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Cold Reminder - EXCELLENT article  -   Thank you Jacobson

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Truth Will Out - 20 Aug 2008 23:04 GMT
If it hadn't been for Jacobson's whining, I would not have known of the
existence of this excellent article, which was mentioned in the New York
Times.

Thank you for being such an excellent whiner Jacobson.

This was a movement staffed in its upper echelons by Judaic Communists and
yet the world is comparatively silent about the holocaust and war crimes
this thoroughly kosher system inflicted and the identity of the persons who
were its architects.

Auschwitz is on the tip of every tongue but who has heard of Kolyma,
Magadan, the Solovetsky islands and the other infernal Soviet centers of
human destruction in eastern Siberia? Who has seen films and books about the
millions of human beings worked, frozen and starved to death in the
construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, over which stood a triumphant,
colossal statue of the Judaic Communist mass murderer Genrikh Yagoda?

The Judaic Communist epoch of mass murder has disappeared into history in
one of the great vanishing acts of all time. Only practiced deceivers, with
all the sleight of hand of the most accomplished stage magicians, could pull
off such a coup against the rest of humanity. To trick mankind into focusing
nearly all expiatory sentiment, monuments and commemoration on Judaic
victims and brand the Mark of Cain--the very words war crime and holocaust
itself--on Germany and upon Germans alone as their proprietary trademark,
must be regarded as one of the most masterful achievements of psychological
warfare in the annals of illusion.

Israeli power has expanded commensurate with the expansion of "Holocaust"

propaganda, as noted by the Israeli author Moshe Leshem: "Israelis and
American Jews fully agree that the memory of the Holocaust is an
indispensable weapon--one that must be used relentlessly against their
common enemy...Jewish organizations and individuals thus labor continuously
to remind the world of it. In America, the perpetuation of the Holocaust
memory is now a $100-million-a-year enterprise, part of which is
government-funded." ( Balaam's Curse, p. 228)

This is why Edgar Bronfman, the billionaire Canadian Seagram's whiskey
merchant and chairman of the powerful World Jewish Congress says, "The
growing numbers of revisionist supporters cannot be ignored. We must use
every resource to stop revisionism now, before it's too late."

The reason it must be stopped is because revisionism could prevent the holy
people from finishing the job they started in Russia and Bavaria, only this
time they are using intellectual means to achieve the same end.

Consider the fact that the people who bear the brunt of contemporary Jewish
racist hatred and invective, the Germans, have among the lowest birthrates
and the highest abortion rates of any nation in the world. Far more Germans
die every year than are born.

The self-hating Germans are not the only targets of corrosive gas chamber
guilt, however. Organized Christianity (more accurately called Churchianity)
nowadays is little more than one huge turkey flock, truckling, toadying and
crawling in search of Judaic sanctification and approbation. Their savior
called the Jewish leadership of his time, "the children of hell" (Matthew

23:15) but those who presume to speak in His name today, call them the
saints and sages of the cosmos.

Only in such a profoundly falsified world soaked in fraud could the
international media sit by, uninterested, as the great-great grandson of the
blood-drenched Jewish Red Army commander Leon Trotsky, David Axelrod, shot
to death an elderly Palestinian couple in November of 1990, as part of an
Israeli, "Kach" terror group raid.

But imagine--if you can--the hubbub if a grandson of a Nazi war criminal had
shot a Turkish couple in Germany. The weeping, wailing and never-ending
references to "Never Forget" and "lessons of history" would seep out of the
collective TV sets of the earth like waste from a toxic septic tank, because
what is clear from such a double standard is that the true lessons of
history are not being learned and recollection itself is hostage to the
diorama of Zionist monomania.

Sixteen million ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from Silesia, Moravia
and the Volga regions of the eastern territories at the end of the Second
World War. On this trail of tears, two million perished--shot to death,
starved, raped and beaten. Ask one in one thousand, one in ten thousand
people on the street today-- "Have you heard?" The answer will be no.

The Steven Spielberg movie images of cattle cars jammed with human cargo are
reserved for Jewish victims alone. The 800,000 mostly Muslim Chechens
deported by Judaic commissars and savagely stuffed into railway cars to
Kazakhstan, where a quarter of a million died enroute, do not meet
Hollywood's standard of cinematic focus.

The Soviet cattle car deportations afflicted more than a half-million
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Christians who were shipped to the Gulag.

12% of the entire Baltic population was either deported to Siberia or
executed by the Jewish Soviet Secret Police. Who knows of it? Who cares? Who
tries to keep this history from repeating? Instead, in 1995 the president of
Lithuania made a pilgrimage to the Israeli gas chamber shrine at Yad Vashem
to grovel and beg "forgiveness" for his people who were the victims of the
Jewish Communist murderers. To seek forgiveness in all humility is ordained
when it is predicated on the truth. To do so based on false witness in order
to idolize the Pharisees is a mockery of justice.

In the Bolshevik era, 52 percent of the membership of the Soviet communist
party was Jewish, though Jews comprised only 1.8 percent of the total
population (Stuart Kahan, The Wolf of the Kremlin, p. 81)

The following is a list of some top Judaic Communist murderers, commissars,
spies, assassins and propagandists (aliases are listed in parentheses). This
list is by no means comprehensive. To catalog all of the Judaic Communist
involved in crimes would require hundreds of pages.

Judaic Communists

V.I. Lenin, supreme dictator. Leon Bronstein (Trotsky): supreme commander of
the Soviet Red Army. Grigory Apfelbaum (Zinoviev): executive, Soviet Secret
Police. Solomon Lozovsky: deputy Soviet foreign minister. Maxim Wallach

(Litvinov): Soviet foreign minister. Yuri Andropov: director, Soviet KGB,
later supreme dictator of the Soviet Union.

Jacob Sverdlov: first president of the Soviet Union. Sverdlov ordered the
massacre of the Czar's family--women and children--in the town named after
Catherine the Great, Yekaterinburg, (renamed Sverdlovsk in 1924 in honor of
the murderer).

Jacob Yurovsky: commander, Soviet Secret Police. Yurovsky led the death
squad which carried out Sverdlov's order for the murder of the Czar's
family, including the bayoneting to death of the Czar's daughters. The
Ipatyev house, where, in the basement, the massacre had occurred, stood
intact until 1977, when the local Communist party boss at that time, Boris
Yeltsin, ordered it demolished, lest it become a shrine to anti-Jewish
sentiment.

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (pictured at left): chief mass murderer for
Stalin, ordered the deaths of millions and the wholesale destruction of
Christian monuments and churches, including the great Cathedral of Christ
the Savior. Standing amid the rubble of the cathedral, Kaganovich
proclaimed, "Mother Russia is cast down. We have ripped away her skirts."

