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Print November 26, 2012 22 comments

Was Stalin Jewish, & Does it Matter?

Kerry Bolton

1,884 words

In a 2003 article discussing Stalin’s ethnicity, the author R. N. Terrall, concluded: “So what difference does it make to know whether Stalin was a Jew? That question must be left for other historians to answer.”[1]

Whether Stalin was Jewish was a question posed by Russian émigrés and the “anti-Semitic” movement they influenced in Germany as refugees from the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Further afield, however, the disproportionate number of Jews involved in Bolshevism, and Marxism generally, was so widely recognized among diplomatic political, and intelligence circles,[2] it would seem a strange anomaly indeed if a gentile had managed to crawl to the top of the Bolshevik regime, purge the Jewish influence, and establish an iron rule. Hence Stalin has been regarded, especially among those critical of Jewish influence in politics, economics and culture, as a secret Jew or as a Gentile lackey for a “Jewish troika” continuing to secretly run the USSR after the ousting of transparently Jewish Bolsheviks such as Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev. The suspicion that the USSR had continued under “Jewish rule” was maintained among anti-Semitic circles right up until the implosion of the Soviet Union.[3]

What’s in a Name?

Turning to Mr. Tarrell’s article as a cogent point of reference, his first contention is that Stalin, born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzugashvili, had been given a name that would have been unthinkable for a non-Jew in Czarist Russia: Iosip (Joseph).[4] The question arises, however, as to why the christening of Gentiles with Old Testament names in Czarist Russian would be “unthinkable,” since the Orthodox Russian tradition is also drawn from the Old Testament? Rather, Iosip is a variation of Iosif, which is the Russian, Romanian, and Greek form of Joseph.[5] Another Russian variation is Osip. The “p” in Iosip can be found in various European languages. The Hebrew version is rendered as Yosef.[6]

Iosif is the name of Russian Orthodox eminences such as Saint Iosif Volotsky.[7]

A further contention in regard to names is Stalin’s having given his firstborn the name Yakov, which Terrall states would “be a clincher” that Stalin was Jewish.[8] While this can be a Hebrew variant, it is also Russian and Bulgarian.[9] Father Yakov Netsvetov, for example, was canonised by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1995.[10]

Terrall states of Stalin’s given middle name, Vissarionovich, that “there is evidence that the name Vissarion is a Jewish name. For example, Vissarion Bielinsky was a Jewish writer in Russia…”[11] Vissarion is derived from Greek, Bessarion, and means “who he gives new life.” His father’s name was spelled Besarion.

The primary case for Stalin’s alleged Jewish origins is that his name Dzugashvili (variant: Jughashvili) means “son of a Jew” in Georgian, Dzu supposedly meaning “Jew.”  Terrall states a relatively widely believed claim that “Dzu means Jew.” However, according to Montefieore, the name means “son of Juga.” Montefiroe states that the name is derived either from Ossetian, meaning “herd” or Georgian (djuga) meaning “steel.”[12] The latter Georgian meaning would surely account for the adoption of “Stalin,” “Man of Steel,” by Iosif Vissarionovich.

Stalin’s great grandson, Jacob Jugashvili, writes:

There is no word Jew for Jews in the Georgian language. . . . Jew in Georgian is Ebraeli, so the theory of “son of a Jew” (which is very tempting considering our name in light of its English spelling) is simply, wrong.[13]

Of this “Jew” sounding part of the name, Jacob Jugashvili explains that usually the surname is written is Russian as Dzhugashvili because there is no “j” in the Russian alphabet, so Russian uses the letters “d” and “zh.”[14]

Stalin’s Jewish Wives?

Another of the primary claims regarding Stalin’s Jewishness is that he married Jewesses. His second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva is said to be Jewish because of the patronym Alliluya (Hallelujah in Hebrew).[15] However, Russian peasantry adopted first names as surnames. For legal purposes the first name was often combined with one’s profession, or the village where one came from was used.[16] Therefore, trying to identify ethnicity by such means is not reliable.

