Judeo-Bolshevism

Judeo-Bolshevism is an unsophisticated lie commonly deployed against Communism, particularly by the far-right, that bears little basis in reality. It is a central tenet among those who promote the 'JQ' worldview, and debunking it does not require a particularly rigorous examination of fact.

A master thread by RTSG debunks most of the lies, but we will dive into them one by one here.

Myth: The 'Jewish' Cheka and Felix Dzerzhinsky

It is often claimed that a 'majority' of commissars (or such nebulous adjectives interchangeable as 'prominent official', 'leader', 'member', 'high-ranking') were Jewish, or that the majority of those carrying out repressions were Jewish. This claim is verifiably false.

In the early period 1917-1922, only a slight presence of Jews is detected among the Cheka. In 1918, only 4.3% of Cheka commissars were Jewish. Of note, 54.3% were Latvian, who were an even numerically inferior minority group comprising less than 1% of the total population (compared to the Jews 4%). From 1918 to 1920, only four Jews ever served in the collegium (the highest governing body) of the Cheka out of a total of 58.

After 1923, the Cheka was transformed into the OGPU, and the operations of the new organisation required literate and educated people to fulfil its purpose. Despite the fact that 70% of the Jewish population was literate compared to only 40% of Russians, Jews still only made up 15% of the OGPU leadership at this time. By the mid 1930's, the percentage of Jews began to peak due to the shortage of educated peoples from the Baltics, who were now excised from the territory of the USSR due to the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.

It is also insinuated that F. E. 'Iron Felix' Dzerzhinsky, head of the Cheka, was a Jew on account of his speaking Yiddish, his Jewish wife and a shaky fable alleging faked nobility.

First, Dzerzhinsky was noted for being a polyglot early on in his youth. In line with other nobles, Dzerzhinsky spoke French, Polish, German, Yiddish (n.b. mutually intelligible with German), Latin, Greek and Russian (there are documents from his education that attest to this).

Next, consider that in the 1914 Russian Empire census, Jews were the second most urbanised population. The largest urbanite population were Russian at 8.8 million, followed by a rather significant Jewish population at 2.5 million (bear in mind the total Jewish population was ~5 million, so HALF of all Jews lived in cities compared to Russians hovering around 17%), then Polish at 1.45 million, then Ukrainians at 1.25 million (the numbers then taper off significantly). So it is not particularly surprising that he happened to find a Jewish spouse and could speak her language.

Lastly, on the allegation that Dzerzhinsky was not truly a noble, the fable goes like this: his father decided to falsify nobility to conceal the fact that he was Jewish. How and why his father decided to conceal his Jewishness nobody knows. Notwithstanding the confused nature of the story, it can be easily debunked by consulting the contemporary government documents themselves that show him and his father as Catholic nobles.

Myth: Lenin was a Jew

The claim is that Lenin himself - the founder of Bolshevism in the first place, was supposedly a quarter Jewish. This is entirely false, as his ancestry can be traced back generations.

The "evidence" for this claim is a deliberately distorted document of Lenin's pedigree. The original source of the claim also admits that Lenin would not have been aware of his Jewish ancestry if he had any.

The claim was actually promoted by Zionists in the 1990s. Why? Zionists saw this as a convenient "proof" that the Soviet Union was "anti-Semitic", because the Soviet authorities must've "covered up" Lenin's "real ancestry". Therefore Zionists teamed up with Neo-Nazis against the Soviet Union, with one side smearing the Soviets as "anti-Semitic", the other smearing them as "Jewish". (See also Zio-Nazi alliance.)

Myth: Stalin was a Jew

Stalin's original Ossetian or Georgian last name was ჯუღაშვილი "Jughashvili", where "shvili" means "-son", thus "son of Jugha". This tweaker theory claims that "Jugha" means "Jew", a linguistic bastardization. For comparison, the Ossetian word for "Jew" дзуттаг dzuttag, pronounced in the South Ossetian Iron dialect as juttag. The first three letters are close, but the change from "juttag" to "jugha" makes no sense. ("T" is a voiceless dental consonant, while "g" is a voiced velar consonant - they are pronounced at far different places in the mouth.) As for Georgian, "Jew" is ებრაელი ebraeli, and in Russian, еврей evrey. Thus, this theory is linguistic nonsense.

"Jugha" has multiple possible etymologies, such as the Ossetian dzug ("herd"), related to the Ossetian name Dzugaty (Russian: Dzugaev). It could also mean "steel", hence the pseudonym "Stalin" ("man of steel").

Stalin changed his name to avoid Tsarist persecution. He also went by the poet name Soso, and the name Koba.

Stalin's daughter claims he told her not to marry a Jew, though he later changed his mind.

Myth: Chinese Communism Was Jewish

Occasionally one may encounter the crackpot theory of Judeo-Sino-Communism. Its basis may be refuted thusly: all of the supposed 'Jewish' influences were chiefly representatives of the Soviet aligned technocratic bureaucracy (which was often at acute contradiction with indigenous Chinese Communists). Promoters of this theory will never be able to name any prominent official/personality except for some miscellaneous Jewish doctors, journalists, bureaucrats, or Comintern/Soviet appointees that had marginal influence outside of their direct individual exertion on the character of the Chinese Revolution. In any case, what remained of these foreign tendencies were suppressed during the period of Sino-Soviet enmity, and totally stamped out by the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Fact: Jewish Overrepresentation Due to Socio-Cultural Factors, Quickly Normalised

Instead of constructing a grand 'Jewish Bolshevik' conspiracy, it is more likely that Jewish overrepresentation was the culmination of various social trends.

In short, Jews were often petty-bourgeois, and thus educated, and due to Tsarist repression, left-wing. Thus Jews were disproportionately left-wing intellectuals, while the workers were mostly Russian. Jews played a role in the left early on, especially before the Bolshevik-Menshevik split. With this split, the vast majority of Jews went to the Mensheviks. Over time, the proportion of workers within the Party grew. By the time of the revolution, Jews were still overrepresented in the Bolsheviks, especially since Lenin allowed Trotsky, a Jewish intellectual, to rejoin the Party in 1917. But as Stalin took power, intellectuals tended to turn against the Soviet regime, as it did not fulfill their idealist perfect expectations. Jewish intellectuals overwhelmingly turned Trotskyist. Stalin recruited more workers to combat that, and he ultimately purged most communist Jews for Trotskyism.

Fake quotes

"The Communist soul is the soul of judaism. Hence it follows that, just as in the russian revolution the triumph of communism was the triumph of Judaism." ~ Rabbi Harry Waton, A program for the Jews, p.143-144.

This is a dumbass book for philistines. If you read the entire quote it says: The triumph of fascism will be the triumph of the communist soul. But the communist soul is the soul of Judaism. Hence it follows that, just as in the Russian revolution the triumph of communism was the triumph of Judaism, so also in the triumph of fascism will triumph Judaism. Funny how they leave that out.

See also

• Europa: The Last Battle
• List of myths about Stalin