(N.Y. Times, Sept. 26, 1995).

Mikhail Kaganovich: deputy commissar of heavy industry, supervisor of slave
labor, brother of Lazar. Rosa Kaganovich: Stalin's mistress; sister of
Lazar. Paulina Zhemchuzina: member of the Central Committee and wife of
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Olga Bronstein: officer, Soviet Cheka
Secret Police, sister of Trotsky, wife of Kamenev.

Genrikh Yagoda: chief of Soviet Secret Police, mass murderer extraordinaire.

(Jewish poet Romain Rolland, winner of the Nobel Prize, wrote a hymn of
praise to Yagoda).

Matvei Berman and Naftaly Frenkel: founders, the Gulag death camp system.

Lev Inzhir, commissar for Soviet death camp transit and administration.

Boris Berman: executive officer of the Soviet Secret Police and brother of
Matvei. K.V. Pauker: chief of operations, Soviet NKVD Secret Police.

Firin, Rappoport, Kogan, Zhuk: commissars of death camps and slave labor,
supervised the mass deaths of laborers during the construction of the White
Sea--Baltic Canal.

M.I. Gay: commander, Soviet Secret Police. Slutsky and Shpiegelglas:

commanders, Soviet Secret Police. Isaac Babel: officer, Soviet Secret
Police.

Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin (Aleksandr Orlov): commander, Soviet Red Army;
officer, Soviet Secret Police. Feldbin was chief of Soviet Security in the
Spanish Civil War. He supervised the massacre of Catholic priests and
peasants in Spain.

Yona Yakir: general, Soviet Red Army, member of the Central Committee.

Dimitri Shmidt: general, Soviet Red Army. Yakov ("Yankel") Kreiser: general,
Soviet Red Army. Miron Vovsi: general, Soviet Red Army.

David Dragonsky: general, Soviet Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union. Grigori

Shtern: general, Soviet Red Army. Mikhail Chazkelevich: general, Soviet Red
Army. Shimon Kirvoshein: general, Soviet Red Army. Arseni Raskin:

deputy-commander, Soviet Red Army. Haim Fomin, commander of Brest-Litovsk,
Soviet Red Army. At least one hundred Soviet generals were Jewish (cf.

Canadian Jewish News, April 19, 1989).

Generals who were not themselves Jewish often had Jewish wives. Among these
were Marshal Voroshilov, Marshal Bulganin, Marshal Peresypkin and General
Pavel Sudoplatov (Sudoplatov assassinated hundreds of Christian leaders
including Ukranian Catholic Archbishop Teodor Romzha). This Jewish wife
"insurance policy" extended to Politburo members such as Andrei Andreyev and
Leonoid Brezhnev.

Sergei Eisenstein: director of communist propaganda films which depicted
Christian peasants (kulaks) as hideous, money-grabbing parasites. The kulaks
were subsequently massacred. (Cf. for example Eisenstein's Bezhin Meadow).

KOMZET: commission for the settlement of Jewish Communists on land seized
from murdered Christians in Ukraine; funded by Jewish-American financier
Julius Rosenwald.

Ilya Ehrenburg, Minister of Soviet Propaganda and disseminator of
anti-German hate material dating from the 1930s. Ehrenburg instigated the
Soviet Red Army rape and murder of German civilians. Referring to German
women, Ehrenburg gloated to the advancing Red Army troops, "that blonde hag
is in for a bad time."

In a leaflet addressed to Soviet troops, Ehrenburg wrote: "...the Germans
are not human beings...nothing gives us so much joy as German corpses."

(Anatol Goldberg, Ilya Ehrenburg, p. 197). Goldberg concedes that Ehrenburg,
"...had always disliked the Germans...now that there was a war on he turned
his old prejudice into an asset." (Ibid., p. 193).

Another publication distributed to the Red Army, this time as the soldiers
approached Danzig, was described by a historian: "Millions of leaflets were
air-dropped on the troops with a message composed by the propagandist Ilya
Ehrenburg and signed by Stalin: 'Soldiers of the Red Army! Kill the Germans!

Kill all Germans! Kill! Kill! Kill!" (Christopher Duffy, Red Storm on the
Reich).

The Soviet leadership acknowledged that Ehrenburg sought the extermination
of the entire German people (cf. Pravda, April 14, 1945. [Pravda was also
published in a Yiddish edition, Einikeyt). Ehrenburg won the Order of Lenin
and the Stalin Prize. He willed his papers to the Israeli Yad Vashem
'Holocaust' Museum.

Solomon Mikhoels: commissar of Soviet propaganda. Soviet film propagandists:

Mark Donsky, Leonid Lukov, Yuli Reisman, Vasily Grossman,Yevgeny
Gabrilovich, Boris Volchok and Lillian Hellman (old movies written by her
continue to be broadcast on American telelvision).

Soviet propagandist: Yevgeny Khaldei who staged the photo of the raising of
the hammer and sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945.

Afterward, a special plane was waiting to fly Khaldei, Stalin's top Tass
photographer, to a Moscow lab, where his photo was further doctored (loot
displayed on one of the Soviet soldier's wrists was removed in the negative
and Khaldei added clouds and smoke to the scene for dramatic effect (see
photo of Khaldei and his beloved flag at left). Khaldei continued to work as
a premier Soviet propagandist until his retirement from Pravda in 1972. His
Communist propaganda is proudly on display at the Jewish Museum of New York
and the Jewish Museum of San Francisco. N.Y. Times writer Vicki Goldberg
exulted in the raising of the blood-drenched Soviet flag, emblem of the
slaughter of millions of peasants and Christians; describing it as, "...a
national (and worldwide) symbol of triumph, justice and revenge." (Jan. 31,
1997, p. B-26).

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC): new form of the Bolshevik YEVKOM,
Stalin's recruiting conduit for funding money, supplies and political
influence for Soviet Russia from world Jewry as well as the dissemination of
gas chamber atrocity propaganda (cf. The Black Book).

Nikolai Bukharin: Lenin's chief theorist. Samuel Agursky: commissar. Karl

Radek: member, Central Committee. Mikhail Gruzenberg (Borodin) commissar.

A.A. Yoffe: commissar. David Ryazanov: advisor to Lenin. Lev Grigorievich

Levin: physician, poisoner of Stalin's enemies. Lev Rosenfeld (Kamenev):

member of the Central Committee.

Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to Britain. Itzik Solomonovich Feffer:

commissar, Soviet Secret Police. Abraham Sutskever: Soviet
terrorist-partisan. Mark Osipovich Reizen: Soviet propagandist, winner of
three Stalin Prizes. Lev Leopold Trepper: Soviet espionage officer.

Bela Kun (Kohen): supreme dictator of Hungary in 1919. Kun was later
Stalin's chief terrorist in the Crimea. Kun's eventual successor was Matyas
Rakosi, Jewish Communist mass murderer of Christians in Hungary. According
to the Jewish Telegraph Agency of May 14, 1997, Jews "...played key roles in
ushering Communist rule into Hungary. In fact, during the brutal oppression
of the early 1950s, the regime's top five leaders were Jews. "

Zakharovich Mekhlis: top executioner for Stalin. Henrykas Zimanas: leader of
Lithuanian communist terrorists, butcher of Christians.

Moshe Pijade (sometimes spelled Piade): commander, Yugoslav Communist
People's Army. Tito's top butcher of hundreds of thousands of Croatian
Christians. Pijade later served as president of the Yugoslav Communist
Parliament. At least eighteen generals in the Yugoslav Communist People's
Army were Jewish. The Yugoslavian communist party sent massive arms
shipments to Jewish fighters in Palestine in the 1940s.

In post-war Poland that nation was completely dominated by Jewish

communists: the torturer Jacek Rozanski, head of the Secret Police; the
Politboro commander Jacob Berman (pictured at right)

and commissars Minc, Specht (Olszewski) and Spychalski. These men murdered
or deported to Kolyma and the other Arctic death camps, tens of thousands of
Catholic Poles.

According to Jewish researcher John Sack, "In 1945 many Poles felt (and not
without reason) that Jews ran the Office of State Security...the chief of
the Office was Jacob Berman, a Jew, and all or almost all the department
heads were Jews." Sack reports that 75% of the officers of the Communist
Secret Police in Silesia were Jews. He noted that many Jews in the Communist
terror apparatus in Poland changed their names to Polish ones like General
Romkowski, Colonel Rozanski, Capt. Studencki and Lt. Jurkowski. (cf. John
Sack, The New Republic, Feb. 14, 1994, p. 6. Sack in this article also
refutes some shoddy research performed by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of
Hitler's Willing Executioners, who, in the double standard typical of the
Jewish mentality, refuses to accept the proven fact that Jews ran the Polish
Communist secret police even as Goldhagen asserts the racist myth that the
entire German nation was guilty of genocide. Sack does a good job of proving
Goldhagen wrong about Poland).

In Poland, "...a disproportionate number of Communists were Jews. In 1930,
at its peak, 35% of the members of the party were Jewish. In Communist youth
organizations, Jewish membership was even higher, while Communists of Jewish
origin occupied most of the seats on the central committee. Communism
appealed to some Jews because it opposed anti-Semitism more vigorously than
any other Polish party...Jewish Communists reached their apogee in the years
immediately after World War Two, when the party leadership was totally in
the hands of the prewar Communist leadership that abhorred anti-Semitism."

(Sheldon Kirshner, The Canadian Jewish News, Nov. 5, 1992, p. 16).

Of course when one encounters the issue of Judaics, Communists and Catholics
in Poland in the Establishment media or universities today, the mass murder
of the Polish Catholics at the hands of the Jewish Communists, is never
raised. Instead, a minor attack on Jews by Polish peasants enraged at the
role of Jews in Communist terror, which occurred in July, 1946 at Kielce and
which has come to be called the "Kielce pogrom" will be the centerpiece of
the "discussion. " The motivation for the attack is not usually mentioned.

Rather, the Catholic peasantry are painted in terms of "fiendish bigots"

whose "blind, irrational hate" for the "poor, persecuted Jews" resulted in
"yet another martyrdom of God's Chosen."

But the Catholic Primate of Poland at the time, Cardinal Hlond, a brave
prelate in a stalwart tradition of Christian resistance to Jewish tyranny in
Poland, so different from the traitorous philo-Judaism of the current
Pontiff, stated that the attack in Kielce occurred because of resentment
'due to the Jews who today occupy leading positions in Poland's (Communist)
government and endeavor to introduce a governmental structure that the
majority of Poles do not wish to have." (Ibid., Kirshner).

As Piotr S. Wandycz of Yale University observes, "The average Pole could not
but notice in the Stalinist era that the two most powerful men in the
country--Berman and Minc--were both Jewish as was the dreaded security
official Rozanski." (N.Y. Review of Books, Aug. 18, 1983, p. 51).

With this record it is interesting to note that the Polish occupant of the
papacy, John Paul II, consistently lent his prestige and his presence to
canonizations and commemorations of politically correct victims of the
Nazis. Nowhere did this Pope breath a word about the openly Jewish,
Communist massacres of Polish Catholics, Spanish Catholics, Croatian
Catholics, Lithuanian Catholics--he was too busy, intoning the Shoah,
referring to the heirs of the Pharisees as "our Elder Brothers in the Faith"

giving official recognition to an Israeli state which even many orthodox,
Haredi rabbis regard as a blasphemous and abominable entity, and attacking
the German people as "the image of the beast."

Solomon Morel (pictured at left): commandant of a post-war Communist
concentration camp for Germans in Poland. Stalin deliberately put Jews in
charge of such camps. Morel tortured and murdered thousands of Germans,
sometimes with his bare hands (cf. "The Wrath of Solomon," Village Voice,
March 30, 1993 and John Sack, An Eye for an Eye). Morel is comfortably
esconsed in Tel Aviv. German survivors of Morel's camp have demanded he be
tried as a war criminal, but for the Establishment media and the phony,
partisan, "human rights" groups, bringing Morel to justice is simply a
non-issue. After all, he murdered helpless Germans, so what's the problem?

Julius Hammer, M.D.: New York abortionist and co-founder of the American
communist party. Armand Hammer: fundraiser and financier for Lenin and
Stalin, son of Julius. "The Communist Party was also the most Jewish party
in America. At least nineteen percent of the Young Communist League were
Jews and never less than forty percent of its leadership." (Source: "Pakn

Treger: From Yiddish Roots to the Frontiers of Jewish Culture," Fall 1997,
p. 18).

Lev Davidovich Landau: Stalinist physicist, co-father of the Soviet atomic
bomb. Klaus Fuchs: helped steal atomic bomb secrets for Stalin. Ruth Werner:

colonel, Red Army GRU intelligence, assisted Fuchs. Julius and Ethel

Rosenberg: stole American atomic bomb secrets for Stalin. Morris Cohen
(Peter Kroger): assisted the Rosenbergs. Markus Wolf: chief of German
Communist Stasi Secret Police.

