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Sep 23, 2026
#887 “The Dissidents”: A brutally relevant book
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35:50TimHOST
Mm-hmm.
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35:51KumarHOST
Um, even after we know about the Red Terror that's happening, where the Bolsheviks are massacring thousands of people.
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35:58TimHOST
Mm.
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35:58KumarHOST
They're like, "No, this is our side.
Mike Macnair on Marxist Strategy and the Relevance of Second International History
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29:04Mike MacnairGUEST
I said the Bolsheviks did act undemocratically in relation to Brest-Litovsk, and then the consequence of that was that in order to get its stuff through the Soviets, they had to rig the Soviet elections.
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29:19Mike MacnairGUEST
And the left SRs went in for an individual terrorist response, and we got Red Terror in autumn 1918.
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29:30Mike MacnairGUEST
Then the consequence of that is that the Bolsheviks lose the ability to win over the majority of the German workers' movement because the German workers' movement has a deep, deep, deep, deep historical commitments to political democracy.
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29:46Mike MacnairGUEST
The right wing are able to point to the Red Terror in au- autumn 1918 as evidence and the rigging of, uh, Soviet elections and so on and so forth.
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29:56Mike MacnairGUEST
Then in the ni- early 1920s, the, uh, they're trying to think of what the hell can we do to overcome this problem? And they have the idea that the way in which they're going to overcome this problem is through a program which takes the trade union struggle and links it immediately to war communism, uh, the, so that it's, it, it, we call it, CPGB, we call this an economist project.
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30:23Mike MacnairGUEST
And so the idea of transitional program, it's not original to the Trotskyists.
Fulton Sheen: The Amazing Story. Why Beatification Now?
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44:58Chris AlarHOST
Sheen didn't hold back.
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45:01Chris AlarHOST
He called them the Red Terror.
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45:04Chris AlarHOST
And he published, this was the book that I just got, let's go to our next slide.
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45:09Chris AlarHOST
In 1948, he published Communism and the Conscience of the West, which critics have described as a prerequisite for an intelligent understanding of communist thought and development.
The making of the modern Middle East
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37:59Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
I mean, it's one of the strange things that we think of it as the cauldron, and that's why, why I called it the cauldron.
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38:06Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
But actually, if you look at most of it and you look at it in the twentieth century, for example, you know, it, it never comes close to the bloodletting of the two world wars in Europe, the Holocaust in Europe, the Red Terror of Stalin, the Red Terror of China.
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38:23Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
It never comes close to anything like that.
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38:26Simon Sebag MontefioreGUEST
And numbers, statistics are a dangerous game to look at because they can suggest a sort of parlor game where you say who's worst and what's worst.
Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 61-70
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244:49Pete QuiñonesHOST
Signed, V.I. Ulyanov, Lenin.
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244:53Pete QuiñonesHOST
If the meaning of the word outlaw may have escaped some at the time, in the months of the Red Terror it would appear clearly.
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245:00Pete QuiñonesHOST
Ten years later, in a sentence of a communist militant, Larine, who was himself for a while the commissar of the people and even the promoter of war communism, to outlaw the active anti-Semites was to shoot them.
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373:05Pete QuiñonesHOST
There is also a hypothesis that the Bolshevik authorities themselves would have created the necessary conditions for Kenige- Kenigeser to fire his shot.
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373:14Pete QuiñonesHOST
This I strongly doubt, for what provocation would the Bolsheviks have sacrificed their beloved child, president of the Cheka? One thing, however, is troubling.
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373:23Pete QuiñonesHOST
How is it that later, in full Red Terror, when the, when was attained the force, by force of arms through the entire country thousands of innocent, innocent hostages, totally unconnected with the affair, the whole Kenigeser family was freed from prison and allowed to emigrate?
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373:39Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
[laughs]
Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 71-80
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23:51Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
So they have to go and take over the organization and purge and destroy whoever.
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23:55Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Bela Kuhn, we all know who Bela Kuhn is, who created the Red Terror in Hungary and ran a completely Judaic communist party there.
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24:07Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Same thing for the little parties that took over in Bavaria and North Germany.
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24:13Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Almost exclusively Jewish.
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25:16Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Uh, so, you know, it, it was a Jewish movement, and they circulated these people tremendously, and people think that, you know, Bela Kun is Hungarian, right? Well, he couldn't be.
