Judeo – Communism, myth or truth?

Long before Hitler had emerged on the world stage, a young journalist who’s name was Winston Churchill had written as follows in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, London, on the 08.02.1920:

“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. It is certainly a very great one. It probably outweighs all others. With the possible exception of Lenin, the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherine, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunachasski cannot be compared with the power (Petrograd) or of Krassin or Radek – all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more outstanding. And the foremost, if not indeed the principal part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases, by Jewesses.”

So much from the contemporary assertion of  W. Churchill. Of course, he himself could be wrong, his assertion of the situation in Soviet Union tainted by some bias.

But there are many corroborating historical sources supporting his assertion.

So did really so many Jews, or as some prefer to say, people of the Jewish origin or background, played a major role in the establishing of the Communist system, and served as Lenin’s and Stalin’s willing executioners? Did those people really compose such a disproportionate number of the new ruling elite as to earn for the whole system a term Judeo-Communism?

State Department document 861.00/1757 sent May 2, 1918 by U.S. consul general in Moscow, Summers: “Jews prominent in local Soviet government, anti-Jewish feeling growing among population.…”

State Department document 861.00/2205 was sent from Vladivostok on July 5, 1918 by U.S. consul Caldwell: “Fifty percent of Soviet government in each town consists of Jews of the worst type.”

From the Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia on March 1, 1919, comes this telegram from Omsk by Chief of Staff, Capt. Montgomey Shuyler: “It is probably unwise to say this loudly in the United States but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since it’s beginning guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type.” It seems that nothing has changed since then. It is still very “unwise” to tell the truth.

A second Schuyler telegram, dated June 9, 1919 from Vladivostok, reports on the make-up of the presiding Soviet government: “…There were 384 “commissars” including 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.”

Even as recently as 1965, a study by the US Senate Judiciary Committee of anti-Jewish policies of the Soviet government at that time entitled “The Soviet Empire, A Study of Discrimination and Abuse of Power” revealed that before WW II a whopping 41.1% of the members of the entire Supreme Soviet had been Jews despite being a mere 2% of the population.

“Whatever the racial antecedents of their top man, the first Soviet commissariats were largely staffed with Jews. The Jewish position in the Communist movement was well understood in Russia. The White Armies which opposed the Bolshevik government linked Jews and Bolsheviks as common enemies” (Univ. Jew Encyc., Vol. I, p. 336).

“In the Bolshevik era, 52 percent of the membership of the Soviet communist party was Jewish, though Jews comprised only 1.8 percent of the total population.” (Stuart Kahan (grandson of Lazar Kaganvich), The Wolf of the Kremlin, p. 81)

Norman Cantor, professor of history at New York University, confirmed: “Half of the six members of the politburo that was the supreme government of Soviet Russia in 1920 were Jews. Jews were prominent in the leadership of the Communist party in Germany, Hungary, and Austria. In the 1920s close to half the members of the small and politically insignificant American Communist party were Jewish.” (“The Sacred Chain – A History of the Jews,” Norman F. Cantor, HarperCollins, 1995)

In another book, Cantor provides confirmation of Jewish prominence in other important areas of the communist government: ” The founders of the Soviet secret police (later KGB), headquartered in Lubyanka prison in Moscow, were mostly Jews. Jews also took leadership roles, down into the early 1950s, in the Communist parties of Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Rumania. In the struggle for succession to Lenin in the 1920s, leading to the defeat and exile of the Jewish Trotsky (Bronstein), most of the high-level Soviet Jews made the mistake of supporting Stalin, an Asiatic anti-Semite who in the purge trials in the mid-1930s eventually eliminated these Jewish “Old Bolsheviks.” But even to some degree after the Great Purge, Jews were still prevalent in powerful Soviet government positions and many of Stalin’s cohorts in the 1940s had Jewish wives.

