Jewish Bolshevik Executioners

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l***@bellsouth.net

2003-09-04 23:49:48 UTC

V.I. Lenin, supreme dictator.

Leon Bronstein (Trotsky): supreme commander of the Soviet Red Army.

Grigory Apfelbaum (Zinoviev): executive, Soviet Secret Police. S

olomon Lozovsky: deputy Soviet foreign minister.

Maxim Wallach (Litvinov): Soviet foreign minister.

Yuri Andropov: director, Soviet KGB, later supreme dictator of the Soviet
Union.

Jacob Sverdlov: first president of the Soviet Union. Sverdlov ordered the
massacre of the Czar's family-women and children-in the town named after
Catherine the Great, Yekaterinburg, (renamed Sverdlovsk in 1924 in honor of
the murderer).

Jacob Yurovsky: commander, Soviet Secret Police. Yurovsky led the death
squad which carried out Sverdlov's order for the murder of the Czar's
family, including the bayoneting to death of the Czar's daughters. The
Ipatyev house, where, in the basement, the massacre had occurred, stood
intact until 1977, when the local Communist party boss at that time, Boris
Yeltsin, ordered it demolished, lest it become a shrine to anti-Jewish
sentiment.

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (pictured at left): chief mass murderer for
Stalin, ordered the deaths of millions and the wholesale destruction of
Christian monuments and churches, including the great Cathedral of Christ
the Savior. Standing amid the rubble of the cathedral, Kaganovich
proclaimed, "Mother Russia is cast down. We have ripped away her skirts."
(N.Y. Times, Sept. 26, 1995).

Mikhail Kaganovich: deputy commissar of heavy industry, supervisor of slave
labor, brother of Lazar. Rosa Kaganovich: Stalin's mistress; sister of
Lazar. Paulina Zhemchuzina: member of the Central Committee and wife of
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.

Olga Bronstein: officer, Soviet Cheka Secret Police, sister of Trotsky, wife
of Kamenev.

Genrikh Yagoda: chief of Soviet Secret Police, mass murderer extraordinaire.
(Jewish poet Romain Rolland, winner of the Nobel Prize, wrote a hymn of
praise to Yagoda).

Matvei Berman and Naftaly Frenkel: founders, the Gulag death camp system.

Lev Inzhir, commissar for Soviet death camp transit and administration.

Boris Berman: executive officer of the Soviet Secret Police and brother of
Matvei. K.V. Pauker: chief of operations, Soviet NKVD Secret Police.

Firin, Rappoport, Kogan, Zhuk: commissars of death camps and slave labor,
supervised the mass deaths of laborers during the construction of the White
Sea-Baltic Canal.

M.I. Gay: commander, Soviet Secret Police.

Slutsky and Shpiegelglas: commanders, Soviet Secret Police.

Isaac Babel: officer, Soviet Secret Police.

Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin (Aleksandr Orlov): commander, Soviet Red Army;
officer, Soviet Secret Police. Feldbin was chief of Soviet Security in the
Spanish Civil War. He supervised the massacre of Catholic priests and
peasants in Spain.

Yona Yakir: general, Soviet Red Army, member of the Central Committee.

Dimitri Shmidt: general, Soviet Red Army.

Yakov ("Yankel") Kreiser: general, Soviet Red Army.

Miron Vovsi: general, Soviet Red Army.

David Dragonsky: general, Soviet Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Grigori Shtern: general, Soviet Red Army.

Mikhail Chazkelevich: general, Soviet Red Army.

Shimon Kirvoshein: general, Soviet Red Army.

Arseni Raskin: deputy-commander, Soviet Red Army.

Haim Fomin, commander of Brest-Litovsk, Soviet Red Army. At least one
hundred Soviet generals were Jewish (cf. Canadian Jewish News, April 19,
1989).

Generals who were not themselves Jewish often had Jewish wives. Among these
were Marshal Voroshilov, Marshal Bulganin, Marshal Peresypkin and General
Pavel Sudoplatov (Sudoplatov assassinated hundreds of Christian leaders
including Ukranian Catholic Archbishop Teodor Romzha). This Jewish wife
"insurance policy" extended to Politburo members such as Andrei Andreyev and
Leonoid Brezhnev.

