DUKE: …the incredible Jewish influence in Communism in Russia…
Now it's not anti-Semitic to say that the Jews were behind Communism as a group, not
all Jews but…
PROBLEM GENE: In the Alt-Right, anti-Communist rhetoric is typically used for one, inciting
anti-Semitism, which is done by trying to associate Jewish people with the deaths that
Communism has caused, and also for making a rather subtle defense of Nazism, by exaggerating
the Communist atrocities while downplaying and sometimes covering up the Nazi atrocities,
so that one doesn't look so bad in comparison to the other.
Today we'll be addressing the former – if you couldn't guess, and just to be clear,
I'm not a Communist – I'm against Communism in all its forms and my content will be, NOT
defense of Communism, but instead refutation of anti-Semitic, pro-fascist talking points.
Let's take a look at another clip of David Duke, now speaking about his book "The Secret
behind Communism".
What could that "secret" behind Communism be?
Places your bets!
DUKE: My latest book is "The Secret behind Communism", you can get that…
The "Russian Revolution" is not the Russian revolution.
It wasn't done by Russians!
It was financed, it was led – ENTIRELY led by Jews in the beginning; even Lenin was part
Jewish, Trotsky was the first head of the Red Army who was Bronstein, Zinoviev, Kamenev…
PROBLEM GENE: Does David Duke hold a fringe view?
SPENCER: …because we aren't living in, say, Russia of the time of the Bolshevik revolution.
That's often falsely called the "Russian Revolution", there was very little "Russian"
about that revolution, but put that aside…
PROBLEM GENE: Well that sounds awfully familiar...
How about Andrew Anglin, the founder of the Daily Stormer?
ANGLIN: …it is run based on Jewish ideologies, okay?
SARGON: … I don't agree that these ideologies are innately Jewish.
ANGLIN: Is Marxism…?
What race was Karl Marx?
What race was Trotsky?
What race was Lenin?
ANGLIN: …it does not mean that he's not promoting – that he did not invent an ideology
that was used by Jews to slaughter white people, okay?
White Christians in Russia, in Ukraine, were slaughtered by Communism being run by Jewish
people who were enacting a program that was invented by a Jew…
PROBLEM GENE: Even Red-Ice TV, the more mainstream branch of the Alt-Right gets behind this…
MACRAE: …of course that brings me to the whole concept of the right of the return the
Jews claim they have to Israel, and they can go there no matter where they are, from any
part of the world and it's paid for.
And yet, look at this story in the Bolshevik revolution which was largely their doing,
so…
It was their revolution – or their coup, their takeover…
LOKTEFF: Oh yeah!
And wasn't the Tsar kind, and he let the Jews come seek shelter…
PROBLEM GENE: I've got one more...
ENOCH: …when you understand the roots of Communism – it's intellectual roots, it's
ethnic roots, where it comes from, and you don't talk about that and you make it as if
these anti-Semitism outbursts in Europe in the middle of the 20th century; just totally
inexplicable!
They should at least put these facts before you; the reason people were anti-Semitic was
[because] they thought – with justification, that the USSR was a Jewish regime that was
going to kill Christians.
And this was not an unjustified thing to…
PROBLEM GENE: There's also this guy – "RockingMr.E", who calls the "elites" of the Bolshevik
party that took over Russia 'Ashkenazi' and not 'Jewish'.
MR.E: It's a historical fact that the majority of the Bolshevik party elites were Ashkenazi.
PROBLEM GENE: He references the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Robert Wilton and Winston
Churchill who talk about specifically Jews and not Ashkenazi, yet in his own mind he
considers that to be the same thing as Ashkenazi.
MR.E: …Robert Wilton published the ethnicity of all members of the Soviet Government…
Not only were the vast majority Ashkenazi…
PROBLEM GENE: So he targets the same group that everyone else calls Jews, while calling
them something different to escape the definition of anti-Semitism – clever!
And Robert Wilton's list is a lie; he invented members for Bolshevik Central Committee and
left out many actual members.
MR.E: …on one hand there's the Nazi revisionist interpretation that barely acknowledges the
murder of around a quarter of a million Jews, and on the other hand there's a six million
figure that seems incredibly inflated, and very difficult to prove…
SARGON: So there's a YouTuber called RockingMr.E…
I just want to begin this by saying that I'm not attacking the man; I respect his intelligence,
I respect his understanding of what he's talking about…
PROBLEM GENE: I hope you never truly did Sargon, but let's not waste anymore time of Wilton's
list – despite its other mistakes.
We shall be going through this topic in three phases; first is the Russian Revolution, and
to what possible extent it wasn't "Russian".
The second phase is the mass murder in the USSR, because when most people think about
the USSR they instantly think about the bad stuff that happened, which is understandable,
but it means that any kind of a talk about Jewish participation in the regime will almost
inevitably draw a connection in people's minds with Jews and mass murder.
This is pretty much what one of the Alt-Right's intellectual heroes – Kevin MacDonald, tried
to take an advantage of in the paperback edition of his book "The Culture of Critique",
so we'd better take a look at the roles individual Jews actually played in any mass
murder.
And in the third phase we will be talking about minority over-representation – particularly
in the Soviet secret police organs, and what kind of conclusions can we make based on that.
I will be looking at David Duke's book throughout this video, but I won't be refuting every
single argument in that, I'll only take on the serious allegations.
I'm going be showing screen-caps from various books, and the numbers that will appear on
the screen alongside with them coincide with links in the description so that you can fact-check
my claims and rebuttals – all of my sources will also be shown at the end of the video.