“During the heyday of the Cold War, American Jewish publicists spent a lot of time denying that-as 1930s anti-Semites claimed-Jews played a disproportionately important role in Soviet and world Communism. The truth is until the early 1950s. Jews did play such a role, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. In time, Jews will learn to take pride in the record of the Jewish Communists in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. It was a species of striking back.” (“The Jewish Experience”, “Stalin’s Jews”, pp. 364, Norman F. Cantor, Castle Books, 1996.) See another article on this Web Site “Murderers who take pride in their crime”.

“Even in absolute numbers, the Jews…made up the largest group in the leadership of the Stalinist Secret Police. The Russian myth of the “Jewish NKVD” thus had a factual basis. The Nazis, who knew precisely of these facts, used it for their propaganda purposes of the Jewish-Bolshevik terror regime that they felt obligated to destroy.” (“Special Tasks” by Pavel and Anatoli Sudoplatov, 1995, Little, Brown and Co. N.K. Petrow and K.W. Skorkin (Title: “Who led the NKWD, 1934-1941?” Publisher: N.G. Ochotin, A.B. Roginskij, Verlag Swenja, Moscow, 1999)

Lets look at the situation from the beginning.

Karl Marx: “on both paternal and maternal sides Karl Marx was descended from rabbinical families” (Univ. Jew. Encyc., Vol.VII, p. 289).

The words of the leader of the Bolshevik revolution, W. U. I. Lenin:

” The clever Russian is almost always a Jew or has Jewish blood in him .” (Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: A New Biography, p. 112). (“Lenin’s Lineage? ‘Jewish,’ Claims Moscow News,” Forward [New York City] Feb. 28,1992)

Lenin, whose maternal grandfather, Israel Blank, was Jewish, said that Jews made the best revolutionaries. Lenin was both clever and a revolutionary. He was surely referring to himself.

Researcher Wayne McGuire of Harvard University writes: “Lenin was a Jew by the standards of Israel’s Law of Return: he possessed a Jewish grandparent…It would seem that not only was Lenin a Jew, but that he was a Jewish racist and chauvinist, although he kept his ideas on this volatile subject far in the background, probably because they were in radical conflict with the supposed universalism of Marxism. …Lenin was a Jewish racist who deliberately gave Jews especially, the most ‘intellectually demanding tasks.’ He admitted that 50% of the communist terrorist vanguard in the south and west of Russia was comprised of Jews.”

But was Lenin the only one who was “clever and revolutionary” and was a Jew “or has Jewish blood in him.”?

Nikolai Bukharin: Lenin’s chief theorist.

David Ryazanov: adviser to Lenin.

Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) leader of the Russian Revolution, was an architect of the Red Army, and commissar of foreign affairs between 1917-1924.

Lev Rosenfeld (Kamenev): member of the Central Committee.

Maxim Litvinov (Wallach): foreign affairs commissar.

Moses Uritsky head of the Commissary for the Constituent Assembly.

Mikhail Gruzenberg (Borodin) commissar.

Yakov Sverdlov (Solomon) was both the Bolshevik party’s executive secretary and – as chairman of the Central Executive Committee – head of the Soviet government. As the first president of the Soviet Union, Sverdlov ordered the massacre of the Czar’s family-women and children-in the town named after Catherine the Great, Yekaterinburg, (renamed Sverdlovsk in 1924 in honor of the murderer).

Jacob Yurovsky: commander, Soviet Secret Police. Yurovsky led the death squad that carried out Sverdlov’s order for the murder of the Czar’s family, including the bayoneting to death of the Czar’s daughters. The Ipatyev house, where, in the basement, the massacre had occurred, stood intact until 1977, when the local Communist party boss at that time, Boris Yeltsin, ordered it demolished, lest it become a shrine to anti-Jewish sentiment.

Grigori Zinoviev (Radomyslsky) headed the Communist International (Comintern), the central agency for spreading communist revolution in other countries. This top Communist Jewish official stated:

“Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of hundreds. Let them be thousands; let them drown themselves in their own blood. For the blood of Lenin and Uritzky, Zinoviev and Volodarsky, let there be floods of the blood of the bourgeoisie – more blood! As much as possible!” (Krasnaya Gazeta, Sept. 1, 1918).

