Story I believe was told by Isaac Babel, a Jewish Bolshie who rode with red Cossacks, was one of the great short story writers of the 20s and 30s, was murdered in the purges. Anyway, as I recall, Babel reported that he heard a Red Cossack sneer at Lenin, "that Jew" hiding in the Kremlin, and compare him invidiously to a "real Russian" like Trotsky, who was fighting at the front.
--- Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/1/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Dude, you don't have to "join the whites" to kill
> > jews. They were all doing it. This was Russia in
> 1917.
>
> Oh really? The Bolsheviks weren't killing Jews in
> '17 (Unless they
> were industrialists or bankers! Let me check Ilya
> Ehrenberg's autobio.
> though and the bound volumes of Commentary, heh...)
> The Mensheviks and
> SR's weren't.
>
>
> --
> Michael Pugliese
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