With the notable exception of Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), most of the leading Communists who took control of Russia in 1917-20 were Jews. Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) headed the Red Army and, for a time, was chief of Soviet foreign affairs. Yakov Sverdlov (Solomon) was both the Bolshevik party’s executive secretary and — as chairman of the Central Executive Committee — head of the Soviet government. Grigori Zinoviev (Radomyslsky) headed the Communist International (Comintern), the central agency for spreading revolution in foreign countries. Other prominent Jews included press commissar Karl Radek (Sobelsohn), foreign affairs commissar Maxim Litvinov (Wallach), Lev Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Moisei Uritsky.6
After the Czarist Pogroms, can you blame them? BTW, I think you left out Lazar Kaganovich, the Wolf of the Kremlin and his relatives, one of which, his sister, was Stalin’s 3rd wife. (LOL, Now that’s what I call moving up in the Party.) Gotta love FR, you really can get well educated here compared to DU.
Your information is known to me in general, but thank you for the extent of the detail.
It makes me wonder: recent studies have shown that a there is a genetic component for a person’s tendency towards liberal thinking. Might it be that this unseen force explains some of this otherwise inexplicable thinking and behavior in this group (and others)? Other explanations don’t do the job for me.
Of course, for a trait like this to be bred into a people, it would have to offer some survival advantage, and I don’t see much of one historically for these people.
Have you ever wondered why Jewish people flocked to Communism in Russia?
1. It is because the Communist promised to stop the constant pogroms. (A lie, mind you, but a pretty one.)
2. The other political parties were closed to Jooooos and were little more than Russian fascists.
In short, Russian racism.