SBC - east side St. Paul - 'in the shadow of the scotch tape and postit note empire..."
Some future and past talking points: part one:
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Juri Lina's research into the events of 1917 Russia and Eastern Europe. Foundations and subsequent actions of Bolshevik Communism based on Soviet Archives opened to the public since 1991.
jyrilina dot com slash english
http://jyrilina.com/english/under-the-sign-of-the-scorpion-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-soviet-empire/
Lina proves to be a skilful pedagogue when demonstrating how the implacable mutual hostility that was enacted between the financial and revolutionary interests, was just a show to deceive the masses: “The Revolution as a business venture.”
His description of the time after 1917 is chiefly devoted to the nameless mass terror, which the Soviet Power directed against the defenseless population, including the destruction of the Russian intelligentsia, and the annihilation of the Russian culture.
(excuse me... this is what Hitler was fighting against and defeated to rescue Deuschtland in 1933)(comment not directed to any specific person)
Why did the bolsheviks nourish such a deep-set hatred of everything Russian, desiring to destroy it even to the extent that it threatened their own material existence? According to Lina, the reason for this was that the majority of the Bolshevik leadership were not Russians at all but extremist Jews.
(Yet they were also able to "convince/manipulate/threaten" some pure white Russians to take up arms first against their brother and sister fellow Russian folk, then Poland folk and Deuschtland folk.)
This is a fact that some debaters feel is controversial. Lina, however, presents detailed evidence that is very difficult to dismiss. Still, many a reader may find it very difficult to conceive the fact that a powerful empire in our century could so easily fall prey to ruthless gangsters who immediately set out to slaughter tens of millions of innocent people, organized mass famine (Ukraine and Northern Caucasia, in 1932-33), to say nothing of the rest. Anyhow, the facts are there.
The fall of Soviet Power on 24 August 1991 made it possible, for the first time, to publicize lots of secret materials about this power and its abusers during more than 70 years. One strong point with Lina’s book is that he gives us what appears to be a rich summary of what has hitherto been published by Russian historians but which has not reached out of Russia except than in small rivulets.
Jüri Lina is an Estonian, living in Sweden since 1979 when he, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was forced into exile after recurring conflicts with the political police KGB. The last chapter of his book he devotes to the fate of his fatherland under Soviet Power, 1940-41 and 1944-1991. Here, too, “the Jewish connection” is very clearly seen. To cite just an instance: When Soviet Russia occupied Estonia for the first time, in 1940, this was preceded by diverse underground activities by the Estonian Communist Party. These were without much effect, however, mainly because the party was so small in numbers. Out of the total of 133 members in 1940, however, 67 were also members of two Jewish “cultural” associations. That is to say, there was a majority of Jews in the Communist fifth column that attempted to overthrow the Estonian Republic, while at the same time the Jews were not more than 0,4 per cent of the total population.
This last chapter on Estonia is very interesting to read also because the wealth of details of the destinies of individuals who “chanced to escape the anonymity of the great terror waves”. Here, Lina bases his presentation on his own research into the archives of Estonian KGB, now open to researchers. It is also very upsetting to read about this mass of human suffering – what else could we expect?
In the opinion of the present reviewer, Jüri Lina’s book “Under the Sign of the Scorpion: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Empire” is one of those rare books that must leave a profound and lasting impression on every reader.
Reviewed by S. D. Savallar
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In the Shadow of Hermes - movie based on the book "Under the Sign of the Scorpion"
http://jyrilina.com/english/in-the-shadow-of-hermes-the-secrets-of-communism/
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