The Jewish Involvement In Communism

By Jayne Gardener

Thursday, August 16, 2007

One of my readers has insistently claimed that I am mistaken when I assert that the Russian Revolution and the Communist takeover was largely a Jewish movement.

While most of us know that he is sadly mistaken, it seems that the Jewish connection to Bolshevism is something that has been successfully suppressed for many years and is certainly not part of history readily taught in most schools. However, the connection is not even debatable, and my reader is absolutely wrong despite his continuous protestations to the contrary.

For many years one of the Soviet Union's best kept secrets was that Bolshevik leaders had one thing in common, and that was the fact that there were a disproportionately large number of Jews in the controlling body. It's not in any history books that I'm aware of and most people aren't aware of the fact, however, even the Encyclopedia Judaica confirms the Jewish involvement in the Communist movement.

The Encyclopedia Judaica is a multi-volume book, published in Jerusalem, Israel, by Jews, and according to Amazon.com is "the premier reference source on Jewish life, history and culture." It is available for sale online and available for perusal at most large public libraries, translated into English, of course.

This reference book is quite open about the Jewish role in Communism, particularly early Communism, and contains a large number of admissions, for instance:

Under the entry for "Communism": in Volume 5, page 792, the following appears:"The Communist Movement and ideology played an important part In Jewish life, particularly in the 1920s, 1930s and during and after World War II."

On page 793, the same Encyclopedia Judaica states: "Communist trends became widespread in virtually all Jewish communities. In some countries, Jews became the leading element in the legal and illegal Communist Parties.."

On page 793 it reveals that the Communist International actually instructed Jews to change their names so as "not confirm right-wing propaganda that presented Communism as an alien, Jewish conspiracy."

On page 792, the Encyclopedia describes the large role played by Jews in creating the Soviet Union: "Individual Jews played an important role in the early stages of Bolshevism and the Soviet Regime"

On page 794 it goes on to list the names of Jews prominent in the upper command of the Russian Communist party, including: "Maxim Litvinov, (Later foreign minister of Soviet Russia), Grigori Zinoviev, Lwev Kamenev, Jacob Sverdlov, Lazar Kaganovich, and Karl Radek, amongst many others."

It was Trotsky who organized the revolution, and it was also he who organized a special committee, the Military Revolution Committee, to plan and prepare the coup which brought the Communists to power. According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, this committee was "comprised of five members, three of whom were Jewish."

The Politburo, the ultimate ruling body of Russia immediately after the Communist Revolution, counted "four Jews amongst its seven members," according to page 797 of the Jewish Encyclopedia.

Many have claimed that Lenin was also Jewish, or at the very least, partly Jewish, although there seems to be no proof of this. However, Lenin was very pro-Jewish, branding anti-Semitism as "counter revolutionary" (Encyclopedia Judaica, page 798).

In March of 1919, Lenin made a statement against anti-Semitism which was "one of the rare occasions when his voice was put on a phonograph record to be used in a mass campaign against the counterrevolutionary incitement against the Jews," according to the Encyclopedia Judaica, page 798.

One of the first laws passed by the new Soviet Communist government was to outlaw anti-Semitism (Encyclopedia Judaica, page 798)

Jews were involved in Communism from its very inception. It is a known fact that Karl Marx, the author of Communist ideology, was descended from a family of Rabbis, his original family name being Mordechai. He was born in Prussia on May 5th, 1818, one of seven children born to Jewish parents.

Almost all of the important Bolshevik leaders were Jewish. Lev Bronstein, who changed his name to Leon Trotsky in an effort to disguise his Jewishness was the "father of the revolution." Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in 1879 in the Ukraine, son of a Jewish farmer. Trotsky, who was second in power only to Lenin, was both a theorist and an agitator who became the main force behind the October Revolution of 1917 and eventually served as Commissar of War and Commissar of Public Affairs in the Soviet government until he was forced out and exiled by Josef Stalin.

Lev Kamenev, the early Bolshevik leader who later went on to become a leading member of the Politburo who was born with the surname Rosenfeld, Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Petrograd Soviet, who was born with the surname Apfelbaum, as well as many other famous Communists of the time, including Karl Radek, Lazar Kaganovich and Moses Urtisky, who became head of the Cheka, the foreunner of the infamous KGB. All of the aforementioned changed their names in an attempt to conceal their Jewish heritage.

