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[–]astronautrob 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Don't understand the point of these posts. So what if there was a large population of jews in the Bolshevik party, what does that prove? Also, Lenin was a lot more accepting of jews than Stalin. Once Stalin came to power the real purges began.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well I guess the main point would be that the ideologies and motivations that created Lenin's Russia still exist to this day, and might be re-creating this trajectory in other governments.

Bolsheviks should be blamed though, not Jews. Because the overwhelming majority of Jews are not Bolsheviks.

However the overwhelming majority of high-level Bolsheviks are Jews, which itself is interesting.

But again, this is a condemnation of Bolsheviks, not Jews, because most Jews are not Bolsheviks. And I really don't like it when people try to "Blame the Jews" because it's a huge category. It's like blaming "white people" for USSR. It's much too broad and doesn't really actually get at anything useful.

[–]astronautrob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But Lenins idea for russia much different than what Stalins russia came to be. Stalin purged almost all the old Bolshevik leaders, etc., so I still have trouble seeing the significance of this.