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich: chief mass murderer for Stalin, butcher of the Ukraine, implementing the holocaust on Russia’s and the Ukraine’s rural population he planned, ordered and supervised the deaths of app. 7 millions of the Ukrainians and the wholesale destruction of Christian monuments and churches, including the great Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Standing amid the rubble of the cathedral, Kaganovich proclaimed, “Mother Russia is cast down. We have ripped away her skirts.” (N.Y. Times, Sept. 26,1995).

When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas, Stalin sent his henchman Lazar Kaganovich to destroy Ukrainian resistance. Kaganovich, the Soviet Eichmann(Jew), made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians weekly. Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed.

During the bitter winter of 1932-33, mass starvation created by Kaganovich and OGPU hit full force. Ukrainians ate their pets, boots and belts, plus bark and roots. Some parents even ate infant children.

The precise number of Ukrainians murdered by Stalin’s custom-made famine and Cheka firing squads remains unknown to this day. The KGB’s archives, and recent work by Russian historians, show that at least seven million died. Ukrainian historians put the figure at nine million, or higher. Twenty-five percent of Ukraine’s population was exterminated. Millions of victims.

The predominance of Jews among Bolshevik leaders, and the frightful crimes and cruelty inflicted by Stalin’s Cheka on Ukraine and the Baltic, led the victims of Red Terror to blame the Jewish people for both, communism and their suffering.

KOMZET: commission for the settlement of Jewish Communists on the land seized from murdered Christians in Ukraine; funded by Jewish-American financier Julius Rosenwald.

Genrikh Yagoda*: chief of Soviet Secret Police, mass murderer extraordinaire. (Jewish poet Romain Rolland, winner of the Nobel Prize, wrote a hymn of praise to Yagoda).

Sergei Eisenstein: director of communist propaganda films that depicted Christian peasants (kulaks) as hideous, money-grabbing parasites. The kulaks were subsequently massacred. (Cf. for example Eisenstein’s “Bezhin Meadow”).

Ilya Ehrenburg: Minister of Soviet Propaganda and disseminator of anti-German hate material dating from the 1930s. Ehrenburg instigated the Soviet Red Army rape and murder of German civilians. Referring to German women, Ehrenburg gloated to the advancing Red Army troops, “that blonde hag is in for a bad time.”

In a leaflet addressed to Soviet troops, Ehrenburg wrote: “…the Germans are not human beings…nothing gives us so much joy as German corpses.” (Anatol Goldberg, Ilya Ehrenburg, p. 197). Goldberg concedes that Ehrenburg, “…had always disliked the Germans…now that there was a war on he turned his old prejudice into an asset.” (Ibid., p. 193).

Mikhail Kaganovich: deputy commissar of heavy industry, supervisor of slave labour, brother of Lazar.

Rosa Kaganovich: Stalin’s mistress; sister of Lazar.

Paulina Zhemchuzina: member of the Central Committee and wife of Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.

Olga Bronstein: officer, Soviet Cheka Secret Police, sister of Trotsky, wife of Kamenev.

Matvei Berman and Naftaly Frenkel: founders of the Gulag death camp system.

Lev Inzhir: commissar for Soviet death camp transit and administration.

Boris Berman: executive officer of the Soviet Secret Police and brother of Matvei.

K.V. Pauker: chief of operations, Soviet NKVD Secret Police.

Firin, Rappoport, Kogan, Zhuk: commissars of death camps and slave labour supervised the mass deaths of the prisoners during the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal.

M.I. Gay: commander, Soviet Secret Police.

Slutsky and Shpiegelglas: commanders, Soviet Secret Police.

Theodore Dan, Julius Martov (Zederbaum), and M.I. Lieber (formerly of the Jewish Bund) led Menshevik’s fraction.

And so on and on. Many more, every one of them had a blood of millions of the people on their hands.

From Robert Wilton’s, “The Last Days of the Romanovs” Published 1920:

According to data furnished by the Soviet press, out of 556 important functionaries of the Bolshevik state, in 1918-19 there were 17 Russians, two Ukrainians, eleven Armenians, 35 Latvians, 15 Germans, one Hungarian, 10 Georgians, 3 Poles, 3 Finns, one Czech, one Karaim, and 457 Jews.