Much has been said about Stalin supposedly marrying Rosa,[17] sister of one of his leading aides, Lazar Kaganovich, who was Jewish.

Jacob Jugashvili commented on this to Australian researcher Peter Meyer:

Yes you can add my comments on b.s. about J. Stalin and Rosa Kaganovich. . . . I think I should correct your comments that neither Ekaterine Svanidze nor Nadezhda Allilueva were Jews. . . . First of all you should know that Stalin was married twice: his first wife was Ekaterine Svanidze, a Georgian with whom he had a son, Yakov. There is no Jewish blood whatsoever. Second wife was Nadezhda Allilueva, south-Russians with Gypsy blood, with whom he had Svetlana and Vassily.[18]

Khevsure and Ossetian Blood

Stalin’s father Vissarion Ivanovich Djugashvili came from the land of the Khevsureti, descended from the fierce warriors of the Great Caucasus Mountains, Georgia. Stalin’s mother, Ekaterina Georgievna Geladze, came from the village of Gambareuil. She bore Ossetian blood, her people coming from South Ossetia, the Ossetes being primarily Indo-European and speaking an Indo-European language, from eastern Iran, and ultimately Scytho-Sarmatian origins.[19] “One branch of the Alans took refuge in the Caucasus Mountains where they became known as the Ossetes. Joseph (Stalin) Djugashvili’s mother was Osset, so Stalin was half Sarmatian,” states a website dedicated to Ossetian identity.[20]

Stalin maintained a Georgian accent all his life.[21] His revolutionary pseudonym prior to Stalin was “Koba,” “after the famous Georgian outlaw and the name of a character in the romance Nunu, by the Georgian author Kazbek.”[22]

Does it Matter?

Does the ethnicity of Stalin matter in any practical sense? Mr. Tarrell, as noted in the opening paragraph of this essay, poses the same question. He states that a further indication that Stalin as Jewish was that one of his long-time friends recommended he attend a Yiddish theatre, and therefore it is assumed Stalin spoke Yiddish. Mr. Tarrell then states that in 1925 all Holy Bibles were turned in and publicly burned.[23] The implication is that Stalin, like many other Bolsheviks such as Trotsky, was motivated by Jewish roots. Socio-psychological reasons for that will not be examined here. However by the late 1940s all the Yiddish newspapers had been closed and all the Yiddish theatres. The leading exponent of Yiddish culture, Solomon Mikhoels, was run down by a truck.[24]

Well prior to that however there had been a fundamental break in Bolshevism that decades later culminated in Stalin’s proposal to segregate all Soviet Jews, which possibly served as the catalyst for his murder by Beria et al. in 1953.[25] The question of Stalin’s animosity towards Jews, that had been of long duration, and was projected onto his arch-enemy Trotsky, is of significance to the manner by which the whole post-war world has developed. The German conservative philosopher-historian Oswald Spengler, while not specifying a Jewish factor, discerned even in 1922 that the Russian soul would probably transcend the alien import of Marxism to the extent that Russia might enter into an alliance with Germany against the plutocratic powers.[26]

The assertion of Russian national-bolshevism under Stalin meant that many of the original Bolshevik policies were reversed on such issues as the family and parenthood.[27] From 1948 “rootless cosmopolitanism,” which was often synonymous with Jewish influences in the arts and even in the sciences, was purged in favour of a “Soviet culture” that was based firmly on folk traditions.[28]

