Thursday, January 27, 2011

NKVD? Check out Yuri Slezkine's book "The Jewish Century". He indicates that Jews dominated the top levels of the Cheka, OGPU, NKVD (successive acronyms for the Soviet secret police, provides statistics to support this contention and quotes historian Leonard Shapiro’s comment that “anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with and possibly shot by a Jewish investigator.” He further states that during the 1930s the NKVD, was one of the most Jewish of all Soviet institutions with 12 of the 20 NKVD directorates headed by jews, including those directorates in charge of State Security, Police, Labor Camps, and Resettlement. The Gulags were headed by Jews from their beginnings in the late 1920's until the beginning of ww2 - a period called 'The Great Terror' and included the Ukrainian famine, and the liquidation of the Kulaks. Slezkine, a jew himself, refers to them as "Stalin’s willing executioners”. Lev Kopelev, a Jewish writer who witnessed and rationalized the Ukrainian famine - in which millions died horrible deaths of starvation and disease - as being a “historical necessity” and is quoted saying “You mustn’t give in to debilitating pity. We are the agents of historical necessity. We are fulfilling our revolutionary duty.”

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