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25:29Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
He, he's, he's a Jew, but he has no connection to it there.
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25:32Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
He was just assigned there by Stalin many years later and created the Red Terror, uh, uh, government there.
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25:39Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
It's incredible how, what kind of work this was for them.
Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 81-90
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103:46Pete QuiñonesHOST
Quote, "In the OGPU as a whole, the proportion of personnel from a n- national minority fell to 30% to 35% and to 40% to 45% for those in leadership.
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103:58Pete QuiñonesHOST
These figures contrast with 50% and 70% respectively during the Red Terror." However, quote, "We observe a decline in the percentage of Latvians and an increase in the percentage of Jews." End quote.
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104:13Pete QuiñonesHOST
The '20s was a period of significant influx of Jewish c- Jewish cadres into the organs of the OGPU.
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104:19Pete QuiñonesHOST
The author explains this, quote, "Jews strive to utilize capabilities not needed in the pre-revolutionary period.
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109:26Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
That's no accident.
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109:27Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
But under him, uh, of course, Trotsky was, was just as powerful as Lenin was.
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109:33Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Um, uh, it was, it was ma- you know, 50%, 70, Jesus, during the Red Terror.
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109:38Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Yeah, that's where the height of it.
Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 61-70
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247:16Pete QuiñonesHOST
Signed, V.I. Ulyanov, Lenin.
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247:21Pete QuiñonesHOST
If the meaning of the word outlaw may have escaped some at the time, in the months of the Red Terror it would appear clearly.
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247:27Pete QuiñonesHOST
Ten years later, in a sentence of a communist militant, Larine, who was himself for a while the commissar of the people and even the promoter of war communism, to outlaw the act of anti-Semites was to shoot them.
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247:42Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
In other words, outlaw was taken literally.
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372:31Pete QuiñonesHOST
There is also a hypothesis that the Bolshevik authorities themselves would have created the necessary conditions for Kenegesser to fire his shot.
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372:40Pete QuiñonesHOST
This I strongly doubt, for what provocation would the Bolsheviks have sacrificed their beloved child, president of the Cheka? One thing, however, is troubling.
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372:49Pete QuiñonesHOST
How is it that later, in full red terror, when was attained by force of arms through the entire country thousands of innocent hostages totally unconnected with the affair, the whole Kenegesser family was freed from prison and allowed to emigrate? We do not recognize here the Bolshevik claw.
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373:10Pete QuiñonesHOST
Or would it be the intervention of a very long arm to the highest-ranking Soviet instances? A recent publication tells us that the relatives and friends of L.
Reading Solzhenitsyn's '200 Years Together' w/ Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson - Part 71-80
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24:34Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Again, there's only so many Jews in the world, so they have to go and take over the organization and purge and destroy whoever.
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24:42Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Uh, Bela Kun, we all know who Bela Kun is, who created the Red Terror in, in Hungary, and ran a completely Judaic, um, uh, Communist Party there.
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24:54Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Same thing for the little, uh, parties that took over, you know, in, in Bavaria and North Germany, almost exclusively Jewish.
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25:02Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Any time, like, you know, when, when Hitl- Hitler was first elected and he put pressure on some of these people, the, you know, the sexual revolutionaries, the first place they went to is the USSR, as if to prove, prove his point.
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26:02Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
Uh, so, you know, it, it was a Jewish movement, and they circulated these people tremendously, and people think that, you know, Bela Kun is Hungarian, right? Well, he couldn't be.
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26:15Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
He, he's, he's a Jew, but he has no connection to it there.
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26:19Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
He was just assigned there by Stalin many years later and created the Red Terror, uh, uh, government there.
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26:26Matthew Raphael JohnsonGUEST
It's incredible how, what kind of work this was for them.
Life During The Russian Revolution
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35:38Sarah BadcockGUEST
And they also killed a very prominent Bolshevik called Urytsky, who was head of the Petrograd Cheka.
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35:44Sarah BadcockGUEST
In response to that, then the Bolsheviks institute what's known as the Red Terror in September 1918.
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35:51Sarah BadcockGUEST
And this is where they said, OK, if you are our enemy, we will defeat you.
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35:56Sarah BadcockGUEST
We will use the death penalty against you.
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