ZGram - 1/14/2003 - "Leon Trotsky"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

January 14, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

The piece below about the life and times of the Jewish revolutionary, 
Leon Trotsky, was written in the 1980s by one of America's first 
historical revisionists, David McCalden, at a time when Andropov was 
in charge of the KGB.

In reading the article, the reader should keep in mind the vast 
network of contacts that must have existed throughout Russia, Western 
Europe and even America and Canada to make  those Jewish-inspired and 
carried-out revolutionary activities possible.  How many borders had 
to be crossed, how many train and ocean liner tickets had to be 
purchased under false names, using forged identity papers such as 
passports etc.?  Can anybody spell "conspiracy"?

Also, who supplied the vast amounts of money needed to finance these 
global travels? What connections were in place to facilitate this 
devastating, brutal revolution - with most of the rest of the world 
not any the wiser?

Intersperced text in brackets is not part of the original text and is 
merely meant as clarifying comment.

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LEON TROTSKY
By David McCalden

The Polish surname Trotsky was not the one the revolutionary was born 
with. His true name was Levi Davidovich Bronstein, and he was born in 
1879 into a wealthy family of Jewish landowners in southern Ukraine.

In the fall of 1888, at the age of 9, Levi Davidovich moved from the 
family estate to the coastal resort of Odessa, where he lived with 
his mother's nephew, Moses Filipovich Spentzer -- a liberal   Jewish 
publisher. After attending high school in Odessa, he went on to 
junior college at Nikolayev, where he fell in with a group of Jewish 
socialists. He began to read Marx around this time and started to 
agitate among the fledgling trade unions in the area. He ended up 
being arrested, and it was at this point in his career that he 
decided to adopt a pseudonym. With a stroke of irony, he took on the 
name of his Polish prison warden, Trotsky.

During the fall of 1899 he was moved to a prison in Moscow, and was 
tried early in the following year. He was sentenced to four years 
exile in Siberia. However, before the transfer could be brought 
about, Trotsky decided to wed one of his fellow Jewish agitators: 
Alexandra Lyovna Sokolovskaya. A rabbi was brought to the prison cell 
to officiate.

Soon after the couple's exile to Siberia, a baby daughter was born, 
with another following in 1902. Despite the rigors of Siberia, 
Trotsky was able to contribute prolific articles to the local Irkutsk 
newspaper, and to receive and study Marxist books. Around this time 
he heard of Lenin, another Communist agitator, and the two began 
corresponding. Lenin wrote Trotsky that he should abandon his 
Siberian exile and go and live in a foreign country. Friends would 
help.

So Trotsky found his way to Vienna, where he was aided by his fellow 
Jewish Communist, Victor Adler; and then on to Zurich, where another 
Jewish Communist, Paul Axelrod, was point man. Trotsky's wife and 
children were left behind in Siberia.

On to Paris, and then to London, where Trotsky finally met Lenin at a 
rooming house at 30 Holford Square, King's Cross. Trotsky was 
immediately appointed editor of The Spark, an underground Communist 
newspaper which was directed at Russian agitation. Trotsky also gave 
some Marxist lectures in London's predominantly Jewish White chapel 
district, and he took up with a Ukrainian (Gentile) woman, Natalya 
Ivanovna Sedova. Before long the two became lovers, and produced two 
male children.

After establishing strategy at various conferences in London, 
Brussels and Paris, Trotsky and Natalya (using fake passports) 
returned to Russia in 1905 in order to launch the revolution. After 
several months of apparently harassment-free agitation, Trotsky was 
arrested and then thrown into the Peter-Paul Prison in St. 
Petersburg, along with two other Jewish Marxists: Leon Deutsch and 
Alexander "Parvus" Helphand. After VIP treatment in jail, and a 
democratic trial, the agitators were exiled to Siberia once more. 
However, after arrival in Siberia, Trotsky hardly even stooped to 
unpack but merely got on a train going in the opposite direction and 
ended up once more with his common-law wife Natalya in Finland.

After more agitating around western Europe, Trotsky set sail for New 
York, where he worked as a journalist on the Russian Communist 
newspaper Novy Mir, out of their offices at 177 St. Mark's Place on 
the Lower East Side -- right in the heart of the Jewish section of 
Manhattan. Novy Mir (New World) was owned by two Communist Jews named 
Weinstein and Brailovsky. According to the New York police, who 
monitored Trotsky's activities, his main associates during this 
period were Emma Goldman and Alexander Berman.