Howard Fast: American communist propagandist for Stalin. David Dubinsky:

Stalin's ally, head of the U.S. International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

Nahum Goldmann: founder, World Jewish Congress, communist propagandist.

Rabbi Moses Rosen: agent, Romanian communist party. Victor Rothschild: top
British espionage agent for Stalin.

Mark Zborowski: "...considered by historians of Soviet terror operations to
have been the most fearsome...(Soviet) spy of all time" (Stephen Schwartz,
Forward, Jan. 26, 1996). Zborowski, a medical researcher, murdered a
dissident with a poisoned orange at the Soviet-run hospital in Paris.

Zborowski was implicated in several other assassinations in 1936 and 1937.

In the 1940s worked for both the American Jewish Committee and the KGB. In
the 1960s Zborowski worked as a medical researcher at Mount Zion Hospital in
San Francisco. He trained numerous psychiatrists and medical specialists in
the Bay Area. He died in 1990 (cf. "The Strange Case of Doctor Zborowski and
Monsieur Etienne" by Philippe Videlier, in Le Monde Diplomatique, Dec.

1992).

From 1936-1939, when Stalin's "International Brigade" forces were dispatched
to Spain to fight the Catholics, Jewish Communists comprised the largest
faction of his troops, "More than 40,000 volunteers fought in the
International Brigade...A huge number of the volunteers were Jews: between
7,000 and 10,000 of the Internationals as a whole, more than one-third of
the Americans." Jewish Communist Milton Wolff was the last commander of the
American contingent. Rabbi Hyman Katz joined in order to fight Spanish
Christians. (cf. Jeffrey Sharlet, "Troublemakers," Pakn Treger, Fall, 1997,
pp. 16, 18 and 24).

The Communists slaughtered 6,549 Spanish priests, 283 helpless nuns and 13
bishops. "In Ciudad Real in the center of Spain, the bishop and every single
priest of the diocese were murdered; not one escaped." --Dr. Warren H.

Carroll, 70 Years of the Communist Revolution, pp. 184-185, 188-189. (Also
cf. Justo Perez de Urbel, Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War [Kansas
City, Missouri: The Angelus Press, 1993).

Michael Hoffman
I'll Always Be Here - 21 Aug 2008 01:44 GMT
"Truth Will Out" <Truthwillout@all_times.net> wrote in news:Yx0rk.29900
$IK1.16821@news-server.bigpond.net.au:

yet another unattributed, undocumented cut and paste from the resident drongo
The_Endeavor - 21 Aug 2008 10:20 GMT
Genrikh Yagoda when asked by his interrogator if he believed in God,
Yagoda replied, "From Stalin I deserved nothing but gratitude for my
faithful service; from God I deserved the most severe punishment for
having violated his commandments thousands of times. Now look where I am
and judge for yourself: is there a God, or not....

> Genrikh Yagoda
B.H. Cramer - 21 Aug 2008 10:41 GMT
> Genrikh Yagoda when asked by his interrogator if he believed in God,
> Yagoda replied, "From Stalin I deserved nothing but gratitude for my
> faithful service; from God I deserved the most severe punishment for
> having violated his commandments thousands of times. Now look where I am
> and judge for yourself: is there a God, or not....

Not.
The_Endeavor - 21 Aug 2008 12:44 GMT
> > Genrikh Yagoda when asked by his interrogator if he believed in God,
> > Yagoda replied, "From Stalin I deserved nothing but gratitude for my
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
> Not.

This conversation was attributed to Yagoda during his last days at the
Lubyanka prison just before his execution.
B.H. Cramer - 21 Aug 2008 13:11 GMT
>> > Genrikh Yagoda when asked by his interrogator if he believed in God,
>> > Yagoda replied, "From Stalin I deserved nothing but gratitude for my
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> This conversation was attributed to Yagoda during his last days at the
> Lubyanka prison just before his execution.

So.

Can you not stay on topic?
The_Endeavor - 21 Aug 2008 13:56 GMT
> >> > Genrikh Yagoda when asked by his interrogator if he believed in God,
> >> > Yagoda replied, "From Stalin I deserved nothing but gratitude for my
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>
> Can you not stay on topic?

This is how it is on the Usenet one person talks about this and
something else. Another person talks about that thing and then something
else. Soon we are talking about something else all together.
B.H. Cramer - 22 Aug 2008 07:51 GMT
>> >> > Genrikh Yagoda when asked by his interrogator if he believed in God,
>> >> > Yagoda replied, "From Stalin I deserved nothing but gratitude for my
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> something else. Another person talks about that thing and then something
> else. Soon we are talking about something else all together.

Speak for yourself, rearender. It's only you jew c.nts who try to move away
from uncomfortable truths.

This was a movement staffed in its upper echelons by Judaic Communists and
yet the world is comparatively silent about the holocaust and war crimes
this thoroughly kosher system inflicted and the identity of the persons who
were its architects.

Auschwitz is on the tip of every tongue but who has heard of Kolyma,
Magadan, the Solovetsky islands and the other infernal Soviet centers of
human destruction in eastern Siberia? Who has seen films and books about the
millions of human beings worked, frozen and starved to death in the
construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal, over which stood a triumphant,
colossal statue of the Judaic Communist mass murderer Genrikh Yagoda?

The Judaic Communist epoch of mass murder has disappeared into history in
one of the great vanishing acts of all time. Only practiced deceivers, with
all the sleight of hand of the most accomplished stage magicians, could pull
off such a coup against the rest of humanity. To trick mankind into focusing
nearly all expiatory sentiment, monuments and commemoration on Judaic
victims and brand the Mark of Cain--the very words war crime and holocaust
itself--on Germany and upon Germans alone as their proprietary trademark,
must be regarded as one of the most masterful achievements of psychological
warfare in the annals of illusion.

Israeli power has expanded commensurate with the expansion of "Holocaust"
propaganda, as noted by the Israeli author Moshe Leshem: "Israelis and
American Jews fully agree that the memory of the Holocaust is an
indispensable weapon--one that must be used relentlessly against their
common enemy...Jewish organizations and individuals thus labor continuously
to remind the world of it. In America, the perpetuation of the Holocaust
memory is now a $100-million-a-year enterprise, part of which is
government-funded." ( Balaam's Curse, p. 228)

This is why Edgar Bronfman, the billionaire Canadian Seagram's whiskey
merchant and chairman of the powerful World Jewish Congress says, "The
growing numbers of revisionist supporters cannot be ignored. We must use
every resource to stop revisionism now, before it's too late."

