At the beginning of the 20th Century, millions of Russian ideologues willingly participated in the defamation of their own ancestors, the disfigurement of their own history, the weaponization of their institutions against themselves, the disparagement of their culture, the debasement of their religion, and the dispossession and mass genocide of their own people. Except for the genocide part, (which, thankfully, we don’t have to worry about in the United States because what are you, some kind of an
anti-Semitic,
white supremacist?) we see the same thing all around us today as millions of white Americans busily “dismantle white supremacy.” These woke Americans are the ideological descendants of the revolutionary Russians who assisted in the ruin of Russia.
The phenomenon of a large segment of a people attacking itself and seeking to extinguish its own culture is really remarkable. History abounds with examples of one people destroying another, but examples of a people consciously participating in the destruction of itself are very rare. I can only think of four examples other than the woke whites currently “dismantling white supremacy” in the West and the Russian revolutionaries of a century ago sweeping away the old Russia to prepare the way for the new Soviet man. The other four are China during the Cultural Revolution, Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime, Spain during its civil war, and France during the Reign of Terror.

In all cases, a destructive ideology gained the primary allegiance of a large segment of the population and held it in such a grip it could order its adherents to slaughter their own people and the ideologues obeyed. Where does an ideology like that come from? It’s not organic, surely.
An article in
The American Hebrew from September 10, 1920, claimed that, in Russia, the source of the ideology was Jewish:
Other countries? Uh oh. Any country in particular?
America? Great. Just great.
The laws against anti-Semitism in the United States only make sense when seen through the pages of Deuteronomy--and then they are terrifying
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