Until I looked into the foundations of Communism, I had always thought Karl Marx was a German. In fact, I had read that Marx’s father was a Christian. It turns out that his father, a successful lawyer, was a Jew who had converted to Christianity after an edict prohibited Jews from practicing law. Much later, in 1977, I read an article from the Chicago Jewish Sentinel that revealed Marx as the grandson of a rabbi and “the descendant of Talmudic scholars for many generations.”4

Not only was Karl Marx from a long line of Talmudic scholars, he also hated Russians with a passion that could be described as pathological. I looked up Karl Marx in the Jewish encyclopedias, and I found to my amazement that the man who taught him many of the principles of Communism was Moses Hess. As incredible as it might seem, contemporary Zionist leaders venerate Moses Hess as the “forerunner” of modern Zionism.

In The Encyclopedia of Zionism in Israel, under the entry for Moses Hess, is found the following:

Pioneer of modern socialism, social philosopher, and forerunner of Zionism…. Hess was thus a forerunner of political and cultural Zionism and of socialist Zionism in particular. He became deeply involved in the rising socialist movement. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels acknowledged that they had learned much from him during the formative years of the movement….

- The Encyclopedia of Zionism in Israel1

After months of reading from every conceivable source, I realized that the elderly lady in the offices of the Citizens Council had been essentially right, at least about the origins of the Communist revolution. I felt as if I were sitting on the edge of a volcano. Every new piece of information seemed to both confirm and clarify the issue even more.

In The Last Days of the Romanovs, Robert Wilton, on assignment for The London Times in Russia for 17 years, summed up the “Russian Revolution” in these words:

The whole record of the Bolshevism in Russia is indelibly impressed with the stamp of alien invasion. The murder of the Tsar, deliberately planned by the Jew Sverdlov and carried out by the Jews Goloshekin, Syromolotov, Safarov, Voikov, and Yurvsky, is the act, not of the Russian people, but of this hostile invader.2

In 1990 a major New York publisher, the Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, published a book by Israeli historian Louis Rapoport called Stalin’s War Against the Jews. In it the author casually admits what we Gentiles are not supposed to know:

Many Jews were euphoric over their high representation in the new government. Lenin’s first Politburo was dominated by men of Jewish origins…

Under Lenin, Jews became involved in all aspects of the Revolution, including its dirtiest work. Despite the Communists’ vows to eradicate anti-Semitism, it spread rapidly after the revolution - partly because of the prominence of so many Jews in the Soviet administration, as well as in the traumatic, inhuman Sovietization drives that followed. Historian Salo Baron has noted that an immensely disproportionate number of Jews joined the new Soviet secret police, the Cheka…. And many of those who fell afoul of the Cheka would be shot by Jewish investigators.

The Collective leadership that emerged in Lenin’s dying days was headed by the Jew Zinoviev, a loquacious, curly-haired…3

The once widespread knowledge of the Jewish leadership of the “Russian Revolution” has disappeared from our common knowledge - an example can be found in the National Geographic Magazine’s May 1907 edition. An article entitled “The Revolution in Russia” de-scribes the Jewish leadership of the terroristic Communist revolution.

THE VENGEANCE OF THE JEWS

…the revolutionary leaders nearly all belong to the Jewish race and the most effective revolutionary agency is the Jewish Bund,…The government has suffered more from that race than from all of its other subjects combined. Whenever a desperate deed is committed it is always done by a Jew and there is scarcely one loyal member of that race in the entire Empire.1

The facts were indisputable. An enormous fact of history has been wiped away from the intellectual consciousness of the West as thoroughly as a file can be erased from the hard disk of a desktop computer. In his classic novel 1984,2 George Orwell wrote about historical truth “going down the Memory Hole”; such had been the fate of the truth regarding the real perpetrators of the “Russian Revolution.”

I asked myself two questions: “Why was the historical truth about the Communist revolution suppressed?” and “How, in a free world, could that suppression have been accomplished?” The first question had an obvious answer in the fact that the forces of international Jewry would not want it generally known that they were the primary authors of the most repressive and murderous evil in the history of mankind: Communism. Obviously, knowledge of that fact does not create good public relations for Jews.

The answer to the second question of “how” was more elusive. I realized that only very powerful forces could suppress important parts of the historical record and create a false impression of a “Russian Revolution” when there were only 13 ethnic Russians in the first Bolshevik government. Obviously the Jews historically did have a lot of power - as evidenced by Jacob Schiff, the Rothschilds, and others - but the power to change the perception of history - that seemed preposterous. Yet only a few months before, when Mattie Smith had told me at the Citizens Council that the Russian Revolution was Jewish, I had thought the idea was ridiculous. Now, I knew differently, and I knew I was just beginning to discover a new reality in the world.

The facts I then knew led to interesting new questions:

• Does it make me an anti-Semite to accept the historical fact that the “Rus-sian Revolution” was not actually Russian but a takeover of Czarist Rus-sia by an antagonistic, non-Russian nationality?
• Is there a historical nationalism among the Jews that is hostile toward other peoples?
• Do Jewish interests and the interests of the Christian West synchronize or conflict?
• If those interests sometimes conflict, did the well-coordinated, worldwide Jewish effort to fiercely fight for their perceived ethnic interests in Russia have implications for Western Europe and America?
• How did their organized power create our “special relationship” with Is-rael in modern times?
• And, finally: Did asking these questions have anything to do with “hate”?

When I saw programs on television about anti-Semitism, hate was the word almost always used to describe any negative opinion about Jews. I felt no hatred toward Jews. My investigation had been purely an intellectual exercise. I was an interloper looking into a world where I did not belong, but it was a world that intrigued me. Pondering the “hate” question, I asked a teacher at school why the word hate wasn’t ever used by the media to describe the motivation of the mass murder of millions of Russian Christians in the Soviet Union. Certainly, it would have taken a great deal of hate to have committed such monstrous crimes. She had no answer and all I had were a lot more questions.

Once I discovered the shared roots of both Communism and Zionism, I decided to examine the history of the Jewish people, both historical Judaism and the development of modern Zionism. I felt that I had access to the best sources in the world for my investigation. I started with three excellent and exhaustive Jewish encyclopedias.