Sergei Eisenstein: director of communist propaganda films which depicted
Christian peasants (kulaks) as hideous, money-grabbing parasites. The kulaks
were subsequently massacred. (Cf. for example Eisenstein's Bezhin Meadow).

KOMZET: commission for the settlement of Jewish Communists on land seized
from murdered Christians in Ukraine; funded by Jewish-American financier
Julius Rosenwald.

Ilya Ehrenburg, Minister of Soviet Propaganda and disseminator of
anti-German hate material dating from the 1930s. Ehrenburg instigated the
Soviet Red Army rape and murder of German civilians. Referring to German
women, Ehrenburg gloated to the advancing Red Army troops, "that blonde hag
is in for a bad time."

In a leaflet addressed to Soviet troops, Ehrenburg wrote: "...the Germans
are not human beings...nothing gives us so much joy as German
corpses."(Anatol Goldberg, Ilya Ehrenburg, p. 197). Goldberg concedes that
Ehrenburg, "...had always disliked the Germans...now that there was a war on
he turned his old prejudice into an asset."(Ibid., p. 193).
Another publication distributed to the Red Army, this time as the soldiers
approached Danzig, was described by a historian: "Millions of leaflets were
air-dropped on the troops with a message composed by the propagandist Ilya
Ehrenburg and signed by Stalin: 'Soldiers of the Red Army! Kill the Germans!
Kill all Germans! Kill! Kill! Kill!" (Christopher Duffy, Red Storm on the
Reich).
The Soviet leadership acknowledged that Ehrenburg sought the extermination
of the entire German people (cf. Pravda, April 14, 1945. [Pravda was also
published in a Yiddish edition, Einikeyt). Ehrenburg won the Order of Lenin
and the Stalin Prize. He willed his papers to the Israeli Yad Vashem
'Holocaust' Museum.

Solomon Mikhoels: commissar of Soviet propaganda.

Soviet film propagandists:

Mark Donsky,

Leonid Lukov, Y

uli Reisman,

Vasily Grossman,

Yevgeny Gabrilovich,

Boris Volchok

and Lillian Hellman (old movies written by her continue to be broadcast on
American telelvision).

Soviet propagandist: Yevgeny Khaldei who staged the photo of the raising of
the hammer and sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945.
Afterward, a special plane was waiting to fly Khaldei, Stalin's top Tass
photographer, to a Moscow lab, where his photo was further doctored (loot
displayed on one of the Soviet soldier's wrists was removed in the negative
and Khaldei added clouds and smoke to the scene for dramatic effect (see
photo of Khaldei and his beloved flag at left). Khaldei continued to work as
a premier Soviet propagandist until his retirement from Pravda in 1972. His
Communist propaganda is proudly on display at the Jewish Museum of New York
and the Jewish Museum of San Francisco. N.Y. Times writer Vicki Goldberg
exulted in the raising of the blood-drenched Soviet flag, emblem of the
slaughter of millions of peasants and Christians; describing it as, "...a
national (and worldwide) symbol of triumph, justice and revenge." (Jan. 31,
1997, p. B-26).

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC): new form of the Bolshevik YEVKOM,
Stalin's recruiting conduit for funding money, supplies and political
influence for Soviet Russia from world Jewry as well as the dissemination of
gas chamber atrocity propaganda (cf. The Black Book).

Nikolai Bukharin: Lenin's chief theorist.

Samuel Agursky: commissar.

Karl Radek: member, Central Committee.

Mikhail Gruzenberg (Borodin) commissar.

A.A. Yoffe: commissar.

David Ryazanov: advisor to Lenin.

Lev Grigorievich Levin: physician, poisoner of Stalin's enemies.

Lev Rosenfeld (Kamenev): member of the Central Committee.

Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to Britain. Itzik Solomonovich Feffer:
commissar, Soviet Secret Police.

Abraham Sutskever: Soviet terrorist-partisan.

Mark Osipovich Reizen: Soviet propagandist, winner of three Stalin Prizes.

Lev Leopold Trepper: Soviet espionage officer.

Bela Kun (Kohen): supreme dictator of Hungary in 1919. Kun was later
Stalin's chief terrorist in the Crimea.

