The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-01
RUSSIAN JEWS
 ARE OPPOSED TO BOL LSHEvIK RULE
Hny rsaac Don Levine.l


 able to convey vital message from them to those in America who do not understand their status under the Bolshevist regime. One of the first revelations to me on arriving in Rus sia was finding that the thought I had entertained regarding the number and influence of Jews in the Bolshe- vist government was quite erroneous At heart I suspected, as so many casual readers have, that the Jews were indeed the leaders of Bolshe- vism in Russia. I had this niscon- ception because of the prominence given to a number of men of Jewish percentage connected with the Bol- shevist movement, in reports of news- paper correspondents who had come in touch with these Jews in Russia.
 Only the other day, I read some ar ticles by a certain MT. Davis, who represents himself as major of the American Red Cross, rehearsing the old yarns about the Jews of Russia. MT. Davis was not in Soviet Russia. and has no first-hand information on the subject of the Russian Jews. Yet his tales about them refuted by aE that frightfu1 actuality which I am going to portray, are published in many American newspapers and given national circulation.
 But it is not my object here to argue against MT. Davis. I intend to tell what I found in the course of my two visits to Russia for the Chicago DailJ News in 1919. I found that there were Jews in the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, where a knowledge of foreign languages is required, and ] found Jews in a number of other departments with which foreigners, newspaper men from America and Europe, would necessarily come in touch. These Jews were there main ly because of their Knowledge of for, eign languages or because they had lived in foreign countries. But when' I got away from these departments and went to the internal vital organ ization and bodies of the Soviet gov ernment, I found a surprisingly low number of Jews. The Communist Party, which is the new name for the Bo1shevists, is composed of about eighty per cent. pure Russians and twenty per cent all other nationalities, among which, indeed, there is a con- siderable number of Jews. The req son for this is twofold: First, the Jews are the most intelligent of .all the non-Slav races in Russia; second, the Communist Party is recruited largely from the cities and the Jews from a large part of the urban pop ulation in Russia
 Of course, there is Trotzky, and there are Zinoview, Kamenev and two or three others. On the other hand, there Is Lenine and there is Krasin, the so-caHed economic dicta- tor. There is KaIinin, the President of the Congress of Soviets-the Rus sian Parliament. There is Chicher-, ip uT,n js Sih1a fnr the foreign policy of Russia There is Lustacharsky, Commissioner of Education. These are all non-Jews Three of them are of noble birth. If you go further, if you visit the vari- ous Commissariats, you will find that there are no Jews at all in many important departments.
 Now, this as regards the first in- pression that an observant visitor ob- tains in Russia. Then, when you go deeper into the matter, you find that what the western world thinks of tho origin of Bolshevism, that the theory of Karl Marx is Bolshevism- you find that this Is nothing but non sense. Lenine might be the finest exponent of Karl Marx, but the ma- iority of the Russian masses know nothing about Karl Marx, neither do they understand Lenines interpreta- tios of Karl Marx, nor doctrinaire Socialism of the various brands. Nevertheless, the masses, the peas ants, are Bolshevists, not in the sense of really intelligent fanatics for the cause of Socialism, but Bolshevistls insofar as the idea bespeaks to them a movement of the peasantry against the landlords for the purpose of se- curing first of all the peasant own ership of the land.
 One finds in walking the streets of Moscow, some peculiar things. One of these is a monument erected last year. It is a monument not to q Jew. not to Karl Marx, not to a So- cialist or q Communist, but to 8 man by the name of Stepan Razin, of whom very few have heard. You will find in Russian history that Ra- zin, three hundred years ago, when Karl Marx, Lenine and Trotzky were unknown, raised the banner of rebel lion on the Volga, Russia's, national river, against the rule of the Czar'< in Moscow. And Razin who was nothing but a serf leading rebellious slaves is the application of Bolshe- vism to the Russian peasants. Il you want to know Bolshevism, look up tonight in the Encyclopedia Bri' tannica the history of Ra8in, the his tory of his dramatic rise until he seized many provinces, enlisting in hi: ranks hundreds of thousands of re bellious peasants, and threatening Moscow. For three hundred year. Bolshevism has been smoldering ir Russia.
 Less than two hundred years ago man by the name of Pugachov. also rebel leader, repeated the episode O RaZin. He also was stopped. RaziT was publicly tortured and executed in Moscow and where he was ex ecuted three hundred years ago, yol will now find a monument raised b, tie risen Russian people, who see in the symbol of their centuries-olC aspirations. This is Bolshevism. Or top of this. is built Communism am Lenine's ideas of new social order but if not for the peasant movemen which is three hundred years old an
 which is purely Russian and is tn
 mainstay of BoIshevism, Soviet Rus
 sia would not be where she is today
 So much for the part of the Jews i
 the origination of Bolshevism and it
 leadership.
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