[Trotsky, a revolutionary on the lam, entered America without a trace 
of problems?  Does that sound like some stories we hear?]

Things were starting to heat up in Mother Russia in 1917, and Trotsky 
sensed that the time was ripe for another Soviet takeover bid. But 
finance for the revolution was essential. Oddly, these so-called 
enemies of Capitalism had no difficulty whatsoever in raising vast 
amounts of capital from Jewish financiers around the World. Trotsky 
worked on Jacob H. Schiff, who it was later admitted, poured $20 
million of Kuhn-Loeb bank money into the projected Bolshevik 
takeover. "Parvus", Trotsky's room-mate at the executive suite of the 
Peter-Paul prison was himself a wealthy coal broker, and he was off 
in the Balkans making deals on behalf of the Imperial German 
government. Naturally, being a good businessman with loyalty only to 
the dollar, he had no qualms about trading with any enemy power 
during wartime.

In Scandinavia, another Jewish banker, Olaf Aschberg, was busy 
putting together an investment portfolio to propel the nascent 
Bolshevik state into financial bliss.

On 26 March 1917 Trotsky embarked from New York for Russia.  He was 
accompanied by a good many Marxist soldiers-of-fortune from the Lower 
East Side, plus a large amount of gold, courtesy of Jacob Schiff.

[Almost 400 revolutionary cutthroats and gangsters from America went with him!}

However, when the ship stopped to refuel at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 
Trotsky was arrested by the British authorities, on the sound 
rationale that he was heading for Russia to take Russia out of the 
Great War and thereby increase the Germans' capabilities on the 
Western front. But in a stunning reversal of "how things are supposed 
to be", the American President Woodrow Wilson intervened with the 
British and Trotsky was allowed to continue on his way, since he had 
the advantage of an American passport.

[A man with an unsavory background, frequent arrests, jailings and 
exile for revolutionary activities against a government allied with 
the US in a world war was freed by Presidential intervention - 
against the express wishes and sound reasonings of America's most 
important ally in this same European war!  What forces came into play 
in Washington?  Who ran the show there even in the early part of the 
last century?   Would anybody care to guess?]

By the time Trotsky reached Russia, the revolution had already taken 
place. The Tsar had been deposed and a Democratic government 
installed. But being a good Communist, Trotsky wanted to have things 
his own way. The Democrats, under Kerensky, were wise to these 
ambitions, and warrants were issued for the arrest of Trotsky and 
Lenin. The basis for the warrants was evidence that they were agents 
of the Imperial German government - a not unreasonable assumption, 
since Lenin had been sent back into Russia on a sealed German train, 
and Trotsky had been sent by Jacob Schiff, a cousin of the German 
Minister of the Interior, Felix Warburg, both Jews.

[That's the same position held by Ashcroft in the Bush Administration today!)

But after a short period of imprisonment for Trotsky, and hiding for 
Lenin, both were back on the streets again. Soon afterward, the 
Lenin-Trotsky Communists led a street rebellion against the 
Democrats, and with just a handful of men seized control of the 
government. Within a short time a delegation of Jewish Communists, 
led by Trotsky, met with the German commanders and signed away vast 
tracts of Russia, in return for a cessation of hostilities.

However, the Communists' troubles were not over yet. As soon as their 
tyrannical regime started to bite into the newly-won freedoms of the 
Russian people, a civil war broke out, with a White Russian army 
taking up arms against the Communists. Anarchists under Nestor Makhno 
also fought the new government and the Whites with his Ukrainian Army 
of Insurgent Peasants. Makhno soon controlled vast tracts of Ukraine, 
so in an effort to neutralize him, the Communist government agreed to 
recognize Ukraine as  an autonomous anarchist region. A treaty was 
signed by three Jewish Commissars : Bela Kuhn, S. I. Gusev and M. V. 
Frunze. As soon as the other fronts were secure, the Red Army then 
turned all its force against the Ukrainian autonomous region and, 
treaties notwithstanding, crushed all resistance. The charismatic 
Makhno fled overseas and ended up laboring in a Paris factory.

