For more information on Birobidzhan, I would recommend Stalin's Forgotten Zion by Robert Weinberg & Where the Jews Aren't by Masha Gessen. It is interesting that the main focus of efforts to stamp out the religious aspects of Judaism in the Soviet Union was in the European parts, resulting in many Russian Jews from Belarus, Ukraine & Russia west of the Urals having little or no formal Jewish religious education. In contrast, most Bukharan Jews were generally left free to practice their faith as a result of Soviet policy towards the majority Muslim populations of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan where they were largely located. Since the Soviets took a more hands-off approach toward the Muslim populations with respect to religious practices, the Bukharan Jews were also relatively left alone. I've seen this personally, with most observant Jews from the former USSR I've encountered at my synagogue being from these regions, while the Jews from the European parts of the USSR being generally less observant.
You know that we know it’s not about religion that guides your parasitism but that you’re a parasite, genetically, right? Why do you people follow Europeans around and then tell your host how to behave?
My great-grandfather grew up Jewish in Smolensk in the late 1800s/early 1900s. There was actually a Jewish population there despite being outside of the Pale - with about 5k-6k around 1900. There were established Jewish cemeteries and synagogues. I hear so often that there couldn't be Jews in Smolensk because it wasn't in the Pale. The problem with accounts of Jews in Russia is that they generally are talking about those in Orthodox communities. I've had multiple people in Jewish Genealogy groups tell me my great-grandfather wasn't really Jewish even if he claimed to be Jewish because those outside the Pale didn't follow enough Jewish traditions to be Jewish. It's very frustrating and it does ignore what life was like for those who didn't live in shtetls and little research has been done - and the destruction of records by the Soviets hasn't helped. But the type of Judaism my great-grandfather practiced outside of the Pale before 1918 was far more of cultural Judaism than Orthodox and that could have paved the way for way the Soviets allowing Jewish culture.
Soviet Union had no problem with Judaism, but all against Zionism for obvious reasons as we can see in Palestine. Criminals were not welcome there, only in USA.
My grand parents forced to move from Minsk to Birobijan in 1949. After Stalin death they returned to Belarus then escaped to Finland and then went to Israel. Basically Soviets wanted to make a version of Jewish land in USSR, but n reality the Jews population in Birobijan never gone more than %10.
I would like add that you totaly forgot about the HUGE jewish community in central Asia - the Buharic jews,they are originaly from Persia aswell and had a very complex history since the day of the mongols to the 20th century living with Uzbeks and Tajiks, in the end of thr USSR they numbered in a around 250,000 people and became a heaven for Eastern European Jews escaping the holocust with a very speical identity and customs.
@@dylanmurphy9389 Why? English are your enemies. The oldest original Jewish communities in Europe never harmed expelled is in Belfast and Dublin Ireland. Chief Rabbi Herzogg of Israel was from Ireland.. PS : wasps said what you said about Irish ... Maybe study more kid..
@@cvybays3733 I trust Putin more than some random person saying what he says isn't true. I bet he knows Russia's history better than you. Here he is saying the first Soviet government was 80-85% Jews in front of rabbis who don't say anything: th-cam.com/video/oIeYoF1VhHc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6mgj69ssGLG56a0n. Nice try.
This helps to explain why Hitler thought bolshevism and judaism were interconnected and why the idea gained such popularity. To many anti-semites it probably looked like USSR was favoring jews and/or thahmt they were controlling the whole union and the communist movement. I didn't really know about how the soviet jews were doing before Stalin's reign.
It was only an alliance for the Bolshevik to take power. After they were no longer needed, the same story repeated itself which convinced them that they needed their own nation state to survive. Now the concept of the Sovereign Nation State is under server scrutiny so again they find themselves under threat.
A large part of it is seeing what they wanted to see, ignoring the other groups exiled to the Russian hinterlands, that it WAS the hinterlands and pretty crummy terrain to make a living from whatever the hopes and aspirations were, and that whatever favor they were granted was rescinded as Stalin consolidated power.
Hitler thought Communism and Jews were interconnected long before the Soviet Union, though. It's a somewhat "logical" consequence of his world view in general, and reality was very much not important. The Soviet policy regarding Jews was not fundamentally different from their policies towards other nationalities, and Hitler didn't particularly concern himself with those.
@@varana Wouldn't aims of communism be appealing to regular Jews? Communism was supposed to end Nationalist states, which were oppressing Jews in Europe for centuries, and create class based society where all people of same class would be equal, no matter their nationality. Albeit at cost of religion itself, which is a much more important for regular Jew than Christianity for French or German. But then came Stalin and decided to russify everything, no wonder regular Russians love him
It's weird looking at how many of them were prominent bolsheviks during the revolution and all the way in governing USSR until Stalin purges. Some even after that.
it makes a lot of sense. the Czar gave terrible conditions for the Jews, the Bolsheviks promised to improve conditions for the Jews, and then they did.
@@WP-cu2pf You said you wondered why prominent Communists in the US tended to be Jewish. I responded that they had connections to people who were receiving more credible and urgent offers from the bolsheviks. Moving to a different country didn't cut connections to the "Old Country". So offers of the Bosheviks to improve bad conditions in Russia would have a positive impact on their friends and family in the United States, and on friends of the American Jews as well.
“According to this list, the main Bolshevik leaders who rule sovereignly and uncontrollably over Russia consists of 545 people,” writes F. Vinberg, author of the book “The Crown Path”, published in 1922 in Munich, and immediately notes: “Of these, 447 - Jews ... "
There was a incident that jew were on bad terms with Russia over something minor and during that time jews were immigrating to Israel on a boat there boat broke down in the middle of the ocean then Russian navy suddenly appeared and fixed their problem and left awkwardly because they were beefing at that time so that was mysterious
You should cover Buddhism, arguably it was the most persecuted religion in the Soviet Union starting almost immediately. It's little understood as there were a variety of widely dispersed groups.
@@Game_Hero you’re not too smart, huh? Bud…Religion was largely outlawed during Stalin. So to understand “religion during Stalin” you must go to pre-Stalin and see how the religious groups cloaked themselves as political/social groups then weaved their religious influence into soviet society covertly with their proxy groups. Did you even watch the video man?!?! Cuz it’s all laid out explicitly.
@@NBrioDaZueraRules Yes they did. Stalin didn't have a problem with Israel at first. He actually supported it because he wanted to send progressive values to middle east. Stalin only changed his opinion after the rise of Arab socialists.
Interesting video, but you left out a lot, particularly the prominent role Jews played in the Bolshevik movement after the split with the Mensheviks. Another topic that is rather pertinent to recent times was the animosity between Orthodox Christian Ukrainians and Ukrainian Jews: the former blamed the latter for the Holodomor, so much so that the SS was able to raise two full Waffen SS Divisions from Ukraine and many of the Einsatzgruppen that perpetrated the massacres on the Eastern Front was composed mainly of Ukrainians. The recent Netflix show, The Devil Next Door (about John Demjanjuk, allegedly Ivan The Terrible, a guard at Treblinka) highlights the USSR's attempts to stir animosity between emigré Jewish and Orthodox Ukrainians. It's part of the reason why the Azoc battalion and other Ukrainian formations today have adopted the Wolfsangel and other Nazi imagery. Of course, it's not true that a majority of Ukrainian Jews were ardent Communists or supportive of the Holodomor, and many were themselves victims of it, but this probably should have been addressed and contextualised.
There were not that many prominent Jewish bolsheviks. The Nazis and Neonazis repeat that all the time but when you look at the reality... nothing, just Trotsky and Luxemburg.
The Ukrainian Nazis, pretty much the forefathers of modern ones, were based, much like modern ones, in Galitzia and Volhynia, and, like modern ones, probably did not like the Russian Orthodox Church much, but rather wanted to make an ersatz Ukrainian "orthodox" one (of Catholic obedience). The Banderistas were scum, worse even than the German Nazis, and still are, but now they are presented as "democrats" and "freedom fighters" by Western propaganda. Holodomor never happened: it was an accidental famine by excessive zeal in collectivization. It had zero genocidal intent.
okay I love your work absolutely love your work but I need to tell you something. it's kind of annoying but it's not a really big deal but I think you should know this at least for future reference, a lot of the Hebrew and Yiddish words with a CH in them are not pronounced like the English ch. they're mainly pronounced more like the Spanish j. have you ever heard a Spanish speaker say the name Juan (or John) or the word jugar (or to play) in Spanish? the j is a little guttural, like coming from the throat cheder, the way you pronounced it sounds like cheddar 🧀. A lot of English speakers just skip the J and just 'uan' or they say 'huan'. that is not right it would be worse to say 'chuan'. so the Hebrew letter ח is represented in Hebrew like it's a CH should but it would be better as an H or a Spanish J. chabbad is pronounced Habbad or (Spanish J) Jabbad
Good video overall. As a Patreon supporter of this channel, it is very disappointing that there was ZERO mention here of the courage of Soviet Jews who served in the Soviet armed forces in World War II. Even a brief mention could have been made here in a few seconds when the video got to World War II. 500,000 Soviet Jews served in the Soviet armed forces from 1941 to 1945. 200,000 were killed in battle. 160,000 were decorated for bravery in the field. This includes over 100 Jewish soldiers who were awarded the highest and very rarely awarded decoration, Hero of the Soviet Union. Jewish scientists made key contributions to Soviet weapons development during the war. There were a number of successful Jewish generals during the war. Possibly as high as 100, maybe as high as 300 per one source. And large numbers of Jewish colonels, majors, etc. A few quick mentions. There were many more: Lev Dovator - A Jewish cavalry commander, who was killed in action, who is honorably mentioned in Marshal Zhukov's memoirs Jakov Kreizer - Commanded a mechanized division that stopped a number of panzer divisions in 1941. He went on to command the 51st army and was a member of the Jewish anti-fascist committee. Simon Krivoshein - A leading tank officer who helped reorganize and retrain the Soviet tank forces. His changes helped contribute to the successes of Soviet tank forces at the battle of Kursk in 1943. Marshal Zhukov gave him the honor of leading his corps in the final attack on Berlin in 1945. Israel Beskin - A leading general of artillery forces. David Dragunsky - Commanded a Soviet tank brigade. After the war he was a mouthpiece for the Soviet government claiming the USSR treated Jews well which was a lie. Maxim Vovsi - Chief medical officer of the Red Army during World War II. Boris Vannikov - Engineering officer who made great contributions to industrial mobilization and resource management during the war. Senior Jewish officers were essentially pushed out of the Soviet armed forces after 1945.