Out of 22 “Sovnarkom” members, Wilton summed up, there were 3 Russians, one Georgian, one Armenian, and 17 Jews.

The Extraordinary Commission of Moscow (Cheka), the Soviet secret police and predecessor of the GPU, the NKVD, and the KGB, was made up of the following:

Out of 36 Cheka’s top officials, one was a Pole, one a German, one an Armenian, two were Russians, eight were Latvians, and 23 were Jews. “Accordingly,” Wilton sums up, “there is no reason to be surprised at the preponderant role of Jews in the assassination of the Imperial family. It is rather the opposite that would have been surprising.”

Such was the situation in Soviet Union. Millions of Russians paid in blood during the rule of those people and many more by long sentences in Gulag. Of course, a common defence here is that ultimately the same people were also persecuted, imprisoned and killed in some stage of their careers. Well, no pity here. Communism system was a cruel “mother”. She had a bad habit of eating her own children, the most faithful servants. They saw the wind, and they reaped the storm. Who fights by the sword dies by the sword. I save my pity for the innocent victims, the common Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and Hungarians.

But after the WWII Poland and the Poles also experienced a very similar system. So, could the term Judeo-Communism (Zydokomuna) be justified in regard to the situation in Poland as well?

In 1945 the Red Army “freed” Poland from the previous German occupant, and enforced the new, Soviet occupation that lasted 45 years.

But it didn’t stop after 1945. Moscow’s policies designed to debilitate the Polish nation included, among others, the following instruction: “While rebuilding the [Polish] industry and building new industry, make sure that industrial waste is directed to rivers which will be used as reservoirs of drinking water.” (Arnold Beichman, “Soviet Directives Sought to Keep Poles from Developing Identity,” a syndicated column published, among others, in The Penticton Press, 24 February 1994; the full text of the Soviet directives can be found in SR, XIV/1, Jan 1994, 211-213).

“Only Soviet-trained intelligence agents were trusted by the Soviet government among Polish prewar Communists. Among those “the Jews … were … considered less susceptible to the lures of Polish nationalism, to which even impeccable Polish communists were not thought immune” (“Poland, Communism, Nationalism, Anti-Semitism” by Michael Checinski (New York: Karz-Cohl Publishing, 1982)

Also, Stalin expected a fierce resistance from the Polish population (in fact he was right, because what can be termed a civil war lasted in Poland till at least 1950), so by placing Jews in the leading position in what was seen by the local population as an occupational force, he could get an extra propaganda benefit. During an armed confrontation, the Polish anti – communist resistance fighters, who were shooting in the direction of the Red Star, had a good chance that the bullets would hit a Jew who was carrying it. From there was only one-step to accuse Poles on the international forum of anti – Semitism, murdering the “poor holocaust survivors” or the “poor Jewish refugees” returning home. That way the political conflict could be turned in to the ethnic conflict in the eyes of the world.

In the Polish collective memory of World War II, the Nazi occupation is organically tied to the Soviet occupation. Soviet hemocidal policies directed at Poland were no less devastating than those of the Nazis were. A recent study by French scientists has shown that ‘Those very features of Nazism that we find most repellent have now been proven endemic to communism from its inception.’ (NYT, 22 December 1997)

The Soviets brought with them new political elites. Let’s see who they were.

In Poland, after 1945, three names used to strike terror into people’s hearts: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Jakub Berman, Stalin’s right hand in Poland from 1944 to 1953. Adolf Hitler’s crimes are well known, Stalin’s crimes are beginning to be known, but Jakub Berman’s crimes are totally unknown in the West. He was a chief murderer in Poland.

“State Security in the Soviet-occupied Poland between 1945-1955 murdered tens of thousands of political, military and intellectual leaders” (Teresa Toranska, “Them,” Harper & Row 1987, 139).

