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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

He belonged to the moderate wing of Social Democracy,
still abstained from immoderate and unrealisable demands, but,
through his parallel government, threw one spanner after another
into the wheel of the government, which in the Russian national
sense still demanded the necessary defence of the country, and war.
Soon however centrifugal forces began to operate. As speaker of
the Petersburg Council there emerged suddenly a Bolshevik named
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Steklov, a quite unknown personality. Since at that time it was
not seldom that people approached the government whom one knew
only by their code-name, this Steklov was ordered to show his pass.
This went by the name of - Nakhamkes ! Its bearer was, what nobody
had ever doubted, a Jew.
Nakhamkes, as an unchallengeable personality, conducted
a demogogic politics of a special sort and called for peace and
freedom, promised help to his German brothers, bread and a happy
homecoming after all the travails of the war.
The soldiers had all sworn in March 1917 to conduct the
war until the victorious end and the general mood was, even later,
indeed not a dejected one. Taking note of this mood and in order to
be involved in all parties, different Russian Jews who rushed in
from all parts of the world set themselves up as apparent moderates
and became the leaders of the less frenzied parties - in this way
Kogan-Bernstein, 316 Lieber, 317 Dan 318 became the leaders of the
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Mensheviks (like the German Majority Socialists) . On the other
hand, however, they prevented the government at every turn from
intervening against the increasingly stronger machinations of the
Bolsheviks. The heart ofthis current was incontestably the Jew Leo
Bronstein (Trotsky). Already actively participant in the Revolution

315
[Yuri Steklov (ne Ovshey Nakhamkes) (1873-1941) was a Jewish Bolshevik
who was arrested during Stalin's Great Purge of 1937/8 and died in prison.]
316
[M.I. Kogan-Bernstein]
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[Mark Lieber]
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[Fedor Dan]
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[The Mehrheitssozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (MSPD) was the
unofficial name of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) between
1917 and 1922 under the leadership of F. Ebert and P. Scheidemann.]
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