The rivalry between two outlooks for the soul of Russia resulted in such an obsessive hatred by Trotskyists and other Marxists for Stalinist Russia that many, including Trotsky’s widow, Sedova, became conscious, enthusiastic, and life-long agents or apologists for American imperialism, especially with the founding of the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1949,[29] i.e., the year of F. Chernov’s launching of the Soviet campaign against rootless cosmopolitanism. This Kulturkampf between the USSR and the USA took on global ramifications that lasted until the implosion of the Soviet Union. As such, the USSR represented a conservative, nationalist bloc vis-à-vis the USA, which sought what is today openly called by the likes of the post-Trotskyite National Endowment for Democracy, a “world democratic revolution” (i.e., global plutocracy). The Spenglerian American philosopher, Francis Parker Yockey explained:

Thus, there are two Russias: the Bolshevik regime, and the true Russia underneath. Bolshevism, with its worship of Western technology, and of a silly foreign theory of class-war, does not express the soul of the true Russia. . . . This spirit is still there, since it is organic, and cannot be killed, but must express itself. This is the spirit of Asiatic Bolshevism, which is at present harnessed to the Bolshevism of the Moscow regime, with its economic-technical obsession.[30]

The dichotomy of the Stalin/Trotsky split symbolised the clash of two world-outlooks. Anti-Stalinism drove the thoughts and actions of many of those who became the formulators of US foreign policy, which continues to dominate US thinking. Had Stalin been Jewish the shape of the post-1945 world would have been fundamentally different, and there would have been no real discord between the USA and the USSR.[31] In short, there would have been no constraint placed upon American global adventurism.

Notes

[1] R. N. Terrall, “Stalin’s Ethnic Roots,” The Barnes Review, May–June 2003, pp. 71–73.

[2] See for example: Winston Churchill, “Zionism versus Bolshevism: a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people,” Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8, 1920, p. 5.

[3] For example: King Faisal, “A Grand Conspiracy,” Newsweek, December 21, 1970. Quoted in “Russia’s Trials of Jews a Fraud,” The Thunderbolt, Issue 133, January 1971, p. 1.

[4] Terrall, p. 72.

[5] “Iosif,” Behind the Name: The Etymology and History of First Names: Russian Names, http://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/russian

[6] http://www.behindthename.com/name/iosif

[7] Iosif Volotskii was one of many charismatic monastic leaders who founded new cloisters during a renaissance of monasticism in Muscovite Russia (approximately 1350 to 1550) and were later recognized as saints. Jennifer Spock, “The Monastic Rule of Iosif Volotskii,” Kritika, Vol. 5, no. 3, Summer 2004, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/kri/summary/v005/5.3spock.html

[8] Terrall, p. 72.

[9] http://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/russian/2

[10] “The Life of Father Yakov Netsvetov,” http://www.alaskool.org/native_ed/curriculum/st_george/stgeorge8.html

[11] Terrall, p. 72.

[12] Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin (New York: Vintage, 2007).

[13] Jacob Jugashvili to K. R. Bolton, personal correspondence, August 27, 2004.

[14] Ibid.

[15] Terrall, p. 72.

[16] “Russian surnames,” http://www.justrussian.com/blog/106/russian-surnames

[17] Terrall, p. 72.

[18] Peter Meyers and J. Jugashvili, cyberone.com.au/myers.

[19] “South Ossetia – Early History,” Global Security, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/south-ossetia-7.htm

[20] “Some Historical Information about Serbs and Croats,” Ossetians, http://ossetians.com/eng/news.php?newsid=437&f=31

[21] “Stalin,” Ossetians, http://ossetians.com/eng/news.php?newsid=364

[22] “Stalin, Joseph,” Encyclopaedia of Marxism, http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/s/t.htm

[23] Terrall, p. 73.

[24] Arkady Vaksberg, Stalin Against the Jews (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), Chapter 8: “The Murder of Solomon Mikhoels,” pp. 159–82.

[25] K. R. Bolton, Stalin: The Enduring Legacy (London: Black House Publishing, 2012), chapter 6, “Who Killed Stalin?”

[26] Oswald Spengler, “The Two Faces of Russia and Germany’s Eastern Problems,” Politische Schriften, February 14, 1922.