Pausing the video in order to read the screen-caps is likely required.
SPENCER: …that's often falsely called the "Russian Revolution", there was very
little "Russian" about that revolution, but put that aside…
PROBLEM GENE: Now let's talk about the Russian Revolution…
The Russian Revolution is the name used for a whole sequence of events in 1917 that would
end up with the Bolsheviks in power.
I will talk about the two main aspects of it, for the sake of simplicity.
From the beginning of 1917, when the First World War was still raging, most Russians
wanted to get rid of the Tsar for dragging their country into that unnecessary conflict.
This led to the February Revolution, when the Tsar was forced to abdicate when hundreds
of thousands of people went on strikes as protest.
The internal power struggles within the leadership also contributed to the abdication of the
Tsar – Jews virtually played no part in this first half of the Revolution.
About 8 months later the Bolsheviks would seize power in what would be called the October
Revolution.
The REAL Central Committee in the Bolshevik party at this time was made up of 21 members
of whom 6 were Jewish, and of the total number of Bolshevik party members about 5% were Jewish.
Of these 21 Central Committee members THESE were ethnic Russians – about 43%, and if
we look at the demographics of Russia in the early 20th century, we will see that ethnic
Russians were 44% of the Russian population.
Yes, that is how ethnically diverse the country was at the time…
So there were as many ethnic Russians in the leadership positions as there should be under
fair and equal circumstances.
The guy who led the party – Vladimir Lenin, came from an ethnic background that might
be fitting, considering the ethnic diversity of the country he would become the leader
of, but just like the country, he was much more ethnically Russian than anything else.
David Duke of course focuses on Lenin's Jewish grandparent, which I find a little
odd not only because Lenin's part-Jewish ancestry was unknown during his life-time,
but also since he's willing to consider Lev Kamenev to be a Jew, even though he was
half-Jewish.
Kamenev should therefore be considered as much of an ethnic Russian as a Jew – maybe
his Jewish wife somehow becomes the tipping point, but Lenin had no Jewish wife, nor anything
in his ancestry that could get close to rivaling his Russian one, so how is he not considered
a Russian?
The complaint that the Alt-Right has, obviously comes down to the number of Jewish people
in the Bolshevik leadership.
Jews were 3 to 4% of the Russian Empire's population, which would be close to 2% in
the Soviet Union.
3 to 4% in the Russian Empire is a bit different from the 28.5% of the Bolshevik Central Committee,
and it probably requires some explanation.
DUKE: …[they] hated Russia because they saw the Russian Tsar as an anti-Semite, well
the reason why the Russian Tsar to them was anti-"Semitic", [was that] he was a Russian
patriot.
And he saw the exploitation of Russia by these international banksters, he was a dedicated
Christian, he saw the destruction of Christian values going on…
PROBLEM GENE: No David, the anti-Semitism refers to things like permitting pro-Tsarist
groups to kill thousands, if not tens of thousands of Jews in pogroms.
There also existed prohibitions to the civil rights of Jewish people in the Russian Empire,
Tsars themselves were anti-Jewish, and state officials also played no small role in the
creation and distribution of the Protocol of the Elders of Zion – an influential piece
of anti-Semitic propaganda in the early 20th century.
There are no more conspiracies you need to invent in order to explain the disproportional
involvement of Jews in the revolutionary parties, than to explain the disproportional involvement
of dark-skinned people in the civil rights movement in America.
People who are treated harshly by the current system might want to change it, and this likely
was the main reason why some Jews were at the forefront of the Bolsheviks and other
revolutionary parties – I'll bring up other possible reasons in phase three.
Due to the anti-Semitism of the Tsarist government you might think that the people of Russia
must have grown extremely anti-Semitic by and large as well, but turns out, revolutionary
parties with prominent Jewish leading figures managed to become popular, as is made evident
by the elections surrounding the October Revolution; in mid-1917 the Bolsheviks were the third
most popular party in Russia, while the Mensheviks – another socialist party, were the second
most popular even though the Mensheviks were more Jewish led than the Bolsheviks.
The Socialist Revolutionaries – the party that managed to beat the Mensheviks had two
Jewish founding members out of four.
In the elections following the Bolshevik coup d'état the Socialist Revolutionaries proved
themselves once again to have been the party a bit more of the public's taste, while
the Bolsheviks had risen to the spot of the second most popular party in Russia.
By the way, this was not a phony election, despite the fact that it took place after
the Bolshevik coup.
The Bolsheviks should have gotten like 99.4% of the votes if this election had been a fraud,
instead of being upstaged by another party.
The reason I brought up these election results was to give evidence that goes against the
narrative that the Alt-Right – and anti-Semites in general want to twist the October Revolution
into.
It was not some hostile foreign culture taking over Russia; socialism was very much the tide
of the country at the time, at least among the voting bloc, and while the Socialist Revolutionaries
were the most popular, Bolsheviks came in at second.
ANGLIN: …okay?
White Christians in Russia, in Ukraine, were slaughtered by Communism being run by Jewish
people who were enacting a program that was invented by a Jew…
PROBLEM GENE: The mass murders in the Soviet Union were committed during the Bolshevik
rule; the Red Terror, the dekulakization, the 1931-3 famine, the Purge, crimes during
and soon after World War 2, and the Gulag camp system.
The famine of the early 1920s doesn't count in my view, because it was caused by factors
like war, drought, and weather.