Zakharovich Mekhlis: top executioner for Stalin.

Henrykas Zimanas: leader of Lithuanian communist terrorists, butcher of
Christians

Susan Cohen

2003-09-05 07:36:09 UTC

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Looks like Yitz Goodman will have to repost his list of Commie goyim.

Here - I'll stick in *your* repost of it!
Susan

Here is a repost of Yitz Goodman's famous list of Commie Goyim!!!

François Noël Babeuf ("French revolutionary, organizer of a communist
uprising against the Directory . . . he formed a secret society that plotted
to overthrow the government; it became known as the Conspiracy of the Equals
. . .
His doctrines, however, known as Babouvism, were kept alive,
largely by secret revolutionary societies . . . . " Columbia Encyclopedia.)

Louis Auguste Blanqui ("Inspired by Babeuf, [Blanqui] coined the
phrase 'dictatorship of the proletariat' and devoted
his life to achieveing it through conpsiratorial means. . ."
Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From.
By Daniel Pipes. New York: The Free Press, 1997, p. 78.)

Engels (Never forget that Das Kapital was written in German
by two guys named Karl and Friedrich.)

BOLSHEVIKS:

Alexander Bogdanov (Important early Bolshevik theorist, Had broken
with Lenin by the time of the revolution.)

Lenin (5th on Rudolph Rummel's list of the "20th Century's Bloodiest
Murderers" http://www.freedomsnest.com/rummel_murderers.html)

Stalin (Most blood-stained person who ever lived, #1 on Rummel's list)

Georgi Konstantinovich ("Sergo") Ordzhonikidze (Soviet leader in Armenia
and Georgia, Politburo member under Stalin, Beria named his son Sergo
after him)

Felix Dzerzhinsky (Founder, in 1918, of the Checka secret police agency,
precursor organization of the GPU, OGPU, NKVD, and KGB)

Nikolai Bukharin (Major Bolshevik theoretician, Politburo Member,
Editor of Pravda)

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (Member of the Original Politburo,
Often mistakenly identified as a Jew although mother was non-Jew,
Originally sided with Stalin and Zinoviev against Trotsky but
forced out by Stalin along with Zinoviev in 1926)

Anatoli Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (Revolutionary, Literary Figure,
Commissar of Education 1917-29)

Nikolai N. Krestinski (Member of First Politburo along with Lenin,
Stalin, Kamenev, and Trotsky)

Georgi Vasilyevich Chicherin (Foreign Comissar/Minister,
succeeding Trotsky, until 1928)

Aleksey Ivanovich Rykov (Commissar for the Interior after 1917,
Politburo member under Lenin and Stalin, Premier from 1924-1931,
Sided with Stalin against Zinoviev, Kamenev, and Trotsky but
fell afoul of Stalin shortly afterwards)

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (Chairman of Central Executive Committee
1919-1946,
Politburo Member 1925-46)

STALIN'S RULE:

Kliment Voroshilov (Active Bolshevik prior to revolution, Major
Red Army commander during civil war, Close associate of Stalin, Politburo
Member under Stalin, Out of favor under Khruschev, restored to Central
Committee in 1966)

Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (Succeeded Dzerzhinsky as head
of NKVD in 1926)

Nikolai Yezhov (Head of NKVD 1936-1938, replacing Yagoda,
Wave of terror known as "Yezhovshchina")

Lavrenti Beria (Head of Soviet Georgia and Transcaucasia,
Head of NKVD from 1938 until Stalin's Death, Probably second
most powerful figure in Stalin's government for much
of that time and certainly the most hated and feared,
Deputy Premier under Malenkov)

Nikolai Bulganin (Defense Minister under Stalin, briefly
succeeded Malenkov as Premier)

Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Early editor of Pravda prior
to revolution, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
after Rykov, then Foreign Minister, negotiated non-agression pact
between Soviets and Nazi Germany)

Georgi Maksimilianovich Malenkov (Politburo member, Deputy Premier under
Stalin, briefly succeeded Stalin as Premier)

Mikhail Tomsky (Politburo Member, Trade Union Leader,
Another major figure in the power struggles that
eventually led to the consolidation of Stalin's power)

Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Central Committee Secretary,
Rival of Malenkov, Anti-Semite)