[27] Bolton, Stalin: The Enduring Legacy, chapter 1, “Stalin’s Fight Against International Communism: Family Life Restored.”

[28] A. Zhdanov, Speech at the discussion on music to the Central Committee of the Communist Party SU (Bolshevik), February 1948; F. Chernov, “Bourgeois Cosmopolitanism and its Reactionary Role,” Bolshevik: Theoretical and Political Magazine of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ACP(B), Issue #5, 15 March 1949, pp. 30–41.

[29] Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (New York: The New Press, 1999).

[30] F. P. Yockey, Imperium (Costa Mesa, Cal.: The Noontide Press, 1969), p. 582.

[31] Bolton, Stalin: The Enduring Legacy, chapter 4, “Trotsky, Stalin and the Cold War”; chapter 5, “Origins of the Cold War: How Stalin Foiled a New World Order.”

 

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22 comments

  1. James Thomas says:
    November 26, 2012 at 3:10 am

    Great article. The accusation that Stalin was jewish is all circumstantial but there is a lot of that, including his counterance. The portrait included in the article doesn’t really capture what Stalin looked like. This photo of Stalin could mistake him for an owner of a Hollywood Studio but I guess that’s doesn’t mean much, since Hitler’s doctor looked like someone straight out of the Warsaw Ghetto, but apparently he wasn’t jewish either.

    http://www.koanicsoul.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Joseph-Stalin.jpg

    1. Greg Johnson says:
      November 26, 2012 at 4:55 am

      Ashkenazi Jews, Armenians, Georgians, and other peoples from the Caucasus all share a certain “Armenoid” subracial type. Ashkenazi Jews are Armenoids, but not all Armenoids are Ashkenazi Jews.

  2. Proofreader says:
    November 26, 2012 at 4:09 am

    It seems that there was an element of truth in the comments that Joseph Stalin made in 1937 regarding Trotskyism:

    “Our Party comrades have failed to notice that Trotskyism has ceased to be a political tendency within the working class, that from that political tendency within the working class which it was seven or eight years ago, Trotskyism has transformed into a frenzied and unprincipled band of wreckers, diversionists, spies, and killers, acting upon the instructions of the intelligence service organs of foreign states.”

    Stalin was certainly right about Trotskyites colluding with “the intelligence service organs of foreign states.” Big or small, Trotskyites have been and are a truly malignant and treacherous lot.

    Today, Trotskyite wreckers call themselves “neoconservatives.” They all deserve to get an icepick blow in the back of the head.

    1. Kerry Bolton says:
      November 26, 2012 at 5:54 am

      The matter of Trotskyism, including the Moscow Trials, is covered in relative detail in my recent book Stalin: The Enduring Legacy (London: Black House Publishing) , with forewords by Dr Alexander Jacob and Dr Dimitris Michalopoulos.

      http://www.amazon.com/Stalin-Enduring-Legacy-Kerry-Bolton/dp/1908476443

      1. rhondda says:
        November 26, 2012 at 8:56 am

        I am very glad that you have written a book on Stalin Dr. Bolton. Nationalism does seem to get very bloody.

  3. me says:
    November 26, 2012 at 6:38 am

    Jewish or not, Stalin was a psychopath.

    1. It is I only says:
      November 28, 2012 at 4:36 am

      I’ve always wondered, who killed more Jews? Hitler or Stalin?

  4. me says:
    November 26, 2012 at 6:47 am

    Dr. Karl Radl concluded (twice) Stalin was not a jew:

    http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com./2009/02/was-josef-stalin-jewish.html

    http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com./2012/05/was-stalin-jewish.html

    1. Daniel Constantin says:
      November 26, 2012 at 4:37 pm

      Your links here to Radl’s site don’t work for some reason. Allow me to repost them and also add another article which deals specifically with Stalin’s name:

      http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2009/02/was-josef-stalin-jewish.html#!/2009/02/was-josef-stalin-jewish.html

      http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2012/05/was-stalin-jewish.html#!/2012/05/was-stalin-jewish.html

      And the one about the name here:

      http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot.com/2011/06/in-brief-early-origin-for-dzhugashvili.html#!/2011/06/in-brief-early-origin-for-dzhugashvili.html

      Karl’s blog (Semetic Controversies) is generally a great site to look at when dealing with issues regarding the Jews.

