To: JBTFD who wrote (434440 ) 7/27/2003 5:26:35 PM From: Emile Vidrine Respond to of 769670 Russian Jews Say Solzhenitsyn Writes Bad History in New Book. JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency), July 23, 2001 "Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn is being accused of distorting the history of Russian Jewry in his new book on Russian-Jewish relations. In the introduction to '200 Years Together,' a 500-page treatise, the famed novelist says he is 'appealing to both sides, Russian and Jewish, to come to patient understanding and to acknowledge their own share of blame.' But the controversial author takes a position on the tsarist-era pogroms at odds with most historians. Solzhenitsyn, 83, blames the pogroms on a grass-roots movement, exculpating the Russian state from any responsibility in the anti-Jewish attacks. He also blames the "'liberal intelligentsia' — often a code word for Jews — for exaggerating the extent of the pogroms. That does not go over well in a community that suffered the pogroms' fury. 'Solzhenitsyn's book is anti-Semitic and mendacious. It is deliberately distorting the history of Russian Jews,' Victor Dashevsky, a Jewish historian who heads the Moscow Anti-Fascist Center, told JTA." Any objective presentation of history that exposes the central Jewish role in the Communist Revolution and the consequent slaughter of tens of millions of Christians is unacceptable to the watchdogs in self-serving Jewish organizations. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a world renowned Nobel laureate, lived through the Bolshevik/Jewish Revolution and experienced first hand the Jewish dominance in the Communist party. Rather than admit the truth and condemn these genocidal communist Jews, Jewish leaders attempt to lie about their involvement and sometimes even defend their actions.