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domestic trade of the USSR, and they were hardly disinterested men. Jews comprised almost 40
percent of this list, including two deputies to the narkom, several trade inspectors, numerous
heads of food and manufactured goods trades in the oblasts, heads of consumer unions,
restaurant trusts, cafeterias, food supplies and storage, heads of train dining cars and railroad
buffets; and of course, the head of Gastronom No.1 in Moscow (“Eliseyevsky”) was also a Jew.
Naturally, all this facilitated smooth running of the industry in those far from prosperous years.
In the pages of
Izvestia one could read headlines like this: “The management of the
Union’s Fishing Trust made major political mistakes.” As a result, Moisei Frumkin was relieved
of his post at the board of the People’s Commissariat of Domestic Trade. We saw him in the
1920s as a deputy of the Narkom of Foreign Trade. Comrade Frumkin was punished with a stern
reprimand and a warning; comrade Kleiman suffered the same punishment; and comrade
Nepryakhin was expelled from the party.
Soon after that,
Izvestia published an addendum to the roster of the People’s
Commissariat of Heavy Industry with 215 names in it. Those wishing to can delve into it as well.
A present-day author thus writes about those people: by the 1930s the children of the déclassé
Jewish petty bourgeois succeeded in becoming the commanders of the great construction
projects. And so it appeared to those who, putting in 16 hours a day for weeks and months, never
leaving the foundation pits, the swamps, the deserts, and taiga that it was their country. However,
the author is wrong: it was the blackened hard-workers and yesterday’s peasants, who had no
respite from toiling in foundation pits and swamps, while the directors only occasionally
promenaded there; they mainly spent time in offices enjoying their special provision services
(“the bronze foremen”). But undoubtedly, their harsh and strong-willed decisions helped to bring
these construction projects to completion, building up the industrial potential of the USSR.
Thus the Soviet Jews obtained a weighty share of state, industrial, and economic power at
all levels of government in the USSR.
The personality of B. Roizenman merits particular attention. See for yourself: he received
the Order of Lenin in recognition of his exceptional services in the adjustment of the state
apparatus to the objectives of the large-scale “offensive for socialism.” What secrets, inscrutable
to us, could be hidden behind this offensive? We can glance into some of them from the more
direct wording: for carrying out special missions of top state importance on the clean-up of state
apparatus in the Soviet diplomatic missions abroad.
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