[...trading land which was not theirs to trade - exactly like their 
tribesmen did in Camp David and later in Oslo "...to buy time" - and 
at the first opportunity renege on the deal with renewed violence, as 
Sharon did with Arafat and the Palestinians!]

Some of the opposition to the Communists was fueled by anti-Semitism. 
The Whites published explicitly anti-Semitic posters showing an ugly 
Jewish Trotsky with Oriental Bolshevik soldiers. Allegations that 
Makhno was anti-Semitic have never been proven; in fact he had Jewish 
lieutenants.

There were some ironic twists during the bloody days of the Civil 
War. A Jewess, Fanny Kaplan, tried to assassinate Lenin in Moscow. 
And a comrade of hers did actually assassinate Moses Uritsky, the 
head of the Communist CHEKA (secret police).

[...just like some Jewish fanatic assassinated Itzak Rabin in an 
internal Jewish policy feud!]

While the Communists were busy trying to batten down all resistance 
to their tyranny, the Poles decided to try their luck by invading 
Russia. A counter-attack by the Reds initially succeeded in driving 
back the Poles, but ended in a stalemate. The Poles, too, used 
anti-Semitic propaganda to counter the Jewish commissars.

[The Poles only stopped the Reds with German help who donated to them 
infantry weapons stockpiled in the East from World War I]

Trotsky made sure his various families were taken care of. His 
father, the wealthy landowner David Bronstein, had been subjected to 
attack from both sides in the Civil War, so Trotsky gave him a job as 
manager of a state mill just outside Moscow. Trotsky's Gentile wife 
was made Minister of Museums in Moscow.  His first (Jewish) wife was 
a political functionary in Petrograd (the new name for St. 
Petersburg).

Eventually, the White Army resistance was crushed, but not before 
some startling set-backs for the Reds. Any further opposition was 
brutally suppressed by the Soviet secret police. Trotsky then turned 
his attention toward fomenting similar Communist takeovers in 
neighboring countries. Events did not omen well for this venture.

In January 1919, a Jewish Communist uprising in Berlin was a dismal 
flop, ending with the deaths of the two main proponents: Rosa 
Luxembourg and Karl Liebknecht. In March 1919, the Soviet Jew Bela 
Kuhn took over the government of Hungary, but after a bloody couple 
of months, this attempt also failed. A short-lived uprising in Munich 
under the leadership of the Jew Kurt Eisner was also put down.

[The short-sighted policies of German-Jewish Minister of the Interior 
Felix Warburg's policies  of shipping Lenin to Russia in a sealed 
railroad car now bore evil fruit!]


Early in 1921, there was a mutiny at the naval base of Kronstadt. 
Kronstadt had always had a reputation for revolutionary zeal - the 
sailors had mutinied against the Tsar and also against the Democrats. 
Each time Trotsky had supported them. But this time, the sailors were 
rebelling against Trotsky.     So, instead of defending their demands 
for free speech and freedom of association, Trotsky sent in Red Army 
units to brutally crush the uprising.   To explain away this murder, 
Trotsky recycled the same lame excuse that he had used to smear 
Makhno's anarchists -- that they were in league with the White Army. 
Perhaps it was episodes like this that inspired George Orwell to 
write Animal Farm.

[...like the American-supported Mujahedin would later in Afghanistan 
turn on their benefactors and money bags!]

Soon, it was Trotsky himself who suffered from such double standard 
morality. Lenin died suddenly in 1924, and his place was taken by 
Stalin. (Trotsky was indisposed at the time, taking a health cure on 
the Black Sea.) Stalin very shortly discovered "crimes" which Trotsky 
had committed, and  he was exiled first to Turkestan and then 
overseas. Stalin eventually had him murdered in Mexico in 1940. The 
assassin clubbed Trotsky to death with an ice-pick -- a most unusual 
implement to find lying around in sweltering Mexico City.

[The Taliban coming out of the Muhajedin training camps are now in 
exile - troubling their former financiers!}

There is no doubt whatsoever that the Bolshevik takeover in Russia 
was but a Jewish takeover. As Winston Churchill wrote: "There is no 
need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and 
in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these 
international, and for the most part atheistical, Jews. It is 
certainly a very great one, it probably outweighs all others. With 
the notable exception of Lenin*, the majority of the leading figures 
are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes 
from the Jewish leaders ... In the Soviet institution the 
predominance of Jews is even more astounding. And the principal part 
in the system of terrorism applied by the extraordinary Commissions 
for combating Counter-Revolution has been taken by Jews ..." -- 
Illustrated Sunday Herald 8 February 1920.

