Kevin MacDonald: Chapter 5 of 200 Years Together: “After the Murder of Alexander II”

Chapter 5 of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s 200 Years Together: “After the Murder of Alexander II” has now been translated and is the topic of the current TOO article. Again, the project is worthy of financial support for the translators. (I am not involved except as publicizing and commenting on the chapters.) This is an important background chapter for thinking about the Jewish role leading up to and after the Bolshevik Revolution. I encourage comments here. Kevin M

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17 Comments to "Kevin MacDonald: Chapter 5 of 200 Years Together: “After the Murder of Alexander II”"

  1. TicTac's Gravatar TicTac
    August 2, 2010 - 11:37 pm | Permalink

    “The agitators were motivated by Jewish economic domination. A well-known leaflet from 1881 read:

    Who seized the land, forests, and taverns?—The Yid—From whom, muzhik (peasant), do you have to ask for access to your land, at times hiding tears?…From yids.—Wherever you look, wherever you ask—the yids are everywhere. The Yid insults people and cheats them; drinks their blood”…and it concludes with the appeal: “Honest working people! Free yourselves!”

    ……………..

    What a great read. Makes perfect sense. Do people rise up against Jews because they are just nasty racists ? Or do they rise up against Jews because of Jewish exploitation ? If Jews were good for the people they lived amongst then no-way would pogroms ever happen. No one ever hated Robin Hood, did they?

  2. TGD's Gravatar TGD
    August 3, 2010 - 8:25 am | Permalink

    I’ve always found Russia and Russian history fascinating. I also believe that Solzhenitsyn, the Russian nationalist, has written a more or less balanced account of period. The Jews on the whole are a restive people who can’t simply settle down to a normal non-disruptive existence. This is why they eventually provoke an angry reaction in their host countries.

    I can’t help but refer again to a quote from a book by Michael Ledeen supposedly describing Americans but actually a reflection of his own inner Jewish psyche.

    Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace. … [W]e must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

  3. solly to TGD's Gravatar solly to TGD
    August 3, 2010 - 9:29 am | Permalink

    What IS Ledeen’s “our historic mission”?

  4. Whites Unite's Gravatar Whites Unite
    August 3, 2010 - 11:10 am | Permalink

    I was amazed that the worst pogroms of the 19th century (1881-1882) resulted in a total of only 7 deaths.

    This seems like a small number not only by 20th century standards, but also compared to 19th century events like the 1822 Chios massacer, the Bulgarian massacers of the 1870s, and the Armenian massacers of the 1890s.

    Movies like “Fiddler on the Roof” and “An American Tail” had given me the impression that pogroms were continuous, government sponsored, deadly, and that they were the primary cause of mass Jewish emigration from the Russian Empire.

  5. RF's Gravatar RF
    August 3, 2010 - 11:35 am | Permalink

    Whites Unites, I knew you would like it.

  6. August 3, 2010 - 4:51 pm | Permalink

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    “Some jews, when faced with being drafted into the Russian Army, changed their surname to Cohen because members of the clergy were exempt from service.”

    http://genealogy.about.com/od/surname_meaning/p/cohen.htm

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  7. AngryJew's Gravatar AngryJew
    August 5, 2010 - 1:30 am | Permalink

    Pogroms with high-casualties occured more in the first two decades of the 20th century and especially during the Civil War.

    The reason it is often stated that the Russian government was party to the pogroms was because of its Orthodox Christian policies and sympathies. As a Jew, you had to deal with Cossacs massacring you in the name of Christ, beholden to the Orthodox Patriarchate, who never issued a single condemnation of these attrocities, and when he did speak, his Orthodox dogma basically encouraged them. A Tzar, submitted to the same faith, and hence to the Patriarch, made few if any statemnts to decry these “excesses”.

    It was not a reassuring situation, and Russia does have blood on its hands. No one invited the Russians to take over these Polish territories, so they were occupiers of sorts, for both the Poles and the Jews, who more often than not found themselvse united against Cossack and Russian nationalists.

  8. TGD's Gravatar TGD
    August 5, 2010 - 10:54 am | Permalink

    @AngryJew

    Every religion (stupid as they are) has their own blood thirsty fanatics. Yes, the Israelis are not immune. See below.

    Extremist rabbis and their followers, bent on waging holy war against the Palestinians, are taking over the Israeli army by stealth, according to critics.

    In a process one military historian has termed the rapid “theologisation” of the Israeli army, there are now entire units of religious combat soldiers, many of them based in West Bank settlements. They answer to hardline rabbis who call for the establishment of a Greater Israel that includes the occupied Palestinian territories.