  5. Herman says:
    November 26, 2012 at 7:27 am

    I remember having seen a photo of Stalin in one of the books of Hans F. K. Guenther, perhaps in “Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes” with the caption “Der Grusinier Josef Stalin”. The book must have appeared at a time when relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were relatively good, because Stalin is described as a typical representative of the Grusinian race, “grusinian” being a synonym for “georgian”, without any polemics. I don’t have the book anymore, but you have it probably in your library; the photo cannot be overlooked.

  6. mysmackan says:
    November 26, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    What about Beria? Some people suggests he was a jew but his wiki-entry lists him as a georgian. I read, in a biography over Stalin by a jewish author, that it was believed och insinuated by some at the time that Beria was a armenian pretending to be a georgian to win favors with Stalin.

    1. Kerry Bolton says:
      November 26, 2012 at 10:25 pm

      Dr Ivan Kalmar of the Uni. of Toronto alludes to Beria being Jewish in “The Trotskys, Freuds and Woody Allens: Portrait of a Culture,” Viking Books, 1993, p. 206, but does not give a source for that. Beria is widely suspected of poisoning Stalin, and had a very brief interregnum when he attempted to promote an anti-Russian policy, but was soon executed.

    2. Andrew Hamilton says:
      November 27, 2012 at 12:36 am

      Beria was Georgian (Mingrelian), not Jewish.

      I don’t know if he was married to a Jew or had mistresses who might have been Jewesses.

      The percentage of the Gentile element in the Communist dictatorship married to Jews was very high.

  7. Snake says:
    November 26, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    Stalin was anti-Judaic by accident if at all. Yockey uses the hangings of Prague as proof. But may I ask, is it possible to purge Communists without purging jews? Would the ice pick have entered Trotsky’s skull had he stayed subordinate? Probably not.

    The real question is: How should modern-day Russians combat Putin’s anti-Russian imperialism and the efforts of Judeo-liberal “reformers” like Pussy Riot?

  8. me says:
    November 27, 2012 at 7:04 am

    Millions died under Stalin. For what reason? All you’re saying he’s not jewish. And acted somewhat anti-jewish at times. Was Stalin aware millions died under his watch? I take it he was a deluded caucasian who believed in the communist rule and used it psychopathically in his egomaniac quest for power – ruled over the eastern half of the white Europe?

  9. Dr. Jim Saleam says:
    November 29, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    Dr. Bolton was kind enough to forward to me an electronic version of his Stalin: The Enduring Legacy. I would strongly recommend this work.

    It is always important when trying to discern truths from facts to stay objective about the subject matter. The (monstrous) personality of Stalin should never blind us.

    Those ‘conservatives’ and other ‘patriots’ who missed the truth about the evolution of the Soviet Union under Stalin and after him – did none of us any favours. They retarded the growth of our politics by trying to conatrain it within some mantle of anti-communism, when the only real ‘communists’ were New Left and Trotskyite in nature and otherwise effective tools of the evolving Western regime.

    1. Jaego says:
      November 30, 2012 at 1:46 am

      Bingo. And they keep thinking of China as a Communist State they have to liberate – instead of seeing it as an example of Asian Capitalism at its best/worst. But they don’t like that since they imagine that Capitalism means freedom and “democracy”.

  10. Alex from Russia says:
    December 1, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Cossack greetings from Russia, dear Mister Bolton!

    Thank you very much, dear Sir, not only for your brilliant essays and brave struggle for OUR COMMON CAUSE, but for your sincere sympathy towards Russia, real understanding of my Nation. SPASIBO!