[Just like today!  Sharon's and Israel's terrorist policies cause 
counter-terror, which then serves as the excuse to start a "War on 
Terrorism" by Perle, Wolfowitz et al. ]

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(Stefan Possony of the Hoover Institute argues that, contrary to 
Churchill's exception, Lenin was of Jewish descent; his mother's 
maiden name being Blank -- a most unlikely Russian name, and she was 
in fact the daughter of a Jewish doctor and his German wife.)

Both British and American diplomats in Russia at the time sent back 
reports describing how the vast majority of the Bolsheviks were 
Jewish. Reproductions and excerpts appear in the comprehensive "Six 
Million Reconsidered" by William Grimstad. Page after page of frank 
admissions by Jews themselves and by on-the-spot observers prove 
beyond any shadow of doubt that Bolshevism was Jewish from top to 
bottom.

[Congressional hearings were held about this, and the results were 
published under an obscure title - something like "Bolshevik 
Agitation and Imperial German Beer and Liquor Interests"]

Of particular interest to us here is the attitude of the "People of 
the Book" toward cruelty and destruction. The Soviets' secret 
police--an alphabet soup of initials which began with CHEKA and ended 
up today as the KGB - was conceived and operated almost exclusively 
by Jews. The first head of the CHEKA was Moses Uritsky. His successor 
was a person of dubious "Polish" origin named Felix Dzerzhinski, but 
it was common knowledge that he was overshadowed by his nominal 
subordinate, I. S. Unschlicht. Over the years, control of the torture 
apparatus has been passed to other Jews: Genrik Yagoda, Lavrenti 
Beria, and today, Yuri Andropov.

Yagoda's case was interesting in that he was Chief Inquisitor and 
Executioner of two Jewish ex-colleagues Kamenev and Zinoviev. As the 
wheel of fate turned, Yagoda himself was purged and executed.

According to the Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the slave 
labor camps were dreamt up "by the Turkish Jew, Frenkel". Known as 
"the timber king of the Black Sea" Frenkel quickly became a 
consultant to the Bolshevik government, and advised them on the most 
profitable gems and precious metals to loot from the Russians. It may 
have been these same valuables which were sent back to Jacob Schiff 
in New York, as repayment of his original "venture capital" sent over 
with Trotsky. Later, Frenkel set up the slave labor camps as probably 
the cheapest form of labor supply in the World, and vast work 
projects were undertaken, such as the (ill fated ) White Sea/Baltic 
Sea canal scheme.

[Solzhenitsyn	even published the photos of these mass murderers and 
Gulag keepers in the paperback edition of The Gulag Archipelago, 
still obtainable in any good used bookstore. ]

In the third chapter of volume two of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag 
Archipelago, the author provides a rogues' gallery of the Soviet 
architects of the slave-labor/extermination program: Yakov Rappaport, 
Matvei Berman, Lazar Kogan, Semyon Firin, Sergei Zhuk.

Trotsky himself approved of the reign of terror that swept Russia. He wrote:

"Terror as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working 
class is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat 
was able to break the political will of the Intelligentsia, pacify 
the professional men of various categories and work, and gradually 
subordinate them to its own aims within the fields of their 
specialties." -- Izvestia 10 January 1919.

During a speech at the International Communist Congress in Moscow the 
following March he opined: "Blood and mercilessness must be our 
slogans." Later, to try and explain away the bloody slaughter of the 
rebellious Kronstadt sailors he wrote:

"Idealists and pacifists always accused the Revolution of excesses. 
But the main point is that 'excesses' flow from the very nature of 
revolution which in itself is but an 'excess' of history."

Lenin too demanded buckets of blood. In June 1918 he reprimanded the 
Leningrad (nee St. Petersburg) Soviet for being too genteel in their 
treatment of opponents: "This is unheard of! The energy and mass 
nature of the terror must be encouraged!" The following month he 
promulgated a new edict in Izvestia (27 July 1918) to the effect that 
all "anti-Semites" were to be shot.

