Post by Robert MillerPost by alohacyberianPost by Robert MillerNot to go off on a tangent but Lenin was financed by some of the
wealthiest and
best known American industrialists. Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie and
others
of the Teddy Roosevelt crowd. Why would wealthy Americans finance the most
radical of the Russian revolutionaries?
ignorance. Naturally Lenin wasn't forthright about his background, his
philosophies, his goals or his objectives. The Russian Revolution would
have failed had it not been for Henry Ford. But, in their behalf, it must
be remembered that many of those contributions were made to Lenin & co.
while the Czar still ruled Russia and the benefactors opposed the Czar and
saw the Bolsheviks as an opportunity to open commerce with Russia. What
most Americans don't realize is that the Bolshevik Revolution occured
after the Czar was overthrown and a Constitutional Democracy had been put
into place. Many of the American industrialists were hoodwinked and went
into something without thorough knowledge. Henry Ford, a late comer to the
scene wasn't so ignorant as he was disinformed and he also championed
Hitler. KM
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What you say is true, but it was known that Lenin was a Marxist. Jacob
Schif a
prime backer of the Bolshevik also helped raise money for Japan so they
could
and did defeat Russia in the Japan / Russo war of 1904. Russian prisoners
of war
in Japan were indoctrinated in Bolshevism while interned. The seeds of
mutiny and
revolution were planted. Later when the Bolsheviks took power there were
naval
vessels bombarding the St. Petersburg palace.
What is not widely known about the Bolshevik party is it was almost
entirely Jewish.
That they went on a campaign and killed millions of Christians across
Russia.
I don't think the bulk of the people who were killed in Russia were killed
because they were Christians as opposed to being Jewish or anything else. The
early Bolsheviks were anti-religion - period and their reasons for wholesale
slaughter of their people weren't usually for purely religious reasons.
Granted, Judiasm was heavily represented among early Communists and Jews had
been a part of the philosophical roots of socialism for centuries. Judaic
thought has a great deal that would set the stage for socialism. Karl Marx,
though not raised Jewish, was steeped in Jewish ideology from his Jewish
parents, their friends and his Jewish teachers. Because he was raised
Catholic in a Lutheran country, and did a lot of his seminal research and
writing in an Episcopal country, perhaps he saw the conflicts in different
religions and drew the conclusion that religion is the opiate of the people
not forseeing that opiates would become the religion of some people. In spite
of the predominance of Jews among the Bolsheviks, the Jews were also heavily
represented among the Mensheviks. In fact the word, "menshevik" could pass as
a Yiddish word, mensche [mentsh] being a Yiddish word for a man or person of
integrity and honor. Also in the early Communist movement in the United
States there were many Jews among them. The longtime head of the American
Communist Party, Gus Hall, was of Jewish lineage. Like other Communists,
Yasser Arafat, Vladimir Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, etc. "Hall" wasn't his real name.
His birth name was Arvo Kustaa Halberg, though his family was not religious
according to him, probably because his father, Matt Halberg, was one of the
founding fathers of the American Communist Party in which his mother was also
very active. Many Jews who left Europe in the 20th Century did not continue
to practice their religion in the United States due to the dire consequences
of having done so in the "old country". A lot of them were ripe for entry
into the early American Communist Party. Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution,
Jews had had a very bad time of it for centuries in the Russian Empire and
were eager to participate in a political party that claimed to offer them
equality. Many of them suffered the same fate as Lev Davidovich Bronstein,
better known as Leon Trotsky who was murdered by Stalin's henchmen even
though he had once headed the Soviet Army and had been Chief of Soviet
Foreign Affairs. While Lenin favored Jews, Stalin did not. KM
Although officially Jews have never made up more than five percent of the
country's total population, they played a highly disproportionate and
probably decisive role in the infant Bolshevik regime, effectively dominating
the Soviet government during its early years. Soviet historians, along with
most of their colleagues in the West, for decades preferred to ignore this
subject. The facts, though, cannot be denied.