    I like very much this your article, and would like to send as an addition my corresponding essay, which was written in Fall 2011 in the form of my discussion with one Russian-American lady, my pen-friend.

    Yours truly,
    Alexander Mezentsev

    ******************************************

    “T-a` letter [my reply below]:

    ********

    Hi Alex,

    According to several historians, there’s NO doubt that Stalin was of Semitic-Mongoloid mixture.Many Jews believed him to be one of them. A Captain in the Czar’s armies, stated that he knew Stalin in their boyhood and that Stalin’s father Dzhugashvili was “a Jewish cobbler”.

    Many Jews change their names. In the Georgian language “shvili” means son of, or son, as in Johnson. “Djuda” means Jew. therefore Djugashvili means Jewison… Or Joe Jewison…Joseph David Djugashvili is a typical Jewish name.

    Stalin had three wives, all of them JEWESSES. Stalin’s third wife was the sister of Kaganovich, the Jewish Commissar of Heavy Industries and dictator over all the great industries cities of slave labor. He worked to death 15 to 20 million non-Jews. He employed many of his kind to his bureaucracy, but he did not enslave JEWS.

    Many Jews tried hiding their true identities by changing their names, or by converting to Christianity. We know better how they play their games.

    Lenin and Trotsky… Oh yes!!! Two promulgating raucous Jews that enjoyed sucking the Russian’s blood. And let’s NOT EVER forget who murdered the Tsar and his family, and other employees as well. If we turned back some pages, we can see how all of this nightmare started. Lenin’s oldest brother ( Volodya) with 5 other students formed the terrorist section of the “Narodnaya Volya” which planned to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. By accident, the Petersburg police discovered the plot. Sasha was arrested, tried…and on May 8th, 1887 he and four comrades were hanged… Just before his arrest Sasha had translated Marx’s Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right ( 1844). Lenin’s sister Anna ( arrested with Sasha in 1887, but later released and banished from Petersburg). Reports that “When Volodya( Lenin) heard this, he immediately sat down and read it”. Lenin’s father dead, brother hanged, sister deported family disgraced… Lenin turned to Marxism for the ultimate revenge.

    Lenin thought that Stalin was too rude, needed more patient, more loyal, more polite, and more attentive to comrades, less capricious etc, etc. Lenin wanted Stalin removed from his General Secretary position and replaced him perhaps with the following comrades: Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, or Kamenev.

    Hugs
    T

    **************************

    Hi, T.!

    Well, dare to disagree with you as regards of Stalin` racial origin.

    Let me start: “According to several historians, there’s NO doubt that Stalin was of Semitic-Mongoloid mixture” – would you please provide me the family-names of these historians? Besides, it`s very complex historical supposition – taking into cons. Arabic [i.e. Semitic] invasions here in the region, esp. after Mohammed` death, and later on – Mongol invasions of 1220s and later. So, this mixture is pretty natural among many Caucasian Region` inhabitants, Stalin incl. – but how to count???

    “Many Jews believed him to be one of them” – many Georgians believed him to be one of them, Ossetians the same. It`s “so what” level, sorry……….

    “Captain in the Czar’s armies, stated that he knew Stalin in their boyhood and that Stalin’s father Dzhugashvili was “a Jewish cobbler”. – who was that Czar` officer? And besides, it`s hearsay` level – thus, I was accused by at least three FB users to be Jew due to my profile picture of Charles Bronson this year, “who was Jewish too”, koz Several American White Nationalist writers told it [yeah, and I read it in one of Dr. Edward Fields` essays]; fact of the matter, Bronson was Lipki Tartar from Lithuania and Roman Catholic [I know one guy here in FB, whose older relatives were Bronson` friends at school].

    The same hearsay` level is supposedly love affair of Stalin` mother with one Jewish tradesman there in Gori before Iosif was born.