Stanislav Vikent'evich Kosior (Ukrainian First Secretary,
Reported to have said the following: " . . . the peasant
is adopting a new tactic. He refuses to reap the harvest.
He wants the bread grain to die in order to choke the
Soviet government with the bony hand of famine. We will
show him what famine is." Robert Conquest, Harvest of Sorrow,
Oxford 1986, p. 221)

Pavel Petrovich Postyshev ("Postyshev was, in fact, Stalin's
effective plenipotenitary in the task of 'Bolshevizing' the
Ukrainian party and extracting further grain from the
starving Ukrainian villages" Harvest of Sorrow, p. 241.)

Grigori Ivanovich Petrovsky ("When a factory official told Petrovsky
that his employees were talking of five million people having already
died and asked what he should tell them, he is quoted as answering,
'Tell them nothing! What they say is true. We know millions are dying.
That is unfortunate, but the glorious future of the Soviet Union will
justify that. Tell them nothing!'" Harvest of Sorrow, p. 325.)

Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (Armenian Communist Party head,
Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium,
Politburo member.)

Sergei Mironovich Kirov (Active in Party from Civil War, Politburo
Member under Stalin, Stalin used his assassination--which he probably
ordered himself--as a pretext for getting rid of Zinoviev, Rykov, and
Kamenev.)

OTHER POLITBURO MEMBERS UNDER STALIN:

Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev
Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar'
Yan Ernestovich Rudzutak
Aleksandr Sergeevich Shcherbakov
Andrei Andreevich Andreev
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov
Robert Ivanovich Eikhe
Sergei I. Syrtsov

NKVD OFFICIALS--BERIA PROTEGES:

Bogdan Kobulov (Deputy head of NKVD under Beria, with Serov oversaw
deportation of Crimean Tartars and other national groups,
Involved in day-to-day operation of the Gulag)

Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov (Deputy Head of NKVD along with Kobulov,
Head of KGB 1954-1958)

Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov (Head of NKGB 1941-1946, briefly head
of MGB in 1946)

Sergei Goglidze (Head of Leningrad NKVD, Later Deputy Minister
of State Security and Chief of Third Directorate of MGB)

Vladimir Dekanozov (Head of GUGB Foreign Department)

Lavrentii Tsanava (Head of Belorussia NKVD)

Grigorii Karanadze (Head of Crimea NKVD)

Aleksei Sadzhaia (Head of Uzbekistan NKVD)

Amaiak Kobulov (Head of Ukraine NKVD)

Mikhail Gvishiani (Head of Far East NKVD)

Avksentii Rapava (Head of Georgia NKVD)

MGB-KGB OFFICIALS:

Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov (Head of MGB 1946-1951, Technically
another of Beria's subordinates, but independent of Beria and a rival
to Merkulov)

Sergey Ogoltsov (Head of MGB July 14 1951 - August 9 1951)

Semyon Denisovich Ignatiyev (Head of MGB 1951-1953, Since
he had been part of the Zhdanov faction, his appointment
was a blow to Beria)

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin (Head of KGB 1958-1961,
Supported Khrushchev's rise to power and was also involved
in his removal)

Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastniy (Head of KGB 1961-1967,
Also heavily involved in Khrushchev's removal)

Vitaliy Vasilyevich Fedorchuk (Head of KGB May 26 1982 - December 17 1982)

Viktor Mikhaylovich Chebrikov (Head of KGB 1982-1988)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov (Head of KGB 1988-1991)

(Source for NKGB, MGB, KGB entries: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB ,
also The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia--Past,
Present,
and Future By Yevgenia Albats, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
See also Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant by Amy Knight, Princeton, 1993)

LATER USSR FIGURES:

Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (Ideological watchdog maintaining purity of
communist doctrine, Central Committee member from 1941, Supported both
Khruschev's
rise to power and his downfall)

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (Succeeded Khrushchev as Premier in 1964,
initially shared power with Brezhnev although power later declined)

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (Head of KGB 1967-1982, General Secretary
of Communist Party 1982-1984)
(See: http://edwardjayepstein.com/archived/andropov.htm)

