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I want to welcome 23 00:01:50,599 --> 00:01:53,280 everyone back to part fifty eight of our reading of 24 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,519 two hundred Years Together by Alexander sulshanesin Doctor Johnson, How 25 00:01:58,519 --> 00:02:00,359 are you today? 26 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:02,959 Speaker 2: You know, I lived in Nebraska for like five years. 27 00:02:02,959 --> 00:02:06,439 I got my PhD from there. Fellowship. I got a 28 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:07,920 lot of fellowship from there, which is why I ended 29 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,840 up out there. Warren Buffett jokes on him, but he paid. 30 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,520 He pretty much owns the place. So and I saw 31 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:21,159 a news report where there was a a steer a 32 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,560 bull sitting in the passenger seat in Nebraska of a 33 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,840 car the horn sticking out. Of course it was a 34 00:02:28,879 --> 00:02:32,879 convertible truck, and they got pulled over and didn't get 35 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,039 pulled over for that, got pulled over for like very 36 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:38,919 minor like like not signaling or something like that. I said, 37 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:42,240 that's perfectly normal for that state. Nebraska is the weirdest 38 00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:45,879 state on the planet. I'm sorry, we the weirdest state 39 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,759 in the country. Weird, I guarantee you the weirdest place 40 00:02:48,759 --> 00:02:53,879 in the planet. That's nothing compared to what normally goes on. 41 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:59,240 There's a there's a town where they have wooden cutouts 42 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,360 of people because they think that would increase the population. 43 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,360 They have a random a total random chef boy or 44 00:03:08,439 --> 00:03:13,240 d statue in Omaha. It's not even near anything. It's 45 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,639 it's just it's just showed ups there. Warren Buffett himself 46 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,599 is a nut job wandering around town hoping that someone 47 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:26,080 shoots him. Yeah, the whole political situation, you know, no 48 00:03:26,159 --> 00:03:31,120 political parties at the state level, you know, the biggest 49 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,719 the biggest attraction is stone Hens may have of cars. 50 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:38,960 There's a speed limit. There's a speed limit for horses 51 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:41,639 on the on the six miles an hour. I don't 52 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:43,560 know how well enforced that is. They're not allowed to 53 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:49,039 go on the sidewalk, though they have. But budweiserre actually 54 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,319 made of tomato beer. I don't know if they've sold 55 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:58,520 anywhere else, but it's actually a Budweiser product I've seen 56 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,039 many years ago in the in the in the beer 57 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,400 refrigerator the place. And lots of states have weird stuff, 58 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,039 but Nebraska has a million and a half people. You know. 59 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,039 I used to walk by the governor's mansion. I lived 60 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,040 like half a block away from them in an apartment building. 61 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,879 It's just it's you know, every once in a while 62 00:04:20,879 --> 00:04:24,480 you'll see a clown walking in downtown in the in 63 00:04:24,519 --> 00:04:30,240 the in the yellow yellow lines, and no one says 64 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,839 anything because, you know what, it's normal there. It's just 65 00:04:35,959 --> 00:04:40,959 it was one weird, weird thing after another. There's another town, well, 66 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,800 of course there's it's the only town in the country 67 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,279 I think now has a population of one. That's Banawi. 68 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:52,319 The woman, Missus Eyler, she's the mayor, she is the librarian, 69 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:56,519 she's the bartender. She actually pays taxes to herself, which 70 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,920 is true, and population of one. When her husband died. 71 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,480 Now I'm now he's way up north. This is you know, 72 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,199 this kind of thing. No one really looks twice at it. 73 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: Uh. 74 00:05:12,199 --> 00:05:15,319 Speaker 2: It's and the museums of weird things like the Museum Johnson's, 75 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,439 Museum of the Odd, the Museum of Shadows, all over 76 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:23,279 the place in that state. There is nothing boring about Nebraska. 77 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,360 It is the weirdest place to live. Ever. It got 78 00:05:27,399 --> 00:05:29,800 to the point where I used to walk to school 79 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:37,439 and these Indians would be doing war drums on the newspaper, 80 00:05:37,759 --> 00:05:40,600 remember the newspaper machines that used to have. And it 81 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:43,000 got to the point where I didn't even notice it anymore. 82 00:05:43,079 --> 00:05:47,639 It was so it was so common, you know, I have. 83 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:52,759 It was just a place where endless weirdness would happen, 84 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,000 and people people didn't natives didn't even give it a 85 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,439 second look. I had to get used to it. You know, 86 00:06:00,519 --> 00:06:03,439 you never know what you're going to see in anywhere 87 00:06:03,439 --> 00:06:09,360 in Nebraska. These towns. There's a town that has three 88 00:06:09,399 --> 00:06:14,439 statues per person, and they're not even a famous people. 89 00:06:14,439 --> 00:06:17,560 They're random people. The borough, the chef Borol. Do you 90 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,839 want an Omaha got me let? Because because it was no, 91 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,160 it's not like near an Italian restaurant. It was just somewhere. 92 00:06:23,959 --> 00:06:27,279 It had no relevance there. And that's that's this is 93 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:30,519 normal here. This is perfectly normal here. I'm very proud 94 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,279 to have gone to university and never the weirdest place. 95 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,079 You never knew what was real and what was in 96 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:37,399 your imagination in that state. 97 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: All right, I just know that if I stop reading, 98 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:53,439 I'm probably either laughing at clown or statues to nobody's right. 99 00:06:55,319 --> 00:07:00,199 I'm gonna try and read this, okay, all right, if 100 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,079 we're ready, I'm gonna get'mnna. I'm gonna try and get 101 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,279 really serious here, all right, do your best. I'm super 102 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:09,079 serial here, all right. Picking up where we left off 103 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,959 last time, The February Revolution was run by clowns. Okay, no, 104 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:14,120 hold on, all right. 105 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 2: We'll start over down the middle of the street on 106 00:07:15,839 --> 00:07:20,560 the on the yellow line with the big shoes, and 107 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,000 there weren't in the way of anybody. But I must 108 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,680 have seen it maybe ten times in the five years 109 00:07:26,759 --> 00:07:29,959 I was there, like it was. You know, where's she 110 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,399 coming from? Where's he going? No circus in town? This 111 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,639 is living in Living in Nebraska is is a was 112 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:44,160 a bizarre experience. I had to get throw off my chest. 