    “Joseph David Djugashvili” ??? I read it RIGHT now in the Russian Net, but it`s wrong. Georgians, Russian Jews, Ossetians whoever here haven`t “two names – one family name”.

    “David” was one of his pseudonyms. As for “Koba” – it`s from this novel

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koba_(folk_hero)

    of this writer:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kazbegi

    And in Georgia this name, “Iosif”, is not rarity, esp. in XIX c.:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioseb_Grishashvili

    Stalin` wives. Three or four – I mean, with Valentina Vasilievna Istomina? Koz Ekaterina Semenovna Svanidze-Dvali was from Orthodox nobility from both ends. Ethnically she was Svan from Dad` side, Dvali from mother` side.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svan_people

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvals

    As for Nadezhda Sergeevna Allilueva. Her father was born in Voronezh gubernia, in the village of Ramenie. Don`t think there were J-z in such villages in the middle of Central Russia, outside of the Pale of Settlement. Besides, I didn`t find this family-name in the Russian Jews` family-names list:

    http://toldot.ru/urava/lnames/a6118/

    Allilueva“ mother had Georgian, Gypsy and German blood. May be, J-sh as well, I don`t know for sure.

    Kaganovich` sister – Stalin wife? Hmmmmm…. Weird version. Am more stick to Gen. Volkogonov` treatment of this matter. So, I don`t think Stalin even was her lover:

    http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_k/kaganovich_roza.php

    “Djuda” means Jew. therefore Djugashvili means Jewison”. No. BECAUSE THERE IS NOT SUCH WORD AS “DJUDA” IN THE GEORGIAN AND OSSETIAN LANGUAGES! I dare to repeat from my letter to Steve:

    “Jew in Georgian – Uria [Yid] and Ebraeli”.

    Jew in Ossetian is Дзуудтаг, Dzuudtag – concretely from Digorian-Ossetian language. Or Dzutt[ag] in Ossetian mainstream language – from Turkish çufut, Iranian – juhūd. So, Jewish-Ossetian CORRESPONDING family-name is Dzotov [I worked with one such guy in 1999], not Dzugaev here in the North/Dzhugaev there in the South.

    And Yid in Ossetian is Uirag.

    Sorry for being in disagreement….And you see, am not Devil`s advocate here, but still stick to my old profession.

    Yours ever, Alex

    1. Kerry Bolton says:
      December 1, 2012 at 5:45 pm

      Alex
      Thank you for both your encouraging words and providing your informative letter.
      These matters were once well- known among the Right, including the American Right; but like the subject of banking it seems that some things need learning all over again.

      1. Alex from Russia says:
        December 2, 2012 at 3:47 am

        Thank you for your reply, dear Mister Bolton!
        Indeed – your “The Cold War Axis: Soviet Anti-Zionism and the American Right” is very useful and instructive historical manual on this particular subject.
        By the way – do you know, are there any COMMON SENSE` collections in the Net? [in this regard Tom Metzger made the great deal, posting all issues of INSTAURATION and LIBERTY BELL in PDF on his website].

        Although from the Enemy` end, but this ADL Report is very interesting as regards of pro-USSR views of certain Rightist circles

        http://www.adl.org/terrorism/Terrorism%27s%20Targets%20-%20Democracy%20Israel%20and%20Jews.pdf

        And if you`d allow me some additional info, the Soviets maintained covertly friendly relations with Franco

        “…de la nutrida relación de Franco con los rusos, sus canjes de comunistas (350 nombres le facilitó el KGB) a cambio de información secreta de las bases norteamericanas en suelo español”
        http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_M._Gonz%C3%A1lez-Mata

        – and very friendly relations between Brezhnev` Kremlin and “pro-Nazi” Casa Rosada during hard-core Rightist Argentinean Junta 1976-1983 is well-known fact [Argentinean soldados were even heroes for us, Soviet schoolboys, during Guerra de las Islas Malvinas – due to heroic reports on the Soviet TV].
        As colonel Aldo Rico states:
        “La alianza estratégica durante el Proceso es la Unión Soviética”
        http://www.oocities.org/capitolhill/parliament/9268/entrevista.htm

        Dear Mister Bolton, are you going to publish your “Stalin: The Enduring Legacy” in Russia?