Good point.....but I think is an issue you should have with the WW2 channel or even Kings and Generals channel. I believe this channel mostly focuses on the events after the ww2.
the USSR had set up several lower level national entities in the 1920and 30s , 3 Jewish national rayons ( districts ) were set up in the Ukraine and 2 in the then Russian Crimea
Fun Fact: Stalin had a Jewish member of his personal cabinet once. But he was dismissed from his position for opposing the Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression pact. Great video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality. And yes I know that he had a lot more Jewish people working for him besides this guy.
Not true. Lazar Kaganovich, a close associate of Stalin since the early 1920s, an old Ukrainian Jewish Bolshevik, remained in his good graces, in both party and state positions, until J V Stalins death in 1953. There is even quite a hilarious story, perhaps apocryphal, of Stalin forcing Nazi Foreign Minister, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, to participate in a toast to Lazar during a celebratory dinner held after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
@@brokenbridge6316 A veritable legion of Stalins entourage were shuffled from pillar to post in quite a roller coaster ride of switches in responsibility. Beria,..from purging all traces of Yezhov from the Cheka, to overseeing Stalins first possession of an atomic bomb,..Kaganovich,from collectivisation to the construction of the Moscow Metro,..Jewishness or Judaism had nothing whatsoever to do with any of this. Lev Mekhlis, a commissar of immense proportional power ( and Pravda editor ), was a Jewish-born Bolshevik who spent the entire war as one of Stalins most sycophantic and trusted lackeys.
Untrue. Stalin had a lot of Jews working closely with him even after he dismissed Litvinov. From Kaganovich, to Lev Mekhlis, to even his tailor. All Jewish.
That's because modern (and medieval) Jews stem from Hellenistic/Roman era converts, not from the original Hebrews/Canaanites of Palestine. The real descendants of the ancient Jews are, quite ironically, modern Palestinians. This is demonstrated by population genetics. Western (Euro-Mediterranean) Jews seem to stem from Cyprus (almost identical genetics) or maybe Asia Minor (not too different), Yemeni Jews are just Yemenis from pre-Muslim times (Yemen used to be a Jewish kingdom before Mohamed conquered it) and Beta Israel (Black Jews from Eritrea and Ethiopia) derive from the once Jewish (later Christian) Kingdom of Axum and are again descendants of converted locals. Even talking of modern Talmudic Judaism as if it was the only Jewish sect out there is totally naive: Christianity and Islam are also Jewish sects (but more open to conversion). Talmudic Judaism (what we now usually call "Judaism") was actually created in the late Antiquity and early Middle Ages, when the Talmud was written (it's surely derived from ancient Phariseanism but that was only one among many ancient Jewish sects), the Christian New Testament is older than the Talmud, so it can be said that Christianity is an even older form of (rather innovative but still very much traditionalist) Judaism than Talmudism. Islam in turn is a Christian (monophysite, non-trinitarian) sect with strong Arab flavor and (as non-trinitarian and also recovering many Jewish or Egypto-Levantine traditions like not eating pork, emphasizing Abraham/Ibrahim, circumcision, strict monotheism of El/Allah, etc.) can be said of being "re-Judaizing". Judaism is much much bigger than just "Judaism" (Talmudism).
@@GJ1998ARG - They are absolutely: direct descendants of ancient Hebrews and their Canaanite precursors. That's a genetic fact by now, there is zero doubt.
The activities of Chabad to keep the jewdasin spirit in USSR all those years countined after their rabbi left the land to Latvia by maintain underground schools, synagogues,kosher sloughter and mikvah so lot of them being arrested and sent to gulags like mana Sara who died their and rabbies like Mandel posters and yizhak zilber who got out of USSR to Israel after fought to keep jewdasin in the hard conditions
@@MrCmon113 they murdered millions of people and threw people in jail for practicing holidays. Wanting to emigrate to Israel meant a long trip to the gulag. There were special questions called "coffins" at Soviet university entrance exams for Jewish students that were designed to be impossible to limit the number of Jews; didn't matter if they were an atheist being an ethnic Jew was enough. They did horrible things to Muslims as well and deported many of them; Stalin was the first to "ban the veil" and used violence to enforce it. This is one of the worst videos on history I've ever seen. Life for Christians and atheists was terrible as well. Most totalitarian regimes are "based" (genocidal, repressive) towards religion. Not unique to the Soviets.
The creation of a specific area for a specific ethnic group & the quality of that region for their settlement sounds very much like the settlement polices of the US regarding it native people. Place them on marginal/poor land & forget them.
You don't know the history of either, which is why you say objectively stupid things, Gordon. But not even the Indians were as savage as the jews. Do you know who Lazar Kaganovich or Gengrik Yagoda are? How about Naftaly Frenkel - he designed the Gulag system. Why don't you know their names, stupid?
@@horizonenjoy2323 You’re so goddamn lucky we are better than you, stupid. You’re psychopaths parasites follow us around and wonder why we have to make you leave, It happens all the time because you’re a parasite.
Does The Cold War series provide a list of historical sources? Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on Arkady Vaksberg's book: Stalin Against the Jews?
Looking at what is going on in the world today from a geopolitical war perspective, there has to be some very difficult and serious discussions about all of this before it spirals even more out of control. However, I don't know if the people are honest, mature or courageous enough to engage in such discussions.
@@Nathan-jh1ho you not wrong but is just a unique topic there is a documentary call the Revolutionary about a Jew who advice Mao during the Civil War and very early years of his rule.
There is/was a Jewish community in Kaifeng, China. A wiki entry called "Kaifeng Jews" details on this topic. Interestingly they are nicknamed "藍帽回回" （blue hat Muslim）
@@gamingfan197 That guy isn't a Chinese Jew, he is an Austrian Communists who immigrated to China after WW2, judging from him being a Communists I assume he was not religious at all
It was criminal. And the Chinese communist party still persecutes Chinese Jews in Kaifeng. There are party controlled mosques and churches, but no synagogues are allowed.
@@thebestofallworlds187 ok? he's objectively wrong. just because he's the leader of russia doesnt mean he's automatically right about everything. appeal to authority
@@toe8946 Appeal to authority isn't necessarily wrong. But I don't base it on that alone. I hope that this video of Putin makes people begin to do their own research. Get any book on the Russian Revolution and go to the index and find out who is Jewish. Highlight the Jewish names. That will speak for itself.
@@thebestofallworlds187 still objectively wrong. in 1917 the central comittee had 5 jews among 21 members . By stalin's reign in the 30s central committe jews only made up 6%. Overall jewish membership of the Bolshevik party in 1917 was about 7-ish% Additionallym putin's remarks were refuted by historian Vladimir Ryzhkov, also various russian news outlets openly said he was wrong. Also what good would highlighting jews in an index do? Thats no how you get a proportional percentage. According to the 1922 Bolshevik party census, there were 19,564 Jewish Bolsheviks, comprising *5.21%* of the total, and in the 1920s of the 417 members of the Central Executive Committee, the party Central Committee, the Presidium of the Executive of the Soviets of the USSR and the Russian Republic, the People's Commissars, *6% were ethnic Jews.* Source: Herf, Jeffery (2008). The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust; "The Interception Program of June 15, 2013. Radio Station "Echo of Moscow"
Another interesting video, thank you! PS, for the love of God please find a new closing quotation: despite being an admirable sentiment, JFK was not the only person to think of this point, and the repetition has gotten monotonous.
The Pale in Ireland was the region surrounding Dublin (Pale is from Palisade, a wooden set of fortifications intended to keep Irish clans out). There is a townland in rural county Dublin called "Westpalstown". Beyond the Pale meant, beyond (English) law, civilisation and ultimately something unacceptable. The Pale stretched from Carlingford in County Louth to Castledermot in Co. Kildare to Arklow in Co. Wicklow and was also composed of a string of stone castles. That didn't stop the O'Tooles of Castlekevin, The O'Byrnes, the O'Reillys of Co. Cavan, the O'Farrells of Co. Longford and others to raid the Pale. The citizens of Dublin paid 'Black Rent' to the clans to pay them off.
Stalin was basically in charge of the Soviet Union since 1923 (arguably since 1922 right after Lenin had his massive stroke), so no, the video isn't wrong.
1st mistake, the so called Jewish autonomous zone was started under Stalin. 2nd, the Soviets considering Hebrew a supposed non-working class language, but Yiddish being working class, is so laughable. It should have been pointed out that Yiddish is written in HEBREW! lol!! 3rd, not only the Whites committed pogroms against Jews during the civil war, but Red armies did as well. The Whites killed more, but the Reds killed quite a lot as well. Finally, speaking of the debasement of the Jewish religion under the Soviets as somehow offset in some way because of the Soviet Jewish secular culture that was allowed to grow instead of it, is in a way giving the Soviets somehow some credit, when in reality, the actions of the Soviets almost destroyed the Jewish religion in the Soviet Union. Very similar to what the ancient Greeks and their Jewish allies tried to do to Judaism in what Judaism commemorates with the holiday of Hanukkah. Communist Gentiles worked in the same fashion, with Jewish Communists to destroy Judaism. The Nazis, like in the story commemorated by another Jewish holiday; Purim, tried to kill all Jews. The Communists tried to destroy Judaism.
as a historian, i know tv shows aren't up your alley. And i know you're too young for the original star trek, however... did you watch the series? If so, what's your analysis of the portrayal of the soviets in that series? more specific, season 1 episode 26: "Errand of Mercy" as it seems to apply to the current situation in Ukraine. if you're apt to dismiss star trek as a joke, i will advise against that: Right at the beginning, kirk mentions armenia. At the same time, i do find star trek and kirk's over-acting totally comical in so many ways, but it did often address '66-'69 era concerns. I'd love to hear your opinion on the episode. you put forth quality content hoss, and i appreciate that and therefore you. with love and caring, thanks hoss, from a bell-on subscriber.