113 00:07:45,079 --> 00:07:51,079 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm gonna try and read. Okay, here 114 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:54,439 we go, picking up. Let me see how much of 115 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:59,120 this chapter we have left. I think we might be 116 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:00,199 able to finish this today. 117 00:08:00,759 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 2: Okay, I can't believe we're over three hundred, page three hundred. 118 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:04,279 That's incredible. 119 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I never thought that'd see that day. 120 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 2: Here we go, yeah, all right. 121 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: The February Revolution itself often consciously appealed for support to Jews, 122 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:22,399 an entire nation enslaved. Eyewitness testimonies that Russian Jews were 123 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:26,199 very ecstatic about the February Revolution are rife. 124 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:30,879 Speaker 2: Well again, he's he's tongue in cheek here. Obviously, he 125 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:33,720 doesn't think that the entire nation is enslaved unless you're 126 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:41,039 talking about you know what came later, you know, but 127 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,080 there were never at any point enslaved or even inconvenienced 128 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,600 in Old Russia or at the February Revolution. 129 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: Yet there are counter witnesses too, such as Gregory Aronson, 130 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,559 who formed and led the Soviets Soviet of Workers Deputies 131 00:08:55,559 --> 00:09:00,879 of Vibtsk, which later had a member which later had 132 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:06,000 as a member YV. Tarl, a future historian. He wrote 133 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,600 that on the very first day, when news of the 134 00:09:07,639 --> 00:09:12,720 revolution reached Vitepsk, the newly formed security council met in 135 00:09:12,799 --> 00:09:16,279 the city Duma, and immediately afterwards Aaronson was invited to 136 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,480 a meeting of representatives of the Jewish community, clearly not 137 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:24,679 rank and file, but leaders, apparently quoting apparently, there was 138 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:27,480 a need to consult me, as a representative of the new, 139 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,039 dawning era, what to do. Further, I felt the alienation 140 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:33,320 from these people, from the circle of their interests, and 141 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,759 from the tense atmosphere which was at the meeting. I 142 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,519 had a sense that the society belonged mostly to the 143 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,399 old world, which was retreating into the past. We were 144 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,240 not able to eliminate a certain mutual chill that had 145 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,720 come from somewhere. The faces of the people I was 146 00:09:48,759 --> 00:09:52,080 working with displayed no uplift or faith. At times, it 147 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,279 appeared that these selfless social activists perceived themselves as elements 148 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:57,399 of the old order. 149 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: There was nothing this was a Masonic revolution. This was 150 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,320 like something along the lines of a more radical French revolution. 151 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:11,639 They had honest people, and we talked about the investigative 152 00:10:11,639 --> 00:10:16,159 committee who exonerated the monarchy, you know, so clearly they 153 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,399 were honest people there, and maybe that's part of what 154 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,600 he's talking about. They weren't willing to lie about it, 155 00:10:22,639 --> 00:10:24,320 and they had access to more documents than any of 156 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:26,600 us could ever have. Who knows what's been destroyed in 157 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:32,759 the meantime. But I think that line above maybe a 158 00:10:32,759 --> 00:10:37,799 translation issue appealing support for Jews by saying that you 159 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,000 were an entire nation enslaved. It's not like Jews weren't involved, 160 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:43,919 but it wasn't a you know, an ethnic movement like 161 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:50,039 the Bolsheviks were. But you know, yeah, the Mensoviks were 162 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:54,039 Marxists of a type socialist ae tite here. There were 163 00:10:54,080 --> 00:11:00,240 nowhere near Leninism, but they had such ideological diversity there, 164 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:05,519 and they weren't allowing around long enough to really develop policy, 165 00:11:06,039 --> 00:11:07,720 and what they did do had to do with the war. 166 00:11:07,759 --> 00:11:10,039 They were in the middle of World War One, so 167 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,240 as far as them ruling Russia that you can't really 168 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:17,240 say anything about it. So there was nothing, nothing that 169 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:24,039 inspired loyalty about Kerensky or the February bourgeois revolution at all. 170 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,879 Speaker 1: That is a precise witness account. Such bewilderment, caution, and 171 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:34,200 wavering predominated among religiously conservative Jews. One assumes not only 172 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:38,080 of Vitepsk. The sensible old Jewry, carrying a sense of 173 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,480 many centuries of experience of hard ordeals, was apparently shocked 174 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,919 by the sudden overthrow of the monarchy and had serious misgivings. 175 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:47,919 Yet in the spirit of the twentieth century, the dynamic 176 00:11:48,039 --> 00:11:51,679 masses of every nation, including Jews, were already secular, not 177 00:11:51,759 --> 00:11:55,360 changed to traditions, and very eager to build the happy 178 00:11:55,480 --> 00:12:01,120 new World. The Jewish Encyclopaedia notes a shark insensification of 179 00:12:01,159 --> 00:12:06,879 the political activity of Jewelry, noticeably even against a backstorm 180 00:12:06,919 --> 00:12:11,639 of stormy social uplift that gripped Russia after February nineteen seventeen. 181 00:12:12,639 --> 00:12:17,919 Speaker 2: You know, I've written just a ridiculous amount on this era. 182 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,399 I don't even remember half the stuff I've written. My 183 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:29,639 book on the Soviet Experiment is mostly early USSR. It 184 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:31,840 was such a complex and difficult era. But one of 185 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,679 the things that Lenin said is that, of course the 186 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:41,799 February Revolution was necessary. And he said, I can almos 187 00:12:41,879 --> 00:12:45,240 quote him directly. He said, nowhere else in the world 188 00:12:45,399 --> 00:12:50,919 is there this level of freedom as the Russians have 189 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:55,159 after February nineteen seventeen. And of course he says, we're 190 00:12:55,159 --> 00:12:57,720 going to take advantage of this. This is why we 191 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,759 can function, this is how we can function. We're going 192 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:07,120 to take advantage of that and organized. And keep in mind, 193 00:13:07,159 --> 00:13:09,840 the czar was never overthrown. It was his own people, 194 00:13:10,519 --> 00:13:18,399 these generals who wrote the fake abdication. Note. You know, 195 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,480 he remained popular consistently, and it was part of the 196 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,720 reason why you had endless peasant uprisings. The Civil war 197 00:13:24,759 --> 00:13:27,600 really didn't end in nineteen twenty one. It ended really 198 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,240 in nineteen forty five, end of the German invasion. You know, 199 00:13:31,279 --> 00:13:34,759 the German invasion actually took part in what was already 200 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:41,039 an ongoing war of the peasants against the Soviet government. 