Jews were killed along with 3 Christians. A simple street brawl.
The worse incident took place in Kishinev Moldavia during Easter time in
1903 in which up to 100 Jews were killed. The supposed cause was the
ridiculous charge of blood libel in which the Jews used Christian
blood in their matzos. It is equally ridiculous to suggest that
Christians use snakes in their religious services. But there continue
to be backwoods Christians who do use snakes in their churches and
there could have been whacky Jews involved in blood libel. All told
about 600 Jews were killed during this 30 plus year period. A
disproportionate number were killed in Moldavia. Similar killings took
place in America during this time period. Lynching’s, vigilante killings
and people taking the law into their hands was not uncommon. The Jews
who survived WWII in Europe have the Red Army to thank.
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