Lesser luminaries in the Jewish-Soviet heavens took up the refrain. 
Hirsch Apfelbaum (aka Zinoviev) penned a charming article in the 
Krasnaya Gazeta (1 September 1918) under the rubric "Blood for Blood":

"We will make our hearts cruel, hard and immovable, so that no mercy 
will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the sight of a 
sea of enemy blood. We will let loose the floodgates of that sea. 
Without mercy, without sparing, we will kill our enemies in scores of 
hundreds. Let them be thousands; let them drown themselves in their 
own blood! For the blood of Lenin and Uritsky, Zinoviev and 
Volodarsky, let there be floods of blood of the bourgeois -- more 
blood! As much as possible!"

One would have thought that all this blood-letting would have quickly 
terminated any sympathy for the Soviets from their kinfolk in the 
West. But such was not the case.

[Just as in the case of the mass murderer and war criminal Sharon, 
they were wined and dined by a succession of Western governments - 
and are still received with open arms at the White House by the 
Presidents and their Ministers.  No lack of sympathy!  Handshakes and 
embraces - and billions in aid! ]

"There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so 
many Jews are Bolsheviks, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism 
at many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism." -- 
London Jewish Chronicle, 4 April 1919.

"What Jewish idealism and Jewish discontent have so powerfully 
contributed to produce in Russia, the same historic qualities of the 
Jewish mind are tending to promote in other countries." -- New York 
American Hebrew, 20 September 1920.

"Jewish histories rarely mention the name of Karl Marx, though in his 
life and spirit he was far truer to the mission of Israel than most 
who are forever talking of it." -- Rabbi Lewis Brown: Stranger Than 
Fiction, NY, 1928.

[ So one can justifiably ask:  What is this mysterious "Mission of 
Israel" in the world? ]

However, at the business end of this great contribution to progress, 
matters were not quite so explicitly dealt with. No Soviet citizen 
could be referred to as "Jewish" on pain of death. And almost to a 
man, the Jewish leaders of the Bolshevik takeover changed their 
Jewish names to Gentile-sounding noms de guerre, usually Russian but 
sometimes, Polish.

[Exactly like in Israel, where Hebrew serves to camouflage the Jewish 
East European names.]

How can one interpret this idiosyncratic phenomenon? Let us 
back-track a little bit. We have Trotsky growing up in a wealthy land 
owning Jewish family, attending exclusive private schools, and 
marrying in a Jewish ceremony. Yet he hides his Jewishness behind a 
Gentile pseudonym and claims to represent the Russian working class. 
He has definite links with wealthy Jewish foreign bankers, yet he 
claims to oppose Capitalism. He claims to support continuous 
working-class violent revolution against the ruling-class, yet when 
he himself becomes the ruler he suppresses workers' uprisings, such 
as at Kronstadt and in Ukraine. He opposes privilege for the ruling 
class, yet he fixes up his own family with cushy positions.

[ Professor Keven MacDonald has a better and more logical explanation 
for this behavior.  He calls it a Survival Strategy - which is, in 
effect, a blueprint for the Jewish climb to power and ultimate 
domination, as happened in a trial run in hapless Russia in the 1920s 
]

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A personal note:

All my life I was told stories of the Russian Revolution, which must 
more properly be called the Jewish-Bolshevik Revolution.  My maternal 
grandmother was 29 years old, my mother a nursery school toddler, 
when bloodshed and anarchy came to the Ukraine where they were born 
in a German community of religious pacifists called Mennonites.

Particularly the name of the revolutionary assassin Nestor Makhno is 
very vivid in my memory from stories I was told.  I have described 
him in several of my novels - a sadist of the deepest dye!  He and 
his thugs murdered several relatives of my grandmother's and 
ransacked dozens of Russian-German villages, putting the torch to 
granaries, churches and homes. 

In Southern California I have a Russian-German friend whose 
grandmother (then a young woman) lost to Makhno's thugs in one bloody 
night both of her parents, both of her husband's parents, her husband 
and her son. 

Many years later, while I lived in Central California, I did a 
program in a church for a genealogical group in a small town called 
Lodi, speaking of the background to my novels.  There was an old man 
who took off his shirt and showed me his back - criss-crossed with 
Makhno saber scars!

You will forgive me when I  am not exactly complacent about what is 
happening in America today!   I invite my readers to compare what 
happened in the Bolshevik Revolution with this so-called War on 
Terror - and draw their own conclusions.

Ingrid Rimland,  Ed.D.