Frontispiece
		Prologue
	Chapter I	Voltaire and the Encyclopedists
	Chapter II	The Hegelians
	Chapter III	Heaven on Earth
	Chapter IV	Empire of the Czars
	Chapter V	Llano Estacado
	Chapter VI	Dawn of the New Age
	Chapter VII	Man of Steel
	Chapter VIII	Wolves are Closing In
	Chapter IX	Stalin and Roosevelt
	Chapter X	Shifting Alliances
	Chapter XI	Cold War
	Chapter XII	Lost Empire
	Chapter XIII	Apre le Deluge
	Chapter XIV	Paper Centerfolds
		Postscript

Shifting Alliances

Numerous writers on the right end of the political spectrum asserted that the Communism is Jewish. Is it? For many years, the role of the Jewish faction in the creation of the Soviet Union was stressed and, in the United States, the Democratic Party appeared to be associated with the generous Jewish contributors and influential Jewish intellectuals. Observations of numerous sociologists that the spirit of capitalism is essentially the spirit of Judeo-Protestantism, that the Soviet Union and its allies were the only countries where Jews did not dominate the economy, and the analysis of the philosophy of Karl Marx with respect to religion were mostly ignored. However, around the beginning of the 21^st Century, the United States' Jewish lobby, Jewish intellectuals and media moguls switched their allegiance and associated themselves with the extreme right of the Republican Party and its Judeo-Protestant constituency. Phenomenological analysis of some of these shifting alliances described here supports the notion that association of the Judaist factions with the right-left polarities of the political spectrum is opportunistic and, ultimately, determined by religious factors.

Roots the Russian communist movements can be traced to the General Jewish Workers' Union in the Pale of Settlements and to the Lenin's party. Communist movements in other countries also had their national and Jewish factions. Before gaining power, these two factions worked together. Invariably, after gaining power, internal power struggle between those two factions ensued. In Russia, the Jewish faction was led by Lev Davydovich Bronstein (Communist party name Leon Trotsky, born in the Pale of Settlement). The national faction was headed by Joseph Djugashvili, (Communist party name Joseph Stalin, born in Georgia, Russia).

Atrocity attributions  Stalin's purges of were directed primary against the Jewish faction of the Communist party. Thus, e.g., Solzenitsyn (2003) in his historical study about the relationship between Russians and Jews writes that

Between January 1, 1935 and January 1, 1938, Jewish dominance
in the ministry of internal affairs fell from about 50% of ministry
members to about 6%.

Stalin's focus on the Jewish faction of his multiple enemies explains the fact that with the passage of time, the magnitude of atrocities ascribed to him is not diminishing and the numbers of his alleged victims are steadily increasing. This type of atrocity attributions is characteristics of the religious hate mythology.

The period of reconciliation  During the Second world war the Nationalist and Jewish faction of the communist parties coalesced. Some members of the communist parties of the German occupied countries joined their respective provisional governments-in-exile (1941-1945) in the Great Britain and in the United States, however, most members of the communist parties immigrated to the Soviet Union. Thus, e.g., in the case of Czechoslovakia, the London government-in exile was headed by the former president of Czechoslovakia Edward Benes and by the son of the first president of Czechoslovakia Jan Masaryk with large Jewish following. The Czechoslovak Moscow group consisted of the national faction headed by Klement Gottwald and of the Jewish faction, headed by Rudolf Slansky (Salzmann). In March of 1945, Edward Benes and Klement Gottwald agreed to form a joint National Front government with Edward Benes as the President and Klement Gottwald as the Prime Minister of the post-war government of Czechoslovakia.

The Iron Curtain  In Spring of 1946 President Benes declared that

All Jews should immigrate to Palestine. Those who refuse to emigrate, must assimilate.
If they don’t, then they will be treated as foreigners. The establishment of the Jewish
state in Palestine is the only feasible solution of the international Jewish problem.

In June of 1948 President Benes was forced to resign (he died three months later), Jan Masaryk was assassinated shortly afterwards, Klement Gottwald became the President of Czechoslovakia and Rudolf Slansky became the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Czechoslovakia started shipping arms and Messerschmitt warplanes from Czechoslovak armament factories (which were during the 1939-1945 years the integral part of the German war effort) to Israel, and provided military training for Israeli soldiers. The first Czechoslovak ambassador to Israel, Edward Goldstucker, arrived to Tel Aviv toward the end of 1950.

Execution of Rudolf Slansky and assassination of Premier Stalin  After the fall of the Iron Curtain Premier Stalin started to contemplate the possibility that, before the Soviet Union will be able to achieve nuclear parity, the United States will carry on a preemptive nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. In 1948, the year Israel gained its independence, Premier Stalin began to sense the resurgence of Russian Jewry solidarity with Israel and the United States. After the frenzied welcome of Golda Meir in Moscow, the first ambassador of Israel to the Soviet Union, he started to fear that if the United States invaded the Soviet Union, it would likely receive support from the sizable Jewish minority.