The initial actions of the Bolsheviks didn't help the starving victims, but Lenin would
let foreign aid into the country, which was used to feed close to 11 million Russian people
daily.
The Russian Civil War is very complicated.
There's no one side that deserves all, or even most of the blame.
Lenin's strive for power was one of causes, meaning that the Bolsheviks were to a degree
guilty of the Civil War, and the famine by extension, but I don't think that either
one of these two events could truly be classified as Communist atrocities.
During the Civil War there was a period of mass killing – often called the 'Red Terror',
which was the first mass murder under Bolshevik rule.
The mass murder began after the assassination attempt on Lenin, and was justified as an
effort to crush the hydra of counter-revolution.
The Red Terror would claim, reasonably, up to 200,000 lives.
Despite the fact that this happened during the time when plenty of Jewish people were
in the Central Committee, Jewish involvement in this mass murder was quite lacking.
The killings were carried out by the secret police – Cheka as it was called at the time,
which was headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, who was among the main culprits for the Red Terror,
along with his deputy Jekabs Peterss, and at the very top, Lenin, who was encouraging
the terror.
None of the culprits here were Jews, and in a surprising twist, Latvians were the minority
most over-represented in the Cheka leadership.
Lenin died on January 21st 1924, which would leave Stalin as the most powerful person in
the Soviet Union.
And contrary to what Western-Trotsky-fetishists might claim, there was really no hope for
Trotsky becoming Lenin's successor.
Jewish influence in Soviet politics was greatly reduced in this time – in fact let's go
over what happened to every Jewish Central Committee member before the major Soviet atrocities
would take place; in 1918 Uritsky was assassinated, in 1919 Sverdlov died of disease, 1926 was
the year when Sokolnikov lost his place in the Central Committee – all though his political
career would not be completely over just yet, in 1927 Kamenev was thrown out of the Central
Committee, while Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the entire party, and Kamenev
alongside Zinoviev would be exiled in early 1928.
The 1920s were when Russians become the majority in the leading positions – which would not
change by the way, and Jews were taken out of the leading positions, with one exception;
Lazar Kaganovich – we'll talk more about him later.
The collectivization would bring forth the biggest atrocities in Soviet history; the
dekulakization in which most of the 5 million people victimized by this policy were deported
under brutal conditions, and the 1931-3 Soviet famine in which millions starved.
1928 is the year in which collectivization could be said to have begun; this was for
one thing, the year of the Shakhty trial.
In order to justify policies against the so-called kulaks, the Soviet government needed to stir
up some hostility towards their class enemies, and this was done by having the secret police
– now called OGPU, fabricate a counter-revolutionary plot to sabotage Soviet power, which supposedly
occurred in the mining settlement known as Shakhty.
No kind of sabotage actually happened.
About a year later Stalin would be instigating the dekulakization but let's take a look
at David Duke's interpretation of the upcoming mass murder, and who does he single out as
the perpetrator…
Here's Yagoda, whom David – while trying to hide behind the ignorance of his source,
accepts as being responsible for 10 million deaths, which is an idea he still gets behind
as recently as August 2018.
He never explains this figure, but it might come from Robert Conquest's 1986 book "The
Harvest of Sorrow" in which Conquest estimates 11 million total deaths from dekulakization
and the famine.
In Robert Conquest's 1990 book "The Great Terror: A Reassessment" he estimated that
the death toll of the Soviet regime couldn't be lower than 20 million, but in his 2008
edition of the book, on page 18 he was willing to lower that figure to 15 million, suggesting
that the number of victims from the collectivization policies could also be lower.
In The Harvest of Sorrow, the book from before the opening of the Soviet archives, Conquest
estimates the number of people dekulakized to have been a lot higher than most recent
scholarship would allow, which might explain why he was willing to lower the possible Soviet
death toll by 5 million later in his life.
Let's get back to Yagoda…
You might wondering what I'm trying to hide by blocking out the text like this, well;
one of the bodies of text mentions an argument I will deal with later, so I don't want
to confuse you now, and the others contain perhaps the most outrageously dishonest crap
I have ever read in my life, which I will show you but only at the end.
Genrikh Yagoda indeed was Jewish, and he was the de facto head of the secret police, OGPU,
at the time of these collectivization policies, since Menzinsky – the official head, had
to remain inactive due to his illnesses.
I can see why someone who stopped his research at this point would conclude that Yagoda must
have been a mass murderer of a sort, but let's not be hasty with our conclusions, and continue
reading…
The kulaks were a very loosely defined class of wealthier peasants, better-off farmers
and such, who had been a sneaky class enemy of the Bolsheviks pretty much from the start.
From the Marxist outlook the existence of this kulak class was incompatible with socialism,
so it's no wonder that the Bolsheviks considered them enemies.
The liquidation of the kulak class was just about the first thing that the Political Bureau
of the Central Committee decided upon in 1930, following Stalin's speech about the topic
in late December 1929.
Stalin was already planning the liquidation of the kulaks in the earlier month, when he
called in a number of OGPU officials to play a part in the future task, which included
Yagoda of course, Stanislav Messing – his equally Jewish deputy, and Yevdokimov.
You might remember seeing Yevdokimov's name in relation to the Shakhty trial since he
was one of the key figures in that event.
Yefim Yevdokimov had a remarkable career in the army, and became the head of the North-Caucasus
secret police in 1923.