We get an interesting glimpse of the Tzar-era life of jews in the movie "Fiddler on the roof": the total division of jews & non-jews, the pogroms... and some crazy rebel speaking of the people's future...
It is interesting how they maintained a system of morality outside of religion. I guess though it was enforced through real violence rather than fears of sin or hell.
Or rather positive ideas like cooperation and communism. Hell never dissuaded anyone, especially considering how evil are those who supposedly go to Heaven, better stay away from the Heaven scum.
@@carljohnson2194 - It is: united we stand, divided we fall. You may not understand what communism is or should be. Bolshevik model systems never were communist, although they used to be socialist (not anymore, except Cuba).
Judaism never had a concept of hell. Jewish religious morality was always about making the world you live in a better place, not about some kind of reward in an afterlife.
@@kingkoi6542 Sheol is not Hell. It's more like Erebus in the realm of Hades in Greek mythology, the empty and hollow realm where the dead exist without feeling anything. It's not a place of torment like Tartarus.
Why does the border region of Ukra!ne, Belaru$ and the Federation looks like that (so weird). The area of Klintsy looks like a salient/corridor. Why is that bulge like that?
Ukraine was formed in 1918-19 in the context of German occupation (Hetmanate) and the extension of the Russian civil war to the region after the end of WWI (power vacuum, many actors fighting for supremacy, including Ukrainians of three types: whites, reds and blacks, i.e. capitalists, bolsheviks and anarchists). There was no political Ukraine before that, the borders were drawn quite generously by the winning reds.
Where is your footage from? One clip shows an English language newspaper heading reading "The Sinn Fein rebellion". That can't be from Russia/the Russian Empire/The USSR, can it?
Given that in the west Jews were more urbanised than any other group, it makes sense that they would be the first victims of the Enlightenment. In Russia however, the situation was reversed, with Jews being forced out of cities. I wonder to what extent that insulated them from Englightenment thought and what other effects it would have later when Communism was forced upon them.
Mankind was created in paradise. Adam and his wife are of our parents which means they parents of mankind. They were created in paradise and then later came down on earth. White people came after from a lineage of Prophet Nuh (Noah) and so did all modern day people who are all from lineages of Prophet Nuh Peace be upon him. There is no evolution that humans went through that turned them from Neanderthals to how they are in the modern day. There is no mistake in The Quran but there is many mistakes in the Bible that the Quran mentions correctly such as the position in society of the leader at the time of Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) peace be upon him. The Quran mentions he was a king and the Bible mentions he was a pharaoh. The Quran is correct and more recently the Rosetta Stone was decoded and what was found is that leader was a king and not a pharaoh. Islam is The true religion with undeniable proof and evidence. We Muslims believe in Jesus but not as God and we don’t believe God has a son. Jesus peace be upon him is a prophet and Messenger Of Allah (God) and he is the messiah. He wasn’t killed as Allah saved him before they could get to him. There is also scientific and historical miracles mentioned in the Quran such as the formation of the human embryo as well as the creation of honey in bees. There are Islamic prophecies that came true and will come true and I recommend everyone to try and learn about them. I myself know of people who were ill and suffering with issues (including black magic) and got cured miraculously when the Quran was recited over them. I invite everyone to learn about Islam.
Good video. It shows important aspects which usually are highlighted as "anti-semite" but in fact were part of the anti-religious campaign as a whole. I don't get the criticism of many liberals and lefts who say that USSR was anti-semite because they didn't consider Jews as a nation. This is silly, as per Intl Law and Constitutional law that still apply today, Nation requires a defined territory. This is not a "Soviet" creation but the legal standard used globally. As Judaism itself is usually associated with a people without land. I don't see any anti-Semitism in this particular aspect. Quite the contrary, we all know that due to the high numbers of educated Jews, many had sympathies with revolutionary politics and they were overrepresented in the Party apparatus (the fact of being able to read and write was already being "qualified" at the time). I don't see any "self-racism" here, the video also correctly points out to the fact that many Communist Jews were more aggressive on religion than non-Jews themselves as the "Jewish-Bolshevik" conspiracy theory was already strong at the time. A pity that many Zionists were are allowed to flourish within the Party. Zionist is not a progressive ideology in any way. PS. Only negative in this video is the change of Soviet policy which the narrator explains with "Stalin happened". Too short as an explanation, the drums of war were getting louder and it would be very difficult to keep the USSR as a single entity without any reversal on the korenizatsiia policy. Nationalism is not a Soviet goal in itself, it is a mere instrument for class politics, any one who "blames" Stalin for this is clearly misunderstanding what Socialism is.
@@NBrioDaZueraRules , you mean the average joe had prejudice against Jews? FYI the average joe in Eastern Europe in general has a lot of prejudices. The Soviet power itself was not anti-semite.
I know Lenin was a jew, spoke yiddish, and it was the same with Leon Trotsky he was a jew who spoke yiddish, and apparently in 1919 the Soviets released a list stating their 665 most important and influential leaders, of the 665 almost 400 of them were ethically Jewish.
Lenin was biologically one quarter Jewish from his great grandfather but that's it. He was raised in an ethnically and culturally Christian Russian family and he never spoke a lick of yiddish. And yeah Trotsky was ethnically Jewish but no more than that. He wasn't raised as a jew nor did he write in yiddish or keep kosher or ever even entered a synagogue.
"According to the 1922 Bolshevik party census, there were 19,564 Jewish Bolsheviks, comprising 5.21% of the total, and in the 1920s of the 417 members of the Central Executive Committee, the party Central Committee, the Presidium of the Executive of the Soviets of the USSR and the Russian Republic, the People's Commissars, 6% were ethnic Jews"
Nice vid mate! I was just wondering as you’ve talked about the World’s 6th Largest Religion’s history, are you planning for any such videos about the World’s 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Largest Religions in Stalin’s USSR (☪Islam, ॐHinduism, ☸︎Buddhism & ☬Sikhism) as I would love to watch them?
In the Soviet Union, almost all Buddhists were Mongols, and the Soviets bullied them and banned them from celebrating the White Moon Festival (because Soviets thought it was a Buddhist Festival) until the 1990s. Now, there are two Mongolian Autonomous states in Russia (kalmet, Buryat). Russia will express his blessings to Buddhists on the White Moon Festival. Unfortunately, the White Moon Festival is not a Buddhist festival😓😓😓. About 2000 years ago, the Mongolian ancestors Xiongnu(匈奴） would celebrate in January（岁正月，诸小长会单于于庭祠《史记》匈奴俗，岁有三龙祠，常以正月……祭天神《后汉书》）. I think this is the origin of the White Moon Festival, but the Mongols did not believe in Buddhism 2000 years ago
Thank you for this. I really appreciate that you do not take a significant anti-communist stance in these videos. I really appreciate your work. My family were Jews living on the outskirts of Kiev during this time. There certainly was real persecution of Judaism and practicing became more difficult. However, most of my family were still loyal Communists and their only major disagreements with the Communist Party was their stance on religion.
@@justacat2 20% of Israel are Muslims Arabs live as equals citizens on Knesset courts as Judges mayor's police officers IDF soldiers doctors college students etc etc And , Gaza was given back to the Palestinians in 2005 who turned it into a terrorist base FACT. West bank Palestinian population has tripled in past decades. Explain how we " purge" them? Ignorance 1,500,000 Muslims killed in Syria recently a decade ago. Jordon killed 250,000 Palestinians in 1970. Lebanon killed thousands in 1980s. Egypt seals southern Gaza strip border shoots Palestinians who try to get out. Jordon seals Eastern border with West Bank also won't let them out. Palestinians officially demand to create a new Apartheid Islamic country at UN since 1948 and refused everything offered for peace including their own state FACT. You parrot Al Jazeera news propaganda not facts . Any other country would have nuked Gaza and west bank long ago. Nudnik נודנק
@@justacat2 just as Palestinians purged all Jews from Gaza and Christians from Lebanon .. Palestinians officially demand to create a new Apartheid Islamic country at UN since 1948 and have refused everything offered for peace even their own state.. Fact.
I didn't know the USSR tried to make its own sort of internal Jewish nation. Thank you for another very informative episode! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
Just a smirky remark as a Leninist. I just like it how everyone goes on about how great man histories are a thing of the past and that a more scientifically based analysis of history has become the norm nowadays. This is true in al but one field of study in history today: the history of the USSR. Everything that went wrong in that country was because of one man, Stalin, and if he were to be removed from the history books well... who knows how it would have turned out. Sincerely this sort of aproach to history is all but scientific and is as it might not suprise anyone who has two neurons which connect to each other a re-introduction of the great man of history argumentation to suit the purposes of the economic system reigning in most of the world which was diametrically opposed to USSR's attempts in ending it.
But if you were actually a leninist you would know how much he rejected ideas like great man histories and the actions of individuals such as his brother, the SRs and narodnik's terrorism. He was obviously committed to dialectical materialism because you know...... marxism and stuff.
And good god no it wasnt down to stalin entirely at all. I can name 100 utter shitheads in the stalin era cominterns for a start. After seizing power Lenin lost all talent overnight. Then kamenev and zinovievs factioneering doomed the USSR to bureaucracy, state capitalism and stalin. Trotsky never lost his shit talents for annoying everybody and Ccntrarianism despite his positive talents.
@@Ukraineaissance2014 Hey this comment wasn't a dump on Stalin at all. On the contrary its me highlighting how the USSR actually as the video shows did some immense work in terms of promoting the particular and unique peculiarities of the union's diverse collage of nations. And this can be attributed if not wholly of course to Stalin as he was Georgian himself, being routinely made fun of in Moscow for his accent and his complexion. Plus he was "the" expert on the National Question in the Bolshevik party's early days, Lenin awarding him during the Civil war the People's Commissariat of the Nationalities. All this does not mean that these policies can be only attributed to him. But what it does mean is that true Leninists- as Stalin was himself- believed that before the proletariat could be freed, all the opressed nations of the Russian Empire and the world had to be liberated. (Just came in to correct some stupid orthographical errors on my part)
@@Tirana-qg1ft that's a word in your native language, putin is himself a jew and he's wrong about this, all bolsheviks were gentiles, and to think otherwise is a thoughtcrime
@@Tirana-qg1ft Jews dominated at first because most Russians were uneducated, but then later on, they got completely/mostly replaced by other ethnicities. How can we go from the communists are antisemitic to they're Jewish in just a few years, lol.