201 00:13:41,519 --> 00:13:44,879 You always had plenty of monarchists there. They couldn't say 202 00:13:44,879 --> 00:13:48,720 so openly many times, but Nicholas remained popular until the 203 00:13:48,759 --> 00:13:49,639 day he was murdered. 204 00:13:51,159 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 1: Myself, having worked for many years on the February press 205 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,840 and memoirs of the contemporaries of the February, could not 206 00:13:57,919 --> 00:14:03,440 fail to notice this sharp, this sharp strengthening disgusting in 207 00:14:03,519 --> 00:14:06,519 those materials. From the most varied witnesses and participants of 208 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:09,320 those events, there were so many Jewish names, and the 209 00:14:09,399 --> 00:14:12,799 Jewish theme is very loud and persistent. From the memory 210 00:14:12,799 --> 00:14:20,600 of Rodjanko, from the town governor balk from General Glibaziov, 211 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,840 and many others. From the first days of the revolution 212 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:29,759 in the depths of the Trinsky Tavrichski Palace, the number 213 00:14:29,799 --> 00:14:32,039 of Jews jumped out at me. Among the members of 214 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:36,000 the Commandant's office, the interrogation commissions, the pamphlet merchants, and 215 00:14:36,039 --> 00:14:40,960 so on. V. D. Nabokov, who was well disposed towards Jews, 216 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,720 wrote that on March second, at the entrance of the 217 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,159 Tavrishki Mini park in front of the Douma building, there 218 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,600 was an unbelievable crush of people and shouting. At the 219 00:14:50,759 --> 00:14:53,759 entrance of the gates. Some at the entrance of the gates, 220 00:14:53,759 --> 00:14:57,480 some young Jewish looking men were questioning the bypassers. According 221 00:14:57,519 --> 00:14:59,519 to Bulk, the crowd that went on the rampage at 222 00:14:59,519 --> 00:15:02,399 the Estore, an elite hotel in Saint Petersburg on the 223 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:07,320 night of February twenty eighth consisted of armed soldiers, sailors 224 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:11,200 and Jews. I would indulge, I would indulge some emigrant 225 00:15:11,519 --> 00:15:15,279 irritability here, as they used to say, well, that's all 226 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,679 the Jews. Yet the same was witnessed by another neutral observer, 227 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,080 the Methodist pastor doctor Simon's, an American who had already 228 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:25,159 been in Petrograd for ten years and knew it well. 229 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,799 He was debriefed by a commission of the American Senate 230 00:15:27,799 --> 00:15:31,360 in nineteen nineteen. Quote. Soon after the March Revolution of 231 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,440 nineteen seventeen, everywhere in Petrograd you could see groups of 232 00:15:34,519 --> 00:15:39,399 Jews standing on benches, soapboxes and such, making speeches. There 233 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:41,399 had been restrictions on the rights of Jews that live 234 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,759 in Petrograd, but after the revolution they came in droves, 235 00:15:44,759 --> 00:15:48,759 and the majority of agitators were Jews. They were apostate Jews. 236 00:15:49,919 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 2: You know that always irritates me. You know, a lot 237 00:15:53,039 --> 00:15:57,600 of norm and conservatives say stupid things like that, although 238 00:15:57,639 --> 00:16:00,279 I have cited him he is a good sorts of 239 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,919 information in my book and things like that. But apostate 240 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,080 apostate from what this was their religion? I guess he 241 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,600 means a postate in the sense that these aren't religious 242 00:16:11,639 --> 00:16:16,480 Jews at all. But that didn't make any difference as 243 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:20,360 far as your connection to liberalism or Bolshivism was concerned. 244 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:22,799 One had nothing to do with the other. I mean, 245 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,360 some of them, more extremists didn't like it, but only 246 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,039 because they thought they'd be the nasty reaction against them, 247 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,399 not because they were opposed to it, So, you know, 248 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,480 and that became kind of a common theme Americans to 249 00:16:35,559 --> 00:16:38,440 this day in the Senate now, how they have no 250 00:16:38,559 --> 00:16:45,559 concept of what's going on in Russia. And I've I've 251 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:47,960 dealt with some of the laws that they've passed, the 252 00:16:48,039 --> 00:16:52,240 Captive Nations Act in the fifties, where they misspell everything. 253 00:16:53,759 --> 00:16:58,320 There's absolutely clueless. They're not apostate Jews, they're Jews. And that, 254 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,120 by the way, exactly what we were talking about in 255 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:04,640 the Jewish question with Karl Marx. Mark says that is 256 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:08,079 the Jewish religion. That's the essence of the Jewish religion. 257 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:09,480 There weren't a pastate from anything. 258 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: A certain student, Hanook, came to Cronstat a few days 259 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,160 before a planned massacre of sixty officers who were named 260 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,799 on a hit list. He became the founder and chairman 261 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:24,359 of the Kronstat's Committee of the Revolutionary Movement. The order 262 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,400 of the committee was to arrest and try each and 263 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:30,759 all officers. Somebody had already prepared and disseminated false information, 264 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,559 triggering massacres, first in Cronstat, deninz Fierbourg. It was because 265 00:17:35,599 --> 00:17:39,119 of the uncertainty of the situation when every fabrication was 266 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,160 taken for a hard fact. The baton of the bloody 267 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:48,359 Kronstadt affair was carried by the dropout psychoneurologist doctor Roschale 268 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,759 later after the October coup, a coup. Later after the 269 00:17:51,839 --> 00:17:55,640 October Coup, s g Roschal was appointed the commandant of 270 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,319 the Gatchina, and from November he was the commissar of 271 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,759 the whole remain in Front, where he was killed upon arrival. 272 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, don't get it into your head that the provisional 273 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:13,000 government wasn't bloody. They absolutely were it's just when compared 274 00:18:13,039 --> 00:18:16,839 to the Bolsheviks, they seem absolutely uh peaceful and like 275 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,200 hippies by comparison, but they were as bloody as anyone else. 276 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,480 Given the power that they had, you know, how much 277 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,400 of Russia they really control, that's you know, that's that's 278 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,000 an open question. The boat the Reds, they really didn't 279 00:18:31,079 --> 00:18:34,720 end up controlling all of their territory until late Stalin, 280 00:18:35,279 --> 00:18:40,039 the late Stalin era. So I do think it's an 281 00:18:40,079 --> 00:18:43,559 interesting question if if the provisional government took over the 282 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,599 war ended, how would they then rule from there on end. 283 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:51,920 I don't know of any literature on that topic, but 284 00:18:52,039 --> 00:18:55,279 it would be an interesting conception. But they just weren't 285 00:18:55,279 --> 00:18:58,319 around long enough to become infamous. 286 00:18:59,599 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 1: A certain Solomon and Kapelan spoke on behalf of the 287 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:08,559 newly formed revolutionary militia of the Vasilievsky Island in the 288 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,680 future of the latter would become the bloody henchman of Zenoviyev. 