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Constitution.com ^ | March 30, 2016 | Dave Jolly

[PapaBear3625]

Stalin "was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution, alongside Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Sokolnikov and Bubnov."

Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, and Sokolnikov (5 out of the 7) were of Jewish ethnicity.

Nobel-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book "Two Hundred Years Together", writes of the Jewish role in the Revolution. He got some heat for writing about the extent of Jewish involvement in the revolution and the purges, and especially about the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.

That book was never translated into English.

[PapaBear3625]

"cuckservative"? What kind of talk is that?

A simple internet search gets you the definition, it is a "portmanteau of the word cuckold and the political designation conservative".

From Urban Dictionary:

A cuckservative is a self-styled "conservative" who will cravenly sell out and undermine his home country's people, culture, and national interest in order to win approval with parties hostile or indifferent to them.

[BroJoeK]

PapaBear3625: "Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, and Sokolnikov (5 out of the 7) were of Jewish ethnicity."

A better analysis is the following:

1. "On the eve of the February Revolution, in 1917, the Bolshevik party had about 23,000 members, of whom 364 were known to be ethnic Jews.[15] [=less than 2%]
   According to the 1922 party census, there were 19,564 Jewish Bolsheviks, comprising 5.21% of the total."

2. "Between 1917 and 1919, Jewish Bolshevik party leaders included Grigory Zinoviev, Moisei Uritsky, Lev Kamenev, Yakov Sverdlov, Grigory Sokolnikov, and Leon Trotsky.
   Kamenev was of mixed ethnic Russian and Jewish parentage. [21][22]
   Trotsky was also a member (or "Narkom") of the ruling Council of People's Commissars.
   Among the 23 Narkoms between 1923 and 1930, five were Jewish [=22%].[21]"

3. "Among members of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets in 1929, there were 402 ethnic Russians, 95 Ukrainians, 55 Jews [=9%], 26 Latvians, 13 Poles, and 12 Germans – Jewish representation had declined from 60 members in 1927.[23]
   With regards to Jewish representation in the ruling Politburo, it waned rapidly starting in 1918.
   It began with the assassination of Uritsky in August 1918.
   Then Sverdlov died of disease in March 1919 and Sokolnikov was shunted aside.
   Three years later in 1922, Jewish members in the Central Committee, the Politburo's new name, had shrunk to a minority of three: Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev.
   Eventually they were physically eliminated by Joseph Stalin: Zinoviev and Kamenev in 1936 and Trotsky in 1940."

4. "In the 1920s, of the 417 members of the Central Executive Committee, the party Central Committee, the Presidium of the Executive of the Soviets of the USSR and the Russian Republic, the People's Commissars, 6% were ethnic Jews."

5. "Between 1936 and 1940, during the Great Purge, Yezhovshchina and after the rapprochement with Nazi Germany, Stalin had largely eliminated Jews from senior party, government, diplomatic, security and military positions."

For comparison, in the US government today:

1. 10% of US Senators are Jewish.
   
2. 4% of US Congressmen are Jewish.
   
3. 33% of US Supreme Court justices are Jewish.

PapaBear3625: "Nobel-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book 'Two Hundred Years Together', writes of the Jewish role in the Revolution"

Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets in 1929 was 9% Jewish.
So any blithering idiot can focus attention on the alleged wickedness of those 9%, while ignoring the other 91% (!) , and make it sound like Jews were the source of all evils.
Any blithering idiot can do that...

[BroJoeK]

PapaBear3625 quoting: "A cuckservative is a self-styled 'conservative' who will cravenly sell out and undermine his home country's people, culture, and national interest in order to win approval with parties hostile or indifferent to them."

I don't agree that such people exist as posters to Free Republic.
Pretty much everyone posting here knows their own minds and come both to express their views and receive validation from others like-minded.

Nobody here is seeking "approval with parties hostile or indifferent" to our values.

[King Moonracer]

And they voted for payback and acquitted OJ.

[Nationale7]

Beautifully put together. Thank you.

[chit*chat]

Thank you for expanding my history lesson. There is no dispute, they were always heavily Democrats.

[chit*chat]

Too bad it didn’t also impart intelligence, common sense, love of country, honestly of one vote per person, and reverence for the vote without some type of bribe or pay off incentive along with it. But then we wouldn’t have Democrats.