@@analizbar not quite, Trotsky is sure better than Stalin by about every point of view, but he still wasn't exactly the perfect fit, he was way too reluctant in seizing power, he failed to conciliate the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, and also failed to spread his influence enough to be able to fight Stalin. Overall, he'd have been probably better than Stalin, but I'm not too much on board with his theory either, the part that I do not like the most is his economic theory, it's way too anarchic, I believe a planned economy should have a good balance of power between central and peripheral planning in order to both give the citizens of each part of the state a voice, and still have a central authority with a balanced degree of power that keeps cohesion, something in between Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyist and that doesn't lie completely on one side or the other.
As another great commenter pointed out, lol trot. That aside, i dont know how to feel about this channel, even the language he uses about the USSR feels like a lib talking, then again, this is one of only a few videos ive seen of them.
Wikipedia: "Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was born on 19 November 1875 to a peasant family of ethnic Russian origin in the village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa (Верхняя Троица), Tver Governorate, Russia.[4]" No mention whatsoever of any Jewish roots. Another Nazi smear.
I'm a afraid you painted all in pretty colors - but it wasn't like that. Most Jews in Pale of the settlement were traditional Jews - observant or close to it. The anti-religious pogrom by the Yevseksya not only their religious life and but their existence. The Yevseksya got their punishment in the great purges by death and hard Labour in the gulag (where they met the people they exiled not long ago...). The Birobidjan project was meant to destroy the Zionist idea of returning to Land of Israel and it failed because no land can replace Israel from the harts of Jews. The Bundist tried to do this and helped condemn hundreds of thousands of Jews to death by the Nazi's and Communists by convincing to remain in Europe instead of immigrating to Israel before WWII
@lati longI can imagine because Catholics could possibly be more loyal to the Pope then to the Soviet Government and might listen to him more then the leaders at the Kremlin,which no doubt many Soviet leaders did not like.
All the Jewish people I have ever met or know of in the media all seem like nice and usually smart people. I’ve never understood why all throughout time all over the world where ever Jewish people have been they always end up being persecuted ! Wtf why is that? I’ve always struggled to get that? It’s not the same with other peoples
@@jamescleary2458 Trotsky recalled that Lenin offered him the post of Minister of Internal Affairs: “... we will make you a People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. You will crush the bourgeoisie and the nobility.” Trotsky, according to him, sharply objected: “I said that, in my opinion, such a trump card should not be given into the hands of enemies; I thought it would be much better if there were not a single Jew in the first revolutionary Soviet government.” Vladimir Ilyich said: “Nonsense. It's all nonsense." Of course, nothing! And, as for the Red Army, in those years the Jews occupied the highest positions. Command - I. Yakir, S. Turovsky / deputy commander of the Kharkov military district /, S. Uritsky / head of intelligence of the Red Army /, A. Shifres / head of the Military Economic Academy /, Y. Fishman / head of the Chemical Department / and others. Political - Y. Gamarnik, L. Aronstam / head of the PU of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army /, B. Ippo / head of the Military-Political Academy /, M. Landa / editor of the Red Star /, I, Slavin / head of the department of universities of the Red Army / and others. You can recall the names of G. Stern / for especially important assignments under the people's commissar of defense /, R. Khmelnitsky / adjutant of the people's commissar /, A. Volpe / head of the administrative and mobilization department of the Red Army /, N. Rozovsky / deputy chief prosecutor /, S. Shapiro / head of the Special Construction of the Central Theater of the Red Army /, L. Baitin / head and military commissar of the military veterinary school / and many others. Indeed, most of these people perished during the Great Terror. Indeed, one of the first arrested, Divisional Commander D. Schmidt, was actually D. Gutman, indeed, out of the eight people convicted together with Tukhachevsky, three were Jews. But ... among the NKVD workers who were directly involved in arrests, torture, fabrication of cases, there were also a huge number of Jews! /Vladimir Galaiko, famous military publicist/.
It is the same with plenty of other minorities. It's just that most people usually mix in after migrating somewhere, which the extremely toxic and persistent Jewish religion prevented. Most of the persecution of Jews was due to its sibling/daughter religions of Christianity and Islam, the three of them being naturally at odds and each as stubborn as the others.
@@jamescleary2458I was gonna respond after seeing you but vlad already gave you some history now follow that up to modern politics and you'll understand completely
You guys should make playlists of different decades like 40s,50setc so it will be easy for people to search specific events
I second this
Good idea.
agree
i’d love to see that
That would be nice
For more information on Birobidzhan, I would recommend Stalin's Forgotten Zion by Robert Weinberg & Where the Jews Aren't by Masha Gessen. It is interesting that the main focus of efforts to stamp out the religious aspects of Judaism in the Soviet Union was in the European parts, resulting in many Russian Jews from Belarus, Ukraine & Russia west of the Urals having little or no formal Jewish religious education. In contrast, most Bukharan Jews were generally left free to practice their faith as a result of Soviet policy towards the majority Muslim populations of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan where they were largely located. Since the Soviets took a more hands-off approach toward the Muslim populations with respect to religious practices, the Bukharan Jews were also relatively left alone. I've seen this personally, with most observant Jews from the former USSR I've encountered at my synagogue being from these regions, while the Jews from the European parts of the USSR being generally less observant.
You know that we know it’s not about religion that guides your parasitism but that you’re a parasite, genetically, right?
Why do you people follow Europeans around and then tell your host how to behave?
the jpp bolsheviks sure as hell didnt leave 20 million whiate farmers alone now did they?
Liar like any other ZIONIST. USSR was against your racist sick ideology not Judaism as religion.
My great-grandfather grew up Jewish in Smolensk in the late 1800s/early 1900s. There was actually a Jewish population there despite being outside of the Pale - with about 5k-6k around 1900. There were established Jewish cemeteries and synagogues. I hear so often that there couldn't be Jews in Smolensk because it wasn't in the Pale. The problem with accounts of Jews in Russia is that they generally are talking about those in Orthodox communities. I've had multiple people in Jewish Genealogy groups tell me my great-grandfather wasn't really Jewish even if he claimed to be Jewish because those outside the Pale didn't follow enough Jewish traditions to be Jewish. It's very frustrating and it does ignore what life was like for those who didn't live in shtetls and little research has been done - and the destruction of records by the Soviets hasn't helped. But the type of Judaism my great-grandfather practiced outside of the Pale before 1918 was far more of cultural Judaism than Orthodox and that could have paved the way for way the Soviets allowing Jewish culture.
Communism in Russia was entirely ✡️ish
Soviet Union had no problem with Judaism, but all against Zionism for obvious reasons as we can see in Palestine. Criminals were not welcome there, only in USA.
My grand parents forced to move from Minsk to Birobijan in 1949. After Stalin death they returned to Belarus then escaped to Finland and then went to Israel. Basically Soviets wanted to make a version of Jewish land in USSR, but n reality the Jews population in Birobijan never gone more than %10.
Thank goodness we have Israel our actual national land.
@@IdoDekel-do7hh Indeed! and we save it in any price ✌
@@Xerex_m Palestine and Israel, brother peoples whose prosperity depends on the wellbeing and national statehood of both. #Twostatessolution.
@@Game_Hero The best of interest for Israel and Palestine is to find a peaceful solution, but unfortunately it's not found yet.
@@Game_Hero that's true but for that to happen the Palestinians must stop trying to kill us all.
I would like add that you totaly forgot about the HUGE jewish community in central Asia - the Buharic jews,they are originaly from Persia aswell and had a very complex history since the day of the mongols to the 20th century living with Uzbeks and Tajiks, in the end of thr USSR they numbered in a around 250,000 people and became a heaven for Eastern European Jews escaping the holocust with a very speical identity and customs.
He said there's a second episode coming bro
We need a haven to escape from them
My friends in NYC Bukharian they all seem to be into barber shops and are into diamonds jewelry etc
תודה רבה שלום
@@dylanmurphy9389 Why? English are your enemies.
The oldest original Jewish communities in Europe never harmed expelled is in Belfast and Dublin Ireland.
Chief Rabbi Herzogg of Israel was from Ireland..
PS : wasps said what you said about Irish ...
Maybe study more kid..
@@Nudnik1 English is my enemies?
I am English
so it is just "no, we are not going to talk about that Solzhenitsyn other book" the video
It's as if they think "if we censor history and our behavior, then no one will ever find out!"
Putin said the first Soviet government was 80-85% Jewish.
@@thebestofallworlds187 yea that's not true
@@cvybays3733 I trust Putin more than some random person saying what he says isn't true. I bet he knows Russia's history better than you. Here he is saying the first Soviet government was 80-85% Jews in front of rabbis who don't say anything: th-cam.com/video/oIeYoF1VhHc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=6mgj69ssGLG56a0n. Nice try.
It's true in the US right now.
Great video! And really informative. Thanks for covering this topic so well.
Mmm?m
This helps to explain why Hitler thought bolshevism and judaism were interconnected and why the idea gained such popularity. To many anti-semites it probably looked like USSR was favoring jews and/or thahmt they were controlling the whole union and the communist movement. I didn't really know about how the soviet jews were doing before Stalin's reign.
It was only an alliance for the Bolshevik to take power. After they were no longer needed, the same story repeated itself which convinced them that they needed their own nation state to survive.
Now the concept of the Sovereign Nation State is under server scrutiny so again they find themselves under threat.
A large part of it is seeing what they wanted to see, ignoring the other groups exiled to the Russian hinterlands, that it WAS the hinterlands and pretty crummy terrain to make a living from whatever the hopes and aspirations were, and that whatever favor they were granted was rescinded as Stalin consolidated power.
Hitler thought Communism and Jews were interconnected long before the Soviet Union, though. It's a somewhat "logical" consequence of his world view in general, and reality was very much not important. The Soviet policy regarding Jews was not fundamentally different from their policies towards other nationalities, and Hitler didn't particularly concern himself with those.
