Research: Quotes About the Soviet Union

Even Winston Churchill warned against the Jewish control of the Soviet Union, during a long interview published in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, 1920:

“This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”


Bolshevik meeting; most of the participants were later executed by Stalin

Pastor George E. Simons led the Methodist Episcopal Church in Petrograd 1907-1918. He became an eyewitness to the Bolshevik power grab, and he would later testify before the United States Senate. His testimony is preserved in Volume III of the United States Senate Document No. 62, 66th Congress, First Session:

“Out of 388 members of the new Russian government, only 16 happened to be Russians. One was an American Black. All the rest, 371, were Jews. Of these 371 Jewish Bolshevik leaders, no less than 265 of them were from the Lower East Side of New York City.”

Soviet cavalry in the little known Soviet invasion of Poland, 1919-1921

In the book The Nineteenth Century and After, published in London November 1923, Henry Pearson recounts on page 695:

“The Bolsheviki have employed every form of cruelty it is possible to devise, and gloat over the sufferings of their victims. The movement is run almost exclusively by Jews. Nearly every commissar is a Jew, and nearly all of them speak English, most of them with an American accent.”

Red Army soldiers executing civilians

During the Russian civil war between the White and Red Armies in 1918, the American general consul in Moscow wrote a telegram to the U.S. State Department on May 2, archived as 861.00/1757:

“Jews predominate in local government, anti-Jewish feeling growing among population which tends to regard the oncoming Germans as deliverers.”

Consul Caldwell in Vladivostok sent a telegram to the State Department on July 5 the same year, archived as 861.00/2205:

“Fifty per cent of Soviet government in each town consists of Jews of the worst type....”

Trotsky inspecting Red Army soldiers

Another telegram from Vladivostok, sent on March 1 by Captain Montgomery Schuyler from the headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia, to his chief of staff:

“The Bolshevik movement is and has been since its beginning guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type....”

In a telegram from June 9 the same year Schuyler quotes the journalist Robert Wilton, correspondent for the London Times in Russia, about his observations of the new Soviet government:

”There were 384 commissars including 2 Negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen, 22 Armenians, and more than 300 Jews. Of the latter number 264 had come to Russia from the United States....”

Red Army soldiers executing resistance fighters

Douglas Reed was a famous foreign correspondent for the London Times. He wrote about Soviet censorship in his book Vanity Fair:

”The censorship department, and that means the whole machine for controlling the home and muzzling the foreign press, was entirely staffed by Jews. There seemed not to be a single non-Jewish official in the whole outfit.”

The New York Journal American wrote in February 3, 1949:
“Today it is estimated by [Jewish millionaire] Jacob's grandson, John Schiff, that the old man sank about $20 million for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia.”

L'Illustration, September 14, 1918:

“When one lives in contact with the functionaries who are serving the Bolshevik Government, one feature strikes the attention, which is, almost all of them are Jews. I am not at all anti-Semitic; but I must state what strikes the eye: everywhere in Petrograd, Moscow, in provincial districts, in commissariats, in district offices, in Smolny, in the Soviets, I have met nothing but Jews and again Jews... The more one studies the revolution the more one is convinced that Bolshevism is a Jewish movement which can be explained by the special conditions in which the Jewish people were placed in Russia.”

Lenin 1920, with Trotsky and Kamenev standing to the right.

Dr. George A. Simons, a former superintendent of the Methodist Missions in Russia, Bolshevik Propaganda Hearing Before the Sub-Committee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 65th Congress:

“We were told that hundreds of agitators had followed in the trail of Trotsky (Bronstein) these men having come over from the lower east side of New York. Some of them when they learned that I was the American Pastor in Petrograd, stepped up to me and seemed very much pleased that there was somebody who could speak English, and their broken English showed that they had not qualified as being Americans. A number of these men called on me and were impressed with the strange Yiddish element in this thing right from the beginning, and it soon became evident that more than half the agitators in the so-called Bolshevik movement were Jews... I have a firm conviction that this thing is Yiddish, and that one of its bases is found in the east side of New York... The latest startling information, given me by someone with good authority, startling information, is this, that in December, 1918, in the northern community of Petrograd - that is what they call the section of the Soviet regime under the Presidency of the man known as Apfelbaum (Zinovieff) - out of 388 members, only 16 happened to be real Russians, with the exception of one man, a Negro from America who calls himself Professor Gordon. I was impressed with this, Senator, that shortly after the great revolution of the winter of 1917, there were scores of Jews standing on the benches and soap boxes, talking until their mouths frothed, and I often remarked to my sister, 'Well, what are we coming to anyway. This all looks so Yiddish.' Up to that time we had seen very few Jews, because there was, as you know, a restriction against having Jews in Petrograd, but after the revolution they swarmed in there and most of the agitators were Jews. I might mention this, that when the Bolshevik came into power all over Petrograd, we at once had a predominance of Yiddish proclamations, big posters and everything in Yiddish. It became very evident that now that was to be one of the great languages of Russia; and the real Russians did not take kindly to it.”

The Jewish Chronicle, September 22, 1922:
“The Bolshevist officials of Russia are Jews. The Russian Revolution with all its ghastly horrors was a Jewish movement.”

Reinhold Niebur, in a speech before the Jewish Institute of Religion, New York October 3, 1934:
“Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.”

American Hebrew, September 10, 1920:
“The Bolshevist revolution was largely the outcome of Jewish idealism.”

Rabbi S. Wise in The American Bulletin, May 5, 1935:
“Some call it Marxism - I call it Judaism.”