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Alfred Rosenberg

of 1905, he fled abroad, lived in Spain as correspondent for the
socialist newspaper Djenj, travelled to New York, where he emerged
in the suburbs as a communist preacher. Immediately after the
outbreak of the Russian Revolution he went to Russia and was soon
a driving force of the all-destroying Bolshevism.
Here the Kalmuck Tartar Lenin (Uljanow) fought as a leader.
Whatever may appear in Bolshevism as an idea comes from his
head. The trust of so many Russian workers, and not indeed the
worst, was granted to him. By his early acquaintances he is described
as a man who lived entirely within the narrow circle of his dogmas
and was immovable to the point of primitivism. As the third in the
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three-headed leadership functioned the Jew Zinoviev, the later
chairman of the Moscow International of 1919. Through the
demagogy and unscrupulousness of Trotsky and Zinoviev
Bolshevism became a predominantly Jewish undertaking.
That Russian Bolshevism was, and is, such cannot be
doubted. From 1917 to January 1918, 1 travelled from Petersburg to
the Crimea and must state (therein I can exclude much as
coincidental) that where Bolsheviks emerged, in universities, street
meetings, workers' councils, 90 out of 100 were Jews. Besides, I
have met them in the Crimea (the Crimea was occupied by them),
in military hospitals, with the newspaper Pravda (the Bolshevist
organ) under their arms, and many items of news revealed hardly
anything but Jewish forces of subversion. In spite of everything I
would not have the right to consider these personal experiences as
characteristic ofthe Bolshevist movement ifthe facts following from
it did not express the same thing.
In Germany one commits the mistake of considering
Bolshevism as a Russian necessity. Now it would be understandable
that, when a shackle is removed, the repressed motions break out
with doubled strength. That may also be true in many cases. But in
general one must say that there did not exist beforehand any necessity

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[Gregori Zinoviev (ne Ovsei-Gershon Apfelbaum) (1883-1936) was a Jewish
Bolshevik who along with Kamenev at first supported Stalin against Trotsky, though
after 1926 they supported Trotsky against Stalin. Zinoviev and Kamenev were
eventually arrested in December 1 934 for complicity in the murder ofthe Leningrad
Communist party leader, Sergei Kirov, and executed.]

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