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===== '''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 ===== | ===== '''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. | 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."<ref>https://www.marxists.org/chinese/trotsky/trotsky-in-new-york-1917/27.htm</ref> | ||
* 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 is often invoked in judeobolshevik conspiracy theories, with intentional lying employed about sources meant to support the claims. For example in | Jacob Schiff is often invoked in judeobolshevik conspiracy theories, with intentional lying employed about sources meant to support the claims. For example in: In "''Men who are making America''", page 335, 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 same page in his book "''None Dare Call it Conspiracy"'' 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 ===== | ||
During the Denikin regime, the press regularly urged violence against Jews. A proclamation by one of Denikin's generals incited people to "arm themselves" to extirpate "the evil force which lives in the hearts of Jew-communists." In the small town of Fastov alone, Denikin's Volunteer Army murdered over 1,500 Jews, mostly the elderly, women, and children. An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Jews in Ukraine and southern Russia were killed in pogroms perpetrated by Denikin's forces and Symon Petliura's Ukrainian nationalists [1]. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were left homeless and tens of thousands became victims of serious illness [1]. In 1918-1919, over 1,200 pogroms took place in Ukraine, over a third of them attributed to the Ukrainian nationalists [2], while half by the White army [3]. | During the Denikin regime, the press regularly urged violence against Jews. A proclamation by one of Denikin's generals incited people to "arm themselves" to extirpate "the evil force which lives in the hearts of Jew-communists." In the small town of Fastov alone, Denikin's Volunteer Army murdered over 1,500 Jews, mostly the elderly, women, and children. An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Jews in Ukraine and southern Russia were killed in pogroms perpetrated by Denikin's forces and Symon Petliura's Ukrainian nationalists [1]. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were left homeless and tens of thousands became victims of serious illness [1]. In 1918-1919, over 1,200 pogroms took place in Ukraine, over a third of them attributed to the Ukrainian nationalists [2], while half by the White army [3]. | ||
* [1] Pipes, Richard (1994). Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime [1st edition]. pp. 111-112 | |||
* [2] Gitelman, Z.Y. (2001) [1988]. A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union. Indiana University Press. pp. 65 | |||
* [3] Budnitskii, Oleg (2012). Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 216–273. | |||
===== Claim (22:17): Jacob Schiff was chairman of the Kuhn Loeb bank, and assistant of the Rothschilds ===== | ===== Claim (22:17): Jacob Schiff was chairman of the Kuhn Loeb bank, and assistant of the Rothschilds ===== | ||
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===== Claim (22:30): On March 17 1917 Jacob Schiff and Max Warburg, sent Trotsky and his group of jewish communists of to Russia to lead a revolution with $20 million in gold ===== | ===== Claim (22:30): On March 17 1917 Jacob Schiff and Max Warburg, sent Trotsky and his group of jewish communists of to Russia to lead a revolution with $20 million in gold ===== | ||
This claim has it's origins in a 1918 special report titled ''"Bolshevism and Judaism"'' | |||
A investigation into Trotsky's activities in New York was comissioned by the federal Department of Justice in Washington, conducted by New York State Deputy Attorney General Alfred H. Becker, every penny and meeting was to be tracked and recorded. The investigation concluded that Trotsky had recieved, in earnings and donations, a sum totaling '''less than $1000.''' The report is available in the New York Times Archive.<ref>WHAT TROTZKY DID WHEN IN NEW YORK; Investigation for Department of Justice Fails to Show He Received German Money | |||
January 20, 1918 | |||
https://www.nytimes.com/1918/01/20/archives/what-trotzky-did-when-in-new-york-investigation-for-department-of.html</ref> "I have been unable to establish a single 'indication' that Trotsky received money from any German donor," Baker concluded. | |||
Anthony Sutton revealed the existence of U.S. State Department files that “''confirm that the investment banker Jacob Schiff, often cited as a source of funds for the Bolshevik Revolution, was in fact against support of the Bolshevik régime''.”<ref>Sutton, “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.” p 33. | |||
Retrieved from: https://www.schiffnaturepreserve.org/JacobSchiffEssay.pdf</ref> | |||
==== Part 7 ==== | ==== Part 7 ==== | ||