@@varana Wouldn't aims of communism be appealing to regular Jews? Communism was supposed to end Nationalist states, which were oppressing Jews in Europe for centuries, and create class based society where all people of same class would be equal, no matter their nationality. Albeit at cost of religion itself, which is a much more important for regular Jew than Christianity for French or German. But then came Stalin and decided to russify everything, no wonder regular Russians love him
@@kissofthecobra3761 no thank you
From 3:33 to 3:48 your b-roll footage was of the 1916 Rising in Dublin. 😄
probably because the republicans had a Jewish solicitor. he did a witness statement available to download from the Irish military archives.
Robert Service's Trotsky biography has some brilliant sections on this subject.
It's weird looking at how many of them were prominent bolsheviks during the revolution and all the way in governing USSR until Stalin purges. Some even after that.
it makes a lot of sense.
the Czar gave terrible conditions for the Jews, the Bolsheviks promised to improve conditions for the Jews, and then they did.
@@WP-cu2pf They still had family, friends, and a common language and culture with the people in eastern and Central Europe.
@@WP-cu2pf You said you wondered why prominent Communists in the US tended to be Jewish. I responded that they had connections to people who were receiving more credible and urgent offers from the bolsheviks. Moving to a different country didn't cut connections to the "Old Country". So offers of the Bosheviks to improve bad conditions in Russia would have a positive impact on their friends and family in the United States, and on friends of the American Jews as well.
“According to this list, the main Bolshevik leaders who rule sovereignly and uncontrollably over Russia consists of 545 people,” writes F. Vinberg, author of the book “The Crown Path”, published in 1922 in Munich, and immediately notes: “Of these, 447 - Jews ... "
then they killed 20 million white christian farmers@@furrywarriors
There was a incident that jew were on bad terms with Russia over something minor and during that time jews were immigrating to Israel on a boat there boat broke down in the middle of the ocean then Russian navy suddenly appeared and fixed their problem and left awkwardly because they were beefing at that time so that was mysterious
Does this video mention Solzhenitsyn and his book '200 Years Together'?
@@Aurum-dc4jz nope, he was a jew
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesnope, you're a jew, just like anyone who denies the fact that communism is jewish
@@AnviumBased *gentile
*myth
@@NBrioDaZueraRules *jew
*fact
Lazar Kaganovich
Stalin's attack dog?. Presumably, he would be covered in a following episode. Although Kaganovich killed many Jews
one of the few good ones, along with marx and yakov yurovsky
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesall communists are jews
Coincidentally yesterday was my first shabbat in my new temple
Congratulations! (Is that something one would respond to that? I was raised catholic, I have since recovered)
Nice
Mazel tov!
By temple do you mean synagogue?
A temple?
Great video can't wait for part 2!
At 3.33 that's an irish lad holding up a paper saying vote Sinn Fein
"Separation of Church and State", why does that sound so familiar. Oh... Madelyn Murray O'Hair.
You should cover Buddhism, arguably it was the most persecuted religion in the Soviet Union starting almost immediately. It's little understood as there were a variety of widely dispersed groups.
because they refused to comply
I think the episode should be renamed "Judaism in the USSR before Stalin" given that 70% of the video is set before stalinism took over.
It’s called “context”…it’s pretty important to historical discussions. Amazing!
@@steelewalter558 To the point of taking 70% of the video?
@@Game_Hero you’re not too smart, huh?
Bud…Religion was largely outlawed during Stalin. So to understand “religion during Stalin” you must go to pre-Stalin and see how the religious groups cloaked themselves as political/social groups then weaved their religious influence into soviet society covertly with their proxy groups.
Did you even watch the video man?!?! Cuz it’s all laid out explicitly.
3:36 is footage of the Easter rising of 1916 in Ireland
The music behind at the end very nice. Anyone knows what is it
I am an old Cold Warrior and I love this channel!
Me too!
"The million that changed the middle east" is an interesting read about the Russian influence on Israel.
Israel followed socialism a lot I think thought even usa was a big partner for them
Deprived cold indifference, but never Saber rattle
The soviet union never supported israel
@@NBrioDaZueraRules Yes they did. Stalin didn't have a problem with Israel at first. He actually supported it because he wanted to send progressive values to middle east. Stalin only changed his opinion after the rise of Arab socialists.
@@Hindutvaiscringe no he didn't, he never supported israel
You should add a bibliography into the description!
The challenges you present get more and more difficult, but I will try my best to establish Bellbuttonia.
I salute you
So how did it go? Maybe a Europa universalis run or crusader kings? Made bellbutonia?
Learned something new, thanks!
Interesting video, but you left out a lot, particularly the prominent role Jews played in the Bolshevik movement after the split with the Mensheviks. Another topic that is rather pertinent to recent times was the animosity between Orthodox Christian Ukrainians and Ukrainian Jews: the former blamed the latter for the Holodomor, so much so that the SS was able to raise two full Waffen SS Divisions from Ukraine and many of the Einsatzgruppen that perpetrated the massacres on the Eastern Front was composed mainly of Ukrainians. The recent Netflix show, The Devil Next Door (about John Demjanjuk, allegedly Ivan The Terrible, a guard at Treblinka) highlights the USSR's attempts to stir animosity between emigré Jewish and Orthodox Ukrainians. It's part of the reason why the Azoc battalion and other Ukrainian formations today have adopted the Wolfsangel and other Nazi imagery. Of course, it's not true that a majority of Ukrainian Jews were ardent Communists or supportive of the Holodomor, and many were themselves victims of it, but this probably should have been addressed and contextualised.
There were not that many prominent Jewish bolsheviks. The Nazis and Neonazis repeat that all the time but when you look at the reality... nothing, just Trotsky and Luxemburg.
The Ukrainian Nazis, pretty much the forefathers of modern ones, were based, much like modern ones, in Galitzia and Volhynia, and, like modern ones, probably did not like the Russian Orthodox Church much, but rather wanted to make an ersatz Ukrainian "orthodox" one (of Catholic obedience). The Banderistas were scum, worse even than the German Nazis, and still are, but now they are presented as "democrats" and "freedom fighters" by Western propaganda.
Holodomor never happened: it was an accidental famine by excessive zeal in collectivization. It had zero genocidal intent.
jews were anti communists and pro-christian, and still are
Many many many people believed the Jews were bringing about the End times, makes you think...
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesjews were communists and anti-Christian, and still are
Cheder isnt with a ch as in charlie... its more like a russian KH
For a sec I thought you were talking about Cheddar cheese
okay I love your work absolutely love your work but I need to tell you something. it's kind of annoying but it's not a really big deal but I think you should know this at least for future reference, a lot of the Hebrew and Yiddish words with a CH in them are not pronounced like the English ch. they're mainly pronounced more like the Spanish j. have you ever heard a Spanish speaker say the name Juan (or John) or the word jugar (or to play) in Spanish? the j is a little guttural, like coming from the throat cheder, the way you pronounced it sounds like cheddar 🧀. A lot of English speakers just skip the J and just 'uan' or they say 'huan'. that is not right it would be worse to say 'chuan'. so the Hebrew letter ח is represented in Hebrew like it's a CH should but it would be better as an H or a Spanish J. chabbad is pronounced Habbad or (Spanish J) Jabbad
who cares
I had no idea why tho? why is it anglicized like that too
Good video overall. As a Patreon supporter of this channel, it is very disappointing that there was ZERO mention here of the courage of Soviet Jews who served in the Soviet armed forces in World War II.
Even a brief mention could have been made here in a few seconds when the video got to World War II.
500,000 Soviet Jews served in the Soviet armed forces from 1941 to 1945.
200,000 were killed in battle.
160,000 were decorated for bravery in the field. This includes over 100 Jewish soldiers who were awarded the highest and very rarely awarded decoration, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Jewish scientists made key contributions to Soviet weapons development during the war.
There were a number of successful Jewish generals during the war. Possibly as high as 100, maybe as high as 300 per one source. And large numbers of Jewish colonels, majors, etc.
A few quick mentions. There were many more:
Lev Dovator - A Jewish cavalry commander, who was killed in action, who is honorably mentioned in Marshal Zhukov's memoirs
Jakov Kreizer - Commanded a mechanized division that stopped a number of panzer divisions in 1941. He went on to command the 51st army and was a member of the Jewish anti-fascist committee.
Simon Krivoshein - A leading tank officer who helped reorganize and retrain the Soviet tank forces. His changes helped contribute to the successes of Soviet tank forces at the battle of Kursk in 1943. Marshal Zhukov gave him the honor of leading his corps in the final attack on Berlin in 1945.
Israel Beskin - A leading general of artillery forces.
David Dragunsky - Commanded a Soviet tank brigade. After the war he was a mouthpiece for the Soviet government claiming the USSR treated Jews well which was a lie.
Maxim Vovsi - Chief medical officer of the Red Army during World War II.
Boris Vannikov - Engineering officer who made great contributions to industrial mobilization and resource management during the war.
Senior Jewish officers were essentially pushed out of the Soviet armed forces after 1945.
Good point.....but I think is an issue you should have with the WW2 channel or even Kings and Generals channel. I believe this channel mostly focuses on the events after the ww2.
the USSR had set up several lower level national entities in the 1920and 30s , 3 Jewish national rayons ( districts ) were set up in the Ukraine and 2 in the then Russian Crimea
Do one about the New Soviet Man.
You again.
Fun Fact: Stalin had a Jewish member of his personal cabinet once. But he was dismissed from his position for opposing the Soviet-Nazi Non-Aggression pact. Great video. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality. And yes I know that he had a lot more Jewish people working for him besides this guy.
Not true. Lazar Kaganovich, a close associate of Stalin since the early 1920s, an old Ukrainian Jewish Bolshevik, remained in his good graces, in both party and state positions, until J V Stalins death in 1953. There is even quite a hilarious story, perhaps apocryphal, of Stalin forcing Nazi Foreign Minister, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, to participate in a toast to Lazar during a celebratory dinner held after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
@@Albert-Arthur-Wison225---I said dismissed from his position. Not thrown into the gulag.
@@Albert-Arthur-Wison225---But I do find your story about making Ribbentrop forced to toast a Jewish person to be very amusing.