With the notable exception of Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), most of the leading
Communists who took control of Russia in 1917-20 were Jews. Leon Trotsky (Lev
Bronstein) headed the Red Army and, for a time, was chief of Soviet foreign
affairs. Yakov Sverdlov (Solomon) was both the Bolshevik party's executive
secretary and -- as chairman of the Central Executive Committee -- head of
the Soviet government. Grigori Zinoviev (Radomyslsky) headed the Communist
International (Comintern), the central agency for spreading revolution in
foreign countries. Other prominent Jews included press commissar Karl Radek
(Sobelsohn), foreign affairs commissar Maxim Litvinov (Wallach), Lev Kamenev
(Rosenfeld) and Moisei Uritsky.
Lenin himself was of mostly Russian and Kalmuck ancestry, but he was also
one-quarter Jewish. His maternal grandfather, Israel (Alexander) Blank, was a
Ukrainian Jew who was later baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.
A thorough-going internationalist, Lenin viewed ethnic or cultural loyalties
with contempt. He had little regard for his own countrymen. "An intelligent
Russian," he once remarked, "is almost always a Jew or someone with Jewish
blood in his veins."
[...]
In the Communist seizure of power in Russia, the Jewish role was probably
critical.
Two weeks prior to the Bolshevik "October Revolution" of 1917, Lenin convened
a top secret meeting in St. Petersburg (Petrograd) at which the key leaders
of the Bolshevik party's Central Committee made the fateful decision to seize
power in a violent takeover. Of the twelve persons who took part in this
decisive gathering, there were four Russians (including Lenin), one Georgian
(Stalin), one Pole (Dzerzhinsky), and six Jews.
[...]
David R. Francis, United States ambassador in Russia, warned in a January
1918 dispatch to Washington: "The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are
Jews and 90 percent of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or
any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a
worldwide social revolution."
The Netherlands' ambassador in Russia, Oudendyke, made much the same point a
few months later: "Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately, it is
bound to spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole world as it
is organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality, and whose one object
is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things."
The Bolshevik Revolution," declared a leading American Jewish community paper
in 1920, "was largely the product of Jewish thinking, Jewish discontent,
Jewish effort to reconstruct."
As an expression of its radically anti-nationalist character, the fledgling
Soviet government issued a decree a few months after taking power that made
anti-Semitism a crime in Russia. The new Communist regime thus became the
first in the world to severely punish all expressions of anti-Jewish
sentiment. Soviet officials apparently regarded such measures as
indispensable. Based on careful observation during a lengthy stay in Russia,
American-Jewish scholar Frank Golder reported in 1925 that "because so many
of the Soviet leaders are Jews anti-Semitism is gaining [in Russia],
particularly in the army [and] among the old and new intelligentsia who are
being crowded for positions by the sons of Israel."
Immediately after the [Bolshevik] Revolution, many Jews were euphoric over
their high representation in the new government. Lenin's first Politburo was
dominated by men of Jewish origins
"Anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka," wrote
Jewish historian Leonard Schapiro, "stood a very good chance of finding
himself confronted with, and possibly shot by, a Jewish investigator." In
Ukraine, "Jews made up nearly 80 percent of the rank-and-file Cheka agents,"
reports W. Bruce Lincoln, an American professor of Russian history.
(Beginning as the Cheka, or Vecheka) the Soviet secret police was later known
as the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, MVD and KGB.)
In light of all this, it should not be surprising that Yakov M. Yurovksy, the
leader of the Bolshevik squad that carried out the murder of the Tsar and his
family, was Jewish, as was Sverdlov, the Soviet chief who co-signed Lenin's
execution order.
~ Institute for Historical Review
~ http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html
For many years Lenin's propagandists insisted that Lenin had had nothing to
do with the murder of the Romanov Czar and his wife and children. And many of
Lenin's fans vociferously denied that Lenin had any involvement in the
murders and a great propaganda campaign was launched to absolve Lenin of all
guilt. Unfortunately, the men around Lenin had written about their part in
the assassinations. Lenin's bodyguard, Alexei Akimov, recounted in writing
how he personally delivered Lenin's execution order. Akimov also saved the
original telegraph tape ordering the killings. Sverdlov, who also signed the
order wrote about his part in the murders. Trotsky also wrote of his
conversations with Sverdlov regarding Lenin's decision to eliminate the
Romanovs. Of course you can found thousands of secondary sources saying Lenin
had no hand in extinguishing the Romanov Dynasty, but, primary sources,
including Lenin's own words, indicate otherwise. Perhaps Lenin was assisted
in part by those whom he called "useful idiots". KM
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