        Yours sincerely,
        Alex

        P.S. My interview w/Deanna Spingola, on my essay in THE BARNES REVIEW et al – may be you`ll take an interest:

        http://archive.org/details/DeannaSpingolaAndAlexanderMezentsev-TheCossacksVsBolshevismWwii

      2. Kerry Bolton says:
        December 2, 2012 at 3:53 pm

        Alex
        Thanks for the further interesting information and sources. I do not know of any internet soruce for Common Sense. I have reprinted several dozen articles from Common Sense as individual booklets, available from Renaissance Press, http://www.freewebs.com/renaissancepress
        (P O Box 1627 Paraoaraumu Beach, 5252, New Zealand).
        If C-C will allow me some blatant free advertising, the material available at $US 7 each is:

        #466 1966 – Zionist leaders conspire to railroad US into World War III. Palestine Arab Delegation. Excellent history of Zionism, world wars, dual loyalty.
        #473 1966 – New York – capitol of Marxism, Fred Farrel, widely travelled journalist. Stalinist Russia vs. Trotskyite USA.
        #494 1967 – Rise of Negro Anti-Semitism set back to Zionist plotters. Dr Austin J App.
        #510 1968 – Death of liberalism. Farrel.
        #525 1968 – Open letter to B’nai B’rith. Farrel.
        #549 1969 – Why Big business supports Communism. World oil & Anti-Semitism. Farrel.
        #554 1970 – Civil Rights, Integration & Jews. How Zionists lost control of Negro movement. Jack Green & American Negress Standish Hall.
        #560 1970 – USA, USSR & Middle East. Issa Nakhleh, Arab Higher Committee for Palestine. Excellent history, including early collusion between Zionists and communists.
        #565 1970 – Third Man emerges. Farrel. The need to break from the old politics.
        #567 1970 – Our Judaised Establishment destroying Western Civilisation. John Sullivan.
        #569 1970 – The Real Russia – myth vs. reality. J Sullivan. Reflections on Russia, Wm. O’Brien. How Zionist Wall St. lost control.
        #571 1970 – Bolshevism of Privileged. Sullivan. How Zionists used New Left terrorism.
        #581 1971 – Calley thrown to wolves. Farrel. How wealthy Zionist pro-Communists subverted US military during Vietnam war.
        #584 1971 – Jews & Africa. Henry Ball, American Negro.
        #587 1971 – USA sold out China. Farrel. How Zionists backed Red take-over and use China against Russia.
        #591 1971 – Exploding the “world communist conspiracy” myth. Paul Pulitzer. Zionist bankers the real subversives.
        #591 1971 – East-West conflict. Farrel. Conflict between Zionism and nationalism.
        #593 1971 – Trade secrets of Jewish ruling class. Farrel.
        #594 1971 – Conservatives & Trotskyites. Farrel. Zionism behind Big Business & Trotskyites. Explains the origins of today’s phoney neo-cons behind Bush.
        #596 1972 – American Future. Farrel. End of USA.
        #598 1972 – American-Jewish plot against Europe. Farrel.
        #599 1972 – Dead Speak. Paul Pulitzer. Allied support for Tito who murdered 500,000 Croatian refugees; hypocrisy of Nuremberg Trials.
        #602 1972 – Israel must die! Farrel.
        #603 1972 – World wide apostasy. Coming of Anti-Christ. Farrel. World power struggle ultimately religious.
        Last issue 1972 – End of the trail. Farrel et al.

  11. Willia Crouse says:
    January 9, 2020 at 1:21 pm

    Yes it does matter.

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