In 1929 a certain I. Silberman deplored in the weekly newspaper of the Soviet legal system (issue no. 4) that in the People's Courts of the Moscow city government too few trials had occurred over anti-semitism, and in fact only 34 in all of Moscow. (This means that every 10 days a trial took place somewhere in Moscow because of antisemitism.)
The articles in the magazine of the People's Commissariat had the effect of an official order for its readers, [do to martial law], which must be kept in mind.
Even a presumption of antisemitism sufficed for punishment. Most were executed for just using antisemitic language under their tongue. [In the US today, one can observe the same process of implementing antisemitism and hate speech laws that surmount the constitutional right of freedom of speech. What may seem like a noble cause to some, excluding it being unconstitutional could very easily lead us into something much more dire in the future.]
Entire towns were disarmed; the Soviet Union was under Martial law, so an order or law enacted by legal means would need not matter. A simple decree in the Bolsheviks' Pravda Newspaper would suffice, which certainly worked when the Bolsheviks started executing people who were deemed anti-Semitic.
Order 171 is detailed in the book:
Source: (Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the Russian Civil War', by Erik C. Landis.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=R2_53VhgmSkC&q=171#v=onepage&q=171&f=false
The sources for the book are at the endnotes in the link above: number 6, 19, 21, 23, 24, would thus go into more detail concerning this specific order.
The source is from:
Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voennyi arkhiv / Russian State Military Archive...
And within the archives:
RGVA f. 827, op. 1, d. 13, II. 229.
Thus, the Soviets were keen on disarming cities and towns that opposed their will. They enacted gun-control on entire towns, and would detain, torture and kill anyone who opposed them. This included relinquishing ownership of private property.
Like the decree in the Pravda on anti-Semitism, it appears these orders were also relayed as a decree in the Prada on the 4th of July.
Dzerzhinsky, head of the Cheka stated in a June 1918 press conference:
We openly advocate organized terror.... Terror, in times of revolution, is an absolute necessity.... The Cheka is obligated to defend the Revolution and destroy the opponent, even if the sword sometimes touches the heads of the innocent." [Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky was a wayward Polish aristocrat and hardened Marxist revolutionary.]
In the Bulletin Red Terror of November 1st, 1918, and then again in the Christmas day 1918 issue of Pravda, Lenin and Dzerzhinsky published without shame their proletarian principles, which they also implemented everywhere in Russia.
Solzhenitsyn paraphrases:
Do not search in your investigations for documents and evidence that the accused in word or deed has acted against Soviet power. The first question one must pose is: to which class does he belong, what is his origin, what education and training has he enjoyed, and what is his occupation? Those are the questions that must determine the fate of the accused.
Solzhenitsyn later writes:
Among the national minorities, it is clear that in an organization containing many Latvians, and a considerable number of Poles, the Jews stand out very distinctly, particularly among the responsible persons and active collaborators in the Cheka, among the commissars and investigators. For example, of the lead investigators in the commissariat for fighting counter-revolution, the most important structure in the whole Cheka, half were Jews.
And;
Why was it that anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka could count with high probability on standing before a Jewish investigator or being shot by a Jew.
Now Jews are standing on every corner and on every step in the hierarchy of Power. The Russian see him on top of the czars' city of Moscow (Lev B. Kamenev) and at the top of the metropolis on the Neva [St. Petersburg] (Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev) and as head of the Red Army (Leon Trotsky), the perfect mechanisms for our self-destruction. He must watch as the riverbank dedicated to Saint Vladimir now bears the famous name of Nachimson.
Solzhenitsyn supplements this with a quote from a Jewish authoress:
And naturally this history [i.e., of the Jews] was, as with other peoples, not only of the pious, but also of the shameless; not only of the defenseless and those taken away to be murdered, but also of men with arms bringing death to others; not only of the hunted and persecuted but also of the hunters and persecutors. There are pages of this history which one does not open without trembling. And these are the pages that are systematically and purposefully eradicated from the consciousness of the Jews.
The massive penetration of Jews into all areas of Russian life and into the top Soviet leadership during the first 20 years, after the Revolution proved hardly CONSTRUCTIVE FOR JEWRY, and EVEN HARMFUL.
What deeply affected the soul of the Russian people was the assault against the Orthodox Church.
...during which, just between 1918 -1924, 8,000 clergymen were executed.
The chairman of the "Federation of Godless Militants" was Trotsky himself. His successor, likewise a Jew, Emelian Yaroslavsky (born Gubelmann), rose from membership in the Central Committee and the Control Commission to become the President of the Supreme Soviet.
And Solzhenitsyn, DEPLORES THE REQUIREMENT for authors to deliberately write biased history -- specifically, as he states "a gale of curses on the old Russia, to which have been added invented cinematic slanders.
And in an article in The Jewish Tribune:
It is no invention to say that there is antisemitism in the USSR; nowadays in Russia one throws Jewry and Bolshevism into the same pot; of that there is no doubt.
A Jewish woman doctor complained:
"The Jewish Bolsheviks in the administration have ruined my excellent relationship with the local population."
A teacher complained:
"The children yell that I am teaching in a 'Jew school,' because Orthodox [Christian] religious education is no longer permitted and because the priest has been driven out. In the People's Commissariat for Education only Jews are sitting there.
The First International Jewish Congress took place in Vienna in August 1936. M. Vishnyak disapprovingly suggested that the collective attitude toward the Bolshevik regime was perfectly exemplified by the opinion of *N. Goldman: *
...if all sorts of freedom-loving governments and organizations “flatter and even fawn before the Bolsheviks ... why shouldn’t supporters of Jewish ethnic and cultural independence follow the same path? ...
Only Moscow’s open support for anti-Jewish violence in Palestine slightly cooled the
Congress leaders’ disposition toward the Soviet state. Even then ... they only protested the banning of Hebrew ... and the banning of emigration from the USSR to Palestine, and, finally, they objected to the continuing suffering of Zionists in political prisons and concentration camps.
What of Jewish Bolsheviks? I. Bikerman:
“Prowess doesn’t taint – that is our attitude to Bolsheviks who were raised among us and to their satanic evil. Or the modern version: Jews have the right to have their own Bolsheviks”; “I have heard this declaration a thousand times”; at a meeting of Jewish emigrants in Berlin “one after the other, a respected Kadet, a Democrat, a Zionist ascended the podium” and each “proclaimed this right of Jews to have their own Bolsheviks ... their right to monstrosity.”
“Here are the consequences of these words: Jewish opinion across the world turned away from Russia and accepted the Bolsheviks”; “when a famous, old, and well respected Jewish public figure – a white crow – suggested to a high Jewish dignitary in one of the European capitals organizing a protest against the executions of Orthodox priests in Russia [i.e. in the USSR], the latter, after reflecting on the idea, said that it would mean struggling against Bolshevism, which he considers an impossible thing to do because the collapse of Bolshevik regime would lead to anti-Jewish pogroms.”
But if they can live with Bolsheviks, what do they think of the White movement?
When Josef Bikerman spoke in Berlin in November 1922 at the fifth anniversary of the founding of the White Army:
Bolshevism and Judaism, where he passionately argued against the commonplace explanation that Bolshevism originated from the Jewish religion. “The identification of Judaism with Bolshevism is a grave global danger.”
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