Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, blasted the bill, stating that it equated the Holodomor and the Holocaust, which he termed “a gross distortion of the history of the Holocaust typical of the efforts to equate other tragedies which are not the same as the Holocaust with the crimes of the Nazis.”
Feldman, according to Zuroff, is “doing a disservice to the memory of the Holocaust by linking it to a tragedy that is not equivalent.”
"Eighty per cent of the whole commissariat were Jews. All the chiefs were
Jews. The Vice-People's Commissary for Military Affairs was Yefraim
Shchklyansky, who had arrived with the third train from Switzerland. His
subordinates were, among others, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (actually Minei
Gubelman) and Semyon Nakhimson. The following were members of the
military council: Arkadi Rosengoltz, Mikhail Lashevich, Robert Rimm,
Joseph Unschlicht, D. Weinman, Moisei Lisovsky, Isaac Zelinsky, German
Bitker, Moisei Rukhimovich, Bela Kun (actually Aaron Kohn), Grigori
Sokolnikov (actually Brilliant) and Josef Khorovsky.
Some of the army commanders were: Vladimir Lazarevich, Naum
Zorkin, Yona Yakir, Vadim Bukhman, Boris Feldman and Yevgeni Shilovsky.
Other important Jewish leaders in the Red Army were: Ari Mirsky,
Gavril Lindov-Leytezen, Boris Zul, Yevgeni Veger, Isaac Kiselstein, M.
Volvovich, Leon Mekhlis (who later became an infamous and bloodthirsty
Chekist), Mikhail Rozen, Samuil Voskov, Moisei Kharitonov, Grigori
Zinoviev (actually Ovsei Radomyslsky), Yakov Vesnik, Adolf Lide, P.
Kushner, Mikhail Steinman, M. Schneideman, Mikhail Landa, Boris Tal,
Yan-Yakov Gamarnik, Josef Bik, Rosa Zemlyatchka (actually Rozalia
Zalkind), Yan Lenzman, B. Goldberg, G. Zusmanovich.
The division commanders were also Jews: Grigori Borzinsky, Sergei
Sheideman, Blumenfeld, Mikhail Meier, Boris Freiman, Alexander
Yanovsky, Semion Turovsky, Andrei Rataisky, Alexander Sirotkin,
Eduard Lepin, Samuil Medvedyevsky, Miron Polunov, Grigori Bozhinsky,
David Gutman, Alexander Shirmakher, Yevgeni Koffel, Boris Maistrakh,
Ruvin Iztkovsky, Mark Belitsky, Leonid Berman, Konstantin Neiman,
Nekhemia Feldman, L. Schnitman, Leon Gordman, Mikhail Sluvis, Yakov
Davidovsky.
Their deputies were of course Jews: Yakov Schwarzman, Adolf Reder,
Moisei Akhmanov, Alexander Grinstein, Kleitman, Abram Khasis,
Semyon Nordstein, Alexander Richter, Lazar Aronstam, Vladimir Lichtenstadt,
Leon Lemberg, Abram Vaiman, Josef Rosenblum, Leon Rubinstein,
Yefim Rabinovich, Moris Belitsky, Isaak Grinberg, Isai Goldsmidt and
many more. (Molodaya Gvardiya, No. 11, 1990.)
The reader will understand that it is nearly impossible to name all those
involved. These lists were released only in 1990. People had no idea of the
real situation.
Nearly all the chiefs of the concentration camps were Jews. The most
infamous of these were: Naftali Frenkel, Matvei Berman, Aaron Soltz,
Yakov Rappaport, Lazar Kogan. According to the Jewish researcher and
publicist Arkadi Vaksberg, eleven out of twelve chiefs of camps in the
GULAG were Jews. (Alexander Vaksberg, "Lubyanka", Stockholm,
1993.) "
simonshack wrote:*
The book 'Under The Sign Of The Scorpion' by Estonian writer Jüri Lina is obligatory reading for anyone wishing to learn what the so-called "Russian Revolution" was all about
Activities of the HREC Education Component (headed by Valentina Kuryliw) are focused on inclusion of the Holodomor in schools, curricula, and other educational venues and development of instructional materials and training programs.