“After 1945 came the Soviet occupation, the aforementioned Jakub Berman, the most dreaded man in Poland, on whose conscience lie the deaths of 30,000 Home Army soldiers murdered in prisons and torture chambers in Soviet-occupied Poland” (Teresa Toranska, Them, Harper & Row, 1987, 201-354).

Jakub Berman was strategically placed in the second most powerful position in the government. (in the theory second to Bierut in the hierarchy, but in reality more powerful, in his office had a direct telephone line to Stalin, cordial relationship between Stalin and Berman is described in Teresa Toranska’s book “Them”.

Berman was a member of the Politburo, and State Security Services (U.B.) was under his direct control. He was perceived not only as communist but also as a Jew. In the interview he gave to Teresa Toranska he said: “I knew very well, that as a Jew I couldn’t or rather I shouldn’t take the highest position [in the government]. But I didn’t really care if I took a position in the first row. True power doesn’t flow from the personal exposure. I wanted to make my own mark on the new reality that was taking a shape then, but without personally exposing myself. It of course demanded a lot of cunning”.

And he made his own mark indeed, by the blood of the Polish patriots that he and his cohorts murdered by the thousands. We do remember till now and hopefully we will never forget. Him and the others, and their descendants, who now, in today’s Poland take the highest positions of influence in the media, intellectual and political elites.

Hilary Minc: third most powerful man in the government, member of the Politburo, in charge of Treasury

Gen. Roman Romkowski (Natan Grunsapau-Kikiel): vice-minister of the State Security Ministry. As such, and as Berman’s confidant supervised departments of Training and Investigations.

Gen. Juliusz Hibner (Dawid Schwartz): Commander of the Internal Security. In 1951-56 Chief Commander of the Army.

Jozef Rozanski (Josek Goldberg): Director of Department of Investigations in State Security. Well known torturer. Charged with overusing his powers and the torture of the prisoners (!!!), sentenced in December 1955 to 5 years of imprisonment. (This gives a new meaning to the saying: Being kicked out from the KGB for cruelty)

Leon Andrzejewski (Lajb Wof Ajzen): Chief of Staff of Minister’s Office

Luna Brystygier (Julia Brustiger): head of Political Department in the Bureau. Director of the V Department in the State Security. Known also as “Bloody Luna”

Anatol Fejgin: Director of the X Department in the State Security.

Czaplinski: Director of the III Department, in charge of the campaign against AK, nicknamed Akower, because he was famous from cruelty towards imprisoned soldiers of AK.

Duliasz: Director of VI Department.

Zabawski: Director of VIII Department, until year 1939 was resident-agent of NKVM for Poland.

Gorecki vel Goldberg: Director of IX Department

And the rest of Directors and vice-Directors of Bureau:

Col.col.Rubinstein,Sajewski, Krupski, Sinekiewicz (Levi), Gangel, Burgin, Tyborski a former policeman in Ghetto, Jozef Swiatlo (Izaak Flieschfarb)

Those are names of just highest brass of so called “Polish” Ministry of State Security.

According to Jewish researcher John Sack, “In 1945 many Poles felt (and not without reason) that Jews ran the Office of State Security…the chief of the Office was Jacob Berman, a Jew, and all or almost all the department heads were Jews.” Sack reports that 75% of the officers of the Communist Secret Police in Silesia were Jews. He noted that many Jews in the Communist terror apparatus in Poland changed their names to Polish ones like General Romkowski, Colonel Rozanski, Capt. Studencki and Lt. Jurkowski. (cf. John Sack, The New Republic, Feb. 14, 1994, p. 6.

Now from John Sack “An Eye for an Eye” conference that took place on HYPERLINK “http://www.compuserve.com/” Nizkor Project:

“Now, the Office of State Security was a Polish government organization. The lower ranks were Polish Catholics but most of the leaders were Polish Jews. The chief of the Office in Warsaw was a Jew, when I was in Poland he wasn’t alive but I met some of his family. The department directors, all or almost all of them were Jews.