The reason it must be stopped is because revisionism could prevent the holy
people from finishing the job they started in Russia and Bavaria, only this
time they are using intellectual means to achieve the same end.

Consider the fact that the people who bear the brunt of contemporary Jewish
racist hatred and invective, the Germans, have among the lowest birthrates
and the highest abortion rates of any nation in the world. Far more Germans
die every year than are born.

The self-hating Germans are not the only targets of corrosive gas chamber
guilt, however. Organized Christianity (more accurately called Churchianity)
nowadays is little more than one huge turkey flock, truckling, toadying and
crawling in search of Judaic sanctification and approbation. Their savior
called the Jewish leadership of his time, "the children of hell" (Matthew
23:15) but those who presume to speak in His name today, call them the
saints and sages of the cosmos.

Only in such a profoundly falsified world soaked in fraud could the
international media sit by, uninterested, as the great-great grandson of the
blood-drenched Jewish Red Army commander Leon Trotsky, David Axelrod, shot
to death an elderly Palestinian couple in November of 1990, as part of an
Israeli, "Kach" terror group raid.

But imagine--if you can--the hubbub if a grandson of a Nazi war criminal had
shot a Turkish couple in Germany. The weeping, wailing and never-ending
references to "Never Forget" and "lessons of history" would seep out of the
collective TV sets of the earth like waste from a toxic septic tank, because
what is clear from such a double standard is that the true lessons of
history are not being learned and recollection itself is hostage to the
diorama of Zionist monomania.

Sixteen million ethnic Germans were forcibly expelled from Silesia, Moravia
and the Volga regions of the eastern territories at the end of the Second
World War. On this trail of tears, two million perished--shot to death,
starved, raped and beaten. Ask one in one thousand, one in ten thousand
people on the street today-- "Have you heard?" The answer will be no.

The Steven Spielberg movie images of cattle cars jammed with human cargo are
reserved for Jewish victims alone. The 800,000 mostly Muslim Chechens
deported by Judaic commissars and savagely stuffed into railway cars to
Kazakhstan, where a quarter of a million died enroute, do not meet
Hollywood's standard of cinematic focus.

The Soviet cattle car deportations afflicted more than a half-million
Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Christians who were shipped to the Gulag.
12% of the entire Baltic population was either deported to Siberia or
executed by the Jewish Soviet Secret Police. Who knows of it? Who cares? Who
tries to keep this history from repeating? Instead, in 1995 the president of
Lithuania made a pilgrimage to the Israeli gas chamber shrine at Yad Vashem
to grovel and beg "forgiveness" for his people who were the victims of the
Jewish Communist murderers. To seek forgiveness in all humility is ordained
when it is predicated on the truth. To do so based on false witness in order
to idolize the Pharisees is a mockery of justice.

In the Bolshevik era, 52 percent of the membership of the Soviet communist
party was Jewish, though Jews comprised only 1.8 percent of the total
population (Stuart Kahan, The Wolf of the Kremlin, p. 81)

The following is a list of some top Judaic Communist murderers, commissars,
spies, assassins and propagandists (aliases are listed in parentheses). This
list is by no means comprehensive. To catalog all of the Judaic Communist
involved in crimes would require hundreds of pages.

Judaic Communists
V.I. Lenin, supreme dictator. Leon Bronstein (Trotsky): supreme commander of
the Soviet Red Army. Grigory Apfelbaum (Zinoviev): executive, Soviet Secret
Police. Solomon Lozovsky: deputy Soviet foreign minister. Maxim Wallach
(Litvinov): Soviet foreign minister. Yuri Andropov: director, Soviet KGB,
later supreme dictator of the Soviet Union.

Jacob Sverdlov: first president of the Soviet Union. Sverdlov ordered the
massacre of the Czar's family--women and children--in the town named after
Catherine the Great, Yekaterinburg, (renamed Sverdlovsk in 1924 in honor of
the murderer).

Jacob Yurovsky: commander, Soviet Secret Police. Yurovsky led the death
squad which carried out Sverdlov's order for the murder of the Czar's
family, including the bayoneting to death of the Czar's daughters. The
Ipatyev house, where, in the basement, the massacre had occurred, stood
intact until 1977, when the local Communist party boss at that time, Boris
Yeltsin, ordered it demolished, lest it become a shrine to anti-Jewish
sentiment.

Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (pictured at left): chief mass murderer for
Stalin, ordered the deaths of millions and the wholesale destruction of
Christian monuments and churches, including the great Cathedral of Christ
the Savior. Standing amid the rubble of the cathedral, Kaganovich
proclaimed, "Mother Russia is cast down. We have ripped away her skirts."
(N.Y. Times, Sept. 26, 1995).

Mikhail Kaganovich: deputy commissar of heavy industry, supervisor of slave
labor, brother of Lazar. Rosa Kaganovich: Stalin's mistress; sister of
Lazar. Paulina Zhemchuzina: member of the Central Committee and wife of
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Olga Bronstein: officer, Soviet Cheka
Secret Police, sister of Trotsky, wife of Kamenev.

Genrikh Yagoda: chief of Soviet Secret Police, mass murderer extraordinaire.
(Jewish poet Romain Rolland, winner of the Nobel Prize, wrote a hymn of
praise to Yagoda).

Matvei Berman and Naftaly Frenkel: founders, the Gulag death camp system.

Lev Inzhir, commissar for Soviet death camp transit and administration.
Boris Berman: executive officer of the Soviet Secret Police and brother of
Matvei. K.V. Pauker: chief of operations, Soviet NKVD Secret Police.

Firin, Rappoport, Kogan, Zhuk: commissars of death camps and slave labor,
supervised the mass deaths of laborers during the construction of the White
Sea--Baltic Canal.

M.I. Gay: commander, Soviet Secret Police. Slutsky and Shpiegelglas:
commanders, Soviet Secret Police. Isaac Babel: officer, Soviet Secret
Police.

Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin (Aleksandr Orlov): commander, Soviet Red Army;
officer, Soviet Secret Police. Feldbin was chief of Soviet Security in the
Spanish Civil War. He supervised the massacre of Catholic priests and
peasants in Spain.

Yona Yakir: general, Soviet Red Army, member of the Central Committee.
Dimitri Shmidt: general, Soviet Red Army. Yakov ("Yankel") Kreiser: general,
Soviet Red Army. Miron Vovsi: general, Soviet Red Army.

David Dragonsky: general, Soviet Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union. Grigori
Shtern: general, Soviet Red Army. Mikhail Chazkelevich: general, Soviet Red
Army. Shimon Kirvoshein: general, Soviet Red Army. Arseni Raskin:
deputy-commander, Soviet Red Army. Haim Fomin, commander of Brest-Litovsk,
Soviet Red Army. At least one hundred Soviet generals were Jewish (cf.
Canadian Jewish News, April 19, 1989).

