Russian Lawmaker: ‘Jews Destroyed Russia’

INN ^ | 2/14/2014, 12:13 AM | Ari Yashar

[Olog-hai]

A Russian Member of Parliament (MP) burst out in an anti-Semitic tirade last Thursday, attacking other Russian lawmakers as “Jews” responsible for the 1917 Communist revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Oleg Bolychev, an MP from the ruling United Russia party, called his opponents “Jews, mired in opposition,” during a debate at the regional parliament in Kaliningrad, reports AFP.

“At the start of the 1990s, foreign spies were infiltrated into our government who oversaw the destruction of our state,” claimed Bolychev. “You destroyed our country in 1917 and you destroyed our country in 1991.” …

[PotatoHeadMick]

One can certainly say that Jews were very disproportionately represented in the Communist ranks, the Jews after all had good reason to loathe the Tsar. It is also fair to say that among the oligarchs who cashed in big time in 1991 and made vast fortunes buying up government assets at fire-sale prices Jews were again very disproportionately represented.

Neither statement is mutually contradictory. The same can also be said of pre-WWII Germany where Jews were over-represented among the leading capitalists and communists.

They were also over-represented in the ranks of musicians, scholars, lawyers, doctors etc so what conclusion to draw? I have no idea.

I live in SE Asia and the Chinese community have a similar profile here, over-represented in the business community, media, medicine etc and resented equally as much and just as much blamed for all society’s ills (oddly enough the Chinese were also to the forefront in Communist agitation in the 50’s and 60’s). I believe in Africa the Indians fit the same bill.

If an ethnic community gets a reputation for opting for professions where brainpower rather than brawn (you don’t see too many Chinese in Malaysia or Indonesia tending rice paddies or on building sites) then it is only human nature that they will end up being resented, unfairly, for their success.

I dare say the wealthy in their gated communities and air-conditioned malls can live with such resentment, it’s a bit harder on those further down the totem pole running their small shop or enterprise who face the day to day reality of such resentment.

[SevenofNine]

All due respect jews really contribute to Russia history their music arts and military

If wasn’t the Pograms and Communism they probably still jews in Russia

[Misterioso]

One can argue that the Jews have been at the root of almost anything that has gone wrong in the world.

I would argue the reverse.

[dfwgator]

There were a number of Jewish Bolsheviks like Trotksy, Kamenev, Zinoviev,

The vicious anti-Semite Stalin, eventually bumped all of them off.

[Jacob Kell]

He wasn’t the only one. there were Catholics who weren’t terribly philo-Semitic.

[Jacob Kell]

Beria was a Georgian, like Stalin, not a Jew.

[tcrlaf]

In several ways he is correct, but it’s too simple a glance at history. Because of a tirade, he will simply be dismissed as a kook.

Yes, Jews were the backbone of the Communist movement in Russia.
Yes, Jew made up the vast majority of commissars and political murders for the Reds.
Yes, the slaughter of almost one million Ethnic Germans in the Polish wars of 1920-23 by the Jewish-led Reds was a large factor in the Jewish hatred in Germany.

But, the Jews were also the most oppressed, abused, and murdered ethnic group under the Tsars, (and the rest of Europe, for that matter.)

That they gravitated enmass to the “Eat-The-Rich” rhetoric of the Communists really isn’t surprising. (look at blacks and Democrats today, for example.)

Got a plague? Blame the Jews.
Drought? Blame the Jews.
Economic downturn? Blame the Jews, etc,etc, and.
Any kind of civil unrest? Blame the jews....

[Jacob Kell]

Not all. Look at Lazar Kaganovitch. He was a Jew and he apparently remained in Stalin’s favor until Joe’s death. Kaganovitch died in 1991, and he was one of the original Bolsheviks.

[mosesdapoet]

Anybody notice the debate took place in the former territory and kingdom known as Prussia ? There’s been reports of unrest in that aquired territory resettled by Russians including they prefer speaking German.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai.

[Cronos]

well, the root cause of this is from 3 sources -- in Western Europe from what happened in Spain when the Moors invaded and Jews continued to work as before under the Moslems. the second are the prejudices from Byzantium which remembered the Kitos revolts -- major revolts by diasporic Jews in north africa and cyprus in 170s, where there was a widespread slaughter of Roman citizens and others (200,000 in N Africa, 240,000 in Cyprus according to Cassius Dio) by the Jewish rebels.