The term Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of Soviet policies. The Holodomor can be seen as the culmination of an assault by the Communist Party and Soviet state on the Ukrainian peasantry, who resisted Soviet policies. This assault occurred in the context of a campaign of intimidation and arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals, writers, artists, religious leaders, and political cadres, who were seen as a threat to Soviet ideological and state-building aspirations.
Between 1917 and 1921, Ukraine briefly became an independent country and fought to retain its independence before succumbing to the Red Army and being incorporated into the Soviet Union. In the 1920s, Soviet central authorities, seeking the support of the populace, allowed for some cultural autonomy through the policy known as “indigenization.”
By the end of the 1920s, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin decided to curtail Ukraine’s cultural autonomy, launching the intimidation, arrest, imprisonment and execution of thousands of Ukrainian intellectuals, church leaders, as well as Communist Party functionaries who had supported Ukraine’s distinctiveness.
At the same time, Stalin ordered the collectivization of agriculture. The majority of Ukrainians, who were small-scale or subsistence farmers, resisted. The state confiscated the property of the independent farmers and forced them to work on government collective farms. The more prosperous farmers (owning a few head of livestock, for example) and those who resisted collectivization were branded kulaks (rich peasants) and declared enemies of the state who deserved to be eliminated as a class. Thousands were thrown out of their homes and deported.
Introduction↑
The hostile relationship of the Russian military, civil authorities and parts of the population on the western periphery of the Russian Empire to the Jews during World War I was well known to contemporaries and was even defined by them as a “war”. Indeed, trying to convince Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia (1868-1918) to modify the anti-Jewish policy of the General Headquarters, Finance Minister Petr L. Bark (1869-1937) told him in the summer of 1915, “we cannot and must not simultaneously wage war against Germany and the Jews. In that case we cannot count on victory.”[1]
The concept of a “national” military doctrine based on citizens’ loyalty and willingness to sacrifice for the sake of the motherland, can be seen to have influenced the Russian army’s aggressive policy toward the Jews. In the years preceding World War I, the army leadership manifested an increasingly negative attitude toward the Jews. Russian generals regarded the Jews as a harmful and dangerous element of the population that was unsuited for military service and would be disloyal in wartime. The army was more anti-Jewish in its orientation than the majority of society. According to the military, the Jews’ lack of military might did not eliminate the potential danger from the Jews, who were feared to directly aid the enemy and exert a demoralizing effect on Russian soldiers. Simplistic logic convinced the military and civil authorities that the Jews ─ a persecuted and oppressed minority ─ could not be Russian patriots and would not want to make sacrifices for the motherland. “Progressive” military thinking in the prewar years propounded an active policy of neutralizing “disloyal elements” of the population as a condition for military success.
The military command’s negative stereotypes of the Jews were formed in the pre-war years. These stereotypes were exasperated by the broad authority granted to the military command in the sphere of civil rule near the front and the unforeseen difficulty of military actions and the Russian army’s resulting failure and defeat. Strong anti-Semitic sentiments shared by a group of high-ranking commanders (including Nikolai N. Yanushkevich (1868-1918), the Chief of Staff of the General Headquarters), added an element of personal hatred to the anti-Jewish measures of the army.
Russian Army Anti-Jewish Measures↑
From the first days of the war, Russian commanders pointed to the alleged disloyalty of Russia’s Jewish population, its direct complicity with the enemy, and its involvement in espionage. Utilizing the broad authority entrusted to military authorities by wartime acts, the army began to solve the “problem” of Jewish disloyalty. In this “struggle” the army expelled Jews from various localities, took hostages, and restricted the movement of Jews near the front line. The General Headquarters (Stavka) officially adopted these measures in a published statement in January 1915 that set forth the charges against the Jews. No distinction was made between Jews who were Russian citizens and Jews in occupied Galicia. The proposed measures were either supposed to ensure the Jews’ loyalty by instilling fear of expulsion or execution, or to eliminate the Jews’ “harmfulness” by restricting contacts between the troops and Jews.
