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Gulags in Soviet Union – Jews Run Camps Used for Extermination of Christians Downloaded from: justpaste.it/Neuvostoliitto Gulags in Soviet Union – Jews Run Camps Used for Extermination of Christians On June 13, 2013 Russia’s president Vladimir Putin said in his speech during the visit to the Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (Jews and tolerance? – LOL) that following the Bolshevik Revolution in October of 1917, Jews made up 80 to 85 percent of the first government of the Soviet Union. Jewish Telegraphic Agencyquoted Vladimir Putin with English translation of his speech said with reference to a library belonging to Rabbi Joseph I. Schneerson, the late leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement: The decision to nationalize this library was made by the first Soviet government, whose composition was 80 to 85 percent Jewish. If anyone has access to documents that prove this number to be correct, the president of Russia is him. However, in stark contrast to reality, perhaps as an ass kissing gesture to the Jewish overmasters that controlled the Soviet Union from 1917 until 1991, or perhaps to not drive any more Jewish wreath upon himself, Vladimir Putin also said in the same speech (according to the official transcript) that during their control of the Soviet government, Jews supported the arrest and repression of all faiths. Nothing could be further from the truth. Fact of a matter is, the Jewish Bolshevik government targeted Christians in particular for extermination, but protected fellow Jews. Jewish Bolshevik made any form of Anti-Semitism illegal and punished it by death. Accusations of anti Semitism were not investigated. Alleged usurpers were either directly executed or sent to one of the Gulags, the real extermination camps. Jewish Bolsheviks made extermination of non Jews such an important part of their communist agenda, that the only time Vladimir Lenin’s voice was ever recorded on tape, it was when he made a speech denouncing anti-Semitism as counter-revolutionary. Another little fact that proves that Jews in the Soviet Union did NOT arrest and repress all faiths were special privileges given to Jews by the government, which included the creation of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast – a separate homeland meant for Jews only, which exists to this day in Russia. Of course, after Jews moved in to occupy Palestine, many Jews from the Soviet Union and Europe were transported to the new Jewish state so the Jewish Autonomous Oblast experienced decline in Jewish population. Greatest Mass Murder in Human History While exact figures will never be known, some 100 Million people, mostly Slavic Christians perished during the wide spread ethnic cleansing imposed upon Russia by the Jewish Bolsheviks during the 74 years of the Jews sponsored totalitarian communism. The vast number of innocent people massacred by the Jews was so great, it remains and will likely forever be the greatest mass murder in human history. Shortly after the October Revolution, some Russian patriots took to the arms and stood up to the murderous Jew, but utilizing unlimited financial resources raked in with usury worldwide, the Yids were able to crush the brave Russians and punish them severely. Enraged that some Russians had the nerve to uprise against the Jews, the Bolsheviks further punished the nation by going around and stripping peasants off their crops and food supplies, thus creating a huge famine (known as Holodomor) in which some 7 Million people died. In late December 1917, one-quarter Jew, born to a Jewish family (his uncle Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) Vladimir Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka. While Cheka had a fancy name and purpose of so called Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, what was really hiding behind the Counter-Revolution and Sabotage label was the need for extermination of anyone who in any way opposed the totalitarian submission of the Soviet Union to the Jewish demands. Cheka quickly became the largest and exceptionally cruel enforcer of “exterminate every hint of anti Semitism and throw in as many Christians as can be” unwritten law. Because Cheka’s organizational structure changed every few years, so did the organization’s names which went from Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB. Their purpose however remained vastly unchanged so systematic extermination of Christians continued by the millions each year. Shabbos Goy Serving Jews As is typical of the Jews, they controlled the system, but employed a number of properly indoctrinated Shabbos Goy who served as their pawns, doing their dirty work. It is similar to what you can see today – Kenyan is not a Jew, but serves the Jewish interests unconditionally. And so do Angela Merkel, David Cameron, François Hollande and other leaders of the Zionists Occupied Governments. Joseph Stalin, whose real