@@brokenbridge6316 A veritable legion of Stalins entourage were shuffled from pillar to post in quite a roller coaster ride of switches in responsibility. Beria,..from purging all traces of Yezhov from the Cheka, to overseeing Stalins first possession of an atomic bomb,..Kaganovich,from collectivisation to the construction of the Moscow Metro,..Jewishness or Judaism had nothing whatsoever to do with any of this. Lev Mekhlis, a commissar of immense proportional power ( and Pravda editor ), was a Jewish-born Bolshevik who spent the entire war as one of Stalins most sycophantic and trusted lackeys.
Untrue. Stalin had a lot of Jews working closely with him even after he dismissed Litvinov. From Kaganovich, to Lev Mekhlis, to even his tailor. All Jewish.
haven't watched the vid yet, but it's "during Stalin"... so murder, carnage, and utter despair, right?
@Jaime Lynn except he wasn't Jewish at all. And he went to school to be a Georgian Orthodox Monk.
there are jewish tribes everywhere, even in africa. i was really surprised to see black jewish people.
LoL
That's because modern (and medieval) Jews stem from Hellenistic/Roman era converts, not from the original Hebrews/Canaanites of Palestine. The real descendants of the ancient Jews are, quite ironically, modern Palestinians. This is demonstrated by population genetics. Western (Euro-Mediterranean) Jews seem to stem from Cyprus (almost identical genetics) or maybe Asia Minor (not too different), Yemeni Jews are just Yemenis from pre-Muslim times (Yemen used to be a Jewish kingdom before Mohamed conquered it) and Beta Israel (Black Jews from Eritrea and Ethiopia) derive from the once Jewish (later Christian) Kingdom of Axum and are again descendants of converted locals.
Even talking of modern Talmudic Judaism as if it was the only Jewish sect out there is totally naive: Christianity and Islam are also Jewish sects (but more open to conversion). Talmudic Judaism (what we now usually call "Judaism") was actually created in the late Antiquity and early Middle Ages, when the Talmud was written (it's surely derived from ancient Phariseanism but that was only one among many ancient Jewish sects), the Christian New Testament is older than the Talmud, so it can be said that Christianity is an even older form of (rather innovative but still very much traditionalist) Judaism than Talmudism. Islam in turn is a Christian (monophysite, non-trinitarian) sect with strong Arab flavor and (as non-trinitarian and also recovering many Jewish or Egypto-Levantine traditions like not eating pork, emphasizing Abraham/Ibrahim, circumcision, strict monotheism of El/Allah, etc.) can be said of being "re-Judaizing". Judaism is much much bigger than just "Judaism" (Talmudism).
@@LuisAldamizhell no, Palestinians are not related to old israelites
@@GJ1998ARG - They are absolutely: direct descendants of ancient Hebrews and their Canaanite precursors. That's a genetic fact by now, there is zero doubt.
@@LuisAldamiz they are arabs, the real descendants are Mizrahi Jews
You should have full screen video.we dont need to see who is talking
As an addendum to this I would recommend the episode by Sam Arinov on pogroms committed by various sides against Jews during the Russian civil war.
The activities of Chabad to keep the jewdasin spirit in USSR all those years countined after their rabbi left the land to Latvia by maintain underground schools, synagogues,kosher sloughter and mikvah so lot of them being arrested and sent to gulags like mana Sara who died their and rabbies like Mandel posters and yizhak zilber who got out of USSR to Israel after fought to keep jewdasin in the hard conditions
Imagine being banished to the arctic tundra, because you just couldn't stop torturing cows.
Please do a video on how they were towards other religions, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Shaminism, Tengrism, Pagan religions and others.
Spoiler: not very nice
@@crabluva
I don't agree much with the soviets, but when it comes to religion they were unbelievably based.
@@MrCmon113 they murdered millions of people and threw people in jail for practicing holidays. Wanting to emigrate to Israel meant a long trip to the gulag. There were special questions called "coffins" at Soviet university entrance exams for Jewish students that were designed to be impossible to limit the number of Jews; didn't matter if they were an atheist being an ethnic Jew was enough. They did horrible things to Muslims as well and deported many of them; Stalin was the first to "ban the veil" and used violence to enforce it.
This is one of the worst videos on history I've ever seen. Life for Christians and atheists was terrible as well. Most totalitarian regimes are "based" (genocidal, repressive) towards religion. Not unique to the Soviets.
@@crabluva the soviet union was indeed wonderful
@@MrCmon113 r/atheism is down the hall
The creation of a specific area for a specific ethnic group & the quality of that region for their settlement sounds very much like the settlement polices of the US regarding it native people. Place them on marginal/poor land & forget them.
You don't know the history of either, which is why you say objectively stupid things, Gordon.
But not even the Indians were as savage as the jews. Do you know who Lazar Kaganovich or Gengrik Yagoda are? How about Naftaly Frenkel - he designed the Gulag system.
Why don't you know their names, stupid?
@@horizonenjoy2323 You’re so goddamn lucky we are better than you, stupid. You’re psychopaths parasites follow us around and wonder why we have to make you leave,
It happens all the time because you’re a parasite.
Unlike the Trail of Tears, the relocation of Jews to Birobizhan was on absolutely voluntary basis (and that's one of the reasons of its failure).
Does The Cold War series provide a list of historical sources? Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on Arkady Vaksberg's book: Stalin Against the Jews?
3:33 this footage is from the 1916 rising, not the Russian revolution
you video shows the aftermath of the 1916 rising in dublin.
Looking at what is going on in the world today from a geopolitical war perspective, there has to be some very difficult and serious discussions about all of this before it spirals even more out of control. However, I don't know if the people are honest, mature or courageous enough to engage in such discussions.
I would love to see a video about Judaism in Maosit China
There are very few Jews in China. But considering other religions, especially Christianity, was heavily persecuted, it probably wasn't great
@@Nathan-jh1ho you not wrong but is just a unique topic there is a documentary call the Revolutionary about a Jew who advice Mao during the Civil War and very early years of his rule.
There is/was a Jewish community in Kaifeng, China. A wiki entry called "Kaifeng Jews" details on this topic.
Interestingly they are nicknamed "藍帽回回" （blue hat Muslim）
@@gamingfan197 That guy isn't a Chinese Jew, he is an Austrian Communists who immigrated to China after WW2, judging from him being a Communists I assume he was not religious at all
It was criminal. And the Chinese communist party still persecutes Chinese Jews in Kaifeng. There are party controlled mosques and churches, but no synagogues are allowed.
Thank you.
Great video.
Putin said the first Soviet government was 80-85% Jewish: th-cam.com/video/oIeYoF1VhHc/w-d-xo.html
@@thebestofallworlds187 ok? he's objectively wrong. just because he's the leader of russia doesnt mean he's automatically right about everything. appeal to authority
@@toe8946 Appeal to authority isn't necessarily wrong. But I don't base it on that alone. I hope that this video of Putin makes people begin to do their own research. Get any book on the Russian Revolution and go to the index and find out who is Jewish. Highlight the Jewish names. That will speak for itself.
@@toe8946 and also, Putin knows his people's history better than most people in this world.
@@thebestofallworlds187 still objectively wrong. in 1917 the central comittee had 5 jews among 21 members . By stalin's reign in the 30s central committe jews only made up 6%. Overall jewish membership of the Bolshevik party in 1917 was about 7-ish%
Additionallym putin's remarks were refuted by historian Vladimir Ryzhkov, also various russian news outlets openly said he was wrong. Also what good would highlighting jews in an index do? Thats no how you get a proportional percentage. According to the 1922 Bolshevik party census, there were 19,564 Jewish Bolsheviks, comprising *5.21%* of the total, and in the 1920s of the 417 members of the Central Executive Committee, the party Central Committee, the Presidium of the Executive of the Soviets of the USSR and the Russian Republic, the People's Commissars, *6% were ethnic Jews.* Source: Herf, Jeffery (2008). The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust; "The Interception Program of June 15, 2013. Radio Station "Echo of Moscow"
The sound doesn't match his mouth, ouch.
Another interesting video, thank you! PS, for the love of God please find a new closing quotation: despite being an admirable sentiment, JFK was not the only person to think of this point, and the repetition has gotten monotonous.
Paganism and the USSR is very interesting
@@mohammedisaa9952 I'm a weirdo and I won't apologise xD
02:30 "English = "The Pale Settlement" Is this the origon of the phrase "beyond the pale"?
No. Beyond the Pale is Irish in origin.
The Pale in Ireland was the region surrounding Dublin (Pale is from Palisade, a wooden set of fortifications intended to keep Irish clans out). There is a townland in rural county Dublin called "Westpalstown". Beyond the Pale meant, beyond (English) law, civilisation and ultimately something unacceptable. The Pale stretched from Carlingford in County Louth to Castledermot in Co. Kildare to Arklow in Co. Wicklow and was also composed of a string of stone castles. That didn't stop the O'Tooles of Castlekevin, The O'Byrnes, the O'Reillys of Co. Cavan, the O'Farrells of Co. Longford and others to raid the Pale. The citizens of Dublin paid 'Black Rent' to the clans to pay them off.
Karl Marx's parents were Jewish and converted to Christianity.
He was only baptised at 6 y o.
what does that have to with this video
@@theuniverse5173 still doesn't have to do anything with marx kid
Yup same with Rosa Luxembourg and many others.
@@rogerr.8507 lenin wasn't jewish nor did he speak yiddish
@@rogerr.8507 i know what kind of person you are roger, but there is no need to Iie and spread your fiIth Iike this.
Shouldn't the title be "before Stalin" ?
Stalin was basically in charge of the Soviet Union since 1923 (arguably since 1922 right after Lenin had his massive stroke), so no, the video isn't wrong.
Thank you from Indonesia
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@@carkawalakhatulistiwa ya,jadi tahu sejarah
In imperial Russia, jews could move to autonomous grand duchy Finland, where they had equal rights.
PFFFFT, you mean the same country that literally allied with Nazi Germany?
why is there footage of Dublin Ireland ?
Jews didn't not emigrate in mass to JAR . It was blocked even to most Soviet Jews ... It was never remotely autonomous
1st mistake, the so called Jewish autonomous zone was started under Stalin.
2nd, the Soviets considering Hebrew a supposed non-working class language, but Yiddish being working class, is so laughable. It should have been pointed out that Yiddish is written in HEBREW! lol!!
3rd, not only the Whites committed pogroms against Jews during the civil war, but Red armies did as well. The Whites killed more, but the Reds killed quite a lot as well.