The Bolshevik's Party's Central Committee chairman, Yakov Sverdlov, also Jewish, was the man who gave the order to murder the Tsar, and his entire family, to the Jewish Soviet secret policeman, Yurovsky who carried out the order personally.

But it wasn't only in Russia that there was a decided Jewish influence in radical movements. In the years after the first World War, there were three other distinct Communist revolutions in Europe.

The German Jew, Kurt Eisner, led a short lived communist revolution in Munich, Bavaria from November 1918 to February 1919 (at the same time that Adolf Hitler was an unknown soldier in that city - the effect of being a first hand witness to a Jewish and Communist-led revolution helped to cement Hitler's anti-Communist and anti-Jewish feelings).

• the short lived Sparticus uprising in Berlin (September 1918 to January 1919) led by the German Jews, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg; and

• the short lived Communist tyranny in Hungary led by the Jew, Bela Kun (Cohen), from March to August 1919.

These incidents all helped to identify Jews with Communism in the public mind: in this light it becomes perfectly explicable why the Nazi Party was able to win support on an anti-Communist and open anti-Jewish platform.

People will deny the Jewish connection to communism because of the number of Jews who eventually became casualities of the movement they had started and led for so long, and this is true, to a degree. Anti-semitism did eventually rear its head within the Communist party, Trotsky being the first casualty. Forced out of the party by Stalin and exiled, he was eventually murdered in Mexico.

In the 1930's, Stalin began purging the party of other prominent Jews:

The period immediately following the end of the Second World War and the creation of the state of Israel saw another rise in Soviet anti-Semitism: by 1953, Stalin had started purging all Jews in the Soviet hierarchy who were also Zionists.

The Communists, quite correctly, saw Zionism as Jewish nationalism and contrary to the interests of an international socialist brotherhood. Many leading Russian Jews were also fervent Zionists: and it was this group that was then targeted for persecution, and who became famous throughout the rest of the lifetime of the Soviet Union as the victims of Soviet anti-Semitism.

Zionism, as an expression of Jewish separatism was declared a crime against the Soviet state, and Zionist organizations were forced to close down their operations inside the Soviet Union.

East Germany, as an official Soviet satellite, was forbidden by Moscow to make any reparations payments to the Zionist created state of Israel for the treatment of Jews by the Nazi government.

Not all Russian Jews were Zionists: those who were not, were generally left alone and some did achieve prominent positions within the post Stalin Soviet Union.

Many thousands of Jews did however leave the Soviet Union - estimates putting the total number at over the one million mark, with most settling in Israel or the United States.

Further proof of the Jewish involvement in Communism can be found in the writings of Winston Churchill, who later became Britain's second World War Prime Minister, but who was, in the 1920s, a journalist.
In 1920, Churchill wrote a full page article for the Illustrated Sunday Herald on 8 February 1920 detailing the Jewish involvement in the revolution. Churchill discusses in this article the split between Jews: some are Communists, he wrote, while others are Jewish nationalists. Churchill favored the Jewish nationalists, (and of course they indeed fall foul of the Jewish Communists, eventually becoming bitter enemies) and he appealed to what he called "loyal Jews" to ensure that the Communist Jews did not succeed. Churchill went even further and blamed the Jews for "every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century", writing :

"This movement amongs the Jews (the Russian Revolution) is not new. From days of Spartacus Weishaupt to those of Karl Mark and down to Trotsky (Russia), Belah Kuhn (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany) and Emma Goldman (United States), this world wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and the reconstruction of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Nesta Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities has gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire. There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistic Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from Jewish leaders."

Churchill also pointedly accused Leon Trotsky (Bronstein) of wanting to establish a "world wide Communistic state under Jewish domination" in this article. (Globalism N.M.)

Churchill was not the only journalist to note the Jewish role in the Russian Revolution: Robert Wilton, the chief correspondent for the London Times, who was stationed in Russia at the time, wrote in his book The Last Days of the Romanovs (Hornton Butterworth, London, 1920, pages 147, 22-28, 81,118, 199, 127, 139-148) that "90 per cent" of the new Soviet government was composed of Jews.

The correspondent for the London Morning Post, Victor Marsden, went further and actually compiled a list of names of the top 545 Bolshevik officials: of these, Marsden said, 454 were Jews and only 23 Non-Jewish Russians. (All These Things, A.N. Field, Appendix B pages 274-276).

Further proof of the Jewish connection to Communism can be found in telegrams sent to The American Army Intelligence Service from its agents in Russia.

