"If for the tsar regime the
officer, the aristrocative official or the bureaucrat in uniform was
typical, then in the new bolshevist revolutionary power the Jewish (lettic)
commissioner, rarely speaking Russian, leather jacket wearing and machine
gun carrying, became a typical occurance in the street. (45) ...
But anyhow, outbreaks of
destructive, criminal and pathological potentials, which had accumulated
within the Jewish community, turned out in motion in the first years of the
Soviet Revolution ...The problem was, Jews had taken power for the first
time in Russian history. And for the first time they appeared not as
victims, but as offenders... However, the horror of the revolution, of the
civil war and the repressions following cannot be seperated from the reign
of terror, carried out by the Jewish commissioners. Quite typical were
Jewish revolutionaries like Jakov Bljumkin, a leftist socialist, who in 1918
shot the German Ambassador von Mirbach. This neurotic adventurer had been
accepted by the Tcheka as an reward for his services to the Bolshevics.
Nadesha Mandelstam stipulated in her memoirs how Bljumkin showed blank death
sentence forms to a horrorfied crowd in a Kiev Café. He boasted, that he was
able to insert any name he wanted onto the preprinted death forms.
Mandelstam described him as a mixture of murderer and intellectual - not a
typical character of that era. (47) ...
To an impartial person like the
historian Boris Paramanow, living in New York, the Jewish presence of power
was so impressive, that he asked himself, whether the promotion of the Jews
into leading positions had been a ‘gigantic provocation’ to the Russian
people. (48) ...
The eager participation of
Bolshevic Jews in the subjugation and the destruction of Russia was
disproportionate. It was a sin which carried its own retaliation (58)...
There are Jews now everywhere and at all levels of power [after the
revolution of 1917). The Russian people saw the Jews in charge of the
Tsaristic City of Moscow, where the new soviet power was concentrated and
also as the commanders in the Red Army ... (58) ...
Every ordinary Russian faced a
Jew as his judge and as his executioner. Where ever the Russian went, he met
a Jew in a superior position to him. It is no wonder, if the Russians
nowadays compare their situation with the past, come to the conclusion that
the present power is again Jewish and therefor so horrible." (60)
Sonja Margolina, (Das Ende
der Lügen) The End of the Lies, Siedler Publishing House, Berlin 1992
(numbers in brackets refer to page numbers in the book).