As a direct result of this January 1915 declaration, the Russian command made several attempts to carry out a mass deportation of the Jewish population from the front lines (in particular, from Plotsk gubernia in the Kingdom of Poland and from occupied Galicia). These attempts were unsuccessful because the policy of mass deportations required precise coordination between the military and civil authorities both near the front lines (where the governors and police were responsible for implementing deportations) and in the rear, which had to receive the expelled population. The military command was unable to attain such cooperation because of the strong opposition to deportations by civil authorities on various levels. In May 1915, however, about 200,000 Jews were expelled from the provinces of Kovno and Kurland; this mass deportation was carried out by the Commander of the X. Army General Nikolai A. Radkievich (1851–?) with the support of General Yanushkievich from the General Headquarters. The masses of expelled Jews disrupted transport operations and disorganized the army’s rear during the crucial summer months of 1915. This was the sole deportation on such a scale, but for the various ranks of the military command, local expulsions remained a convenient and widely used means of clearing the battle area of the undesirable presence of the Jewish population. From 1914 to 1916 at least 189 Jewish communities in the Russian Empire, Galicia and Bukovina suffered from deportations and expulsions.
Hostage-taking of Jews, a measure that affected the entire Jewish population near the front, was also considered legitimate. As of May 1915, hostage-taking, which was simpler to carry out than expulsions, was supposed to replace the latter as a basic means of assuring the Jews’ loyalty. Both general expulsions and the taking of civilian Jewish hostages became symbols of the military authorities’ repressive policy toward the Jews, which was widely discussed in the country (including at the meetings of the Council of Ministers) and worldwide.
omaxsteve wrote:http://www.holodomor.ca/edu/index.html
I am not sure why you refer to the Holodomor as the "true Jewish holocaust" Simon. Here are some "Basic Facts" from the site linked above;The term Holodomor (death by hunger, in Ukrainian) refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of Soviet policies.As a direct result of this January 1915 declaration, the Russian command made several attempts to carry out a mass deportation of the Jewish population from the front lines
From 1914 to 1916 at least 189 Jewish communities in the Russian Empire, Galicia and Bukovina suffered from deportations and expulsions.
jumpy64 wrote:Hi, Simon, I applaud your initiative to start a thread on the Holodomor.
I agree that covering up for the Holodomor could be part of the reason for the Holocaust propaganda, although I don't think it's the main reason.
Painterman wrote:"Dilution (Trademark) - The use of a mark or trade name in commerce sufficiently similar to a famous mark that by association it reduces, or is likely to reduce, the public's perception that the famous mark signifies something unique, singular or particular.... Dilution is comprised of two principal harms: blurring and tarnishment. Dilution by blurring occurs when the distinctiveness of a famous mark is impaired by association with another similar mark or trade name. Dilution by tarnishment occurs when the reputation of a famous mark is harmed through association with another similar mark or trade name."
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Holodomor in Ukraine, The Genocidal Famine 1932-33 (extract)
http://www.holodomor.ca/edu/teaching-ma ... round.html
"People who dislike the use of holocaust to describe the slaughter of the Jews during World War II object to the term because if holocaust is used as a sacrifice to G-d and the Jews are the ones being sacrificed to Him, then what does that make the Nazis? Are they the noble and righteous priests offering up the sacrifice to please G-d? Are they fulfilling a promise they made with G-d? Will they now be favored by G-d because they have offered up such a bountiful sacrifice to Him? Did G-d demand that the Nazis offer up the Jews as a sacrifice?"
http://www.jewishmag.com/107mag/holocaustword/holocaustword.htm
And, by ignoring the broad pre 1950s secular use of "holocaust," scholarly commentators, in my opinion, leave the impression that the word jumped out of the Bible into their hands and that any use of the word to describe a non-Jewish catastrophe is illegitimate. To help dispel such impressions consider the seven uses of "holocaust" in the Palestine Post of 1938:
"... the French press is worried lest there be some connection between the bloodless holocaust of German Generals and Ambassadors and the persistent reports that Mussolini is about to intervene in Spain ..." (6 February, 1938 p. 4, col. 4.)
