Anti-Zionism Is Racism

Wed Aug 1 04:07:15 PDT 2001

  Here is another massacre to explain away. Katyn. Webpage from a descendent
of a survivor of the Katyn killings. His Father, " Leon was one of 448 who
survived the murder of 27,000 Allied POW's by Stalin.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/6764/intro.html
A great myth developed that only the fascist enemy was capable of genocide,
of mass crime. If the crimes of the Soviet Union were to be put into the
same category as those of the Nazis, the whole moral story
of why we fought the Second World War would have been ruined.
We now know that during the war, Stalin actually killed more of
his own people than Hitler killed during the Holocaust.
                                                                         --
Norman Davies
Poland's tragic fate during WW II, particularly the Holocaust, is well
known, including the fact that 6.5 million Polish citizens perished, of whom
3 million were Jews. This Web Site documents the horrors of Nazism, but as
importantly it is a study of a chapter of History long misunderstood and
even denied: Poland's suffering under Stalinism and Communism.

Hitler and Stalin divided Poland between themselves in 1939, subjecting
Poles to a double reign of terror. Under the Soviet occupation of Poland
(Sept. 1939 to June 1941) over 100,000 Poles were killed, including 27,000
Polish officers at Katyn and other camps.

During WW II, between 1 million and 2 million Poles were deported to Siberia
and other points in the USSR, half of whom died. Between 1945-1955, tens of
thousands more were imprisoned and executed by the Communist regime in
Poland installed by Moscow.

I combine family history with evidence that has surfaced since the fall of
Communism to bring to light previously censored topics such as Stalinism and
Soviet crimes, the West's collusion in the denial of Katyn, Jewish/Ukrainian
collaboration with occupying forces, and the abandonement of Poland by the
Allies. The fate of my parents is one shared by many Poles, but it is a
story still misunderstood in the West.

I hope the material presented here will expand knowledge and interest in
Poland and Poles during the Second World War, serving as an educational tool
for layman and historian--and that it will counteract deniers of the
holocausts perpetrated by both Hitler and Stalin.

I dedicate this project to my parents and to Poles everywhere, as well as to
Ukrainians, Balts, Russians, Jews and countless others who suffered under
Nazism and Communism.
--- Christopher Jacek Gladun

My mother Janina joined the Polish underground in 1939 to fight the Soviets
and Nazis, for which she was tortured by the NKVD and deported to the Gulag,
as were her family and friends--some of whom were murdered. Miraculously she
survived the Gulag only to face permanent exile and separation from loved
ones. She dedicated her life to their memory.

My father Leon was one of the few survivors of Katyn where all of his
comrades were murdered on Stalin's orders in one of the greatest crimes of
history. He went on to fight the Germans in Italy, but he could not return
to a Poland that was handed over to the Soviets by the very Allies he fought
for.

I have spent years translating and researching my family dairies, letters,
documents, as well as conducting interviews with relatives and survivors. My
mother left an extensive memoir of her Gulag odyssey including award-winning
writing, while my father started a POW diary which he kept through the
entire war.

The family letters written amid terror and deprivation, in prisons, camps
and exile, ranging from Soviet and Nazi-occupied Poland, to Siberia, India
and England, provide a victim's testimony and eyewitness account that no
historian can match...

http://www.prometheusbooks.com/site/catalog/book_647.html
Out of the Red Shadows
Russian History
Anti-Semitism in Stalin's Russia
 ....
Gennadi V. Kostyrchenko
....
Stalinist policy toward Jews is assessed for the first time in this
groundbreaking book.

Sifting through thousands of recently declassified documents in the archives
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the KGB, Kostyrchenko
reveals in dispassionate documentary fashion the suppression of free
expression of Jewish life, the forced assimilation of Soviet Jews, and the
purging of Jews from official positions. The Soviet Jews fought valiantly
against fascism in World War II, and the Soviet Union battled to end the
Holocaust. Yet Soviet Jews found that a most ominous page in their history
had been opened just after the war.

Kostyrchenko documents the famous "Doctor's plot" launched by Stalin just
prior to his death, revealing never-before published secret documents. He
also reveals the effort by Stalin to weed out Jews from prominent positions
in the arts, sciences, and professional life. A devastating exposŽ.

"A disturbing, significant contribution to our knowledge of official Soviet
anti-Semitism, based on recently declassified Communist Party and KGB
archives." Kirkus Reviews

"A solid work of research. . . serious, objective and valuable study. .
."Fraternally Yours

". . . simultaneously a rich and depressing book to read." Europe-Asia
Studies

". . . a valuable source of information for students of Jewish history and
late Stalinism alike. . . . by far the most carefully documented text on
Stalin's anti-Semitism in the last years of his rule." The Russian Review

"This is an excellent presentation and we heartily recommend it to those
concerned with that vital phase of Jewish history." Jewish Currents

Jews in Russia, the Countries of the Former Soviet Union, ...
... Jews: the Doctors' Plot and the Soviet Solution. NY: Free Press, 1990.
318p. [DS135.R92R360
1990 Gen and Harper]. Redlich, Shimon. War, Holocaust and Stalinism ...
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/slavic/jbib/jbibrus.html

Joseph Stalin
... Vaksberg, Arkady. Stalin Against the Jews. Translated
by Antonia W. Bouis. New York: Vintage, 1995. ...
Description: Images of Stalin and a Stalin bibliography.
Category: Society > Politics > Socialism > Marxism > Communism > People >
Stalin, Josef
www.history.ucr.edu/seaman/stalin.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=Stalin+Against+the+Jews+by+Arkady+Vaksberg&bt
nG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?q=Stalinism+Soviet+Jews
http://www.google.com/search?q=Stalinist+Anti-Semitism

Michael Pugliese, these should give those that haven't  made up their minds
decades ago something to chew on...
P.S. Related political culture suffused with xenophobia among more
reactionary sectors, not all on the right.>Serbia
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010728/wl/exhuming_the_evidence_1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/international/europe/31SERB.html
(L.A. Times had a, "Column One, " story Monday or Tuesday on Serbian
political mythology and Milosevic supporters .
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000062339jul31.story?coll=l
a%2Dheadlines%2Dworld
(and Macedonian right-wing nationalist rioters chanting, "Death Chambers For
Albanians!" about 6 weeks ago.Look up that chant in quotes on yahoo news,
numerous stories.)

Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Feminism in Eastern Europe
Publication (Journal) New German Critique 57 (fall 1992): 51-65
Published in USA, 1992
Language English
Abstract The emergence of nationalism, anti-Semitism, and antifeminism as a
consequence of the dissolution of communist ideology in Eastern Europe is
examined, showing that Serbian authoritarian populism has engendered a
mythology about the struggle against external and internal enemies. Drawing
on psychoanalysis, it is contended that Serbians fantasize about Albanians
as evil incarnate, bureaucrats as effeminate traitors, and Croats as the
heirs of Nazi repression. It is noted that the mythology of Serbian populism
invokes the heroic deed through the enactment of certain symbolic rituals,
and that Serbian populism has succeeded in uniting two seemingly disparate
elements; neo-Stalinist party politics and the concept of civil society.
Discipline(s) political sociology , anthropology
Source(s)
Michael Pugliese