The third, which tied in to the above two was in 1793 when Russia swallowed the eastern half of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. Until that time there were few Jews in Russia, while 60% of the worlds Jews or more lived in Poland. The Russians didn't understand this new group and demonised it.

This had the effect of creating a vicious circle -- Jews were marginalized and brutalised (well, most of Russia was) and they eventually moved against this in the late 1800s being drawn to an idea of equality for all -- remember that some, SOME of the earliest socialist ideas are things we now take for granted as equality for all etc. This then influenced the stereotype of the Jew as the "other" and a vicious circle

[Cronos]

This is based on the fact that Jews and Caucasians (Georgians, Armenians etc) had a higher percentage in the politburo compared to their numbers on the ground -- this could be because they were also more likely to be educated.

And Russians prey on the fact that a number of early Soviet leaders were non-russian. Not only Trotsky (Jewish), but Georgians: Stalin, Beria, then Macedonians: Georgy Malenkov, then Ukrainians: Brezhnew, Andropov, Chernenko

But they forget that while these were "highlight", the majority of the party were Russians -- it's easier to scapegoat a minority

[Cronos]

Stalin was Georgian, as was Beria. Trotsky was of Jewish origin and was the brains of the early Soviet Union. If it wasn't for Trotsky, the Bolsheviks would have collapsed in 1919 -- the Bolshies had been killing off Army officers, so when the Russian civil war broke out, the Bolshies could not defend the borders. If they tried putting in army officers, they promptly defected to the White Army. So Trotsky put in a system of a commanding officer + political commissar.

however, his brilliance meant that Trotsky was a rival to Stalin, so when Stalin killed his way to the top, he had to demonize his opponent (read Animal Farm) and thanks to Stalin's bloodthirsty nature (he 'out-killed' Hitler and is only rivaled by Mao and Timur-e-Lang) Jews were as a whole targetted once more

[Cronos]

There were a number of Jewish Bolsheviks like Trotksy, Kamenev, Zinoviev, and some others, but to say the communist takeovers of the last century were Jewish influenced is a typical example of crude anti-Semitism. Do these people think the Chinese communists were Jews as well?

correct. Jews were and are brilliant. It was natural that they would rise to the top in a country that had a number of them, yet restricted what they could do, so they had only one option available - revolt..

[Cronos]

True, as were the initial leaders of the UB (KGB's counterpart in communist Poland) and the leaders of the Hungarian Socialist republic

But people who just target the Jews for this forget the vast numbers of non-Jews who were also communism's leading lights.

[Cronos]

Masterfully written

Jews, Indians and Chinese are smart and that breeds resentment

it's tragiccomic that in the inter-war years Jews were demonized by capitalists as communists, while communists took the Rothschilds as an example to demonize Jews on their side. The poor Jews in their shtethls who didn't know Marx or the Rothschilds was attacked by both sides.

[Cronos]

Stalin was many things, but not anti-Semite. He just hated everyone and killed everyone — an equal opportunities killer.

[Cronos]

Sorry, but this is an exaggeration

Yes, Jews were the backbone of the Communist movement in Russia.
Yes, Jew made up the vast majority of commissars and political murders for the Reds.
Yes, the slaughter of almost one million Ethnic Germans in the Polish wars of 1920-23 by the Jewish-led Reds was a large factor in the Jewish hatred in Germany.

1. they were not the backbone. A significant part of the back-bone, but not THE back-bone

2. They did not make the vast majority -- they did make the largest number though and above their % of the population

3. 1 million ethnic Germans slaughtered in the Polish wars? Really? i haven't read that -- but I may be wrong. Can you explain further?

[driftless2]

From what I’ve read he might have been anti-Semitic. “The Doctors Plot” was a campaign generated by Stalin in the early ‘50s to get rid of prominent Jews who were supposedly conspiring to murder Soviet leaders...like Dear Uncle Joe. Fortunately, Stalin croaked before a lot of innocent people could be imprisoned and/or murdered. One week after he died, the campaign was dropped by the authorities.

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