289 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,720 The Petrograd bar created a special Commission for the examination 290 00:19:16,839 --> 00:19:20,240 of the justice of imprisoning persons arrested during the time 291 00:19:20,279 --> 00:19:23,319 of the revolution. Thousands were arrested during this time in 292 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:28,160 Petrograd that is to virtually decide their fate without due process, 293 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,960 and that of all the former gendarme and police. The 294 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:36,960 commission was headed by the barrister Goldstein. Yet the unique 295 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:43,640 story of the petty officer Timofey Kirpjhnikov, who triggered the 296 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,480 street revolution was written in March nineteen seventeen and preserved 297 00:19:47,519 --> 00:19:51,039 for us by the Jew Jacob Markovitch Fishman, a curious 298 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:54,440 historical figure. I with gratitude, relied on this story in 299 00:19:54,519 --> 00:19:57,400 The Red Wheel and the Red Wheel is a. 300 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 2: Great novel from Zlzeniitsen. I love how he says the 301 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,799 Jew Jacob Fishman, like we needed to be told that 302 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:13,319 that that he's a Jew. But the Jews, from even 303 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,640 just just by reading this, if if nothing else, they 304 00:20:16,759 --> 00:20:20,240 saw this as a very convenient period of time where 305 00:20:20,279 --> 00:20:24,400 they can mobilize to take it to the next level, 306 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,960 which is what happened in October one form or another. 307 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,559 I know I've said this before, but it is a 308 00:20:32,279 --> 00:20:34,200 It is a stain on the Russian Church that the 309 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,400 majority of business went along with this. Yes, they did 310 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:39,119 not persecute the church as far as I know, at 311 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:45,799 least not systematically, but that the majority of business went 312 00:20:45,839 --> 00:20:49,039 along with this, so called the you know, overthrow of 313 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,759 Zarron Nicholas is something that really there were plenty of 314 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,720 royalists too, but they were a minority, and it I mean, 315 00:20:57,799 --> 00:20:59,960 you know, who could defend Russian Orthodoxy more than me. 316 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,559 But this was a terrible, a terrible thing, and their 317 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:07,839 excuses for supporting it were stupid. And actually deal with 318 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,440 that at some length as well. 319 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: Elsewhere, the Jewish Encyclopedia concludes, Jews, for the first time 320 00:21:16,039 --> 00:21:18,440 in Russian history, had occupied posts in the central and 321 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:23,799 regional administrations, on the very heights in the Executive Committee 322 00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:28,440 of the Soviet of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies, invisibly ruling 323 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:32,920 the country in those months. Two leaders distinguished themselves, Nakamkis 324 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:38,640 Steklov and Gomer Sukhanov. On the night of March first 325 00:21:38,759 --> 00:21:44,119 to March second, they dictated to the complacently blind provisional 326 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,799 government a program which preemptively destroyed its power for the 327 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:54,839 entire period of its existence. Reflective contemporary G. A. Landau 328 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,960 thus explains the active participation of the Jews and the revolution. Quote. 329 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:01,960 The misfortune of Russia and the misfortune of the Russian 330 00:22:02,079 --> 00:22:05,119 jury is that the results of the First Revolution nineteen 331 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,799 oh five, were still not processed, not transformed into a 332 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,400 new social fabric. No new generation was born when a 333 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,880 great and backbreaking war broke out, and when the hour 334 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,240 of disintegration came, it came upon the generation that from 335 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:22,559 the very beginning was a kind of exhausted remnant of 336 00:22:22,599 --> 00:22:26,559 the previous revolution. It found the inertia of depleted spirituality, 337 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,279 lacking an organic connection to the situation, and chained by 338 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,920 spiritual stagnations of the ten years ago, by gone period. 339 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:38,240 And so the organic revolutionism of the beginning of the 340 00:22:38,319 --> 00:22:41,599 twentieth century, of the First Russian Revolution in nineteen oh five, 341 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,000 had turned into the mechanical, permanent revolution of the wartime era. 342 00:22:46,759 --> 00:22:49,799 Speaker 2: And I'm going to say, I'm going to say one thing. 343 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:55,640 There was nothing organic, meaning natural about nineteen oh five, 344 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,799 February or October. All of these were artificial, and all 345 00:23:00,839 --> 00:23:03,880 of these were pulled off by people with minimal connection 346 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,440 to your typical Russian worker, typical Russian peasant. There was 347 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,319 absolutely nothing organic about it, nothing natural about it. 348 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:15,279 Speaker 1: Through many years of detailed studies, I have spent much 349 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,119 time trying to comprehend the essence of the February Revolution 350 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,599 and the Jewish role in it. I came to this 351 00:23:20,759 --> 00:23:24,160 conclusion and can now repeat it, and can now repeat No, 352 00:23:24,319 --> 00:23:27,079 the February Revolution was not something the Jews did to 353 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,119 the Russians, but rather it was done by the Russians 354 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,759 to themselves, which I believe that I amply demonstrated in 355 00:23:33,839 --> 00:23:38,400 the Red Wheel. We committed this downfall ourselves, our anointed czar, 356 00:23:38,599 --> 00:23:42,920 the court circles, the hapless high ranking generals, obtuse administrators 357 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,519 and their enemies, the elite intelligency of the October's Party, 358 00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:51,759 the Zemsteff, the cadets, the revolutionary democrats, socialists and revolutionaries, 359 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:55,359 and along with them a bandit element of army reservists 360 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:59,440 distressingly confined to the Petersburg barracks. And this is precisely 361 00:23:59,519 --> 00:24:02,920 why we perished. True, there were already many Jews among 362 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:07,160 the intelligensia by that time, yet that is in no 363 00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:10,680 way a basis to call it a Jewish revolution. One 364 00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:14,240 may classify revolutions by their main animating forces, and then 365 00:24:14,279 --> 00:24:18,400 the February Revolution must be seen as a Russian national revolution, 366 00:24:18,799 --> 00:24:22,359 or more precisely, a Russian ethnic revolution, though if one 367 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:27,759 would judge it using the methodology a materialistic sociologists asking 368 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:30,359 who benefited the most, or benefited most quickly or the 369 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,319 most solidly and in the long term from the revolution, 370 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,880 and then it could be called otherwise Jewish for example. 