Generals who were not themselves Jewish often had Jewish wives. Among these
were Marshal Voroshilov, Marshal Bulganin, Marshal Peresypkin and General
Pavel Sudoplatov (Sudoplatov assassinated hundreds of Christian leaders
including Ukranian Catholic Archbishop Teodor Romzha). This Jewish wife
"insurance policy" extended to Politburo members such as Andrei Andreyev and
Leonoid Brezhnev.

Sergei Eisenstein: director of communist propaganda films which depicted
Christian peasants (kulaks) as hideous, money-grabbing parasites. The kulaks
were subsequently massacred. (Cf. for example Eisenstein's Bezhin Meadow).

KOMZET: commission for the settlement of Jewish Communists on land seized
from murdered Christians in Ukraine; funded by Jewish-American financier
Julius Rosenwald.

Ilya Ehrenburg, Minister of Soviet Propaganda and disseminator of
anti-German hate material dating from the 1930s. Ehrenburg instigated the
Soviet Red Army rape and murder of German civilians. Referring to German
women, Ehrenburg gloated to the advancing Red Army troops, "that blonde hag
is in for a bad time."

In a leaflet addressed to Soviet troops, Ehrenburg wrote: "...the Germans
are not human beings...nothing gives us so much joy as German corpses."
(Anatol Goldberg, Ilya Ehrenburg, p. 197). Goldberg concedes that Ehrenburg,
"...had always disliked the Germans...now that there was a war on he turned
his old prejudice into an asset." (Ibid., p. 193).

Another publication distributed to the Red Army, this time as the soldiers
approached Danzig, was described by a historian: "Millions of leaflets were
air-dropped on the troops with a message composed by the propagandist Ilya
Ehrenburg and signed by Stalin: 'Soldiers of the Red Army! Kill the Germans!
Kill all Germans! Kill! Kill! Kill!" (Christopher Duffy, Red Storm on the
Reich).

The Soviet leadership acknowledged that Ehrenburg sought the extermination
of the entire German people (cf. Pravda, April 14, 1945. [Pravda was also
published in a Yiddish edition, Einikeyt). Ehrenburg won the Order of Lenin
and the Stalin Prize. He willed his papers to the Israeli Yad Vashem
'Holocaust' Museum.

Solomon Mikhoels: commissar of Soviet propaganda. Soviet film propagandists:
Mark Donsky, Leonid Lukov, Yuli Reisman, Vasily Grossman,Yevgeny
Gabrilovich, Boris Volchok and Lillian Hellman (old movies written by her
continue to be broadcast on American telelvision).

Soviet propagandist: Yevgeny Khaldei who staged the photo of the raising of
the hammer and sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin, May 2, 1945.
Afterward, a special plane was waiting to fly Khaldei, Stalin's top Tass
photographer, to a Moscow lab, where his photo was further doctored (loot
displayed on one of the Soviet soldier's wrists was removed in the negative
and Khaldei added clouds and smoke to the scene for dramatic effect (see
photo of Khaldei and his beloved flag at left). Khaldei continued to work as
a premier Soviet propagandist until his retirement from Pravda in 1972. His
Communist propaganda is proudly on display at the Jewish Museum of New York
and the Jewish Museum of San Francisco. N.Y. Times writer Vicki Goldberg
exulted in the raising of the blood-drenched Soviet flag, emblem of the
slaughter of millions of peasants and Christians; describing it as, "...a
national (and worldwide) symbol of triumph, justice and revenge." (Jan. 31,
1997, p. B-26).

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC): new form of the Bolshevik YEVKOM,
Stalin's recruiting conduit for funding money, supplies and political
influence for Soviet Russia from world Jewry as well as the dissemination of
gas chamber atrocity propaganda (cf. The Black Book).

Nikolai Bukharin: Lenin's chief theorist. Samuel Agursky: commissar. Karl
Radek: member, Central Committee. Mikhail Gruzenberg (Borodin) commissar.
A.A. Yoffe: commissar. David Ryazanov: advisor to Lenin. Lev Grigorievich
Levin: physician, poisoner of Stalin's enemies. Lev Rosenfeld (Kamenev):
member of the Central Committee.

Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to Britain. Itzik Solomonovich Feffer:
commissar, Soviet Secret Police. Abraham Sutskever: Soviet
terrorist-partisan. Mark Osipovich Reizen: Soviet propagandist, winner of
three Stalin Prizes. Lev Leopold Trepper: Soviet espionage officer.

Bela Kun (Kohen): supreme dictator of Hungary in 1919. Kun was later
Stalin's chief terrorist in the Crimea. Kun's eventual successor was Matyas
Rakosi, Jewish Communist mass murderer of Christians in Hungary. According
to the Jewish Telegraph Agency of May 14, 1997, Jews "...played key roles in
ushering Communist rule into Hungary. In fact, during the brutal oppression
of the early 1950s, the regime's top five leaders were Jews. "

Zakharovich Mekhlis: top executioner for Stalin. Henrykas Zimanas: leader of
Lithuanian communist terrorists, butcher of Christians.

Moshe Pijade (sometimes spelled Piade): commander, Yugoslav Communist
People's Army. Tito's top butcher of hundreds of thousands of Croatian
Christians. Pijade later served as president of the Yugoslav Communist
Parliament. At least eighteen generals in the Yugoslav Communist People's
Army were Jewish. The Yugoslavian communist party sent massive arms
shipments to Jewish fighters in Palestine in the 1940s.

In post-war Poland that nation was completely dominated by Jewish
communists: the torturer Jacek Rozanski, head of the Secret Police; the
Politboro commander Jacob Berman (pictured at right)

and commissars Minc, Specht (Olszewski) and Spychalski. These men murdered
or deported to Kolyma and the other Arctic death camps, tens of thousands of
Catholic Poles.

According to Jewish researcher John Sack, "In 1945 many Poles felt (and not
without reason) that Jews ran the Office of State Security...the chief of
the Office was Jacob Berman, a Jew, and all or almost all the department
heads were Jews." Sack reports that 75% of the officers of the Communist
Secret Police in Silesia were Jews. He noted that many Jews in the Communist
terror apparatus in Poland changed their names to Polish ones like General
Romkowski, Colonel Rozanski, Capt. Studencki and Lt. Jurkowski. (cf. John
Sack, The New Republic, Feb. 14, 1994, p. 6. Sack in this article also
refutes some shoddy research performed by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, author of
Hitler's Willing Executioners, who, in the double standard typical of the
Jewish mentality, refuses to accept the proven fact that Jews ran the Polish
Communist secret police even as Goldhagen asserts the racist myth that the
entire German nation was guilty of genocide. Sack does a good job of proving
Goldhagen wrong about Poland).