Yevdokimov, as you might expect, wasn't Jewish – he was Russian, and in 1929 he
was brought into the upper-ranks of the OGPU where he would work as a counterweight to
Yagoda power, since Yevdokimov was now in charge of many of the OGPU's departments
and quickly forged a strong nucleus of loyal OGPU officials.
Yevdokimov was in charge of the Secret political directorate, which in turn – to name some,
administered the department for combating anti-Soviet bourgeois parties and movements,
the department for combating counter-revolutionaries in the Red Army, and the departments for combating
espionage and counter-revolutionary action in the East.
In 1930, the OGPU's order to liquidate the kulak class ensued from the Central Committee's
decision, and in the OGPU a special group was formed for the task of carrying out the
liquidation of the kulaks with Yevdokimov as the guy in charge of the dekulakization
operation, and of this whole team of kulak liquidators only THIS one here was Jewish
– yup, someone call the Nazis, we found a Jew!
Yagoda's role is hard to specify, but he likely was more involved in the second wave
of kulak deportations, when he was also reporting to Stalin about the progress of the dekulakization,
so let's not get too carried away with Yevdokimov, and let's just say that he holds at least
equal amount of responsibility as Yagoda, even if Yevdokimov is never mentioned in David's
book.
Nothing I've said here excuses Yagoda or his OGPU goons, they were all bad people and
complicit in the mass murder – not genocide, of the kulaks, like Yevdokimov and his goons,
I just don't agree that Yagoda or any other OGPU official should be singled out as a mass
murderer.
At the end of the day the OGPU was working in accordance with the decisions of the Central
Committee, and the Central Committee was working in accordance with the will of Stalin, who
also personally communicated with OGPU and whose idea it was to get rid of the kulaks
in the first place.
If anybody here deserves enough blame to be called a murderer of the hundreds of thousands,
if not millions of victims, it would have to be Stalin, and the people who backed his policies
in the Central Committee deserve some blame, as well as the OGPU officials like Yagoda
and Yevdokimov who carried those policies.
There's no reason to cherry-pick one Jewish person from this bureaucracy and scapegoat
him as the person responsible for the deaths caused by all of this.
The dekulakization would serve as one of the causes for the 1931-3 famine, but it wouldn't
be fair to attribute the famine to the people involved in the dekulakization, since that
famine was a completely unintended consequence, there were multiple other causal factors as
well, and a whole bunch of different people guilty of aggravating that situation.
In 1921 Lenin forced upon the Party Congress the 'New Economic Policy', which allowed
a degree of economic freedom for the peasants, but this would be overturned by Stalin in
late 1928 – whose collectivization ideas go back as far as 1906.
In 1930 the last of the people opposing the [forced] collectivization, Alexei Rykov, lost his position
in the regime, and the first five-year plan which began in 1928 and attempted to collectivize
agriculture and industrialize the country under the pretext than capitalist nations
will beat up and rob countries that are weak, no longer had opponents.
The collectivization didn't go so well; the Soviet regime immediately came across
resistance from the peasants, who did not want to be pushed into the collective farms
and would protest by sometimes killing their livestock.
Before the year 1929 was done, the secret police had recorded over one thousand peasant
protests, and these protests would increase to the point where the OGPU recorded close
to seven thousand protests in March 1930 alone.
1930 is when Ukraine saw its largest protests against the state policy.
The killing of the livestock as a protest occurred again.
This collectivization policy resulted in a devastating loss of farm animals, demoralized
collective farmers who had been forced into the farms against their will, and a dekulakization
which had gotten rid of all possible experienced farmers.
These policies placed the Soviet Union on a knife-edge, which meant that when it was
struck by drought, terrible weather, and a locus infestation that incompetent state officials
couldn't deal with, a famine was the inevitable consequence.
Tankies tend to blame the natural causes only for this famine, like the drought and grain
rust.
Both did exist, but the grain rust for example only became a problem because of the unskilled
officials.
The previous, more experienced farmers likely could have identified it in time and it wouldn't
have developed into such an issue.
Without Stalin's collectivization the Soviet agriculture would have been in a far better
position to overcome any famine, and far less people would have died.
The early 1930s Soviet famine killed 5 to 7 million people all around, including over
a million Kazakhs and about 3.5 million Ukrainians.
As I've shown, the famine was in no way whatsoever created intentionally.
And while every victim is a testament to how unbelievably dangerous Communist ideology
can be, their starvation was not a result of mass murder, except, as you might be aware,
in the Ukrainian portion of the famine, where Ukrainians were at least to an extent intentionally
starved when the Soviet leadership kept coming up with ways to punish the starving Ukrainians
when they failed to meet the impossible quotas, when the Soviets should have been helping
them.
It's important to note that the number Ukrainians that died is around that 3.5 million.
The demographic study conducted by a department of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences
proposed a figure of 3.9 million dead.
So rounding up these figures - saying that 4 million Ukrainians died wouldn't be false,
but let's be more precise and say that close to 4 million died.
Close to 4 million – definitely not six million or more, which are the figures fascists
use to trivialize the Holocaust, and imply that there is some Jewish bias in the way
history is taught.
COLLETT: …take for example the Holodomor, and for those who've never heard of the
Holodomor, it is also known as the Ukrainian genocide.
The Holodomor killed an – an officially estimated, 7 million to 10 million people.
Yet, despite more people being killed in the Holodomor than killed during the Holocaust,
I doubt any schoolchildren…
PROBLEM GENE: Of course it's not only rightwing radicals who use these inflated figures – they're
just the ones who do it for nefarious purposes.