    Their influence in shaping the army’s goals and methods is starting to be felt, said observers, as more and more graduates from officer courses are also drawn from Israel’s religious extremist population.

    “We have reached the point where a critical mass of religious soldiers is trying to negotiate with the army about how and for what purpose military force is employed on the battlefield,” said Yigal Levy, a political sociologist at the Open University who has written several books on the Israeli army.

    The new atmosphere was evident in the “excessive force” used in the recent Gaza operation, Dr Levy said. More than 1,300 Palestinians were killed, a majority of them civilians, and thousands were injured as whole neighbourhoods of Gaza were levelled.

    “When soldiers, including secular ones, are imbued with theological ideas, it makes them less sensitive to human rights or the suffering of the other side.”

    The greater role of extremist religious groups in the army came to light last week when it emerged that the army rabbinate had handed out a booklet to soldiers preparing for the recent 22-day Gaza offensive.

    Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights group, said the material contained messages “bordering on racist incitement against the Palestinian people” and might have encouraged soldiers to ignore international law.

    The booklet quotes extensively from Shlomo Aviner, a far-right rabbi who heads a religious seminary in the Muslim quarter of East Jerusalem. He compares the Palestinians to the Philistines, the Biblical enemy of the Jews.

    He advises: “When you show mercy to a cruel enemy, you are being cruel to pure and honest soldiers … This is a war on murderers.” He also cites a Biblical ban on “surrendering a single millimetre” of Greater Israel.

    The booklet was approved by the army’s chief rabbi, Brig Gen Avichai Ronsky, who is reportedly determined to improve the army’s “combat values” after its failure to cush Hizbollah in Lebanon in 2006.

    Gen Ronsky was appointed three years ago in a move designed, according to the Israeli media, to placate hardline religious elements within the army and the settler community.

    Gen Ronsky, himself a settler in the West Bank community of Itimar, near Nablus, is close to far-right groups. According to reports, he pays regular visits to jailed members of Jewish terror groups; he has offered his home to a settler who is under house arrest for wounding Palestinians; and he has introduced senior officers to a small group of extremist settlers who live among more than 150,000 Palestinians in Hebron.

    He has also radically overhauled the rabbinate, which was originally founded to offer religious services and ensure religious soldiers were able to observe the sabbath and eat kosher meals in army canteens.

    Over the past year the rabbinate has effectively taken over the role of the army’s education corps through its Jewish Awareness Department, which co-ordinates its activities with Elad, a settler organisation that is active in East Jerusalem.

    In October, the Haaretz newspaper quoted an unnamed senior officer who accused the rabbinate of carrying out the religious and political “brainwashing” of troops.

    Dr Levy said the army rabbinate’s power was growing as the ranks of religious soldiers swelled.

    Breaking the Silence, a project run by soldiers seeking to expose the army’s behaviour against Palestinians, said the booklet handed out to troops in Gaza had originated among Hebron’s settlers.

    “The document has been around since at least 2003,” said Mikhael Manekin, 29, one of the group’s directors and himself religiously observant. “But what is new is that the army has been effectively subcontracted to promote the views of the extremist settlers to its soldiers.”

    The power of the religious right in the army reflected wider social trends inside Israel, Dr Levy said. He pointed out that the rural cooperatives known as kibbutzim that were once home to Israel’s secular middle classes and produced the bulk of its officer corps had been on the wane since the early 1980s.

    “The vacuum left by their gradual retreat from the army was filled by religious youngsters and by the children of the settlements. They now dominate in many branches of the army.”

    According to figures cited in the Israeli media, more than one-third of all Israel’s combat soldiers are religious, as are more than 40 per cent of those graduating from officer courses.

    The army has encouraged this trend by creating some two dozen hesder yeshivas, seminaries in which youths can combine Biblical studies with army service in separate religious units. Many of the yeshivas are based in the West Bank, where students are educated by the settlements’ extremist rabbis.

    Ehud Barak, the defence minister, has rapidly expanded the programme, approving four yeshivas, three based in settlements, last summer. Another 10 are reportedly awaiting his approval.

    Mr Manekin, however, warned against blaming the violence inflicted on Gaza’s civilians solely on the influence of religious extremists.

    “The army is still run by the secular elites in Israel and they have always been reckless with regard to the safety of civilians when they wage war. Jewish nationalism that justifies Palestinian deaths is just as dangerous as religious extremism.”