371 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,319 But then again, why not German? After all, Kaiser Wilhelm 372 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,920 initially benefited from it, but the remaining Russian population got 373 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,079 nothing but harm and destruction. However, that doesn't make the 374 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,880 revolution non Russian. The Jewish society got everything it fought 375 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,440 for from the revolution, and the October Revolution was altogether 376 00:24:55,599 --> 00:24:58,720 unnecessary for them, except for a small slice of young, 377 00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:04,559 cutthroat Jews, who with their Russian internationalist brothers, accumulated an 378 00:25:04,599 --> 00:25:07,319 explosive charge of hate for the Russian governing class and 379 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,680 burst forth to deepen the revolution. 380 00:25:10,559 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 2: It's unfortunate that it's extremely difficult to tell what percentage 381 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:23,720 of the ethnic Russian, Ukrainian Belarusian populations supported the abolition 382 00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:27,039 of the monarchy. I'm very low to say that it 383 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,359 was a majority. You know, when I talked about the 384 00:25:31,599 --> 00:25:36,000 these bishops, I don't think the clergy supported whatsoever. Lower clergy, 385 00:25:36,319 --> 00:25:43,319 the monks certainly didn't, but these but the bishops certainly did. 386 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:45,240 It's the same thing you know, there's another group of 387 00:25:45,279 --> 00:25:50,279 people who but it seems that the Jews were the 388 00:25:50,319 --> 00:25:53,200 only ones who benefited because it permitted them a period 389 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,519 of time to mobilize and then take over in October. 390 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:02,759 You know, there was no support for the provisional government 391 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,440 because there was nothing to support. You know, Kerensky was 392 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:13,519 one personality among many, and any any German support for 393 00:26:13,599 --> 00:26:17,519 the overthrow of the monarchy is incredibly short sighted because 394 00:26:17,519 --> 00:26:19,240 they had no me It's easy for us to say now, 395 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:22,240 but they had no idea what was going to happen. 396 00:26:22,279 --> 00:26:23,759 They had no idea what was going to replace it. 397 00:26:24,759 --> 00:26:27,440 The empire that was going to come out of it. 398 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,559 It was deeply masonic, It was deeply elite. The peasants 399 00:26:32,599 --> 00:26:35,559 didn't make this revolution. Your typical worker didn't make this revolution. 400 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,400 Even even the high ranking officers, you know, the very 401 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,400 high ranking officers around Nicholas may have most of them did, 402 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,599 but you know, we would call it brigadier generals and 403 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,880 colonels and stuff certainly didn't. But when the Civil War 404 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,759 broke out, you had a lot of these mid level 405 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:02,880 you know, one star, two star, three star general's division level, 406 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:09,240 army level, running different factions. It was quite chaotic. I mean, 407 00:27:09,279 --> 00:27:10,960 you had, you know, like Capelle, you had, you know, 408 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:17,400 strongly monarchists orthodox faction, while the initial mainstream was in 409 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:24,240 support of the Constituent Assembly, which was not a principle technically. Remember, 410 00:27:24,599 --> 00:27:28,039 the Whites were in the army of the provisional government 411 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,279 sort of. That's at least where they how they were 412 00:27:31,319 --> 00:27:34,720 perceived in the West. But I think he's right to 413 00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:39,960 a great extent the Jews benefited by far the most, 414 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 but only in that this was a stepping stone for 415 00:27:44,079 --> 00:27:44,559 something else. 416 00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:49,319 Speaker 1: So how having understood this, was I to move through 417 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,759 March nineteen seventeen and then April nineteen seventeen, describing the 418 00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:57,119 revolution literally hour by hour. I frequently found the many 419 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,440 episodes and the sources that had a Jewish theme. Yet 420 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,319 would it be right to simply pour all that on 421 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,599 the pages of March nineteen seventeen. Then that easy and 422 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,279 piquante temptation to put all the blame on Jews, on 423 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,680 their ideas and actions, to see them as the main 424 00:28:15,759 --> 00:28:18,480 reason for these events, would easily skew the book and 425 00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:21,519 overcome the readers and divert the research away from the 426 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:23,440 truly main causes of the revolution. 427 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a title of a book. But it has 428 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,559 to be said that no one, at least no one 429 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,519 normal would ever say the Jews were the exclusive cause 430 00:28:34,559 --> 00:28:39,480 of these things, that it was entirely of Jewish phenomenon. 431 00:28:40,519 --> 00:28:45,359 That's extremely rare to find in politics anyway. It was disproportionate, 432 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,720 maybe even you know, they were extraordinarily well represented, but 433 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,640 no one saying all of them all the blame. You 434 00:28:53,759 --> 00:28:55,440 have to be pretty stupid to say that. It's just 435 00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:55,960 not true. 436 00:28:57,319 --> 00:28:59,519 Speaker 1: And so, in order to avoid the self deception of 437 00:28:59,559 --> 00:29:03,160 the russ I persistently and purposely downplayed the Jewish theme 438 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,319 in The Red Wheel relative to its actual coverage in 439 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:09,880 the press and on the streets in those days. The 440 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,759 February Revolution was carried out by Russian hands and Russian foolishness, 441 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,920 yet at the same time, its ideology was permeated and 442 00:29:17,079 --> 00:29:21,680 dominated by the intransigent hostility to the historical Russian state 443 00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:25,880 that ordinary Russians didn't have but the Jews had, so 444 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:31,319 the Russian intelligensia too had adopted this view. This intransigent 445 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,440 hostility grew especially sharp after the Trial of Belus and 446 00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:38,519 then after the mass expulsion of the Jews in nineteen fifteen, 447 00:29:39,119 --> 00:29:45,839 and so this intransigence overcame the moderation. Yet the Executive 448 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,880 Committee of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies, which was formed within 449 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,839 hours of the revolution, appears very different. This Executive Committee 450 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,240 was in fact a tough shadow government that deprived the 451 00:29:56,319 --> 00:29:59,400 liberal provisional government of any real power, while at the 452 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,720 same time criminally refused to accept responsibility for its power openly. 453 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,640 By its Order number one, the Executive Committee wrested the 454 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,480 power from the military and created its support for itself 455 00:30:10,799 --> 00:30:14,839 in the demoralized garrison a petrograd. It was precisely this 456 00:30:15,039 --> 00:30:19,880 executive Committee, and not the judiciary, not the timber and industrialists, 457 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,519 not the bankers, which fast tracked the country to her doom. 458 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,680 In the summer of nineteen seventeen, Joseph Goldenberg, a member 459 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,599 of the Executive Committee, explained to the French diplomat Claude 460 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,079 and Ney quote, the Order number one was not a mistake, 461 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,119 it was a necessity. On the day we executed the revolution, 462 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:39,759 we realized that if we did not destroy the old army, 463 00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:42,559 it would crush the revolution. We had to choose between 464 00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:45,119 the army and the revolution, and we did not waiver. 