In the province where Lola was, Silesia, in Silesia the director of the Office of State Security was a Jew, I met him in Copenhagen, a little baldheaded man, the director of prisons was a Jew, I met his whole family in Tel Aviv, the secretary of state security was a Jew, I met him time and again at his home in New Jersey. And in Silesia in February 1945, three-fourths of the officers – not the GIs, not the guards, but the lieutenants, captains, officers-one-fourth of them were Catholics and three-fourths were Jews.

One woman I talk to. She wasn’t even German, she was Polish. In 1945 she was 20 years old, tall, blonde, beautiful, medical student. The guards at Lola’s prison pulled off her clothes and told her, “Let’s do it!” They beat her and beat her night after night until she was black and blue. One morning, she came back to her cell and fell on the floor [look at her], sobbing. Her cellmate asked her, “What, what is that blue thing you’re wearing? Oh, oh, it’s your skin.”

Alex/Sysop asks: You mentioned one man who wouldn’t talk to you. Was it hard to get folks to open up about this story? Did many want to keep it “under the rug” as it were?

John Sack: Alex, I’m writing a book now about the Chinese Mafia. I promise it’s much, much easier to get a Chinese gangster to talk to you, even to tell you about the people he murdered that the police don’t know of, than to get the Jews who ran the concentration camps for Germans in 1945 to talk about that.

One man said he’d sue me. One man said he’d destroy me. One man said he’d kill me. I think he meant it.

Michael S. Curtis asks: I can understand the revenge factor. Can you offer a trail of how many Jewish folks ended up controlling concentration camps after the war and where they were? Or is the concern more with revenge carried out by small groups who captured ex-concentration camp SS in their snares?

John Sack: Michael, there’s no way of knowing how many Jews there were. That’s because almost all of them changed their names to Polish Catholic ones, even on their application forms for the Polish secret police. (…)The Jews ran and worked for the Office of State Security, the Polish political police. They wore uniforms and called themselves lieutenants, captains, even generals. They certainly weren’t working in small groups. Now to your next question….

Michael S. Curtis: It would seem that the sacking of Poland would have upset a lot of non-Jewish Poles?

John Sack: It did. But that’s another matter. A lot has been written about what the secret police did to the Poles. I’m writing about what the secret police (“almost entirely Jewish-led,” the Columbia professor said) did to Germans, innocent Germans, even German babies.”

In Poland, “… a disproportionate number of Communists were Jews. In 1930, at its peak, 35% of the members of the party were Jewish. In Communist youth organizations, Jewish membership was even higher, while Communists of Jewish origin occupied most of the seats on the central committee. Communism appealed to some Jews because it opposed anti-Semitism more vigorously than any other Polish party … Jewish Communists reached their apogee in the years immediately after World War Two, when the party leadership was totally in the hands of the prewar Communist leadership that abhorred anti-Semitism.” (Sheldon Kirshner, The Canadian Jewish News, Nov. 5, 1992, p. 16).

As Piotr S. Wandycz of Yale University observes, “The average Pole could not but notice in the Stalinist era that the two most powerful men in the country-Berman and Minc-were both Jewish as was the dreaded security official Rozanski.” (N.Y. Review of Books, Aug. 18, 1983, p. 51).

As Simon Wisenthal said: “I am talking on this subject (Polish-Jews relation), I always say that I know what kind of role Jewish Communists played in Poland after the war. And just I, as a Jew do not want to shoulder responsibility for the Jewish Communists, I can not blame 36 million Poles for those thousands of blackmailers”.

Excerpts from The Sunday Telegraph London 05/12/98

“…In his office on Nowowieska street, not far from where Mrs Brus-Wolinska used to work, Gen Michalowski produces a list of several dozen similar investigations; into the activities of judges and prosecutors responsible for the deaths or imprisonment of famous Home Army officers, obscure Home Army soldiers, even participants in anti-communist riots in the l970s.

Some of these investigations have resulted in prison sentences.

Some have been called off due to the ill health or deaths of the accused.

While his office cannot release all of the military prosecutor’s evidence against Mrs Brus — that must await the trial and extradition hearings — Col Palus is happy to spell out some of the circumstances of Gen Fieldorf’s arrest and execution.

