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Kattie ago

My turn now to jump into this thread.

My view is that the Jews probably did play a crucial role in the Bolshevik revolution. Even if they may not have outnumbered the Russians in sheer numbers I think they did it when it came to influence. I don't know if this piece written by Winston Churchill has already been cited but here it comes:

"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. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by his nominal subordinate, Litvinoff, and the influence of Russians like Bukharin or Lunacharski cannot be compared with the power of Trotsky, or of Zinovieff, the Dictator of the Red Citadel (Petrograd), or of Krassin or Radek -- all Jews. In the Soviet institutions the predominance of Jews is even more astonishing. And the prominent, if not indeed the principal, part in the system of terrorism applied by the Extraordinary Commissions for Combatting Counter-Revolution [the Cheka] has been taken by Jews, and in some notable cases by Jewesses."

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html

Joe_McCarthy ago

Well, Jews played an outsized role. Mostly during Red October where you had Trotsky and Joffe leading an armed revolt to seize key installations. But they were leading muscle composed heavily of non-Jews and then you had the Central Committee having like 6-8 Jews out of 26 and the first government having 1 Jew out of about 18.

The fundamental problem here is Jews were just severely lacking in numbers as a percentage of the population. Ipso facto that makes it hard to fathom how they could have essentially run the show. There were a lot of them though. And in key positions.