HOLODOMOR Jewish Complicity Yakovlev

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia, Yakovlev, Alexander. 2002.

Lazar Kaganovich in the Spotlight. 20-25 Million Died Under Soviet Communism

This book presents much information. I focus on some relevant items.

LAZAR KAGANOVICH

Yakovlev writes, “Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich: His entire political career is one of punitive action. Known for the results of his actions during the collectivization period in the Ukraine, the Voronezh oblast, the northern Caucasus, and western Siberia. Played a particularly sinister role during the mass arrests of 1935-39. As early as 1933, at the January plenum of the CC and the Central Control Commission (TsKK) of the All-Union Communist Party (of the Bolsheviks)-VKP(b)-he declared angrily, ‘We don’t shoot enough people.'”

THE DEATH TOLL OF SOVIET COMMUNISM DWARFS THAT OF GERMAN NAZISM

Yakovlev comments, “My own many years of experience in the rehabilitation of victims of political terror allow me to assert that the numbers of people in the USSR who were killed for political motives or who died in prisons and camps during the entire period of Soviet power totaled 20 to 25 million. And unquestionably one must add those who died of famine-more than 5.5 million during the civil war and more than 5 million during the 1930s.” (p. 234).

QUALIFICATION OF THE AUTHOR

In the Introduction, it is written, “It is hard to think of any other Communist official of comparable rank and distinction who so explicitly, sweepingly, and powerfully repudiated the system he was a part of, who was as much an insider and a product of the system as Alexander Yakovlev.” (p. viii).