name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzugashvili was a part Jew. He was born in present day Georgia, then part of Czarist Russia and at that time, it would have been unthinkable to give Jewish name to a non Jew. In Georgian language, Dzugash means Jew and Dzugashvili means Son of a Jew. Stalin also married women who were Jewish. Jews Behind Killings of Tens of Millions What even Jews themselves don’t deny, is that in only 5 years of its initial operation (between 1917 and 1922), Cheka was responsible for at least 20 million deaths, which included victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulags. Yet in their first 5 years of control over the Soviet Union, Jews were merely warming up to the much more widespread massacres which were yet to come. Genrikh Yagoda, a Jew who implemented Stalin’s collectivization orders and who along with his deputies established and managed the Gulag extermination camps system is credited with personally executing at least 10 Million people. However after a few years of being the chief Soviet henchmen, Joseph Stalin no longer viewed Genrikh Yagoda favorably, mostly because of his support for Trotskyism and had him demoted, and later executed. His post of chief henchman was replaced in 1936 by an incredibly ruthless Shabbos Goy with a Jewess for wife by the name of Nikolai Yezhov, nicknamed the “bloodthirsty dwarf.” Nikolai Yetzov was responsible for the Great Purge. Author Robert Conquest who’s considered the foremost authority on the Great Purge estimated in his book The Great Terror that the death toll during the 1937 to 1938 Great Purge was around 10 Million. Of 8 Million who were taken into the Gulags during that time, only about 10 % survived. Many Jews quickly jumped on the bashing and discrediting bandwagon after the release of The Great Terror, trying to make it look as though Robert Conquest overestimated the death toll, however after the fall of communism, several Soviet scholars including Edvard Radzinsky and Dmitri Volkogonov published prominent exposés of a number of mass killings during Stalin and based on the documents they were able to obtain, way more than 10 Million people were killed by the Jews during the Great Purge. Keep in mind that that’s 10+ Million killed between 1937 and 1938 alone. The Gulags Gulags were secret extermination camps established and managed by the Jews. They were used predominantly as a means of extermination of the “enemies of the nation“. Anyone seen unfavorable by the Jews was declared an enemy of the nation and was either executed on the spot or sent to a Gulag. Some actual criminals were also sometimes sent to the Gulags, but they were merely treated as criminals which compared to those who transgressed against the Jews, was like being on vacation in a ski resort. Jews and their Shabbos Goy specifically employed and carefully selected to subject enemies of the nation to exceptionally cruet torture did things to the prisoners that none of us could possibly even fathom. Because Gulags were very secretive and few made it out of there alive, actual scale of atrocities may never be known. However to give you some idea of just what Gulag prisoners were subjected to, author Danzig Baldaev released a book titled “Drawings from the Gulag” which contains exactly what its title suggests. Danzig Baldaev was not a prisoner in Gulag, he was a prison guard. He alleges that his book is a result of both his own experiences and a lifetime of research. While his drawings are nowhere near as accurate as the description in the authority literature on the Gulags – a book title The Gulag Archipelago (Архипелаг ГУЛАГ) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who was a prisoner in a Gulag himself – they provide an easy to understand visual interpretation of life in the infamous prison camps. The drawings document such acts as drowning the enemies of the nation to death in a bucket of feces. Forcing the enemies of the nation to stand facing corner for days without rest, food or water until their feet swelled and they fainted, after which they were beaten and forced into the corner again. Forcing the enemies of the nation to sit on a roost in a desecrated church for days until someone fell off from exhaustion to receive beatings with a hose around their neck. Subjecting women to forced labor until their vaginas prolapsed. Beating and torturing prisoners senseless to make them confess to whatever the interrogators wanted them to confess to – and that’s all just a beginning. It is also notable to mention that after the eruption of World War II, millions of Gulag prisoners were forced by the Jewish Bolsheviks to go fight against the Germans. They had Jews behind their lines waiting to shoot anyone who would fail to fight and then there also was the threat of them returning to the Gulag which was the most hellish place in the entire world so each would rather die on a battlefield than go back.
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