Today, it is fashionable to assert that Bolshevism was a Russian phenomenon and that any reference to Judeo-Bolshevism is an anti-Semitic slander.

Yet, even the critics are forced to admit the “over representation” of Jews among the ranks of the revolutionaries. How they fudge the admission is to create a straw-man, which is that defenders of the term Judeo-Bolshevism make a complete identity between communism and the Jews, as though there were no other impetus behind the revolution at all.  The philo-Semites then call this identification Nazi.

Now, while Nazis may indeed make such assertions, it would be hard to ascertain, since that would involve reading Nazi tracts, which, in this age of censorship and guilt by association, can hardly be undertaken without attracting the very opprobrium that such research seeks to avoid. So, in the first place, that is an assertion impossible to refute.

Secondly, it is a lie, in so far as non-Nazi individuals also make similar assertions about the Jews and the revolutionaries, but do not make the two identical. The argument that they do is a straw-man. What non-Nazi usage of the term Judeo-Bolshevism asserts is not the pure identity of the two, nor, on the other hand, “over-representation,” which is a lie of a different kind.

The Jews were not merely over-represented in the Russian revolution; they dominated the revolution. And while all revolutionaries were not Jewish and all Jews were not revolutionaries, in the same way as all Germans were not Nazis nor were all Nazis Germans [some were of Jewish ethnicity], it is absolutely the case that the Russian revolution is inextricably linked to the Jews as a group, that Jews financed, led, and propagandized for the revolution, committed its worst excesses and boasted of all this among themselves, even if those facts are now being obfuscated among non-Jewish peoples.

Douglas Reed, a veteran journalist and reliable observer of international affairs, stated without equivocation [and in this he is supported by the ardent Zionist and part-Jewish Winston Churchill]:

The Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, which wielded the supreme power, contained 3 Russians (including Lenin) and 9 Jews. The next body in importance, the Central Committee of the Executive Commission (or secret police) comprised 42 Jews and 19 Russians, Letts, Georgians and others. The Council of People’s Commissars consisted of 17 Jews and five others. The Moscow Che-ka (secret police) was formed of 23 Jews and 13 others. Among the names of 556 high officials of the Bolshevik state officially published in 1918-1919 were 458 Jews and 108 others. Among the central committees of small, supposedly ‘Socialist’ or other nonCommunist parties… were 55 Jews and 6 others.”

Douglas Reed, The Recompense of Zion, Durban, 1978,  p. 274, cited in Vladimir Moss, “The Russian Jewish Revolution,” Academy.edu, Feb-March 2017.

In April 1917, almost half the members of the Petrograd Soviet bureau were Jews and on October 23, 1917, 5 out of the 12 members of the Bolshevik Central Committee were Jews, according to Enzo Traverso, “Intermezzo: The Jews and the Russian Revolution 1917-1937,” in “The Jewish Question,” Brill, October 2, 2, 2018.

Consider that the Jews constituted only around 2% of the population of the Soviet Union at the time, even though the Soviet Jews were still the largest Jewish population in the world, according to the Jerusalem Post, surely not an anti-Semitic outlet:

The roughly three million Jews of the Soviet Union at the time of the revolution constituted the largest Jewish community in the world, but they were only around 2% of the USSR’s population. They were concentrated in the Pale of Settlement (a western region of Imperial Russia) and in Ukraine and Belarussia, where they were 5% to 10% of the population, whereas in Russia itself the 1926 census found only 600,000 Jews.

For the Jews to be only over-represented in the Revolution, we need find them to be represented above 2% in the Soviet bureaucracy. Even double their actual proportions in the population would only mean about 4% of the Soviet administration would have been Jewish. But the proportion of Jews was not anywhere near 4%. It was 50% [the Petrograd Soviet Bureau], over 66% [Soviet secret police central committee], 75% [Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party] and over 85% [Bolshevik state high officials in 1918]. That is, the Jews were represented at all levels of the Revolution at a rate more than 20 times greater than their representation in the population. And that is a conservative estimate.

Judeo-Bolshevism, therefore, is not a racist characterization at all.

It is an accurate description of the nature of the revolution in Russia. Those who attack or characterize the description as anti-Semitic are apologists for crimes that are arguably quantitatively and qualitatively worse than those of the Nazis. The critics of the term Judeo-Bolshevism need to apologize for white-washing the monstrous crimes of their co-ethnics and slandering honest historians.