To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (224181 ) 2/27/2003 6:13:02 AM From: craig crawford Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258 >> damn bolsheviks just weren't killing jews efficiently enough. << i think you have it backwards. it was the jews who were doing the killing. they were the bolsheviks. anyone who has taken the time to inform themselves of the historical realities knows that the bolshevik revolution was planned, financed, organized, directed, and carried out by jews. it was a decade or two later that stalin began purging the jews from the communist ranks. note that rhe russian revolution occurred in 1917. kamenev and zinoviev were executed in 1936. trotsky was killed in august of 1940. stalin didn't even gain power until 1924, nearly seven years after the revolution.Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online motlc.wiesenthal.com With the growth of Stalin's power in the late 1920s and early 1930s, even the legal Yiddish culture began to arouse suspicion. The Yevsektsia was abolished, in part because the government thought it was hampering assimilation by a too-strong defense of Jewish culture. The anomalous position of the Jewish nationality without a land led Stalin in 1928 to create the Jewish autonomous region of Birobidzhan, deep in Soviet Asia. The expected Jewish migration to this "Jewish" area did not materialize. Rather, there was a steady stream of Jewish population from the former Pale to big cities like Moscow and Leningrad. Meanwhile, Stalin began to purge and kill all his rivals for power. Many of the most prominent victims, including Trotsky, Kamenev, and Zinoviev, were Jews. The Jewish element in the Soviet leadership was radically reduced. Stalin also began to close many of the Jewish cultural and educational institutions. He became more and more distrustful of the Jews. (This was manifested openly during the period of liquidation of Jewish culture from 1948 to 1953.)