He says that Mrs Brus is not being accused of breaking the law retrospectively: he claims she violated laws which applied at the time, illegally extending Gen Fieldorf’s arrest without charging him or producing any evidence.

When I spoke to Mrs Brus, I asked her whether she got involved much in other cases.

“What, do you think I sat there and drank coffee?” she laughed.

“We were very busy in those days indeed”.

“She was a very important military prosecutor,” says Col Palus.

As for her declaration of innocence, “they all say that. All of them say they are innocent until they are confronted with their victims, and some of them keep saying it even then.” In Poland, the accusations against Helena Danielak-Wolinska-Brus are not especially controversial.

It is also true, however, that many Poles deeply resent Jews who use their Jewishness as an excuse when they are accused of other crimes.

Maria Fieldorf Czarska, the General’s daughter, says bitterly that she doubts Mrs Brus will ever come to trial: “She will say she is old, she will say she is ill, she will say we are anti-Semitic.”

More than one person points out a curious irony: Senator Bartoszewski, whom Mrs Brus arrested, is best known for having led the Home Army division which was responsible for rescuing Jews. He is also an Auschwitz survivor, and now an honorary citizen of Israel. [Pity that he is not doing so well as the Polish citizen. Sometimes one can wonder if he is acting on the international arena in the best interest of Poland or Israel. That’s why I call them, all this pseudo-Poles like Kwasniewski, Mazowiecki, Geremek, Kieres, Michnik, Kuron and many, many others, the “Second Targowica”. K.J.]

This Polish view matters, because it is Polish justice, which is at stake. This isn’t an Anglo-Saxon debate, any more than is the debate about the extradition of General Pinochet: the exploration of a totalitarian past isn’t a British passion. One Polish government official formulates the problem like this: “Just because Jews were victims of crimes against humanity, does that mean they cannot be tried for crimes against humanity themselves?” That is not a British question, and few British people would ask it.”

There are many more like Brus-Wolinska that probably never will be brought to justice. Many more murderers from the communist era are hiding in the USA, Western Europe or Israel. Like for example Shlomo Morel who escaped charges of genocide and is now a happy resident of Israel. Polish Government requested twice his extradition from Israel, but both times was refused. Like for example Stefan Michnik (Szechter) living in Sweden, the Stalinist era judge and prosecutor. We know where they are, but so what? There is no will in the camp of the “Second Targowica” to bring them to justice.

 

• GENRIKH YAGODA

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is recognised as the “father of democracy” in Russia. In one of his books, the first volume of “Gulag Archipelago,” he wrote about how the communists in Russia, who consisted of only the Jews and a tiny minority of Russian criminals, amoral opportunists, and welfare rabble were able to maintain their grip on all of  Russia by keeping the Russian majority, which hated them, too frightened to resist.

Solzhenitsyn writes of the period in 1934 and 1935, when the Jewish commissar Genrikh Yagoda headed the Soviet secret police, and Yagoda’s black vans went out every night in St. Petersburg, known then as Leningrad, to round up “class enemies”: former members of the aristocracy, former civil servants, former businessmen, former teachers and professors and professional people, any Russian who had graduated from a university. A quarter of the population of the city was arrested and liquidated by Yagoda during this two-year period.

And Solzhenitsyn laments that the citizens of St. Petersburg cowered behind their doors when the black vans pulled up at their apartment houses night after night to arrest their neighbours. If only the decent Russians had fought back, Solzhenitsyn says, if only they had ambushed some of these secret police thugs in the hallways of their apartments with knives and pickaxes and hammers, if only they had spiked the tires of the police vans while the thugs were in the apartments dragging out their victims, they could easily have overwhelmed Yagoda’s forces and forced an end to the mass arrests. But they didn’t fight back, and the arrests and liquidations continued. And so, Solzhenitsyn concludes, because of their
cowardice and their selfishness the Russians deserved what the communists did to them.

Krzysztof Janiewicz

 

Source: http://www.naszawitryna.pl/jedwabne_en_98.html