Page 163 - The Track Of The Jew Through The Ages - Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

One who knows Dostoyevsky's Idiot finds in Prince Myshkin an
amazing image of him (though after removing his mystical-genial
trait), sometimes timid, sometimes flaming with idealism, then
oratorically vain, then megalomaniac, staggering back and forth
between two principles. As Myshkin did not know which of two
women he loved, so also did Kerensky not know whether he should
follow his Marxist doctrine or a national feeling. After more than
ambiguous manoeuvres he finally threw himself into a position
where a cheap fame as a speaker was in store for him. All his
hysterical speeches however did not stop the demoralisation; in
October 1 9 1 7, a soldiers' congress was held which, going above the
head of the government, ordered the army to throw down its arms.
The story of this congress is extremely instructive. At it, all
questions of a social and political nature were to be discussed, but
the majority of the Russian army, in the face of the threatening
military situation, refused all political quarrel at such a time. But
this did not deter the most eager Bolshevists in any way, they dragged
in all their representatives, the officer cadet Abrahamov (Krylenko)
set himself in the chairman's armchair and, unendowed and
unauthorised, issued appeals and decrees in the name ofthe Russian
army. Kerensky's attempts to suppress this audacity went lamentably
wrong; the Petersburg garrison, demoralised by inactivity, and
provided with money from secret sources (people were convinced
that it was German since the Jew Ftirstenberg-Ganeski from
Stockholm had demonstrably transferred large sums to the Petersburg
soldiers' council), threw itself on the side of its donors and, at the
beginning of November 1917, overthrew the last Russian
government. It is also characteristic that in the last sessions of the
Preparliament that had been formed not a single Russian spoke on
the side of the opposition but, without exception, Jews.
With that the victory of the Bolsheviks was decided and
now there was no restraint to the Jews: they let their visor fall and
established an almost purely Jewish Russian government.
Lenin was almost the only non-Jew among the People's
Commissioners, as it were the Russian advertisement for the Jewish
undertaking; in his character, however, doubtless the strongest. Who

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