In Poland, "...a disproportionate number of Communists were Jews. In 1930,
at its peak, 35% of the members of the party were Jewish. In Communist youth
organizations, Jewish membership was even higher, while Communists of Jewish
origin occupied most of the seats on the central committee. Communism
appealed to some Jews because it opposed anti-Semitism more vigorously than
any other Polish party...Jewish Communists reached their apogee in the years
immediately after World War Two, when the party leadership was totally in
the hands of the prewar Communist leadership that abhorred anti-Semitism."
(Sheldon Kirshner, The Canadian Jewish News, Nov. 5, 1992, p. 16).

Of course when one encounters the issue of Judaics, Communists and Catholics
in Poland in the Establishment media or universities today, the mass murder
of the Polish Catholics at the hands of the Jewish Communists, is never
raised. Instead, a minor attack on Jews by Polish peasants enraged at the
role of Jews in Communist terror, which occurred in July, 1946 at Kielce and
which has come to be called the "Kielce pogrom" will be the centerpiece of
the "discussion. " The motivation for the attack is not usually mentioned.
Rather, the Catholic peasantry are painted in terms of "fiendish bigots"
whose "blind, irrational hate" for the "poor, persecuted Jews" resulted in
"yet another martyrdom of God's Chosen."

But the Catholic Primate of Poland at the time, Cardinal Hlond, a brave
prelate in a stalwart tradition of Christian resistance to Jewish tyranny in
Poland, so different from the traitorous philo-Judaism of the current
Pontiff, stated that the attack in Kielce occurred because of resentment
'due to the Jews who today occupy leading positions in Poland's (Communist)
government and endeavor to introduce a governmental structure that the
majority of Poles do not wish to have." (Ibid., Kirshner).

As Piotr S. Wandycz of Yale University observes, "The average Pole could not
but notice in the Stalinist era that the two most powerful men in the
country--Berman and Minc--were both Jewish as was the dreaded security
official Rozanski." (N.Y. Review of Books, Aug. 18, 1983, p. 51).

With this record it is interesting to note that the Polish occupant of the
papacy, John Paul II, consistently lent his prestige and his presence to
canonizations and commemorations of politically correct victims of the
Nazis. Nowhere did this Pope breath a word about the openly Jewish,
Communist massacres of Polish Catholics, Spanish Catholics, Croatian
Catholics, Lithuanian Catholics--he was too busy, intoning the Shoah,
referring to the heirs of the Pharisees as "our Elder Brothers in the Faith"
giving official recognition to an Israeli state which even many orthodox,
Haredi rabbis regard as a blasphemous and abominable entity, and attacking
the German people as "the image of the beast."

Solomon Morel (pictured at left): commandant of a post-war Communist
concentration camp for Germans in Poland. Stalin deliberately put Jews in
charge of such camps. Morel tortured and murdered thousands of Germans,
sometimes with his bare hands (cf. "The Wrath of Solomon," Village Voice,
March 30, 1993 and John Sack, An Eye for an Eye). Morel is comfortably
esconsed in Tel Aviv. German survivors of Morel's camp have demanded he be
tried as a war criminal, but for the Establishment media and the phony,
partisan, "human rights" groups, bringing Morel to justice is simply a
non-issue. After all, he murdered helpless Germans, so what's the problem?

Julius Hammer, M.D.: New York abortionist and co-founder of the American
communist party. Armand Hammer: fundraiser and financier for Lenin and
Stalin, son of Julius. "The Communist Party was also the most Jewish party
in America. At least nineteen percent of the Young Communist League were
Jews and never less than forty percent of its leadership." (Source: "Pakn
Treger: From Yiddish Roots to the Frontiers of Jewish Culture," Fall 1997,
p. 18).

Lev Davidovich Landau: Stalinist physicist, co-father of the Soviet atomic
bomb. Klaus Fuchs: helped steal atomic bomb secrets for Stalin. Ruth Werner:
colonel, Red Army GRU intelligence, assisted Fuchs. Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg: stole American atomic bomb secrets for Stalin. Morris Cohen
(Peter Kroger): assisted the Rosenbergs. Markus Wolf: chief of German
Communist Stasi Secret Police.

Howard Fast: American communist propagandist for Stalin. David Dubinsky:
Stalin's ally, head of the U.S. International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Nahum Goldmann: founder, World Jewish Congress, communist propagandist.
Rabbi Moses Rosen: agent, Romanian communist party. Victor Rothschild: top
British espionage agent for Stalin.

Mark Zborowski: "...considered by historians of Soviet terror operations to
have been the most fearsome...(Soviet) spy of all time" (Stephen Schwartz,
Forward, Jan. 26, 1996). Zborowski, a medical researcher, murdered a
dissident with a poisoned orange at the Soviet-run hospital in Paris.
Zborowski was implicated in several other assassinations in 1936 and 1937.
In the 1940s worked for both the American Jewish Committee and the KGB. In
the 1960s Zborowski worked as a medical researcher at Mount Zion Hospital in
San Francisco. He trained numerous psychiatrists and medical specialists in
the Bay Area. He died in 1990 (cf. "The Strange Case of Doctor Zborowski and
Monsieur Etienne" by Philippe Videlier, in Le Monde Diplomatique, Dec.
1992).

From 1936-1939, when Stalin's "International Brigade" forces were dispatched
to Spain to fight the Catholics, Jewish Communists comprised the largest
faction of his troops, "More than 40,000 volunteers fought in the
International Brigade...A huge number of the volunteers were Jews: between
7,000 and 10,000 of the Internationals as a whole, more than one-third of
the Americans." Jewish Communist Milton Wolff was the last commander of the
American contingent. Rabbi Hyman Katz joined in order to fight Spanish
Christians. (cf. Jeffrey Sharlet, "Troublemakers," Pakn Treger, Fall, 1997,
pp. 16, 18 and 24).

The Communists slaughtered 6,549 Spanish priests, 283 helpless nuns and 13
bishops. "In Ciudad Real in the center of Spain, the bishop and every single
priest of the diocese were murdered; not one escaped." --Dr. Warren H.
Carroll, 70 Years of the Communist Revolution, pp. 184-185, 188-189. (Also
cf. Justo Perez de Urbel, Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War [Kansas
City, Missouri: The Angelus Press, 1993).