"For the first time since last September Japanese aeroplanes again raided Canton ... Although the damage exceeds September's holocaust, the death toll was somewhat less ..." (29 May 1938, p. 1, col. 1)
"After the Haifa holocaust ... " (17 July 1938, p. 8, col. 1)
"Yesterday was also an anniversary of destruction. It was the day on which Great Britain entered the World War 24 years ago. Since that holocaust swept over the world, it has had no real peace ..." (5 August 1938, p. 6, col. 2)
"... the holocaust of 1914-18 ..." (11 September 1938, p. 8, col. 3)
"... thanks to the general dread of yet another European holocaust ... [Hitler] has brought them peace with territorial aggrandisement. (11 October 1938, p. 6, col. 2)
"... the planning system of the Bolshevist regime has broken down ... The holocaust of directors and engineers shot as "wreckers" to stimulate others has brought only spasms ..." (27 October 1938, p. 3, col. 2)
A 1940 Palestine Post advertisement for "Mandrake the Magician" promised "a flaming holocaust of thrills" (31 May 1940, p. 10). A column in the Palestine Post of 26 July 1946 reads in part: "There are women ... whose household labours resounds [with] the constant ringing of crashing china and glasses ... Those glasses that escape the holocaust of housework ..." (p. 8, cols. 1-2.)
IN THE UNITED STATES of the early 1960s the most common referent of "holocaust" was nuclear war / nuclear destruction. For example, The Reporter of 17 August 1961 titled a review of two books on nuclear war and nuclear strategy, "A Cold Look at the Holocaust." And the cover of the 4 November 1961 Nation displays in upper case: "SHELTERS WHEN THE HOLOCAUST COMES."
Beyond the example of Israeli usage, American Jewish writers probably abandoned such words as "disaster," "catastrophe," and "massacre" in favor of "holocaust" in the 1960s because "holocaust" with its evocation of the then actively feared nuclear mass death effectively conveyed something of the horror of the Jewish experience during World War II.
The context of Wiesel's first employment of "holocaust" suggests that the "nuclear holocaust" sense of the word was the association that drove his selection of "holocaust" to refer to the Jewish catastrophe:
simonshack wrote:I am still shocked over the fact that I had never heard - in my entire life, until recently - about the Holodomor.
Dear Rabbi,
I am a Christian (which I see as an extension of G-d's grace and salvation to good non-Jewish people, as to me, Judaism is meant for those of Hebrew descent). I grew up between two worlds: the Middle East and the United States. I've always loved people of different cultures, comfort my Jewish or partially Jewish friends on their remembrance of the Holocaust, and I also weep for the genocide that befell my people.
I am also an Armenian.
My biggest question: If the messianic age was to begin tomorrow, would you or any other Jew revert to the ruling and start slaughtering all Armenians and any other people who have been labeled Amalekites, or would you finally understand that we are not Amalek, but a good people? Please be honest here. If the answer is yes, no harm can come your way or my way (unless of course the messianic age began and I was killed based on race). I would feel no hatred towards the Jews (regardless of what you say, some Jews are my best friends, and I love them and believe many are beyond the evils of racism, because they know it leads to ethnic cleansing which is immoral). I would only be saddened, and wiser for my question. If the answer is no, I would still feel saddened that a lot of other Jews aren't as enlightened as you are.
I really hope you respond to this because all I want to know is the truth, and to properly mourn for any Jews who see fit to be racist, because I believe it is intense hatred of others that separates us from G-d, as when you hate, it isolates you from fellow humans and makes you blind to the Lord's good works and teachings. G-d is here for all nations, and if there are Amalekites that exist today, however mixed and peppered throughout the world they may be, G-d is here for them too. They were after all created for a reason... maybe to get Israelites to band together and defend their existence as a nation?
Whatever you say, I am proud of my Armenian and Christian heritage, and dislike the instances where Jews have implied or outright lied that we are Amalekites because we don't like Amalekites either. They attacked the stragglers of an escaping people, and murdered innocents like bandits! It was very shameful, and an act that no Armenian would ever do. We have a strong sense of honor, where the vast majority of us (because there are always a few bad apples in each group) fight only to defend the weak, and wish to protect our people and friends as well as anyone else who needs our assistance. I only hope Israel would lead the way to reciprocating the favor by sincerely denouncing the name-calling of Armenians as Amalekites. (It would be nice if they would recognize the Armenian Genocide, just as we recognize the Holocaust, but that would be asking for a miracle.)