PETERSON: …I mean it's absolutely dreadful what happened in the Soviet Union, I mean
just for starters, 6 million Ukrainians died in the 1930s because of forced starvation…
PROBLEM GENE: David also uses the inflated figures to make the Holocaust seem like some
propaganda tool used to garner sympathy for Jewish people, while hiding the supposed atrocities
of Jews themselves.
This was not a Jewish atrocity – as we shall see, and I think that people's lack of knowledge
of Soviet crimes simply has to do with poor history education.
People are just as ignorant of the Congo Free State and crimes of Hirohito's Japan – even
though these too were among the great atrocities of the 20th century.
It's understandable that there would be more focus on the Holocaust over other mass
killings, since it's the worst genocide ever recorded; in which over 60% of the European
Jewish population was killed in a period of 4 years, but getting back to David…
He picks another Jewish guy to be his scapegoat – Lazar Kaganovich, who was only Jewish
person in Stalin inner circle, and you might remember him from before as also the only
Jewish member of the political bureau during the Stalin era.
David blows Kaganovich's role out of all proportions – even worse than he did with
Yagoda, while again ignoring every other person guilty of the starvation of the Ukrainians.
The Kiev court case from 2010, while making unwarranted conclusions about the motives,
provides useful information about some of the key figures in this atrocity.
It counts seven; Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich, Postyshev, Kossior, Chubar and Khatayevich.
Kaganovich and Khatayevich representing the Jewish problem here…
Apparently David wasn't aware of the existence of Khatayevich, since he wasn't mentioned
in his book.
Having two Jews connected to this atrocity would have been a goldmine for him, but we
might find out soon why he didn't know about Khatayevich.
The court papers list nearly 40 events from January 15th 1932 to June 4th 1933, and looking
at the court papers, you will see which of these seven perpetrators were the most significant;
Stalin again played the most crucial role and he is highlighted as being "the chief
ideologist and organizer" of the event, and as playing "the lead role and a key
role in masterminding the crime, establishing the means for its commission, controlling
its execution", and conceiving "all principal Party decisions".
This is why he, like with the dekulakization, has earned the title of mass murderer, others
were lesser culprits.
Below him, would be his right-hand man in the regime; Vyacheslav Molotov, who often
worked very closely with the dictator.
Then Kaganovich, who worked with other important characters, and also a few times with the
dictator…
Then Stanislav Kossior, Pavel Postyshev and Vlas Chubar; Kossior was the party boss of
Ukraine, and according to these court papers, took part in more party actions that lead
to the starvation of Ukrainians than anyone else, but not all party actions were equally
consequential.
Postyshev is credited as having control over Kossior, and signing some of the export quotas
for Ukraine, and Chubar participated in the blacklisting of villages – among other things...
Finally we have Mendel Khatayevich, a member of the Ukrainian Communist Party, who is credited
as mainly informing the Soviet leadership of the starvation in Ukraine, and working
on a few occasions as Chubar's sidekick.
This is probably why David didn't know about Khatayevich; his role was quite minimal, at
least when compared to the others.
One person who is definitely missing from this list is Vsevolod Balytsky – who was
a Ukrainian himself and the head of Ukraine's secret police during the most critical time
period.
Balytsky had been in the leading positions of the Ukrainian secret police since 1918,
but relieved from his post in 1931 – briefly replaced with Stanislav Redens, and brought
back as the de facto head of the Ukrainian secret police in November 1932.
During the Ukrainian famine he had likely corroborated with Stalin, and certainly worked
with Kaganovich and Postyshev in squeezing grain out of Ukraine.
Balytsky was also appointed by Postyshev for the task of liquidating the Ukrainian nationalists
who were blamed for the famine.
It wouldn't be right to assume that the highest ranking members of the secret police
must have been automatically the masterminds of any atrocities, but this evidence that
I've just given you, strongly suggests that Balytsky was a perpetrator, much more so that
Khatayevich I'd say, but let's put them on equal ground, just to be generous.
Now let's look at this pyramid through David Duke goggles…
Wait, that's still not right, maybe we need to focus this thing a little…
*DOOM MUSIC!!*
But seriously, this whole thing doesn't exactly have the stench of Judaism
on it.
The OGPU was replaced by the new secret police – NKVD, in 1934, with Stalin appointing
Yagoda as the head.
Yagoda now ran the secret police, and not just de facto like before, and this would
be the time when the secret police organs became substantially more Jewish – details
in phase three.
The next few years in the USSR were relatively peaceful – like calm before the storm, and
the Purge AKA The Great Terror in the years of 1937-38 would see over 800,000 people executed
– a figure which doesn't include the people who died in the camps.
Historians have not quite figured out why this event happened, but the reasons likely
had something to do with Stalin's grievances with his old enemies, and wanting to solidify
his own power.
Yagoda, as the head of the NKVD was arresting suspects in the early stage of the terror,
but soon – before the terror would reach its peak, Yagoda himself got caught in the
crossfire of baseless accusations after losing his spot as the head of the NKVD to Nikolai
Yezhov.
Yagoda's life wouldn't last long, as he would be executed a bit over a year later
at the same time as the legendary Bolshevik revolutionary Nikolai Bukharin.
Yezhov, the new head of NKVD wasn't Jewish but Russian – all though later discovered
to have had a Lithuanian mother, and he could speak Polish apparently.
He didn't seem like a threatening figure; being short as a dwarf, tormented by a notably
bad health and alcoholism, but he and his Russian deputy – Mikhail Frinovsky, would
turn out to be major instruments used by Stalin for the terror.