Finally, speaking of the debasement of the Jewish religion under the Soviets as somehow offset in some way because of the Soviet Jewish secular culture that was allowed to grow instead of it, is in a way giving the Soviets somehow some credit, when in reality, the actions of the Soviets almost destroyed the Jewish religion in the Soviet Union. Very similar to what the ancient Greeks and their Jewish allies tried to do to Judaism in what Judaism commemorates with the holiday of Hanukkah. Communist Gentiles worked in the same fashion, with Jewish Communists to destroy Judaism.
The Nazis, like in the story commemorated by another Jewish holiday; Purim, tried to kill all Jews. The Communists tried to destroy Judaism.
This comment section is going to be fun.
as a historian, i know tv shows aren't up your alley. And i know you're too young for the original star trek, however...
did you watch the series? If so, what's your analysis of the portrayal of the soviets in that series?
more specific, season 1 episode 26: "Errand of Mercy" as it seems to apply to the current situation in Ukraine.
if you're apt to dismiss star trek as a joke, i will advise against that: Right at the beginning, kirk mentions armenia. At the same time, i do find star trek and kirk's over-acting totally comical in so many ways, but it did often address '66-'69 era concerns. I'd love to hear your opinion on the episode.
you put forth quality content hoss, and i appreciate that and therefore you.
with love and caring,
thanks hoss, from a bell-on subscriber.
Big Star Trek fan here too! Nice to meet you lol. God bless you guy! ✝️ :)
@@Numba003 Nice to meet you too. Have you checked out "The Orville"? Pretty good.
@@mtranchi I have not, but I've heard good things about it. Is it on any of the streaming services?
Can you please provide a link to the second video? I can't find it.
Hasn't been published yet.
Mountain Jew is the best flavor of Soviet Judaism, specifically Bat Mitzvah Blast and Kosher Red.
We get an interesting glimpse of the Tzar-era life of jews in the movie "Fiddler on the roof": the total division of jews & non-jews, the pogroms... and some crazy rebel speaking of the people's future...
It is interesting how they maintained a system of morality outside of religion. I guess though it was enforced through real violence rather than fears of sin or hell.
Or rather positive ideas like cooperation and communism. Hell never dissuaded anyone, especially considering how evil are those who supposedly go to Heaven, better stay away from the Heaven scum.
@@LuisAldamizcommunism isn’t positive at all
@@carljohnson2194 - It is: united we stand, divided we fall.
You may not understand what communism is or should be. Bolshevik model systems never were communist, although they used to be socialist (not anymore, except Cuba).
Judaism never had a concept of hell. Jewish religious morality was always about making the world you live in a better place, not about some kind of reward in an afterlife.
@@kingkoi6542 Sheol is not Hell. It's more like Erebus in the realm of Hades in Greek mythology, the empty and hollow realm where the dead exist without feeling anything. It's not a place of torment like Tartarus.
Are you related to Abe Foxman'...?
Why does the border region of Ukra!ne, Belaru$ and the Federation
looks like that (so weird).
The area of Klintsy looks like a salient/corridor. Why is that bulge like that?
It generally follows the geographical separation between the Ukranian steppe and the forest/tiaga biomes in the north.
Ukraine was formed in 1918-19 in the context of German occupation (Hetmanate) and the extension of the Russian civil war to the region after the end of WWI (power vacuum, many actors fighting for supremacy, including Ukrainians of three types: whites, reds and blacks, i.e. capitalists, bolsheviks and anarchists). There was no political Ukraine before that, the borders were drawn quite generously by the winning reds.
I remember reading a book from a Rabbi who was serving time in a GULAG. His crime was circumcising little boys. So much for Bolschvechs.
Where is your footage from? One clip shows an English language newspaper heading reading "The Sinn Fein rebellion". That can't be from Russia/the Russian Empire/The USSR, can it?
Stalin was not against Jews he was against religion
that's being against jews since judaism is a religion
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesStalin was a jewish pederast
Given that in the west Jews were more urbanised than any other group, it makes sense that they would be the first victims of the Enlightenment. In Russia however, the situation was reversed, with Jews being forced out of cities. I wonder to what extent that insulated them from Englightenment thought and what other effects it would have later when Communism was forced upon them.
Mankind was created in paradise. Adam and his wife are of our parents which means they parents of mankind. They were created in paradise and then later came down on earth. White people came after from a lineage of Prophet Nuh (Noah) and so did all modern day people who are all from lineages of Prophet Nuh Peace be upon him. There is no evolution that humans went through that turned them from Neanderthals to how they are in the modern day. There is no mistake in The Quran but there is many mistakes in the Bible that the Quran mentions correctly such as the position in society of the leader at the time of Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) peace be upon him. The Quran mentions he was a king and the Bible mentions he was a pharaoh. The Quran is correct and more recently the Rosetta Stone was decoded and what was found is that leader was a king and not a pharaoh. Islam is The true religion with undeniable proof and evidence. We Muslims believe in Jesus but not as God and we don’t believe God has a son. Jesus peace be upon him is a prophet and Messenger Of Allah (God) and he is the messiah. He wasn’t killed as Allah saved him before they could get to him. There is also scientific and historical miracles mentioned in the Quran such as the formation of the human embryo as well as the creation of honey in bees. There are Islamic prophecies that came true and will come true and I recommend everyone to try and learn about them. I myself know of people who were ill and suffering with issues (including black magic) and got cured miraculously when the Quran was recited over them. I invite everyone to learn about Islam.
The author mixes up Jews, Judaism, and Zionism… unfortunate and sad
Good video. It shows important aspects which usually are highlighted as "anti-semite" but in fact were part of the anti-religious campaign as a whole.
I don't get the criticism of many liberals and lefts who say that USSR was anti-semite because they didn't consider Jews as a nation. This is silly, as per Intl Law and Constitutional law that still apply today, Nation requires a defined territory. This is not a "Soviet" creation but the legal standard used globally. As Judaism itself is usually associated with a people without land. I don't see any anti-Semitism in this particular aspect. Quite the contrary, we all know that due to the high numbers of educated Jews, many had sympathies with revolutionary politics and they were overrepresented in the Party apparatus (the fact of being able to read and write was already being "qualified" at the time). I don't see any "self-racism" here, the video also correctly points out to the fact that many Communist Jews were more aggressive on religion than non-Jews themselves as the "Jewish-Bolshevik" conspiracy theory was already strong at the time.
A pity that many Zionists were are allowed to flourish within the Party. Zionist is not a progressive ideology in any way.
PS. Only negative in this video is the change of Soviet policy which the narrator explains with "Stalin happened". Too short as an explanation, the drums of war were getting louder and it would be very difficult to keep the USSR as a single entity without any reversal on the korenizatsiia policy. Nationalism is not a Soviet goal in itself, it is a mere instrument for class politics, any one who "blames" Stalin for this is clearly misunderstanding what Socialism is.
anti-religion is inherently anti-semitic, and the ussr was indeed anti-semitic but that's a good thing
@@NBrioDaZueraRules , you mean the average joe had prejudice against Jews? FYI the average joe in Eastern Europe in general has a lot of prejudices. The Soviet power itself was not anti-semite.
@@MK-jc6us communism itself is anti-semitic
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesnopium, communism is jewish and all communists are rabbis
I know Lenin was a jew, spoke yiddish, and it was the same with Leon Trotsky he was a jew who spoke yiddish, and apparently in 1919 the Soviets released a list stating their 665 most important and influential leaders, of the 665 almost 400 of them were ethically Jewish.
Lenin was biologically one quarter Jewish from his great grandfather but that's it. He was raised in an ethnically and culturally Christian Russian family and he never spoke a lick of yiddish. And yeah Trotsky was ethnically Jewish but no more than that. He wasn't raised as a jew nor did he write in yiddish or keep kosher or ever even entered a synagogue.
"According to the 1922 Bolshevik party census, there were 19,564 Jewish Bolsheviks, comprising 5.21% of the total, and in the 1920s of the 417 members of the Central Executive Committee, the party Central Committee, the Presidium of the Executive of the Soviets of the USSR and the Russian Republic, the People's Commissars, 6% were ethnic Jews"
So in other words, what you know are a bunch of disproven lies
@@rfb5206 Don't lie pls. Trotsky, Kaganovich, Jeguda, Zinovyev,Utritsky, Sverdlov were unimportant to you!?
There is no such thing as "ethnically jewish" and neither of them were jews, they were both atheists
Nice vid mate! I was just wondering as you’ve talked about the World’s 6th Largest Religion’s history, are you planning for any such videos about the World’s 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th Largest Religions in Stalin’s USSR (☪Islam, ॐHinduism, ☸︎Buddhism & ☬Sikhism) as I would love to watch them?
He did talked about islam it's in the beginning of this video saying how they talked about it in last religion in ussr video
@Elite_Astral13 see their last video he did detailed video about it
@Elite_Astral13 not need to be sorry I'm just informing you. You didn't made a mistake
In the Soviet Union, almost all Buddhists were Mongols, and the Soviets bullied them and banned them from celebrating the White Moon Festival (because Soviets thought it was a Buddhist Festival) until the 1990s. Now, there are two Mongolian Autonomous states in Russia (kalmet, Buryat). Russia will express his blessings to Buddhists on the White Moon Festival. Unfortunately, the White Moon Festival is not a Buddhist festival😓😓😓. About 2000 years ago, the Mongolian ancestors Xiongnu(匈奴） would celebrate in January（岁正月，诸小长会单于于庭祠《史记》匈奴俗，岁有三龙祠，常以正月……祭天神《后汉书》）. I think this is the origin of the White Moon Festival, but the Mongols did not believe in Buddhism 2000 years ago
3:32 wait is that Dublin 😅
yes indeed.
Thank you for this. I really appreciate that you do not take a significant anti-communist stance in these videos. I really appreciate your work. My family were Jews living on the outskirts of Kiev during this time. There certainly was real persecution of Judaism and practicing became more difficult. However, most of my family were still loyal Communists and their only major disagreements with the Communist Party was their stance on religion.
Leading is a job for the relentlessly insane.