Konstantin Chernenko (Party General Secretary and Chairman of Presiduim
after
Andropov's death, Gorbachev was his successor)

MISCELLANEOUS:

Josip Broz Tito (9th on Rummel's list of "20th
Century's Bloodiest Murderers")

Aleksandar Rankovic (Tito's second in command 1948-1966)

Vulko Chervenkov (Dictator of Bulgaria 1950-1956)

Todor Zhikov (Dictator of Bulgaria 1956-1989)

Mao Tse-Tung (2nd on Rummel's list)

Pol Pot (7th on Rummel's list)

Ho Chi Minh

János Kádár (Head of Communist Hungary 1956-1988)

Wladyslaw Gomulka (Head of Communist Poland 1956-1970)

Gheorgehe Gheorghiu-Dej (According to Dennis Deletant,
instituted "police terror" in Communist Romania)

Nicolae Ceausescu (Dej's successor, Head of Communist Romania
1965-1989--why are so many of these guys named "Nikolai"?)

Elena Ceucescu (Ceaucescu's wife, major figure in Ceaucescu's
government, promoted cult of personality surrounding Ceaucescu)

Tudor Postelnicu (Promoted to Interior Minister of Romania in 1987,
head of dreaded Securitate security service up to that point)

Iulian Vlad (Following Postelnicu's promotion, succeeded him
as Head of Securitate)

George Nicolae Doicaru (Head of Securitate at time of 1978 defection of
Ion Pacepa)

(Source on Ceaucescu and Romania: Ceausescu and the Securitate:
Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989 By Dennis Deletant.
Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1995)

Deng Xiaoping ( http://www.laogai.org/comment/dissent.htm )

Jiang Qing (Mrs. Mao, the rest of the "Gang of Four" follow)

Wang Hongwen

Yao Wenyuan

Zhang Chunqiao

Walter Ulbricht (Head of East Germany 1950-1971, Built Berlin Wall,
sent troops to help Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia)

Erich Honecker (Succeeded Ulbricht)

Wilhelm Zaisser (Head of Stasi 1950-1953)

Ernst Wollweber (Head of Stasi 1953-1957)

Erich Mielke (Head of Stasi 1957-1989)

Willi Stoph (East German Politburo Member, Minister of Internal
Affairs and Minister for National Defense during 1950's, became
Chairman of Council of Ministers in 1964)

Fidel Castro

Kim Il Sung (Head of North Korea 1948-94)

Kim Jong Il (Son of the above)

Fusako Shigenobu (Head of Japanese Red Army)

Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof (Baader-Meinhof Gang)

William Z. Foster (U.S. Communist party candidate for President 1924, 1928,
1932)

Earl Russell Browder (U.S. Communist party candidate for President 1936,
1940)

Gus Hall (U.S. Communist Party candidate for President 1972, 1976, 1980,
1984)

Jarvis Tyner (Hall's running mate in 1972 and 1976)

Angela Davis (Civil rights activist and philosopher, Gus Hall's
vice-presidential candidate in 1980 and 1984.)

Enver Hoxha (Leader of Communist Albania 1946-1985)

Ramiz Alia (Hoxha's successor)

Klement Gottwald (President of Communist Czechoslovakia 1948-1953)

Gustave Husak (Leader of Czechoslovakia after suppression of
"Prague Spring.")

Otto Vilgelmovich Kuusinen (Finnish communist, exiled
to the USSR after Finnish independence was consolidated
following WW I and the civil war that ensued, headed failed
Soviet-supported bogus Terijojki government after Soviet
attack on USSR in 1939, eventually rose to be the only
foreign-born member of the Soviet Politburo.)

Hertta Kuusinen (Finnish communist leader, Otto's
daughter, In a notorious 1948 speech shortly after
the communist take-over in Czechoslovakia she
stated "Czechoslovakia's way will be our way.")

Antanas Snieckus (Grand old man of Lithuanian communism,
Lived in exile in the USSR, but tried repeatedly to subvert
the Lithuanian state. Lithuanian Communist Party head after
country incorporated into USSR. Defied Moscow
and built his own brand of Lithuanian communism.)