In the chaos of the Terror, a huge amount of so-called foreign spies were arrested – some
would be executed, whom Stalin must have known were largely innocent, but according to the
logic of the Terror; it was better to strike down some innocent people, than let even one
guilty person go free.
During the Terror, some familiar faces – besides just Yagoda, would be executed, such as Kamenev
and Zinoviev.
Zinoviev didn't look happy at his capture – maybe the Jews since then have learned
to orchestrate better conspiracies...
At one point, Mao Zedong was targeted as a Trotskyite – imagine the butterfly effect
if the NKVD had gone after him...
At the end of the Terror Yezhov would lose his spot at the top of the NKVD, to a guy
named Lavrenti Beria who had a long and an impressive secret police career already behind
him.
In the usual fashion, Yezhov was arrested after his resignation, and would later be
executed.
As for the circle of guilt; Stalin was without a question the main perpetrator of this atrocity
– even his inner circle was blindsided by his actions and in the Terror Yezhov plus
his Russian deputy – Frinovsky were the central implementers.
The people in Stalin's inner circle were accessories, for cosigning sentencing lists
and intensifying the chaos.
Of the half a dozen people in his inner circle, Kaganovich remains the only Jewish person.
Then we have the Jewish editor of Pravda who with his propaganda directed the public's
perceptions – hardly responsible for any deaths, and one important NKVD operative in
Western Siberia and Mongolia was Jewish…
The Terror was also brought inside the NKVD, and as you might remember, the NKVD was very
Jewish when the Terror began, but the number of Jews was being greatly reduced as the Terror
went on while the number of ethnic Russians grew immensely, and Beria would finish the
job by cleaning the NKVD from Jewish people almost completely.
As you can see, Jewish influence barely existed in this atrocity, so reading about how David
Duke had spun this into his narrative was interesting.
Who is he going to try to scapegoat this time?
C'mon, take a guess!
Its Jewish wives, particularly Yezhov's Jewish wife...
We don't need to go through the Soviet atrocities past this point, since the disproportionate
Jewish influence doesn't come back; Beria, who was a Georgian like Stalin, continued
as the head of the NKVD – the final Soviet atrocities like the deportations of ethnic
and national minorities, killing over a million German POWs and the Katyn massacre occurred
during his reign, the Jews would remain a small minority in the secret police organs
and Kaganovich the only Jew in Stalin's inner circle.
The Gulag camp system started with the Bolshevik rule, and spanned well into the 1950s.
In one sentence on the secret Yagoda-page I've been reluctant to show you, David tries
to pin the blame for the Gulag onto Yagoda's Jewish deputies, which is what he will dedicate
an entire paragraph for later in his book – he's being very deceptive by associating
the Jewish individuals with any millions dying.
1930s was the time when the secret police was very Jewish, so it's no surprise that
the camp commanders also were disproportionately Jewish at that time.
Out of the six characters David highlights, these three were the prominent ones in regards
to the Gulag – these were not Yagoda's deputies by the way.
Frenkel, while exaggerated by Solzhenitsyn, was a high-ranking commander at Solovetsky
– whether or not he actually was Jewish (likely was), and played an important role
in the early development of the Gulag system.
Perhaps thousands died at Solovetsky – some under the orders of Yezhov, so there likely
aren't many deaths that we can pin on Frenkel.
Kogan was the head of the Gulag system in the first three years of the 1930s – with
Berman as his deputy.
During his administration the average death rate was 4%, and close to 30,000 people died
in total.
The roles soon switched when Kogan became the deputy, and Matvei Berman became the head
of the Gulag, and the biggest criminal of these three, since he held an average death
rate of 5.3%, and a total of 193,000 died.
All of that can't be blamed of Berman; the building of the White Sea Canal was pushed
by Stalin – a project that killed some 25,000, and 1937 was the first year of the Terror
– another one of Stalin's projects, during which people were crammed into the Gulags.
None the less, Berman could be responsible for over 100,000 deaths.
When Beria became the NKVD chief, he would take steps to enlarge the Gulag system, by
then the Jews had been purged out of the NKVD, including many of the former Gulag commanders.
The war made life in the Gulags much worse; the treatment of protesting prisoners become
harsher, and war meant food shortages.
During these years the head of the Gulag was Viktor Nasedkin – who wasn't Jewish but
Ukrainian, and two million people died in the Gulags at this time – about 70% of the
total Gulag death toll, with the death rate reaching 25%.
All of this can't be just attributed the German invasion, since the Soviets began to
arrest ridiculous numbers of people from the areas they now occupied, and stuff them into
the overcrowded Gulags.
Berman, the guiltiest of the Jewish perpetrators of the Gulag, could be credited with 4-7%
of all the Gulag victims.
If you want to count all Gulag deaths from Yagoda's reign and combine Berman, Kogan
and Frenkel for some collective Jewish responsibility – regardless whether Frenkel actually was
Jewish (again, he likely was); that would still have to be less than 8.2% of the total
dead, while Nasedkin – under Beria's reign, could be credited with 70% of the victims,
so it doesn't make sense to link the horrifying image of the Gulag that people have in their
minds, with Jewish individuals.
Now we get to move away from the Soviet Union for a while, because David Duke is not done
yet!
DUKE: …millions more [by] Pol Pot in Cambodia, 20, 30, 40 million in China – all around…
And even in China, the people who spread Communism there actually Jews, believe it or not.