Thank you for taking the time to read this message. And please, swear to Yahweh that you'll be completely truthful in your reply to me. Regardless of your beliefs, I will not judge you negatively or positively as only G-d has that right. He is the judge, the jury are your deeds, and I am but a humble witness.
Love,
Ruth
Dear Ruth,
I do empathize with the feelings you have about your people's genocide. As you know, in many aspects, the history of your people is very comparable to the history of the Jewish people.
I am aware that some historians in the tenth century, in trying to define Amalek, did propose to identify them with the Armenians, but Amalek was also identified with other people like the Khasars.
However, this identification was not the cause of the violence inflicted to the Armenians. It was the Ottoman rule that wanted to eliminate the Armenians because they were not believers of Islam.
In Jewish tradition, the Amalekites came to represent the archetypal enemy of the Jews. For example, Haman, from the Book of Esther, is called the Agagite, which is the title of the Amalekite rulers Agag. The term has been used non-genetically, to refer to certain types of enemies of Judaism throughout history, including Adolf Hitler.
Blotting the memory of Amalek as I understand it, is fighting against evil wherever it is, fighting against those who attack the feeble and the helpless.
I find very insulting your accusations that the Jewish people are at the origin of the Armenian genocide or that they ever intend to kill the Armenians (even in the Messianic time when people will supposedly live in peace with one another). I know that you are under the influence of anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli organizations. I read their propaganda on sites like asbarez.com, the pravda, realzionistnews.com, and more.
I feel very saddened that an Armenian woman who seems deeply religious and whose people suffered so much from a kind of Amalek, did not take upon herself to verify accusations before stating them. I can say only one thing: Jews are not responsible for the Armenian genocide! And I wish you would cease spreading this idea.
Rabbi Monique Susskind Goldberg
2010
ICfreely wrote:The Armenian Holocaust, which the JPM has denied for a century, was a test run for the Holodomor. The JPM infiltrated Turkey via the “Young Turk” movement & convinced their leaders that if Russia attacked Turkey the Armenians would side with the Russians. Under the guise of preventing an Armenian rebellion Turkey implemented mandatory gun confiscation laws. Concurrently, the JPM (working in unison with Armenian political & religious leaders) convinced Armenians that they (as very special Christians) should forcefully resist Turkish oppression. Their martyrdom would be rewarded with an independent Armenian nation upon the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Long story short, purportedly 1.5 million Armenians were systematically slaughtered & Armenia became a satellite state of the Soviet Union. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty I recommend the following book.
The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians - C J Bjerknes
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/JewishGenocide.pdf
The purpose of WWI was to break up the big empires so that all the small people would form racially and ethnically segregated small nations throughout the region, and then the Jews would be safe when they move to Palestine. Because they feared that if they simply took Palestine from the Sultan, as the Rothschild had offered to do, that the Arabs, especially Egyptian Arabs, would turn against them and the Catholic Church would view them as the anti-Christ and crush them. So they had to be more clever about it. And one of the reasons they wanted to give that it was necessary for the Jews to form a nation in Palestine was the fact that small ethnicities were subject to genocides and persecutions. And they themselves committed genocide against the Armenians to set the example for the world that it was necessary for the Jews to form a nation so that this would not happen to them.
Exactly. And the word that was used, long before the European Holocaust, was Holocaust, which means a burnt offering or sacrifice. And in the literature from the 1890s to about 1939 the Armenian genocide was often referred to as a Holocaust. And you had traitors among the Armenians, especially in the Armenian Church and in the Armenian relations with Britain, which was controlled by the Zionist Rothschilds, who were willing to sacrifice Armenians in order to bring this about. They were willing to sacrifice a million and a half of their own people so that at the end of the war they would be given an independent nation. And I’m sure many of them were crypto-Jews.