Arvid Yanovich Pelshe (Latvian Communist Party head, head
of the Soviet Communist Party Control Committee and responsible
for internal migration policies, including deportations,
ethnic dilutions, and policies leading to de facto
Russification of non-Russian republics)

Renato Curcio (Red Brigades)

Alberto Franceschini (Red Brigades)

Mario Moretti (Red Brigades, negotiated mutual aid pact with PLO)

Do Muoi (Became General Secretary of Vietnamese Communist Party in 1991)

Le Kha Phieu (Became General Secretary of Vietnamese
Communist Party in 1997)

Nong Duc Manh (Current General Secretary of Vietnamese Commuunist Party)

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, "Carlos the Jackal"

Ernesto Che Guevara

George Habash, PFLP

Wadi Haddad, PFLP

Leila Khaled, PFLP

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(Thanks to Eugene Holman for entries on Mikoyan, Suslov,
the Kuusinens, Pelshe, Snieckus, and Angela Davis)
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Best regards,
---Cindy S.

Best regards,
---Cindy S.

l***@bellsouth.net

2003-09-06 03:31:42 UTC

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cindys

2003-09-07 02:08:17 UTC

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He hasn't any response, so he reposts the same lies for the umpteenth time.
Best regards,
---Cindy S.

swagman

2003-09-07 23:22:31 UTC

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Post by cindys
He hasn't any response, so he reposts the same lies for the umpteenth time.
Best regards,
---Cindy S.

No lies there bicho! Jews of NKVD and OGPU slaughtered 100 million
people in Russia, and they are shedding crocodile tears for few
thousand Jews that Hitler made into rugs!

Yitzchak Goodman

2003-09-07 05:54:44 UTC

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Beria--Such a Rainy Night in Georgia
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Here is some information about the book
Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant by Amy Knight,
from the following URL:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?sourceid=00356064277869236550&ISBN=0691032572&bfdate=08-22-2003+00:21:25

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Annotation
The first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria,
Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful
lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism,
haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former
Soviet Union.

From the Publisher
This is the first comprehensive biography of Lavrentii Beria,
Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful
lieutenant. Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism,
haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former
Soviet Union. Yet because his political opponents expunged his name
from public memory after his dramatic arrest and execution in 1953,
little has been known about his long and tumultuous career. Now,
drawing on sources made available since glasnost, Amy Knight describes
in chilling detail the story of Beria's climb to the top of the
Stalinist system, his complex relationship with Stalin, and his bitter
struggle with Khrushchev after Stalin's death. The myths that once
circulated about Beria in the absence of factual information created
an unbalanced picture of his career, and obscured, among other things,
the immense influence that he exerted over Stalin. "Our Himmler,"
Stalin called him in an exchange with Roosevelt at Yalta, and Knight
reveals that the astute and intelligent Beria was just as important to
Stalin as Himmler was to Hitler, if not more so. Born in 1899, twenty
years after Stalin, Beria was not part of Stalin's generation of
revolutionaries who fought against the tsar. But he was, like Stalin,
a Georgian, and as police chief and later party chief of Georgia and
Transcaucasia, he won Stalin's confidence. Moving to Moscow in 1938 to
head the dreaded NKVD, Beria became responsible for all intelligence,
counterintelligence, and domestic security during the prewar and war
years. He also commanded the vast slave labor network of the GULAG,
oversaw the evacuation of defense industries as the Germans advanced,
and eventually took charge of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Knight
sees Beria's skill at psychological manipulation as the key to his
relationship with Stalin. Insecure even among his closest associates,
Stalin surrounded himself mostly with malleable bureaucrats who lacked
the insight

From The Critics
Publisher's Weekly
As Stalin's police chief, right-hand man and commander of the Gulag
slave-labor network, Lavrenty Beria (1899-1953) was a mass murderer
whose weapons included torture, deportation and execution. Yet, after
Stalin died in 1953, this devious, cold-blooded Bolshevik embarked on
a short-lived liberalization program designed to curb the Communist
Party apparatus and to give the non-Russian minorities more
decision-making powers and limited recognition of their national and
cultural identities. Arrested in a coup led by Khrushchev, Beria was
executed. Critics view Beria's de-Stalinization proposals as mere
tools in a succession struggle, but Knight, a Library of Congress
scholar who did extensive research in the former Soviet Union,
portrays the Georgian-born police chief as a would-be reformer who saw
change as inevitable but was motivated above all by a desire to
further his own power. A provocative biography of one of history's
most evil men. Photos. (Nov.)

