Oh, but Wikipedia tells us it's a conspiracy that Jews were heavily involved in Communism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism
Good thing, then, for the work of Yuri Slezkine, a Russian Jewish academic living in the U.S., who wrote the book, The Jewish Century, and said in an interview that the irony of Soviet Communism is that the ethnic group that was most in favour of it at the beginning (Jews), were the ones who were most against it near the end (which is why you had so many Jewish oligarchs operating on the black market, though make no mistake, plenty of Jews were still involved directly in the Soviet Union, and those oligarchs were well-connected enough, or they wouldn't have gotten so rich, so enough Jews were playing both sides).
The Wikipedia article writers can play whatever statistical games they wish, but looking up the ethnic origins of many of the early Bolshevik commissariats show they were Jewish. Trotsky was supposed to be the big guy but supposedly turned it down in favour of Lenin on the basis that it would make things look too obvious and give communism a bad name for a Jew to be in the top spot (Wikipedia even admits that, though with obfuscation).
Then we have Soviet propagandist, Ilya Ehrenburg, who, it turns out, as I learned recently, gave his documents not to the Soviet government, but Israel's government, stored in Yad Vashem (their Holocaust memorial).
And the two big gulag and Holodomor kingpins (Kagonovich and Yagoda).
And from the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book, Gulag Archipelago, which hasn't been officially translated into English for reasons that would soon become readily apparent if not already, he reports that Jews were generally treated better than others in the gulags that he spent time in.
So, yes, Wikipedia didn't bring their A game on this topic.
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Oh, but Wikipedia tells us it's a conspiracy that Jews were heavily involved in Communism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism
Good thing, then, for the work of Yuri Slezkine, a Russian Jewish academic living in the U.S., who wrote the book, The Jewish Century, and said in an interview that the irony of Soviet Communism is that the ethnic group that was most in favour of it at the beginning (Jews), were the ones who were most against it near the end (which is why you had so many Jewish oligarchs operating on the black market, though make no mistake, plenty of Jews were still involved directly in the Soviet Union, and those oligarchs were well-connected enough, or they wouldn't have gotten so rich, so enough Jews were playing both sides).
The Wikipedia article writers can play whatever statistical games they wish, but looking up the ethnic origins of many of the early Bolshevik commissariats show they were Jewish. Trotsky was supposed to be the big guy but supposedly turned it down in favour of Lenin on the basis that it would make things look too obvious and give communism a bad name for a Jew to be in the top spot (Wikipedia even admits that, though with obfuscation).
Then we have Soviet propagandist, Ilya Ehrenburg, who, it turns out, as I learned recently, gave his documents not to the Soviet government, but Israel's government, stored in Yad Vashem (their Holocaust memorial).
And the two big gulag and Holodomor kingpins (Kagonovich and Yagoda).
And from the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book, Gulag Archipelago, which hasn't been officially translated into English for reasons that would soon become readily apparent if not already, he reports that Jews were generally treated better than others in the gulags that he spent time in.
So, yes, Wikipedia didn't bring their A game on this topic.
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