465 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,319 We chose the latter and inflicted I dare say, a 466 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:49,200 brilliant blow. 467 00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 2: So there you have it. 468 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,039 Speaker 1: The Executive Committee quite purposely destroyed the army in the 469 00:30:54,079 --> 00:30:54,839 middle of the war. 470 00:30:55,599 --> 00:30:59,599 Speaker 2: And that's precisely what Korneilov said. Now, if you read 471 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,319 the press the time, they're saying that this is an 472 00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:08,359 overdue reform of the military, patriotic reform. That's how the 473 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,880 American press talked about it, you know, getting everything from 474 00:31:12,359 --> 00:31:17,400 from the system in Russia, they realized that it was 475 00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:19,839 the army, and the army alone that could reverse all 476 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,839 of this. Order number one. We talked about that already. 477 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,279 I explained it already. You know that they tried to 478 00:31:27,279 --> 00:31:30,279 get rid of ranks to a great extent. Soldiers didn't 479 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:33,319 have to listen to officers. There were officers committees. It 480 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,839 just you know, it was to destroy any kind of 481 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,480 chain of command. It was pretty radical, and of course 482 00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:44,759 was eventually reversed. By that time, it was too late. 483 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,880 Kunelov ended up in opposition to the provisional government precisely 484 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:56,559 because of Order number one, Kunelov wrote substantially. In fact, 485 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,920 Kunelov wrote to Kerensky explaining how what a disaster this 486 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:09,440 is and well he also said it in person. Cornelia Uh. 487 00:32:10,119 --> 00:32:14,200 Kerensky said, yeah, I tend to agree, then tried to 488 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,440 have him arrested the next day. Partially that's because you 489 00:32:18,599 --> 00:32:22,160 had numerous centers of power. How much power Kerensky had 490 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,359 versus the Soviets and the Soviets, you know, they were 491 00:32:26,359 --> 00:32:30,079 Bolsheviks of a type, many of them revolted against the 492 00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:36,759 early Soviet Union. The ideological differences were probably minimal. It's 493 00:32:36,799 --> 00:32:40,799 hard to tell. Sometimes. I think some of the local 494 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,759 Soviets actually believed lendin Is propaganda, actually wanted to give 495 00:32:45,839 --> 00:32:47,920 land A peasants, which of course he had no intention 496 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:54,599 of doing. When that didn't happen, they got angered something 497 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,839 along those lines. But I think the Soviets really only 498 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:04,319 in urban areas very Jewish, had any real real power, 499 00:33:05,799 --> 00:33:09,400 and that power was dispersed, so the army had to 500 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:14,000 be defanged. Order number one was you know, it was. 501 00:33:14,119 --> 00:33:16,279 It was diabolical, but it was a pretty brilliant way 502 00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:20,440 to do it, and for the most part it was 503 00:33:20,519 --> 00:33:24,920 carried out, at least in Uh, carried out at least 504 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:30,880 within the army. It didn't last very long, But I 505 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,680 want to remind everybody too and this may not necessarily 506 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,359 be relevant to this particular issue, but the level of 507 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,200 PTSD this country had by now, what all of Europe 508 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,079 had by now because of World War One, was extraordinary. 509 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,039 No one saw a war like this coming, the mass 510 00:33:49,079 --> 00:33:53,440 of casualties, a poison gas, machine gun, the introduction of 511 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,599 the tank later on, the air war for the first time, 512 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:06,759 trench warfare, the stagnation, the attrition. And I try to 513 00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:08,599 keep that when I was writing and continued to write 514 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:10,599 my stuff on this, I'll signed a few to you. 515 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:13,119 You could, you could publish a couple of articles I 516 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:18,320 have on this stuff on the site. I try to 517 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,960 keep that in mind. Now, of course, they're much stronger, 518 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,920 healthier group of people than let's say, Americans today, But 519 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,119 I don't want to ignore that fact. Plus the fact, 520 00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:34,599 you know, Lenin would never Leonard wasn't telling people what 521 00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:38,239 he wanted to do. Yeah, the Soviets kind of weren't. 522 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,199 That was for the the esoteric, for for the for 523 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,960 the initiates. Yes, Lenin believed in collectiviization. It was going 524 00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:51,519 to talk about it, though that became war communism. He 525 00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:56,079 couldn't say that in public. He you know, he wasn't 526 00:34:56,079 --> 00:34:57,639 gonna talk that he's going to, you know, burn down 527 00:34:57,679 --> 00:34:59,519 the church. He could couldn't say that in public either, 528 00:35:01,079 --> 00:35:04,039 but that eventually happened, and I think the White Armies 529 00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:06,480 had an idea that Lenin was full of it. And 530 00:35:06,599 --> 00:35:10,440 certainly when Trotsky came back from actually was from Canada 531 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,960 with this group of New York Jews and financiers, that's 532 00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:18,400 really where the anti Christian stuff came in. But Lenin 533 00:35:18,519 --> 00:35:22,800 was going to do the same anyway, don't put all 534 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,079 this on Stalin. Lenin and Trotsky were just as vicious 535 00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:28,679 in every way shape matter reform. They just had a 536 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:34,519 much weaker system to work with. So I try to 537 00:35:34,639 --> 00:35:38,239 keep the shock that Russians were living under not just 538 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,719 World War One events. It's going to be the Civil 539 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,360 War too. Russians live they're like Afghani They can live 540 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:47,679 under a constant state of war from and mass casualties 541 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:54,719 from nineteen fourteen pretty much to nineteen forty five. Because 542 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,719 of the peasant uprisings were often huge all over the country. 