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Czarism! Shame on those who sow hatred towards the Jews!” Copies of this gramophone record
along with printing plates for the text of that speech were then transported by train to the front,
and to towns and villages across the land. There gramophones played the speech in clubs, at
meetings and gatherings. The soldiers, workers and peasants listened to the words of their leader
and began to realize what was going on, or so the story went, but the speech was not officially
printed and acknowledged by the party until 1926, in the book by Agursky senior.
On July 27, 1918, immediately after the execution of the royal family, the CPC issued a
special law on anti-Semitism: “The Council of People’s Commissars of the anti-Semitic
movement announces a danger to the cause of workers’ and peasants revolution.” And at the end
“People’s Commissars Council of Deputies requires all to take decisive measures to curb the root
of the anti-Semitic movement. Rioters and leading pogrom agitation are prescribed as outlaws.
Signed: V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) .”
These two words are outlawed if someone were not clear in the months of the Red Terror.
Ten years later a communist activist, himself a one-time People’s Commissar and the creator of
War Communism, the same Larin, explains to us that the goal was “to put the active anti-Semites
outside the law.” That is shoot.
And there’s that famous answer to Dimanshtein Lenin made in 1919. Dimanshtein
wanted Lenin to delay the spread of Gorky leaflets containing such fulsome praise of the Jews
that they could “create the impression that the revolution rests on the Jews.” Lenin replied, as
we have read, that “Immediately after the October Revolution the Jews thwarted sabotage by
government officials and rescued the revolution,” and therefore “Gorky’s opinion of the
importance of these elements are absolutely correct.” Do not doubt the
Jewish Encyclopedia:
“Lenin refused to confiscate the mass circulation of Gorky leaflets issued during the Civil War as
too philo-Semitic. despite fears that they might become a trump card in the hands of the anti-
Semitic enemies of the revolution.”
So they did, to the White side. Those leaflets were a significant boost to the viewpoint
that tended to merge Jewry and Bolshevism. This episode is an example of a pervasive dull,
amazing short-sightedness on the part of the leaders of the revolution, and a contemptuous
disregard for the growing impressions and feelings among the people who were affected by the
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