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===== Claim (21:50): the Bolsheviks forced the Tsar to abdicate ===== | ===== Claim (21:50): the Bolsheviks forced the Tsar to abdicate ===== | ||
The Tsar abdicated in March, the bolsheviks had no state power to speak off up until the October revolution. '''Verdict:''' False | |||
===== '''Claim (22:00):''' 1. Kerensky was given a million dollars from the wall street banker Jacob Schiff... 2. to free all political prisoners and permit exiles to return to Russia ===== | |||
The Kerensky government ordered an immediate amnesty for all political and religious prisoners, along with other reforms such as freedom of press. There is, however, nothing linking this specific policy to any demand or wish by Schiff. Schiff wanted the persecution of Jews to stop, but that is a religious - not a political - prisoner. Furthermore, the dictator Kerensky soon started '''cracking down''' on the bolsheviks. For their anti-war stance they were charged with treason by the Ministry of Justice, hundreds were arrested.<ref>Buttar, Prit (2017). ''Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17''.</ref> How does that fit into the narrative? '''Verdict: 1. True 2. False''' | |||
===== On the nature of Jacob Schiffs relationship to the Russian revolutions: ===== | ===== On the nature of Jacob Schiffs relationship to the Russian revolutions: ===== | ||
Schiff's gripe against Russia had been its anti-Semitism. At home Schiff had never shown any sympathy for socialism, not even the milder Morris Hillquit variety. Schiff had declared victory for his purposes in Russia after the tsar was toppled in March 1917 and Alexander Kerensky, representing the new provisional government, had declared Jews to be equal citizens. In addition to repeated public statements of support, he used both his personal wealth and the resources of Kuhn Loeb to float large loans to Kerensky's regime. When Lenin and Trotsky seized power for themselves in November 1917, Schiff immediately rejected them, cut off further loans, started funding anti-Bolshevist groups, and even demanded that the Bolsheviks pay back some of the money he'd loaned Kerensky. Schiff also joined a British-backed effort to appeal to fellow Jews in Russia to continue the fight against Germany." | "Schiff's gripe against Russia had been its anti-Semitism. At home Schiff had never shown any sympathy for socialism, not even the milder Morris Hillquit variety. Schiff had declared victory for his purposes in Russia after the tsar was toppled in March 1917 and Alexander Kerensky, representing the new provisional government, had declared Jews to be equal citizens. In addition to repeated public statements of support, he used both his personal wealth and the resources of Kuhn Loeb to float large loans to Kerensky's regime. When Lenin and Trotsky seized power for themselves in November 1917, '''Schiff''' immediately rejected them, cut off further loans, '''started funding anti-Bolshevist groups''', and even demanded that the Bolsheviks pay back some of the money he'd loaned Kerensky. Schiff also joined a British-backed effort to appeal to fellow Jews in Russia to continue the fight against Germany." | ||
* Ackerman, Kenneth (2016). Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution. | * Ackerman, Kenneth (2016). Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution. | ||
Jacob Schiff once donated $100 000 to a set up a war relief hospital in Russia,<ref>https://archive.org/details/menwhoaremaking00forbgoog/page/n425/mode/2up</ref> before the October revolution had occured | Jacob Schiff is often invoked in judeobolshevik conspiracy theories, with intentional lying employed about sources meant to support the claims. For example in "''None Dare Call it Conspiracy'' - by Gary Allen": In "''Men who are making history''", it reads that Schiff once donated $100 000 to a set up a war relief hospital in Russia,<ref>https://archive.org/details/menwhoaremaking00forbgoog/page/n425/mode/2up</ref> in summer of 1917 before the October revolution had occured. Gary Allen cited the page and used it to support the claim that Schiff gave a donation of $10 million to the bolsheviks.<ref>https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=allen&book=none&story=bankroll#:~:text=later%20married%20Trotsky.%22-,Schiff,-spent%20millions%20to<nowiki/>The claim: | ||
"Schiff spent millions to overthrow the Czar and more millions to overthrow Kerensky. He was sending money to Russia long after the true character of the Bolsheviks was known to the world. Schiff raised $10 million, supposedly for Jewish war relief in Russia, but later events revealed it to be a good business investment. (Forbes , B.C., ''Men Who Are Making America'', pp. 334-5.)"</ref> | "Schiff spent millions to overthrow the Czar and more millions to overthrow Kerensky. He was sending money to Russia long after the true character of the Bolsheviks was known to the world. Schiff raised $10 million, supposedly for Jewish war relief in Russia, but later events revealed it to be a good business investment. (Forbes , B.C., ''Men Who Are Making America'', pp. 334-5.)"</ref> | ||
===== The White Terrorists and anti-semitism ===== | ===== The White Terrorists and anti-semitism ===== | ||
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"Germany's unforgivable crime before the second world war was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit." - Propaganda in the Next War (foreword to the second edition 2001), originally published in 1938. | "Germany's unforgivable crime before the second world war was her attempt to extricate her economic power from the world's trading system and to create her own exchange mechanism which would deny world finance its opportunity to profit." - Propaganda in the Next War (foreword to the second edition 2001), originally published in 1938. | ||
Problems: There is no second edition to this book. Second problem, it doesn't exist anywhere in churchill digital archives.<ref>https://www.churchillarchive.com/home</ref> '''Verdict:''' False | Problems: There is no second edition to this book. Second problem, it doesn't exist anywhere in the churchill digital archives.<ref>https://www.churchillarchive.com/home</ref> '''Verdict:''' False | ||