Michael Hoffman
halle - 22 Aug 2008 08:17 GMT
> <snip>

Excellent piece Ben!
B.H. Cramer - 22 Aug 2008 08:20 GMT
>> <snip>
>
> Excellent piece Ben!

It is, isn't it.

I've got more :-)
I'll Always Be Here - 22 Aug 2008 09:26 GMT
"halle" <hallerih@gmail.com> wrote in news:6Ltrk.53746$_03.41650
@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi:

>> <snip>
>
> Excellent piece Ben!

And well and properly snipped. Thank you.
RJ11 - 22 Aug 2008 10:16 GMT
  (snip some drivel about "Jews and Communism")

  http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2008/02/06/006.html

  Anti-Semitism was introduced as official Soviet state ideology
during Stalin's reign in the late 1930s. Jews were barred from high
positions in virtually all spheres. In the media, literature and
films, they were almost never shown in a positive light.

  </quote>

RJ.
RJ11 - 21 Aug 2008 16:39 GMT
  (snip)

  For conclusive proof that "Cramer" is a forger,  look
at Message-ID: <b4adnSx2NqPH8u7bnZ2dnUVZ_v-tnZ2d@giganews.com>,
in which he asserts to post the content of the article
"Cold Reminder"  NY Times,  Dec. 3 1994.

  Unfortunately for "Cramer",  the NYT archives are now
free.  As everyone can easily check by visiting
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0DB1F30F930A35751C1A962958260,
the article "Cramer" posted has nothing to do with the
actual article.

RJ.
Ariadne - 21 Aug 2008 19:31 GMT
> In article <Yx0rk.29900$IK1.16...@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>
> RJ.

Thank you for finding the article.  I think it's worth
posting here.  I wonder what the ritual described
at the end means.

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December 3, 1994
Pelvozh Journal; Cold Reminder of Stalin's Murders Refuses to Fade
By MICHAEL SPECTER,

There is no road to this place. It was never necessary to build one.
For three decades, after tramping through snowdrifts or trudging along
the icy surface of the Pelyi River, Soviet citizens arrived at this
beautiful site in chains.

Thousands of Stalin's earliest victims were sent here to starve and
freeze and work themselves to death. The camps here are not as famous
as Kolyma or Magadan -- the great centers of human destruction in
eastern Siberia. But these small clusters of buildings along the road
to Salekhard, on the edge of the tundra 1,200 miles north of Moscow,
were every bit as deadly. This one -- nothing more really than a few
wooden buildings and a watchtower encircled by barbed wire -- was
called Camp 48, after some kilometer mark forgotten long ago.

The inmates here spent their days building a railroad to nowhere,
working on Stalin's grand illusion of a train across the Arctic.
Construction stopped the day he died, and the wooden trestles soon
collapsed under the snow. In summer the prisoners endured swarms of
giant mosquitoes. But winter was the bad time. Dressed in paper-thin
clothes and felt boots, they worked 14-hour shifts, unless the
temperature dropped to 50 below zero. Then they were permitted to stay
indoors.

It is so majestic here, so silent and peaceful and remote, that it is
hard to remember that these camps are one of the century's towering
symbols of cruelty and despair. This little camp -- and thousands like
it spread across the vast nation -- helped drive the Soviet Union into
its collective madness, a stupor that did not fully lift until the
Communist Government finally choked on its own lies and died.

There are no crematories or gas chambers or any other sign of the mass
murder that became the hallmark of the era. That was for the Nazis.
But even Hitler, acknowledging the harshness of the Russian camp
system, was reported to have said, "I would not need concentration
camps if I had the vast spaces of Siberia."

At the height of the terror in 1938, more than 12 million people had
been arrested, and most were sent off to spots along the string of
camps that became known as the Gulag Archipelago, for the Russian
acronym for the agency that ran the labor camps. These camps are
spread along the river every five miles or so between Nadym and
Salekhard, the town that served as the provincial center of the gulag
system.

The camps were always situated in remote, frigid climates where the
maximum labor could be exacted from inmates with little attention from
the outside world.

The prisoners had meager rations. An average daily diet for a man
engaged in vigorous labor in the Arctic, according to many camp
histories, consisted of 800 grams of bread, 20 of fat, 120 of cereal,
75 of fish and 27 of sugar -- not many more calories than are in a
sandwich and a bowl of soup. Rations were cut for the flimsiest of
reasons.

In the 1930's, and especially after World War II, when this camp
housed Russian soldiers whose sin was to have been taken prisoner by
the Germans, about 1,000 people died a month from the cold or
starvation, typhus or tuberculosis.

They slept four men to a pallet -- 3 feet of space each. The
punishment cell in Camp 48 is hardly big enough for a person fed on
anything more than gruel to enter.

Nothing has been purposefully preserved, but history fades slowly in
the Arctic. Names are etched into the soft log walls: Ivan, Oleg. To
keep track of their time in the punishment box, they dug elaborate
squares -- counting each time the guard threw them a scrap of bread or
dumped their slop bucket on the ground as one day. The squares are
still there in the wood, like gruesome games of tick-tack-toe that
nobody ever won.

There is no way of knowing how many people died in the 14 camps in
this region that together made up what was known as Construction Site
501. Historians say 300,000, but the graves have never been found.

"We haven't really looked that hard," said Lyudmila Lipatova, director
of the Salekhard city museum, which has a small permanent exhibit
devoted to the camps. "Some things you don't want to know."

The exhibit has a pile of the cotton face masks that prisoners were
permitted to use to protect themselves against frostbite. They almost
never worked. Shoes -- flimsy clumps of leather and felt -- stand
against one wall. Along another is a chilling display of prisoner
registration cards -- passport-size identification tags with a
picture, a name, age, a camp name and the cause of death.

Viktor I. Isovonovitch, 21, execution by firing squad.

Grigory V. Yablonsky, 18, execution by firing squad.

Igor I. Lermonsky, 31, execution by firing squad.

Most of the Stalin's labor camps were ripped down long ago by special
military brigades. But some, like Camp 48, were just too isolated to
bother with.

Even at the beginning of winter, the downy snow is two feet high. The
river has been frozen since September. Reindeer, elk and fox have
breached the barbed wire and sometimes sleep in the barracks now.

The only way to get here now is by helicopter. These days only the
rare helicopter touches down here. When Russians are on them, they try
to bring some bread and vodka.

At the gate they drink half the vodka and pour the rest on the icy
ground. Then they lay the bread on the snow and slowly walk away.

Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company
____

I've experienced 40 below zero and at that temperature
the moisture on your skin forms a light frost.  I was
very well wrapped-up.  I cannot imagine wearing flimsy
clothes at 50 below.
 
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