Word: bolshevik
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...depicting immigration to the U.S. ascribe anti-Jewish pogroms to the U.S.S.R. in the 1880s. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not established until after 1917. Although czarist Russian officials encouraged anti-Semitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the last pogroms were conducted by anti-Bolshevik groups in the Ukraine and White Russia prior to full consolidation of Communist control. William Bollinger Los Angeles...
...World War II, Joseph Stalin's personal movie library expanded. His army liberated Joseph Goebbels' film collection. On movie nights in the old winter garden of the Great Kremlin Palace, Stalin and his gang (a revolving cast of Bolshevik thugs and survivors) would watch Charlie Chaplin or Spencer Tracy or Clark Gable. Stalin particularly liked gangster and cowboy films; sexual content offended...
...numb the fear of being led away at dawn. Often, Montefiore records, the dinner "sank to the level of a Neanderthal stag night." Stalin would get so drunk, Nikita Khrushchev remembered, that "he'd throw a tomato at you." Lavrenti Beria liked to slip tomatoes into the old Bolshevik Anastas Mikoyan's suit pockets and push Mikoyan against a wall so that they exploded...
MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA ... Lowering the Red Flag President Vladimir Putin signed a new law scrapping October Revolution Day, the once-sacred holiday marking the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik uprising. A new People's Unity Day to replace it will celebrate the departure of Polish troops from Moscow in 1612, which led to the founding of the Romanov dynasty. Supporters said the change was needed because Russians are divided over the revolution; presumably, they agree on the Romanovs...
...parents, who had invented it all; Henry Ford, who detected the bloody Jewish hand behind Soviet communism in his infamous 1920s tract, The International Jew, which reads like an American version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and finally, those Jews who were prominent leaders of the Bolshevik takeover: Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev. Never mind that Lenin, the real Mr. Big, was no more Jewish than Hohmann. Never mind that thousands of Jewish communists were purged and murdered by Stalin. The Jews had done it, and now to Hohmann's dialectical somersault: Of course, this verdict "may sound horrible...