  9. TicTac's Gravatar TicTac
    August 5, 2010 - 11:56 am | Permalink

    Hopefully we can win back our nations through the political process but everything seems stacked against us. I feel like we’re standing at the base of Everest’s 2nd step with no rope! looking at the barrier in front of us is well-overwhelming.

    Jewish writers who boast about their role in immigration and how they replaced the WASP elite, blah, blah, blah, piss me right off. I hope I’m still young enough to fight these bastards when the time comes.

  10. HA's Gravatar HA
    August 5, 2010 - 1:56 pm | Permalink

    Interesting material. Re: “Jews had overshot their economic niche,” something similar happened in the US. You can still find Jews who can point to immigrant forebears who had to toil in NY’s garment center-not as owners or factors but as actual laborers. Needless to say that lasted a whole of one generation: the Holohoax isn’t the only thing they cry “never again” about. I doubt the claim of poverty in Russia any more than here, especially compared with Russians of the time. To a Jew not being rich means being poor.

  11. Geiseric's Gravatar Geiseric
    August 5, 2010 - 2:22 pm | Permalink

    Does anyone know whether Solzhenitsyn himself had any Jewish ancestry?

  12. Z.O.G.'s Gravatar Z.O.G.
    August 5, 2010 - 6:34 pm | Permalink

    Rule of thumb:

    If Jews claim that they were “persecuted” in a particular place at a particular point in history, it actually means that the Jews controlled everything in that place.

    Just reverse everything that Jews say and you’ll have the truth. ;)

  13. Bon, From the Land of Babble's Gravatar Bon, From the Land of Babble
    August 6, 2010 - 6:43 am | Permalink

    In his book, Death by Government, Professor Rummel reports the following:

    “…Hundreds of thousands of people were executed according to preset, government, quotas:

    Vladimir Petrov (who in 1954 defected while a spy-chief in Australia and whose credibility and subsequent revelations were verified by a Royal–Australian– Commission on Espionage7) about his work during the years 1936 to 1938:

    I handled hundreds of signals to all parts of the Soviet Union which were couched in the following form:

    ‘To N.K.V.D., Frunze. You are charged with the task of exterminating 10,000 enemies of the people. Report results by signal.–Yezhov.’

    And in due course the reply would come back:

    ‘In reply to yours of such-and-such date, the following enemies of the Soviet people have been shot.’

    (from Solzhenitsyn):

    “…The real law underlying the arrests of those years was the assignment of quotas, the norms set, the planned allocations. Every city, every district, every military unit was assigned a specific quota of arrests to be carried out by a stipulated time. From then on everything else depended on the ingenuity of the Security operations personnel.

    There was a rumor going the rounds between 1918 and 1920 that the Petrograd Cheka…did not shoot all those condemned to death but fed some of them alive to the animals in the city zoos. I do not know whether this is truth or calumny….But I wouldn’t set out to look for proof, either. Following the practice of the bluecaps, I would propose that they prove to us that this was impossible. How else could they get food for the zoos in those famine years? Take it away from the working class? Those enemies were going to die anyway, so why couldn’t their deaths support the zoo economy of the Republic and thereby assist our march into the future? Wasn’t it expedient?…”

    http://tinyurl.com/ybs26hz

    But Professor Rummel, in PC fashion, leaves it at that, explaining that Marxist ideology caused Russians to murder other Russians (implying the murderers and murdered were of the same ethnicity) leaving out the Jewish component sp obviously evident in Solzhenitsyn’s writing.

    Bon

  14. Veritas's Gravatar Veritas
    August 6, 2010 - 1:32 pm | Permalink

    How do we send our meager contributions to the translators of Solzhenitsyn’s work?? Who do we direct it to?

  15. Whites Unites's Gravatar Whites Unites
    August 7, 2010 - 8:06 am | Permalink

    Veritas,

    Go to http://www.ethnopoliticsonline.com

    Click on the “Solzhenitsyn” link halfway down the lefthand column.

  16. TicTac's Gravatar TicTac
    August 7, 2010 - 12:44 pm | Permalink

    Turner Diaries (Audio) fascinating stuff.

    Here’s a link to the mp3 download if anyone’s interested-

    http://www.solargeneral.com/audio/pierce/turner-diaries/

    Also, 400 pics of the Fuhrer-

    http://www.solargeneral.com/images/adolf-hitler/

  17. Ronald Knarr's Gravatar Ronald Knarr
    August 15, 2010 - 4:05 pm | Permalink

    solly to TGD says:
    August 3, 2010 at 9:29 AM
    What IS Ledeen’s “our historic mission”?
    ——————————-
    Answer: The installation of their Messiah-the Anti-Christ.

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