An American Senate subcommittee investigation into the Russian Revolution heard evidence, put on congressional record, that "(I)n December 1919, under the presidency of a man named Apfelbaum (Zinovieff) . . . out of the 388 members of the Bolshevik central government, only 16 happened to be real Russians, and all the rest (with the exception of a Negro from the U.S.) were Jews" (U.S. Senate Document 62, 1919).

However, none of these authorities quoted above dared to use quite the language of a US Military Intelligence officer, one captain Montgomery Schuyler, who sent two reports to Washington in March and June 1919, describing in graphic detail the Jewish role in the Russian Revolution. Both these reports were only declassified in September 1957 and the originals are still held in the US National Archives in Washington, open for public inspection.

The first report, sent from Omsk on 1 March 1919, contains the following paragraph:

"it is probably unwise to say this loudly in the United States but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since its beginning, guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type..."

The second report, dated 9 June 1919, and sent from Vladivostok, said that of the "384 commissars there were 2 Negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen, 22 Armenians and more than 300 Jews. Of the latter number 264 had come to Russia from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial Government."

The importance of this information does not need to be overemphasized in the light of the crucial governing role the commissars played in the running the early Soviet society.

It therefore came as no surprise when anti-Semitism was duly entered into the Soviet law books as a death penalty crime - although latent anti-Semitism simmered even in Communist Party circles, flaring up quite seriously when a Jewish woman, Fanny Kaplan, tried to assassinate Lenin by literally stabbing him in the back.

Eventually, as outlined earlier, the hardcore Communists were to part ways with the Jewish nationalists, or Zionists, and the two camps were to become bitter enemies, a situation which persisted right until the collapse of the Soviet Union late in the 20th Century.

What is also factual is that the Communist Party in America was also founded and controlled by Jews and had far reaching implications for American society.

Although the party was politically unsuccessful, what was hugely successful were its activities regarding espionage and infiltration, eventually reaching right into the Civil Rights Movement and that group's leader, Martin Luther King, himself a Communist.

According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, page 804, "the list of Jews who played a prominent role in the leadership and factional infighting of the American Communist Party is a long one . . .Many American Jewish authors and intellectuals, some of whom later recanted, were active in editing Communist publications and spreading party propaganda . . among them Micheal Gold, Howard Fast and Bertram Wolfe."

During the Cold War, many of the Soviet spies arrested by the American government were Jewish, and nothing was more damaging to America than the knowledge that they had passed the secret of the atom bomb to the Soviet Union. The ringleaders, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, both Jewish, were eventually executed for their part in the plot. Even the scientists working at the Los Alamos Laboratory (which was top secret), were Jewish scientists by the name of David Greenglass and Theodore Hallsberg. These two actually passed the secrets to the Rosenbergs who used a Jewish courier, Harry Gold, to pass the information to their Soviet superiors.

Despite the overwhelming and disproportionate number of Jews in Communist parties and movements world wide, it can't be said, obviously, that all Jews are Communists, that is simply not the case. However, it is absolutely accurate to say that Jews, beginning with Karl Marx himself, have been the driving force behind the Communist movement from its inception.

As you can clearly see, trying to deny Jewish involvement in Communism is an impossible task because the facts are simply irrefutable. Even the Encyclopedia Judaica itself admits the connection and its facts are also backed up by many other sources.

The far reaching Jewish influence in Communism brought about one of the most brutal and cruel ideologies ever inflicted on a people, leading to horrific government sponsored famines that killed millions. Under Communist rule, the Soviet people suffered for decades, eventually leading to the deaths of anywhere from 20 to 100 million people, depending on which sources you believe. But any way you slice it, it is beyond chutzpah to whine endlessly about the supposed deaths of 6 million Jews (an unprovable and ridiculous figure) in light of the suffering inflicted on the Russian people.

It is unconscionable to constantly bring up the suffering endured by Jews while refusing to take responsibility for the abject misery and destruction they caused in the Soviet Union. It is to their eternal shame that Jews have spent the past 62 years claiming victimhood for the Holocaust while showing nothing but utter callousness and complete disregard for the suffering and deaths of untold Gentiles in the Soviet Union and eastern European countries under an evil, Jewish-inspired and created ideology.

And, unlike the victims of the so-called Holocaust, the victims of Jewish Communism don't have endless books, movies, centres and museums dedicated to them, nor have they ever been monetarily compensated in any way.

Hopefully one day, the textbooks in schools around the world will reflect the truth.

It's certainly time.