Posted on 11/16/2025 4:24:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
You really want to discuss who helped the Bolsheviks gain power? Okay.
I've heard it said that without Jewish money and brains (leadership & organizing) the Bolsheviks would never have come to power.
As for money: NY banker Jacob Schiff helped finance the Bolsheviks. (He also helped finance Japan's earlier war against Russia). And poorer Jews around the world, including Orthodox synagogues, took up collections for the Bolsheviks for decades. Western "Red Diaper Babies" were disproportionately Jewish.
As for brains: the Bolshevik leadership was majority Jewish. Not only in Russia, but in the short-lived Bavarian and Hungarian Soviets of 1919. Even Stalin, a gentile, had a Jewish wife.
Yes, German gentiles helped the Bolsheviks gain power. But if we're going to talk about Jewish suffering in the Nazi Holocaust, we should also talk of the disproportionate Jewish support for the Communist Holocaust.
What Germany did in WWI was no worse than what other nations on both sides did, and was actually better than some (e.g., the Ottoman Empire).
I have placed my death-head formation in readiness – for the present only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need.
Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
-Adolf Hitler August 22, 1939
Yes, some of the original Bolsheviks were Jewish. But guess what? Stalin killed them all. He hated Jews every bit as much as Hitler.
In his 1930s purges of the Bolshevik leadership, he executed a disproportionate number of Jews. But a disproportionate number of Bolshevik leaders were Jewish, so it inevitable.
Stalin didn't even care for Russians. He feared that Russian soldiers would turn on him in WW2 the way they had turned on the Tsar in WW1.
Solzynitzen writes that Stalin was shocked at the Russians' sacrifices in WW2. He was certain they'd turn on him. Which is why he kept purging his army throughout WW2, and why he stationed NKVD troops behind his army to shoot deserters and counter-revolutionaries.
Stalin was more the “hate them all, kill em all” kind
It wasn’t Patton, iirc, but Morgenthau. Sorry for correcting.
Lies.
Thank you for your kind words.
By the way, it’s a fact that Germany was attacked first in 1914 (Wilhelm II pleaded with Czar Nicholas on the 31.st of July on the phone to call back his troops, the first of whom had already attacked the German Eastern border. But to no avail), although the treaty of Versailles says differently. Of course it does, since the reparations, the disarmament etc. had to be justified somehow.
This was a total breach with the traditional European peace order, which had been established in 1648 after the horrors of the 30 years war: the general maxim of „tout oublier, tout pardonner“ i.e. „pardon everything, forget everything“ was abandoned by the victors in 1919. This caused untold misery - with the terrible consequences we all know😞
Yep, Czar Nicky deserves as much blame as The Kaiser.
And he wound up paying for it with his life, and the life of his family, while the Kaiser had a nice exile in The Netherlands.
I guess we would have reunited asap, then. 😀
After all, we Germans have been a nation since the 10th- 12th centuries. It was just after 1648, when the Holy Roman Empire, the First Reich, went into decline.
However, it was able to hold out until 1806, when the Austro-Prussian conflict within and the attack by Napoleon without, caused the old Reich to finally buckle.
After Napoleon’s defeat, many would have liked a modern nation-state like England, with popular sovereignty. But the German princes loved the absolute power they held in their little realms, so nothing more than the German Confederation superseded it.
I could go on and on and on…but it would take too long, I am afraid 😊
I’ve heard a theory that The Spanish Flu decimated the German Army to the point that they had no choice but to surrender.
Solzynitzen writes that Stalin was shocked at the Russians’ sacrifices in WW2. He was certain they’d turn on him.
Reminds me of a line from Doctor Zhivago:
“By the second winter, the boots had worn out... but the line still held. Even Comrade Lenin underestimated both the anguish of that 900-mile long front... as well our own cursed capacity for suffering. Half the men went into action without any arms... irregular rations... led by officers they didn’t trust.”
Well, Wilhelm II indeed try to stop the fatal development in the last days of July 1914.
I think the greatest tragedy might have been that the very conciliatory Serbian reply from the 25th to the Austrian ultimatum from the 23rd was not forwarded to Berlin by cable, but by mail.
It didn’t reach Berlin until the 28th, but immediately Wilhelm wrote „Thus, any reason to go to War is null and void“ at the bottom and cabled his reply to the government in Vienna.
But the same day Vienna had declared war on Belgrade, and the mobilisation in Russia had already begun on the 26th. Berlin asked Paris for an explanation of this, and asked what the French government would do.
No answer was given, except that on the 28th Paleologue, the French ambassador to Russia, told Sazonov, the Russian foreign minister, to stand firm. One day later, Russia mobilised fully. The page with the same day, the 29th of July, is missing in President Poincaré‘s diary…Poincaré had been visiting Russia between 13th and 23rd July 1914. We don’t know what he debated with the leaders of Russia…
We shall never know…and we shall probably never know what might have been.
But, to make a long story short: I blame the governments of all the nations concerned that they did not do more to avert the catastrophe. I think nobody would have wanted a world war as it became…
But the German generals were itching for the fight. They saw Russia was quickly modernizing, so it was a case of “Now or Never.”
Yes, Andrew Price-Smith proposed this in his work “Contagion and Chaos”(Cambridge,MA, 2008).
In 1871 when Germany united, the Brits and Germans should have sat down and made a deal.
Britain lets Germany have the continent, and a few African colonies. They can have as big of an army as they want, but keep the Navy small, so as not to be a threat to the British Empire.
If they would have done that, it would have saved the world a lot of grief. Screw the French, after all, they were the ones who tried to take over the entire continent just a few decades earlier.
Sorry,did you mean “mobilizing”?
Yes, the idea was, however, to defeat France first and then to turn eastwards, in the belief that Russian mobilisation would take much longer.
It was, however much quicker than anyone had anticipated. I am asking myself whether the Russian mobilisation hadn’t gone on some time before? After all, the distances in Russia were much larger, and the railway network much thinner, than in the West, so mobilisation should have taken longer indeed.
My last question is, why the peace proposals by Berlin in 1916 were so roundly rejected by the Entente powers…
Britain and France didn’t want a new kid on the block.
Right, France was just about neutralizing them to where they could attack Russia. It was all because of the stupid French-Russian alliance.
But then the Germans went through Belgium, which got Britain (and subsequently the US), into the fight.
That would have been good. Sadly, there were people bent on conflict on both sides.
It would have saved the world a lot of grief, indeed. And for a good while it looked if even France and Germany could get along in the 1880s, when Bismarck supported French colonial ambitions in the Scramble for Africa.
Sadly, some people in Germany had hoped for a world spanning German colonial empire, which really was what brought a wedge between London and Berlin.
A dreadful tragedy indeed. ✝️ May peace be with all those poor souls who lost their earthly lives in the conflict…😭
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