- Bertrand Russell described, in a private letter, Americanised
Jews' role in creating Bolshevism
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- In the paperback 'The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell'
- (George Allen & Unwin, London 1975), it's on pp.
354-5:
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- {p. 354) To Ottoline Morell
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- Hotel Continental
- Stockholm
- 25th June 1920
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- Dearest O
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- I have got thus far on my return, but boats are very
full and it may be a week before I reach England. I left Allen in a nursing
home in Reval, no longer in danger, tho' twice he had been given up by
the Doctors. Partly owing to his illness, but more because I loathed the
Bolsheviks, the time in Russia was infinitely painful to me, in spite of
being one of the most interesting things I have ever done. Bolshevism is
a close tyrannical bureaucracy, with a spy system more elaborate and terrible
than the Tsar's, and an aristocracy as insolent and unfeeling, composed
of Americanised Jews. No vestige of liberty remains, in thought or speech
or action. I was stifled and oppressed by the weight of the machine as
by a cope of lead. Yet I think it is the right government for Russia at
this moment. If you ask yourself how Dostoevsky's characters should be
governed, you will understand. Yet it is terrible. They are a nation of
artists, down to the simplest peasant; the aim of {p. 355} the Bolsheviks
is to make them industrial and as Yankee as possible. Imagine yourself
governed in every detail by a mixture of Sidney Webb and Rufus Isaacs,
and you will have a picture of modern Russia. I went hoping to find the
promised land.
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- All love - I hope I shall see you soon.
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- Your B.
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- {end}
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- The same letter appears in volume two of the hardback,
3-volume edition of Russell's autobiography, The Autobiography of Bertrand
Russell: 1914-1944, Little, Brown & Co., Boston 1968, p. 172.
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- The Jewish identities of Lenin and Trotsky: <http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/lenin-trotsky.html>lenin-trotsky.html.
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- Bertrand Russell and One World: <http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/oneworld.html>oneworld.html.
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- From: http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/russell.html.
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