For the past two weeks or so, I have been a participant on an ethnic listserve of Russian-Germans. I unsubscribed a couple of days ago because my presence and some of my posts - which I considered very mild and considerate - caused such discomfort that it practically disintegrated the group.
It was pandemonium - classic Nizkorism! Smear jobs, innuendo, hives and shrieks!
This experience confirmed in my mind what I have suspected all along: That there are very systematic 'Fifth Column" type operations going on in these ethnic groups where the moment the tiniest politically incorrect thought is uttered, the Holocaust Enforcers move in with their standard psychological clubs and whip them all into submission.
I am not kidding you: People were actually exhorted to observe the Jewish holidays! Even the "leather out of skin" story showed up! I did have a handful of supporters who understood exactly what was going on and who spoke up courageously and sensibly. One writer, who was on my side, suggested teasingly that pumpkin recipes and quilts were antidotes to Ingrid Rimland - sad to say, the Yahoo Majority fell right into line.
One of the issues that I raised was the Ukrainian Famine Holocaust caused by our friends, the Kommissars. In response to that topic, a descendant of one of the White Russian Army patriots who fought against the Bolshevik takeover, posted this:
"I don't want to get involved in an embroglio about who is the biggest monster, Hitler or Stalin, but let me post on this list a few short quotes from the numerous famine letters I've been translating.
These letters were sent by my relatives in Russia, mostly from Kassel and Gluckstal, to my relatives in North Dakota, including my grandfather's brother, my great grand- mother, and my mother's uncles. I hope that these few quotes, and later their full publication in a book, will help readers better understand the 193O's in Russia, and how people there might have felt towards Stalin and his policies:
"Pity us, dear brother, we don't want to die of hunger. Its the hardest of deaths...People here are dying like flies... Each day four or five more lay dead....My children are swelled up from hunger....As I write this at our table, my two year old whines for food... They took away my husband, along with sixty other men from our village, all because they did not correctly fill out the bread requisition forms...I am left with three children and no food. Have pity on us...Tell my brother Jacob who won't help me that he should send me the swill his pigs won't eat...I cried and whined and fell to my knees to thank God when I got your letter with the fifteen dollars...Please, if I have done anything to offend you, ever, forgive me, and pity me, send me help. Otherwise I am lost, like the rest...We are a lost people, abandoned by all but God...The greater the cross, the closer to heaven...We are so grievously inflicted with famine...I can't even describe to you how terrible our lives are. We have no food, and our clothes are in tatters. My children are fearful of me, I look so terrible...The cemetery bells are always ringing... We haven't seen meat for a year, nor bread for the last three months...All we eat is a gruel of barley...The children lay on the floor and whine and say there is nothing left to live for..."
"Yesterday the commandant of the district gathered our community together and told us what others in power had told us before:
'Wherever you destructive insects have settled in our land, we will not give you any peace. If our harvest demands are not met, there will be no one to hear your cries, and no God will drop manna from heaven for you. Hangings, shootings, freezing, starvation---that will be your fate if you don't work to meet our Plan...' "
(end of translation)
What was that plan? And how did it play out? Here is another post that appeared in that group, once I had raised the issue:
"The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization. The heaviest losses occurred in Ukraine, which had been the most productive agricultural area of the Soviet Union. Stalin was determined to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism. Thus, the famine was accompanied by a devastating purge of the Ukrainian intelligentsia and the Ukrainian Communist party itself. The famine broke the peasants' will to resist collectivization and left Ukraine politically, socially, and psychologically traumatized.
The policy of all-out collectivization instituted by Stalin in 1929 to finance industrialization had a disastrous effect on agricultural productivity. Nevertheless, in 1932 Stalin raised Ukraine's grain procurement quotas by forty-four percent. This meant that there would not be enough grain to feed the peasants, since Soviet law required that no grain from a collective farm could be given to the members of the farm until the government's quota was met. Stalin's decision and the methods used to implement it condemned millions of peasants to death by starvation. Party officials, with the aid of regular troops and secret police units, waged a merciless war of attrition against peasants who refused to give up their grain. Even indispensible seed grain was forcibly confiscated from peasant households. Any man, woman, or child caught taking even a handful of grain from a collective farm could be, and often was, executed or deported. Those who did not appear to be starving were often suspected of hoarding grain. Peasants were prevented from leaving their villages by the NKVD and a system of internal passports.
The death toll from the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine has been estimated between six million and seven million. According to a Soviet author, "Before they died, people often lost their senses and ceased to be human beings." Yet one of Stalin's lieutenants in Ukraine stated in 1933 that the famine was a great success. It showed the peasants "who is the master here. It cost millions of lives, but the collective farm system is here to stay."
(end of post)
So that was then, and now is now. Here is an AFP dispatch, September 17, 1998, straight out of Moscow, titled "Russian villages threatened with famine":
"Officials began sending emergency food aid to 100,000 Russian villagers who are facing famine after an unprecedented summer heatwave destroyed crops, an official said Thursday.
A Volgograd regional official said food was being sent to villages around Pallasovka, in the south of Russia, close to the Kazakhstan border.
"People are not dying of famine yet, but it is true that in six districts on the left bank of the Volga River the situation is extremely difficult. There is no more bread," spokeswoman Yelena Ostipova told AFP.
"There is a real threat of famine," the Pallasovka administration chief told the daily Vremia.
Vremia reporter Maria Eismond said some families were close to starvation and said she was shocked by the state of health of the region's children. She warned the winter would make the situation worse.
The harvest, which normally brings in three million tonnes of grain, this year reaped just 900,000 tonnes because of drought, Ostipova said. She said the many villagers who live by subsistence farming were also badly hit."
(end of dispatch)
I have been told that my vanished family once belonged to the richest and most successful wheat farmers in the world before they were annihilated, thanks to the Kommissars. Imagine if it hadn't happened...
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Much of Russia is no colder than America or Canada and no drier than Australia or Southern Europe. The world's largest country (in area) has plenty of natural resources and we have the skills to help the Russians exploit them.
"We could help the Russians raise their standard of living, without American money corrupting them. We who have lost our new world would get a homeland in the old where we could prosper.
"We are down and out but not yet finished. Now is the time to stop dreaming and prepare for the future while we still have a future."
(Letter to the Editor, Instauration, September 1998)