543 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,719 The American press wouldn't talk about it. So I also 544 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,559 want to keep that in mind when I write about it, 545 00:36:03,639 --> 00:36:10,440 when I discuss it. But you know, the British press 546 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,480 didn't seem to have a huge problem with Order number one, 547 00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:15,679 despite the fact that I let you know, Russians in 548 00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,559 the British were allies in World War One, the war 549 00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:21,119 still raging here. You know, they bought the nonsense is 550 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:27,360 just a reform. No one realized what it was except Cornelo, 551 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,880 because he saw it in practice. He refused to implement it. 552 00:36:32,639 --> 00:36:34,679 But you see an admission here we did it to 553 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,639 destroy the army. Well, they didn't say that at the time, 554 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,639 and Kerensky wasn't alone. You know, the Soviets were interested 555 00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:45,039 in this too, which is another way of saying that 556 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:50,360 their forces at this point, let's say spring of nineteen seventeen, 557 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,480 were very weak. Just one committed general with a solid 558 00:36:57,599 --> 00:37:01,039 few divisions could have destroyed all of this, but they 559 00:37:01,039 --> 00:37:03,760 couldn't get their ACKed together, partially because it was some 560 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,800 of the high command they got rid of Nicholas in 561 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:06,320 the first place. 562 00:37:07,639 --> 00:37:10,239 Speaker 1: Is it legitimate to ask who were those successful and 563 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,679 fatal for Russia leaders of the Executive Committee? Yes, it 564 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,840 is legitimate when actions as such leaders abruptly changed the 565 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,199 course of history. And it must be said that the 566 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,559 composition of the Executive Committee greatly concerned the public and 567 00:37:22,599 --> 00:37:26,199 the newspapers in nineteen seventeen, during which time many members 568 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,599 of the committee concealed themselves behind pseudonyms from the public eye. 569 00:37:30,199 --> 00:37:34,079 Who was ruling Russia. No one knew then. As it 570 00:37:34,159 --> 00:37:37,239 turned out, there was a dozen. There was a dozen 571 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,480 of soldiers who were there just for show and weren't 572 00:37:40,639 --> 00:37:44,039 very bright. They were kept out of any real power 573 00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:47,440 or decision making. From the other thirty though, of those 574 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,039 who actually wielded power, more than half were Jewish socialists. 575 00:37:51,639 --> 00:37:56,079 There were also Russians, Caucasians, Latvians, and polls less than 576 00:37:56,119 --> 00:37:57,559 a quarter were Russians. 577 00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:03,840 Speaker 2: I've seen many estimates all over the spectrum, from kind 578 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:11,199 of liberal to monarchists about Russians who actually supported the 579 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,119 the extreme left, and it's very low. And they tried 580 00:38:17,159 --> 00:38:20,760 to have elections for the Constituent Assembly. I think it 581 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,000 was a handful showed up. A participation was was nil, 582 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,079 and again partially because the Duma didn't really do much 583 00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:32,239 and all right wing parties were banned at this point, 584 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,760 which is one of the things that the the both 585 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,119 of the Kerensky government and the Executive Committee, the Soviets 586 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,079 Workers Holders Deputies, all of this they were in. They 587 00:38:44,119 --> 00:38:46,559 were united. All right wing, any kind of right wing party, 588 00:38:46,559 --> 00:38:50,079 including the Octobers were gone, they were banned. So it 589 00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:53,840 was any election they had was absolutely farciful. And there 590 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:58,159 was nothing about these committees or Soviets that was elected 591 00:38:58,199 --> 00:39:01,159 at all, not by any definition, of course. They would 592 00:39:01,159 --> 00:39:05,840 say they were, but you know, and yet they still 593 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,239 had a lot of power. And at that level they 594 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,159 they were extremely Jewish. So the germs, so to speak, 595 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,639 the cells, the outline of the future Soviet Union was 596 00:39:19,679 --> 00:39:22,079 already starting to show itself. 597 00:39:23,559 --> 00:39:29,280 Speaker 1: The moderate soldier socialist VB. Stankovich noted what really struck 598 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,039 stuck out in the composition of the committee was the 599 00:39:32,199 --> 00:39:35,599 large foreign element, totally out of proportion for their part 600 00:39:35,639 --> 00:39:38,320 of the population in Petrograd or the country in general. 601 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:43,400 Stankovich asks, was this the unhealthy scum of Russian society 602 00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:46,119 or was the consequence of the sins of the old 603 00:39:46,519 --> 00:39:48,559 Or was this the consequence of the sins of the 604 00:39:48,639 --> 00:39:52,320 old regime, which by its actions violently pushed a foreign 605 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,760 element into the leftist parties, or was this simply the 606 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,639 result of free competition? And then there remains an open 607 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,840 question who bears more guilt for this the foreign born 608 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,119 who are there, are the Russians who could have been 609 00:40:05,199 --> 00:40:09,079 there but weren't. For a socialist, that might be a 610 00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:11,599 case to look for. That might be a case to 611 00:40:11,679 --> 00:40:14,039 look for a guilty party. Yet wouldn't it be better 612 00:40:14,159 --> 00:40:16,960 for all, for us, for you, for them to avoid 613 00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:19,599 sinking into that mad dirty torrents altogether? 614 00:40:20,559 --> 00:40:24,199 Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately I'm in that dirty torrent for you know, 615 00:40:24,559 --> 00:40:28,880 twenty four hours a day, so far as the research 616 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:33,840 issue is concerned. But you can't point to just one. 617 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,960 The other were many. I've read a billion articles roughly 618 00:40:39,039 --> 00:40:45,199 on what caused the fall of what caused nineteen seventeen, 619 00:40:46,679 --> 00:40:48,920 the various elements, and it's certainly the right wing point 620 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:53,119 of view too, And one of them is certainly the 621 00:40:53,599 --> 00:40:57,679 subversion of the nobility, such as they were, that masonry 622 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:02,159 had penetrated very deeply. I have a paper route somewhere. 623 00:41:02,199 --> 00:41:05,199 I think it's I don't know, bar in review one 624 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,400 of these journals on the sexual revolution which had occurred 625 00:41:09,159 --> 00:41:12,960 roughly around the turn of the century amongst the high 626 00:41:13,039 --> 00:41:18,079 level nobility. Something that you know, Nicholas the second, if 627 00:41:18,079 --> 00:41:21,519 you knew about it, was this thought was disgusting, something 628 00:41:21,639 --> 00:41:25,400 that Alexander the Third would have crushed. I'm not to 629 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,440 say that Nicholas was weak by any means. It wasn't, 630 00:41:27,519 --> 00:41:32,199 but Alexander the Third was particularly strong. Yeah, the guilt 631 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:37,000 here if I was, if I was pressed, it's the 632 00:41:37,079 --> 00:41:41,840 nature of the war that they were able to take 633 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:49,519 advantage of, and the extreme levels of casualties. But foreign born. 634 00:41:50,119 --> 00:41:52,000 You have this huge amount of foreign money coming in. 635 00:41:52,159 --> 00:41:55,559 This was not a Russian phenomenon at any level in 636 00:41:55,639 --> 00:41:58,320 the sense of your ordinary Russian. They had absolutely nothing 637 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,079 to do. They paid for it, but they had nothing 638 00:42:02,119 --> 00:42:03,760 to do with it. But the very fact that so 639 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,800 many of the bishops were in favor of this provisional government, 640 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,199 at least at first. I mean, I have quotes after 641 00:42:09,199 --> 00:42:12,159 a quote from these guys that this is a this 642 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,960 is God's gift to us, and they ruled in God's 643 00:42:15,039 --> 00:42:17,599 name and all this garbage. These were These were Freemasons. 