Library Journal
A strong entry in the wave of post-glasnost biographies, Knight's book
is an accessible study of one of the most sinister members of Stalin's
inner circle. Yet Knight, a senior research analyst in Soviet affairs
at the Library of Congress, points out in her introduction that she is
not attempting to ``rehabilitate'' Beria but to ``challenge some basic
assumptions, both about Beria and about the Stalinist system in
general.'' Using recently released documents, Knight succeeds in
describing the life of Lavrentii Beria, from his student days in Baku,
to his role as Stalin's most powerful henchmen, chief of security, and
head of the slave-labor network in the gulag, to his rapid fall after
the death of Stalin in the power struggles that brought Khrushchev to
power. This work is recommended for undergraduates and informed lay
readers.-- John Sandstrom, Houston P.L., Tex.

BookList - Gilbert Taylor
Like many of Stalin's executors, Lavrentii Beria was no neophyte at
wreaking terror. He liquidated thousands in the Bolshevik takeover of
Georgia in 1922-24, which service brought the ambitious man to the
notice of the boss. More crafty than Stalin's other police chiefs,
Beria survived until his own execution as an enemy of the people in
1953. Stalin's successors were anxious to deflect their own complicity
in the regime's criminality, and so the archives were locked. No
historically verifiable account of Beria's career as Stalin's
"Himmler" has been possible--until now. Beria apparently had no life
to speak of, aside from raping young girls outside his office, which,
on occasion, doubled as a torture chamber. These sick details--and
dramatic ones surrounding Khrushchev's coup--underwrite the deadly
character of the author's main import: Kremlin politics following
Beria's takeover of the NKVD in 1938. Knight has ably examined and
coherently reassembled the slivers and shards of evidence, and future
biographers (with strong stomachs) will surely build on her pioneering
work.

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Yitz

Yitzchak Goodman

2003-09-07 05:50:36 UTC

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Molotov--A Cocktail of Gentile Infamy
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Roy Medvedev writes as follows about Molotov:

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As early as 1930-1931, during the introduction of collectivization
and the forcible expulsion of the rich (and not a few of the poor
and middle-ranking) peasants, Molotov travelled to various districts
as a special functionary invested with unlimited powers.
In 1932 he played a particularly sinister part in the Ukraine,
where he directed the state grain-procurement
operations in the southern provinces; after his intervention
the southern Ukraine was gripped by a terrible famine that
carried off millions.
Molotov also played an active role in the execution
of the mass terror of 1937-38. Of the twenty-five
Commissars in the Council of People's Commissars in 1935,
the only ones to survive the terror were Mikoyan, Voroshilov,
Kaganovitch, M. M. Litvinov--and of course, Molotov. Of
the twenty-eight people who constituted the Council of People's
Commissars at the beginning of 1928, twenty were soon to be
liquidated. And Molotv was no idle spectator of the dreadful
'meat-grinder.' He gave Stalin, Yezhov, and Beria a willing hand
to help turn it. It was he who read the long speech at the Central
Committee Plenum of February-March 1937 that called on the entire
party membership to reinforce the struggle against the 'saboteurs'
and 'spies' inside the Party--by which he meant those 'saboteurs'
who tucked their Party cards safely in their pockets and shouted
more loudly than anyone else that they were defending the Party's
interests and the Party line. The speech was printed as a pamphlet
under the title The Lessons of the Sabotage, Wrecking and
Espionage Activities of the Japanese-German-Trotskyitist Agents.
Molotov frequently appended his own signature to that of Stalin
on the blacklists they drew up, often adding obscene abuse of the
condemned . . . . There were occasions when instead of recommending
a prison sentence Molotov would write along side the names the ominous
initials VMN (the initials vysshaya mera nakazaniya, or 'highest
form of punishment'), which in those days meant instant death by
shooting.

[end quote]

(All Stalin's Men: Six Who Carried Out the Bloody
Policies. Trans. Harold Shukman. Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1984,
pp. 87-88)

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Hope you enjoyed it,

Yitz