Long story short, purportedly 1.5 million Armenians were systematically slaughtered & Armenia became a satellite state of the Soviet Union. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty I recommend the following book.
The Jewish Genocide of Armenian Christians - C J Bjerknes
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/ ... nocide.pdf
omaxsteve wrote:The book that you linked to Icfreely, begins as follows; ...... In conformity with the Jewish plans revealed in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion .........
I would recommend that one should first do a bit of research about that controversial (to say the least) publication before spending their time reading this 400 + page document.
omaxsteve wrote:The book that you linked to, Icfreely, begins as follows; ...... In conformity with the Jewish plans revealed in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion .........
I would recommend that one should first do a bit of research about that controversial (to say the least) publication before spending their time reading this 400 + page document.
"Probably so much money and energy were never before in history expended on the effort to suppress a single document." The period of 1920 "marks the end of the time when the Jewish question could be impartially openly discussed in public."
(Douglas Reed—"The Controversy of Zion").
Excerpt of "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion: Proof of an Ancient Conspiracy" - by Ivan Fraser
The often cited "fact" that the Protocols are a "proven fraud", is easily dismissed, as it is actually entirely untrue and based upon a very specific court case. Numerous unsuccessful attempts had been made by world Jewry to have the Protocols denounced as a forgery. But it was not until 1933 that any legal action was taken in this respect:
"On 26th June, 1933, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Switzerland and the Berne Jewish Community brought an action against five members of the Swiss National Front, seeking a judgment that the Protocols were a forgery and a prohibition of their publication. The procedure of the Court was astounding, the provisions of the Swiss Civil Code being deliberately set aside. Sixteen witnesses called by the plaintiffs were heard, but only one of the forty witnesses called by the defendants was allowed a hearing. The judge allowed the plaintiffs to appoint two private stenographers to keep the register of proceedings during the hearing of their witnesses, instead of entrusting the task to a Court official.
In view of these and similar irregularities, it was not surprising that, after the case had lasted just on two years, the Court pronounced the Protocols to be a forgery and demoralising literature. The decision was given on 14th May, 1935, but it was announced in the Jewish Press before it was delivered by the Court?
On 1st November, 1937, the Swiss Court of Criminal Appeal quashed this judgment in its entirety. Jewish propagandists, however, still declare that the Protocols have been "proved" to be a forgery.
It was natural that the Jews should try to discredit the Protocols, for their growing fame was focussing more public attention on other revealing utterances." (Waters Flowing Eastward—revised and updated by Rev. Denis Fahey).
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/proof.htm#fraud
Who could have forged the Protocols isn’t known, if in fact it is a forgery. Some researchers claim it was done in Russia, in 1904, by agents of the Czar. However, the general consensus is that it was probably done by Elie de Cyon (Ilya Tsion), a Russian journalist living in Paris, who was an opponent of Sergey Witte, the Russian Minister of Finance.
When Witte took office in 1892, he began to modernize Russia by doubling steel, iron, and coal production; and constructing railroads. He was disliked by those who had their money tied up in agriculture. He caused inflation by abandoning the gold standard in 1898 because of an economic slump. The Protocols say that such economic depressions are caused by the Elders to gain control of the money; and that the gold standard has ruined every country that has adopted it. Researchers say that the economic and financial data could have been extracted from Joly’s book, and applied to Witte, in order to present him as a tool of the Elders of Zion.
So, Cyon allegedly forged and translated the Protocols, expanding them as a satire on Witte. His writings resembled the style used in the Protocols; and he was known to have used another French satire on a dead statesman, by changing the names. In 1897, Gen. Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky, head of the Russian Secret Police in Paris, on instructions from Witte, broke into Cyon’s villa at Territet, Switzerland, to look for additional written attacks on Witte. It is believed that Rachkovsky discovered the Protocols there, and used it for a dual purpose. He could use it against the Jews, claiming it was part of a Jewish conspiracy; and he could reveal that it was written by a Jew, which Cyon was, thus destroying Cyon. It was kind of ironic, that the Russian translation for Cyon’s name, ‘Tsion’, means ‘Zion.
http://web.archive.org/web/200408121139 ... ra/fw6.htm
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