That's a fact, and I have all these documents in my book…
PROBLEM GENE: So THE people who spread Communism to China were Jewish...
Let's look at his book to see if he can substantiate that.
First, he names a Comintern official, who served as an advisor to already existing Chinese
communists, then a doctor, then a doctor/soldier who later worked as a diplomat, then a photographer/filmmaker,
a journalist, a translator, a writer/translator, and finally another journalist.
He's really grasping at straws here.
Maybe the first one – the Comintern official, could be considered a footnote to the history
of Chinese Communism, but even his efforts were merely a part of a much larger campaign
to support the Chinese Communists.
I don't know how the rest could be considered to have had any serious influence – they
certainly weren't THE people who spread Communism to China.
David was lying when he said that.
MR.E: …the secret police known as the Cheka [was] also dominated by this ethnic group.
This was so well establish that Winston…
PROBLEM GENE: I wasn't sure how to properly incorporate this into the second phase, so
I decided to deal with this notion in a separate segment, since now that we are aware of the
secret police officials who were the accomplices to mass murder, simply citing statistics about
the secret police organs shouldn't confuse anyone.
The secret police reached its Jewish peak in the mid-1930s, but how Jewish was it, you
might ask?
During Yagoda's rule the Jews were roughly 38% of the NKVD leadership – about 19 times
the over-representation compared to the Jewish population of the USSR, and of the 573 man
central apparatus listed, these were Jewish – 20%.
This could have had something to do with Yagoda trusting Jews more than others, since even
in his OGPU days he chose to surround himself with Jewish deputies.
The OGPU was about 8% Jewish in 1925 – 4 times the over-representation, a number which
rapidly grew alongside Yagoda's power.
There exists a blind-spot between 1925 and 1934 – a time period for which there are
no reliable statistics, but we can make some estimates based on other data.
The best way to do this is to look at the OPGU in 1929 and investigate these officials
one at a time, using websites dedicated for these topics, and find out how many were Jewish.
In 1929 the OGPU's highest ranking positions were already about 24% Jewish – about 12
times the over-representation.
What about the whole central apparatus?
We know that in1934 the NKVD central apparatus was roughly 20% Jewish and in 1925 the OGPU
was 8% Jewish.
If that number grew at a steady rate, we can assume that in 1929 the central apparatus
must have been about 14% Jewish.
Most of the NKVD Jews were long-timers – just as they were in the leadership, if we look
at which of these groups got hit the heaviest during the Jewish purge, and THESE ones had
been in the secret police before the 1925 census.
THESE joined before the census, but likely not counted in it, and THESE joined between
1925 and 1930.
According of this, from 1925 to 1930 there had to be over 20% increase within the Jewish
portion of the OGPU, which – since they were 8% in 1925, would now have to be over
10%.
This doesn't include the Jewish individuals who joined and left during the blind-spot
– I have no information on them, so my initial 14% estimate of the entire central apparatus,
likely isn't too far off.
David cited a book called "The Jewish Century" for his argument, and tried to paint the first
secret police – Cheka, as very Jewish using a quote.
His source, "The Jewish Century" explains how Jewish Chekists disproportionately worked
in the upper ranks, how in 1923 Jews were 15.5% of the OGPU's high-ranking officials
and in one department half of the officials.
This page indeed contains the quote David took, but it also contains something else...
Before this paragraph the book explains how the Jewish proportion in the Cheka overall
wasn't very high, how Jews were 8.6% of the upper ranks, how Russians were the majority
and Latvians were greatly over-represented.
The Jews in their secret police peak were 19 times over-represented, but during the
Red Terror Latvians were 50% of the leading Cheka officials, which is 500 times the over-representation
– fucking Christ!
Latvians in 1925 were 16.7% of the OGPU central apparatus – 160 times the over-representation,
in 1929 they were 12% of the leading OGPU – [120] times, and during Yagoda's reign
– still 70 times.
Fascinating... Let's look at the Poles too, before making an analysis…
In 1925 the OGPU central apparatus was about 6% Polish – 10 times the over-representation,
in 1929 the OGPU leading positions were 7% Polish – 13 times, and during Yagoda's
reign they were still over 8 times over-represented.
This ought to be interesting for someone who's worried about over-representation in the secret
police.
Whether you know it or not, you've heard lots of Polish names throughout this video,
and some ethnic Poles were closely connected to the USSR's mass murdering; The Red Terror
was mainly orchestrated by the head of the Cheka, Dzerzhinsky who was Polish.
The dekulakization didn't have much Polish influence, apart from Jan Kulikowski AKA Olsky,
who was Yevdokimov's assistant for the dekulakization operation.
Kossior, who was the party boss in Ukraine during the famine, was Polish.
Redens, who ran the Ukrainian OGPU in 1932, was Polish.
Vyshinsky, who was the state procurator and worked with Stalin during the Great Terror,
was also Polish.
Now, acknowledge the fact that there were close to 4 times fewer Poles than Jews in
the USSR, and let this list of names sink in.
I don't understand; is it the over-representation of Jewish people here that is supposed to
make me suspicious of them, if it is then shouldn't I be more suspicious of Poles
and Latvians?
If it's the sheer number of Jews that is supposed to make me suspicious, or them collectively
guilty of Soviet crimes, then shouldn't that mentality be applied to Russians themselves
much more so, since they were the majority in the secret police and the party leadership
during every single crime?
Which is it?
And if the logic is neither one of the two above, then it needs to be explained in detail
– just saying that "it's both" wouldn't do that.