He was reinforced in this belief when he learned that a Jewish group within the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia opened Czechoslovak military airports to American B-17 Flying Fortresses stationed in West Germany. As described by Colonel Benjamin Kagan in his 1960 article in Biton Chel Ha’aveer, at the beginning of the Cold War, the Jewish faction of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, led by Rudolf Slansky, established the air bridge between Zatec (Yehuda Briger), Podgorica (Gadi Schochat) and Ekron (Munya Mardor) and used the Czechoslovak military airport at Zatec as the base for the long-range bombing missions from where American B-17 Fortresses, stationed in Germany and piloted by American Jewish volunteers, bombed Cairo, Gaza, and El-Arish.

In December of 1952, Rudolf Slansky and eleven other members of the Jewish faction of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia were executed and Premier Stalin started preparations for resettlement of Jews from the European part of Russia to the Jewish Autonomous Region, located between the Amur River and Chinese Border.¹ This was the reason for his assassination, in March 1953, by several members of the Jewish faction of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by Lazar Kaganovich.  

Failed coup d’état of the 1968

After the death of Premier Stalin in 1953, the suppressed Jewish faction of the Czechoslovak Communist Party was gradually regaining power. In January of 1968, two prominent members of the Jewish faction of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Edward Goldstucker, the former ambassador of Czechoslovakia to Israel and Ota Šik, an economist, attended a meeting with the U.S. and Israel representatives in London, where they received financial funds to stage a coup d'état against the communist government of Czechoslovakia. A naïve member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Alexander Dubcek, was designated as the figurehead of this coup, promoted at that time as a struggle for socialism with the human face. This coup d'état, orchestrated by the Jewish faction of the Communist Party, was suppressed by the allied armies of the Soviet Union and countries of the Warsaw Pact. About a half-a-million of Czech citizens who mistakenly believed that socialism with the human face and not a Zionist coup d'état was defeated, left Czechoslovakia for various Western countries.

Gorbachev’s Perestroika (1985-1991)  During the Gorbachev's period of Restructuring (Perestroika), Jewish factions of communist parties started again to regain power. Some of its former members now openly boast of their formerly clandestine connections with the secret services of the western countries and Israel. Several technicians responsible for the melt-down of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, precipitating the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union, now live in comfort in Western countries and in Israel.

Assassination of Alexander Dubcek

Michael Gorbachev, among whose close personal friends were the crypto-Christian Shevardnaze and a prominent member of the Jewish faction of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Zdenek Mlynar (Muller), was strongly influenced by the ideas of the socialism with the human face and resented the suppression of these ideals by the Soviet military intervention in 1968. This was among the reasons he rejected the pleas of eastern European communist leaders for the Soviet military intervention, who were facing imminent cessation of their governments (and, in some cases, also of their physical existence). In the case of Czechoslovakia, shortly after the velvet revolution of 1989, the country was partitioned into the Czech and Slovak Republics. At that time, the future political orientation of these countries became an issue: will they follow the path of the socialism with the human face envisioned by Gorbachev and Dubcek? On September 1, 1992, Dubcek's chauffeur-driven car crashed on the Bratislava-Prague freeway. After the arrival at the hospital, Dubcek managed to say that he had sensed something was wrong with the car as it accelerated to a high speed and that he laid down on the back seat and tied himself down just before the car crashed. Dubcek was found in front of the crashed car and died several hours afterwards. His death was symbolic of the end his and Gorbachev's vision of socialist humanism.

NATO Member Countries

Shifting alliances  After Dubcek's death, the Czech and Slovak Republics became members of NATO and strong political and military supporters of the United States and Israel, as did the other countries of the former East Block of the socialist countries. The majority of the members of their respective communist parties switched their allegiance to their new right-wing governments.² The remaining communist parties withered and are receding into oblivion. However, with the emergence of the triumphant Judeo-Protestantism, extending its power from the ecclesial to the secular domain, a new loosely, defined coalition of humanistic thinkers is being formed on the left side of the political spectrum. At the present time its contours are still hard to see, but let us hope that they will focus into a beacon of light to follow.

Notes  

1. The Jewish Autonomous Region was established as a secular alternative to the religious Zionist movement. Located in the basins of the Biro and Bidzhan rivers, tributaries of Amur which is navigable and connects the area with the China Sea, its area of 36,000 square kilometers is about the size of Holland and Belgium combined, 15,000 square kilometers larger that the area (20,770 square kilometers) of the present Israel. The capital of the Jewish Autonomous region located north of the Chinese border is Birobidzhan with Harbin, capital of the Chinese Heilongjiang province, not far away. One may only guess how the world would look today if instead locating Israel in the world's most unstable region and subsequently extracting billions of dollars from the United States on behalf of security of a theocratic state surrounded by enemies, the Zionist movement embraced Premier Stalin's blueprint for a secular Jewish state bordering with countries of the Pacific Rim traditionally either friendly or neutral to the Jewish community, and used the billions of dollars spent so far on the military for its economic development instead.  

2. During recent visit of Prague I visited one of my relatives, a former prominent member of the Communist Party. In his study, the library where not so may years ago were conspicuously displayed the collected works of Marx, Engels and Lenin now hosted the collected works of Winston Churchill and all 10 volumes of Talalei Orot al HaTorah.

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Krammer, A. (1974) The forgotten friendship: Israel and the Soviet block 1947-1953. Chicago, Il: University of Illinois Press.

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