Jewish Bolshevism

So let's come back to, um, what happens a- around the time of World War I.

Uh, we h- we have people embracing this concept now of Judeo communism or the Jew Bolshevik, uh, and there are kernels of truth that they see that prove it.

At the end of World War I, when Poland's fighting to expand its territory, it greatly wanted and believed it needed the support from Jewish communities.

Uh, many Jewish communities in contested towns, however, declared neutrality because you had the Poles fighting, the Russians fighting, the Ukrainians fighting.

They didn't know who was gonna win, and they thought that that was the best way to stay safe.

But- Poles viewed Jewish neutrality as, um, as Jews being traitors to the cause.

And in response, they launched pogroms against the so-called Jew Bolshevik.

Uh, were they the only ones to launch pogroms? Not at all.

Um, in the issue that we published yesterday, I worked for months with, um, an Israeli historian, a scholar of genocide named Omer Bartov, uh, on a piece...

On a, uh, he's reviewing a book by, uh, Joachim Halbeck about the Eastern Front and Nazi Germany's understanding, um, or Nazi Germany's obsession with Judeo-Bolshevism and why that is misapprehended in the West.

Um, Bartov is the greatest scholar of genocide, I would say, to my understanding, in the United States, and his level-- the depth of his prowess is extraordinary.

And there are many battles that, uh, there are many points in the war that are just an absolute...

First, after the pact with Germany, the Soviet Union suppressed information about Hitler's policies towards Jews, and when the war broke out, the bulk of the Soviet population did not know about the mortal danger the German invasion posed for Jews.

Second, and this was probably the more important factor, German propaganda vigorously denounced Judeo-Bolshevism, and the Soviet leadership undoubtedly realized that they, they gave a solid foundation to this prop- uh, propaganda during the 1920s and 1930s, so how could they now deliver openly and loudly that the foremost government priority must be to save Jews? This could only have been seen as playing into Hitler's hands.

You know, that, yeah, and that's another factor, too.

Um, but one thing that Suvorov brings out, and it's very important, is that so much of his military, um, especially the heavier things, were built in the USSR, even right up to just prior to the invasion.

That's one place he can go that, uh, they didn't have observers from ver- you know, from Western Europe to, to, uh, yell at him for.

Um- So, and, and so, and from, actually from the German side, it's very hard to condemn Judeo-Bolshevism while, um, well, they sold their most advanced battleship, sold to the Italians, although without guns, to the, uh, to the USSR, not that long before, before the invasion.

Um, and, um, I, I don't, I don't have the name of it off the top of my head, but, but they weren't...

You know, and of course, Stalin's interest wasn't to support the Germans or National Socialists or anything like that, but it was to make sure, um, he-- I mean, his concern regardless was that Western European powers would wear themselves out.

We're going to read into the record some obscure newspaper articles about John Allberg from way back in the day, and we're going to paint a vivid picture of Hollywood during World War II, the same milieu that gets into this sort of anti-fascist, anti-Nazi world frenzy that you heard some of in the cold open to this episode coming from no less a figure than walt disney whose sympathies for the nazis are now well known well hollywood transformed from this sort of haven of anti-nazi sentiment and you know that wherever you are really serious about opposing the nazis chances are you're going to develop some sympathies for the Nazis' arch rivals, arch enemies, the object of the Nazis' hatred and scorn.

Not talking about just the Jews here, I'm talking about the communists, whom, of course, the Nazis considered to be a Jewish political formation, right? Judeo-Bolshevism was the watchword of the time, and the Nazis were really...

picking on the Jews at least in part as a sort of racialized stand-in for communists, communism, and collectivist ideology more broadly.

And Hollywood goes from opposing the Nazis, as was the United States line during the war, to purging its ranks of communists.

Yeah.

And they were unable to do their modern version of, like, Judeo-Bolshevism [laughs] with, uh, with, with Ilhan Omar.

Yeah, red-green alliance, Islamo-communism, that, that kind of stuff.

But that, but that, but it's a version of the anti-Semitic, uh, like, Judeo-Bolshevik, uh, conspiracy theory, but they're just applying it now in the 21st century to Muslim people.

He proceeded to tell me how his kids say Hebrew in front of the tabernacle after watching The Chosen and how much respect he has for our elder brothers in the faith.

My impression of contemporary Opus Dei members in the U.S. is that despite the role of Jewish Bolshevism in the Spanish Civil War, no doubt Monsignor Escriva was aware that American Opus Dei members are too rich and successful in the Jewish-run America regime to rock the apple cart.

That prompted a response from another man who was on the tour with us.

There are three things I thought in response to what you mentioned.