644 00:42:18,519 --> 00:42:22,800 Kerensky was Krensky was very high. I think he was 645 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:28,079 thirty second uh degree. Masons were you know, Masonry really 646 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,840 you know, had roots and even though it's a Western phenomenon, 647 00:42:33,079 --> 00:42:35,800 you know, it was like Judas and for Gentiles, that's 648 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,800 how it was, you know, undus another version of the member. 649 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,639 We talked about the Judaizers early on in this book. 650 00:42:41,679 --> 00:42:44,719 You know, Masonry was kind of like that. It never 651 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:51,920 quite went away because it was secret, you know, and 652 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:59,360 they were wealthy. They can get away with it, you know, 653 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,159 any right way. Government has to ban all of this entirely. 654 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:06,920 That's really hard to do. The Jews, of course, are 655 00:43:07,199 --> 00:43:11,320 front center in all of this. There's no question about it. 656 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:20,880 The partition of Poland, which introduced millions of goy hating 657 00:43:21,039 --> 00:43:23,559 the Talmunus into Russia, was the worst thing that could 658 00:43:23,599 --> 00:43:27,440 have happened to the Empire. I think by now we 659 00:43:27,519 --> 00:43:32,480 all agree on that, and that Russia from the beginning 660 00:43:32,639 --> 00:43:36,480 was unprepared to deal with this. It's to Russia's credit, though, 661 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,079 that the Russian nobility didn't do what the Polish nobility did. 662 00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:43,599 There two very different systems. This are was far too 663 00:43:43,639 --> 00:43:47,480 powerful for that to be the case. Remember, the Polish 664 00:43:47,519 --> 00:43:49,960 system of Jewish rule really was that the monarchy had 665 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,079 no power. Well, you can't say that about Russia. I 666 00:43:53,159 --> 00:43:55,840 think it is to Russia's credit they nearly didn't go 667 00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:00,320 down that road. Maybe by now you had many Russian 668 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,000 league to are in debt to Jewish bankers for like 669 00:44:04,039 --> 00:44:06,719 the Winston Churchill phenomenon, where his whole family was in 670 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:12,159 debt to the Jews, Jewish bankers for their absolutely dissolute living, 671 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,400 especially his father. E. Michael Jones talked about that too. 672 00:44:17,679 --> 00:44:20,800 But I've said this before, but without a war, and 673 00:44:21,039 --> 00:44:25,639 a war like this, I guess if Franco Prussian War 674 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,760 was as close as you were going to get. But 675 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,320 even that doesn't come close to what World War One was. 676 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:33,119 And we're coming near the end, you know, well, we're 677 00:44:33,159 --> 00:44:37,400 in the middle of World War One. You know, we're 678 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,519 talking about millions of casualties with no end in sight, 679 00:44:41,639 --> 00:44:48,960 and for no obvious reason. That's you know, that's the 680 00:44:49,079 --> 00:44:54,039 shock here. And so you have multi layered PTSD. It 681 00:44:54,159 --> 00:44:59,920 wasn't a family in Russia that didn't have a a son, 682 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,920 of course, no women, although you had occasional nurse who 683 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,800 got clipped, didn't have a son who was was killed 684 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:11,000 or or mutilated. And there certainly wasn't the resources to 685 00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:15,119 deal with a mutilated kid when he came home. Certainly 686 00:45:15,199 --> 00:45:17,639 not in provisional state, and god knows not with the 687 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:23,480 Bolshevik state where the economy just collapsed. And beyond that, 688 00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:31,920 Western money, western support, Western propaganda, especially from Britain, that 689 00:45:32,039 --> 00:45:36,840 didn't help. That didn't help either. So basically, this British need, 690 00:45:37,559 --> 00:45:44,320 the need of this Darwinian British elite colonialists, industrialists, their 691 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,840 their their their, their need to get Russia and Germany 692 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:51,719 to fight each other. It was the you know, ultimate cause, 693 00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:56,559 many steps back of what happened here. And they had 694 00:45:56,639 --> 00:45:59,599 no problem with it. They had no problem with February, 695 00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:04,480 they had no problem with October. That had a little 696 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,960 problem with October because you know, they had a separate 697 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:11,559 peace with Germany that caused That's one of the reasons 698 00:46:11,599 --> 00:46:14,360 that there was some intervention in the northern part of 699 00:46:14,599 --> 00:46:19,880 of of Russia. You know, the only thing they really 700 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:24,880 cared about was making keeping Russia in the war. The 701 00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,679 Treaty of Presslotovsk was you know, it was unpopular because 702 00:46:28,679 --> 00:46:30,760 it gave a lot of Russian territory away, but at 703 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,400 least it got Russia out of the war. That was 704 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:36,920 the only reason British had a problem with the October Revolution, 705 00:46:37,039 --> 00:46:39,440 and that's why British and French troops were in Russia. 706 00:46:39,679 --> 00:46:41,199 There were other reasons too. I had nothing to do 707 00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:48,159 with the Bolsheviks. They were they were allies, and so 708 00:46:49,639 --> 00:46:51,400 you know, I, I mean, I can't stress this the 709 00:46:51,519 --> 00:46:56,880 nature of this, of this war enough, but ultimately the 710 00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:00,880 war comes from Britain. Yes, the the proximate cause was 711 00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:08,599 Austria's invasion of Serbian but there was no reason for 712 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,039 Russians and Germans to ever go to war, and the 713 00:47:13,079 --> 00:47:18,639 British knew that. I've always interpreted World War One, and 714 00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,719 of course there was you know, an esoteric element, get 715 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,039 rid of the monarchies and everything else. That's certainly true. 716 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,000 But as far as the British ruling class was concerned, 717 00:47:28,119 --> 00:47:29,840 we have we have to have these people kill each 718 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,320 other because we could be able to compete with one 719 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,559 of these powers. Not in the Far East, not in 720 00:47:36,639 --> 00:47:39,679 Central Asia. There's a lot of money to be made there. 721 00:47:40,559 --> 00:47:44,719 We're just getting started. And the result, of course was 722 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:52,639 millions of deaths and mutilations, an entire generation slaughtered and 723 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:56,719 shocked and traumatized out of their minds. And without that, 724 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,159 none of this would have happened, None of this February 725 00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,320 or October would never have happened. As I said before, 726 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,920 no war, no revolution all. 727 00:48:08,039 --> 00:48:12,199 Speaker 1: Right, next chapter is going to be during nineteen seventeen 728 00:48:12,320 --> 00:48:14,559 and looks like that's gonna be a long one. So 729 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:16,920 looks like we might be on that one. 730 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:17,840 Speaker 2: For a few episodes. 731 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:24,119 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so yep, as I always end these'll 732 00:48:24,159 --> 00:48:25,960 go over to the show notes and go over to 733 00:48:26,039 --> 00:48:29,440 the descriptions of the videos. 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