Oy vey
this is your motto, you disgusting wrongthinker
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesthis is your motto, as well the motto of all communists
8:40 - take that anti Stalinists
Not “cha-bat”,,, but “KHA-BÁD”…
4:54 the map doesn’t show the placement of Erzya or Moksha people
But it does, there is that light blue spot left to big Tatar blob. It seems to be located in the right spot to cover Chuvash people too.
This guy cold wars
What the communists opposed was religion
Interesting video, but needs serious help with pronunciation of Hebrew/Yiddish words!
Stalin purged all Jews from Soviet government in 1929..
My grandparents escaped from Soviet union to NYC and Israel
תודה רבה שלום
Yeah, Stalin was antissemict
and yet your people are purging palestinians
@@justacat2 20% of Israel are Muslims Arabs live as equals citizens on Knesset courts as Judges mayor's police officers IDF soldiers doctors college students etc etc
And ,
Gaza was given back to the Palestinians in 2005 who turned it into a terrorist base FACT.
West bank Palestinian population has tripled in past decades.
Explain how we " purge" them?
Ignorance
1,500,000 Muslims killed in Syria recently a decade ago.
Jordon killed 250,000 Palestinians in 1970.
Lebanon killed thousands in 1980s.
Egypt seals southern Gaza strip border shoots Palestinians who try to get out.
Jordon seals Eastern border with West Bank also won't let them out.
Palestinians officially demand to create a new Apartheid Islamic country at UN since 1948 and refused everything offered for peace including their own state FACT.
You parrot Al Jazeera news propaganda not facts .
Any other country would have nuked Gaza and west bank long ago.
Nudnik נודנק
@@justacat2 just as Palestinians purged all Jews from Gaza and Christians from Lebanon ..
Palestinians officially demand to create a new Apartheid Islamic country at UN since 1948 and have refused everything offered for peace even their own state..
Fact.
@PepeFalangist -jewish rabbi- **gentile and anti-semitic*
I didn't know the USSR tried to make its own sort of internal Jewish nation. Thank you for another very informative episode!
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
Go look up Leninsm, I.E Communism.
Many Jews from that time are quoted saying, some call it Communism, but I call it Judaism.
@@AmazinglyGayPhil Give me a vetted quote of someone saying that
@@xanshen9011 "Some call it Marxism - I call it Judaism."
@@xanshen9011 (The American Bulletin, Rabbi Stephen Wise, May 5, 1935)
@@xanshen9011 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Samuel_Wise
Stalin not a Jew His wife was
his wife wasn't either
@@NBrioDaZueraRulesboth were jews
Just a smirky remark as a Leninist. I just like it how everyone goes on about how great man histories are a thing of the past and that a more scientifically based analysis of history has become the norm nowadays. This is true in al but one field of study in history today: the history of the USSR. Everything that went wrong in that country was because of one man, Stalin, and if he were to be removed from the history books well... who knows how it would have turned out. Sincerely this sort of aproach to history is all but scientific and is as it might not suprise anyone who has two neurons which connect to each other a re-introduction of the great man of history argumentation to suit the purposes of the economic system reigning in most of the world which was diametrically opposed to USSR's attempts in ending it.
But if you were actually a leninist you would know how much he rejected ideas like great man histories and the actions of individuals such as his brother, the SRs and narodnik's terrorism. He was obviously committed to dialectical materialism because you know...... marxism and stuff.
And good god no it wasnt down to stalin entirely at all. I can name 100 utter shitheads in the stalin era cominterns for a start. After seizing power Lenin lost all talent overnight. Then kamenev and zinovievs factioneering doomed the USSR to bureaucracy, state capitalism and stalin. Trotsky never lost his shit talents for annoying everybody and Ccntrarianism despite his positive talents.
@@Ukraineaissance2014 Hey this comment wasn't a dump on Stalin at all. On the contrary its me highlighting how the USSR actually as the video shows did some immense work in terms of promoting the particular and unique peculiarities of the union's diverse collage of nations. And this can be attributed if not wholly of course to Stalin as he was Georgian himself, being routinely made fun of in Moscow for his accent and his complexion. Plus he was "the" expert on the National Question in the Bolshevik party's early days, Lenin awarding him during the Civil war the People's Commissariat of the Nationalities. All this does not mean that these policies can be only attributed to him. But what it does mean is that true Leninists- as Stalin was himself- believed that before the proletariat could be freed, all the opressed nations of the Russian Empire and the world had to be liberated.
(Just came in to correct some stupid orthographical errors on my part)
Lenin didn't cause mass famines and economic devistation?
Stalin wasnt the only problem, communism itself is a failed ideology with too many contradictions and policies who arent related to reality at all.
99th view!
Oy vey!
that's the motto of anyone who thinks communism is jewish, also anime profile picture
@@NBrioDaZueraRules Shalom! Putin also admitted the Bolshevik administration was mostly Jewish.
@@Tirana-qg1ft that's a word in your native language, putin is himself a jew and he's wrong about this, all bolsheviks were gentiles, and to think otherwise is a thoughtcrime
@@Tirana-qg1ft Jews dominated at first because most Russians were uneducated, but then later on, they got completely/mostly replaced by other ethnicities. How can we go from the communists are antisemitic to they're Jewish in just a few years, lol.
@@NBrioDaZueraRulescommunism is jewish and anyone who denies the fact that communism is jewish is a jew
And as always, Stalin ruins the day.
lol trot
@@analizbar not quite, Trotsky is sure better than Stalin by about every point of view, but he still wasn't exactly the perfect fit, he was way too reluctant in seizing power, he failed to conciliate the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, and also failed to spread his influence enough to be able to fight Stalin. Overall, he'd have been probably better than Stalin, but I'm not too much on board with his theory either, the part that I do not like the most is his economic theory, it's way too anarchic, I believe a planned economy should have a good balance of power between central and peripheral planning in order to both give the citizens of each part of the state a voice, and still have a central authority with a balanced degree of power that keeps cohesion, something in between Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyist and that doesn't lie completely on one side or the other.
As another great commenter pointed out, lol trot. That aside, i dont know how to feel about this channel, even the language he uses about the USSR feels like a lib talking, then again, this is one of only a few videos ive seen of them.
Fake Marxist
Tankies will get maaaddd :))
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Talkies are Stalinists or Marxist Leninists
lol.
@@julianshepherd2038 he said Tankies not Talkies and were the hell its from
Why? This only makes me happier, anti semitism and communism are the best combination possible
Oy Vey
Kalinin was jewish too, my far relative.
Mikhail Kalinin was absolutely not Jewish... he was an ethnic Russian slav. Whatever you heard from your family was untrue.
Wikipedia: "Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was born on 19 November 1875 to a peasant family of ethnic Russian origin in the village of Verkhnyaya Troitsa (Верхняя Троица), Tver Governorate, Russia.[4]" No mention whatsoever of any Jewish roots. Another Nazi smear.
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I'm a afraid you painted all in pretty colors - but it wasn't like that. Most Jews in Pale of the settlement were traditional Jews - observant or close to it. The anti-religious pogrom by the Yevseksya not only their religious life and but their existence. The Yevseksya got their punishment in the great purges by death and hard Labour in the gulag (where they met the people they exiled not long ago...). The Birobidjan project was meant to destroy the Zionist idea of returning to Land of Israel and it failed because no land can replace Israel from the harts of Jews. The Bundist tried to do this and helped condemn hundreds of thousands of Jews to death by the Nazi's and Communists by convincing to remain in Europe instead of immigrating to Israel before WWII
Most Jews throughout history had no idea what Israel was even like.
Paraphrasing Nuland: f**k religion!
How about the Roman Catholic minority in the USSR next time?
@lati longI can imagine because Catholics could possibly be more loyal to the Pope then to the Soviet Government and might listen to him more then the leaders at the Kremlin,which no doubt many Soviet leaders did not like.
All the Jewish people I have ever met or know of in the media all seem like nice and usually smart people. I’ve never understood why all throughout time all over the world where ever Jewish people have been they always end up being persecuted ! Wtf why is that? I’ve always struggled to get that? It’s not the same with other peoples
And your probably extremely progressive
@@austinblair9869 what do you mean ?
@@jamescleary2458
Trotsky recalled that Lenin offered him the post of Minister of Internal Affairs: “... we will make you a People's Commissar of Internal Affairs. You will crush the bourgeoisie and the nobility.” Trotsky, according to him, sharply objected: “I said that, in my opinion, such a trump card should not be given into the hands of enemies; I thought it would be much better if there were not a single Jew in the first revolutionary Soviet government.” Vladimir Ilyich said: “Nonsense. It's all nonsense."
Of course, nothing! And, as for the Red Army, in those years the Jews occupied the highest positions. Command - I. Yakir, S. Turovsky / deputy commander of the Kharkov military district /, S. Uritsky / head of intelligence of the Red Army /, A. Shifres / head of the Military Economic Academy /, Y. Fishman / head of the Chemical Department / and others. Political - Y. Gamarnik, L. Aronstam / head of the PU of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army /, B. Ippo / head of the Military-Political Academy /, M. Landa / editor of the Red Star /, I, Slavin / head of the department of universities of the Red Army / and others.
You can recall the names of G. Stern / for especially important assignments under the people's commissar of defense /, R. Khmelnitsky / adjutant of the people's commissar /, A. Volpe / head of the administrative and mobilization department of the Red Army /, N. Rozovsky / deputy chief prosecutor /, S. Shapiro / head of the Special Construction of the Central Theater of the Red Army /, L. Baitin / head and military commissar of the military veterinary school / and many others.
Indeed, most of these people perished during the Great Terror. Indeed, one of the first arrested, Divisional Commander D. Schmidt, was actually D. Gutman, indeed, out of the eight people convicted together with Tukhachevsky, three were Jews. But ... among the NKVD workers who were directly involved in arrests, torture, fabrication of cases, there were also a huge number of Jews!
/Vladimir Galaiko, famous military publicist/.
It is the same with plenty of other minorities. It's just that most people usually mix in after migrating somewhere, which the extremely toxic and persistent Jewish religion prevented. Most of the persecution of Jews was due to its sibling/daughter religions of Christianity and Islam, the three of them being naturally at odds and each as stubborn as the others.
@@jamescleary2458I was gonna respond after seeing you but vlad already gave you some history now follow that up to modern politics and you'll understand completely