And our logic needs to be consistent – the Soviets were willing to be with theirs.
During the Great Terror the Latvians were the first of these three minorities to be
targeted, and the Poles were soon after them, which is what you might have noticed in this
table that shows the Latvians and Poles disappearing during the Terror.
But why is it that these minorities were over-represented?
In the case of the Latvians, as you might have already been able to piece together,
they were directly sought out.
Lenin had formed close ties with the Communist leaders in the Baltic region – especially
in Latvia, thus a number of Latvians were introduced very early on into the upper ranks
of the Cheka and the army.
At the coming of the Civil War, Latvian troops became really the only ones the Bolsheviks
could rely on, due to how well trained and organized they were, and army experience seems
to have been of some benefit in acquiring positions in the secret police, since in the
NKVD all of the highest ranking officials had been in the army, except for Beria and
Zakovsky – who in the utmost irony was the only Latvian of this bunch.
Therefore the Latvian minority in Russia and the USSR, all though small, was now in part
comprised of people who had been selected and brought into the country for Cheka and
army work.
While not yet the full story, this does show that even such an unbelievable over-representation
like that of the Latvians can be largely explained by rather simple facts, so how much world-wide
conspiracy and race realism do you think we need in order to explain much lesser over-representation,
especially after taking all other factors into account?
The anti-Semitic nature of Tsarist Russia chiefly explains why some Jewish people ended
up supporting movements like the Bolsheviks, but there were also the Russification campaigns
which alienated other minorities and drove them into anti-Tsarist revolutionary movements.
Ethnic Russians were favored in Tsarist Russia, and they dominated all political positions,
which meant that Jews, Georgians, Latvians and to lesser extent, Poles, might have been
trusted more since these groups were extremely unlikely to have any connections to the previous
regime.
Some of the minorities could have also been better educated of average, and their populations
might have been concentrated in areas which themselves were more politically active.
There also could have been something akin to affirmative action; if the Soviet leadership
understood that the poor treatment of minorities had helped in spurring a revolution, they
might have been careful not to exclude any of them this time around.
The explanation might also have to do with PR, or maybe the explanation lies in a combination
of multiple factors.
The real answer is hard to pinpoint, but purely environmental explanations can account for
all of this, and they are much more viable than any conspiratorial or racialist thinking,
so there's no good reason to be suspicious about, let alone discriminate against any
of these groups.
There were no Jewish mass murderers, and Jewish people are not any more "collectively guilty"
of Soviet crimes than Russians, Poles, Latvians, or Georgians – not that any ethnic groups
even could be guilty of something…
We, meaning along with my help, managed to find a handful of Jews who were involved in
the greater USSR crimes, but there's no justification for placing special focus on
them.
Not only would it be unfair towards them, but it would be excusing everyone else who
played a part, especially the dictator who did more than anyone.
Stalin is the name that kept coming up in relation to all of the atrocities, yet there
is just one paragraph in David's entire book which briefly acknowledges Stalin's
culpability, but only as a set-up for some argument about a supposed Jewish bias in the
media, and there's another paragraph in which David tries to repudiate Stalin of the
guilt by displaying him as a mere puppet – a very odd thing to do for a claimed anti-Communist…
There was that one page I refused to show you in full; how outrageously dishonest could
it be?
Well look at this; he writes that Yagoda MURDERED 10 million – which is false as we know by
now, but then the Holocaust victims are only "alleged".
He also picks the lowest death toll ever proposed for the Holocaust, which came from a guy who
did his research in the 1950s – long before historians reached their most complete understanding.
One would think that since [David's] method appears to be picking the lowest estimates,
he would also say that 2.5 million Ukrainians died in the famine, since that is the lowest
estimate for that atrocity, and that is what he would do, if he was an honest person!
DUKE: …there's no movies made about the Holodomor!
Where 8 million Christian – ugh, you know… 8 million Ukrainians were massacred!
That's why the Ukrainians hate the Russians, but it really wasn't the Russians, the Russians
themselves were being murdered by (((these))) people!
This is what's going on…
PROBLEM GENE: 8 million is the highest estimate doubled!
How dishonest can it get?!
He lies about Yagoda's role, he lies about the likely number of victims, he lies about
the motivation, he lies about the number of Hitler's victims; leaving out the over 20
million Soviets the Nazi regime killed and more.
He calls the Holocaust victims only "alleged", while leaving zero benefit of the doubt about
the victims of the Soviet regime.
If Yagoda really was twice as bad as Hitler – like David implicitly claims, then surely
as he had the most power, and the Jewish influence in the NKVD was the strongest, we wouldn't
have seen so few killings.
At first, I was skeptical about David Duke – maybe the world's most famous racist,
being as bad as everyone says, but look at this page!
This is what a vicious anti-Semite he really is!
What else can you call someone who very carefully defends the regime that committed the Holocaust,
while spreading misinformation to incite dislike and distrust of Jewish people?
He was dishonest about the Russian Revolution, he was dishonest about Yagoda, dishonest about
Kaganovich, dishonest about China and everything else.
His entire arguments consisted of nothing but half-truths, misrepresentations of history
and severe confirmation bias.
Thanks for watching this.
My next video is probably going to be about how the Alt-Right lies about World War 2,
or it might be about how they try to trivialize the Holocaust.
The latter one would also place focus onto some more moderate right-wingers, and how
they can accidentally do serious harm when they exaggerate Communist horrors, and downplay
the Nazi ones.
Whatever the next video may be, I'll see you there, I hope!
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