The Soviet Jew — Notes

Drafts, notes, newsletters, research bits

Announcement

1. Gonna serialize a book about Soviet Jews and my family's weaponized immigrant story

Why?

1. Victims of Communism

2. The Personal is Political

3. An immigrant living through American decline

Ancestors

1. The Old Country

2. Lev Trotsky and the forgotten Jews

3. Fixing the czar’s carriage

4. A boy from Belarus

5. My Ukrainian grandma and our lost history of pogroms

6. Parallel realities: Nabokov and what the Russian aristocracy was doing during those Civil War pogroms

7. Lenin: Respect Ukrainian peasants, treat the Jews with an iron rod

8. White Russian “saviors”

9. The Holodomor and the erasure of Jewish victims

10. “To the kikes, flow the riches. And the peasants, they’re treated like bitches.”

11. Working the GULAGs: A brief, depressing outline of my grandfather’s life

12. more…

The Op Save the Jews

1. A personal history:

   1. Part One: A saved Soviet Jew goes to Israel

   2. Part Two: Soviet Jews and a Zionist Population Transfer Dream Deferred

   3. Part Three: Zionists, Palestinian kidnappers, and the forced migration of Soviet Jews to Israel

   4. Part Four: Soviet immigrant camps and how I got into journalism

   5. Part Five: America's ban on Soviet Jews

2. The Israeli campaign to influence American Jews:

   1. How Israeli agents in America helped seed the myth of Soviet Jewish genocide

   2. “Soviet policy threatens the Jewish group with extinction.”

   3. Elie Wiesel's Israeli propaganda and the myth of Soviet genocide against the Jews

   4. When Martin Luther King got sucked into an Israeli propaganda op

   5. Whipping up the Soviet Jewish genocide myth

3. Zionism in the USSR

   1. Soviet Jews who fled Israel back to the USSR

   2. How Soviet Jews got zapped by Zionism

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Older bits and pieces, reverse chronological order:

• A couple of research notes on the Holodomor and forgotten Jewish victims

• Germany just classified the Soviet Ukraine famine a “genocide”

• “Who am I? Well, I was born in Ukraine, so I am Ukrainian. But I am from the Donbas, and we’ve always been something different..."

• A short ethnic history of Ukraine...courtesy of the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

• Farting on Lenin…and some notes on nationalism in the Soviet Union

• From Russian revolutionary to CIA agent in one generation

• Outer Richmond Life

• The Soviet Union and the Great Industrial God

• A few victims

• Moving out

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• Operation: Save the Jews

• Court Russians and Soviet Emigres

• Russiagate: A coming of age moment for Soviet immigrants

• Weaponizing Fascism for Democracy

• Weaponized Immigrants and the History of America's Imperial Propaganda Machine

• Part One: portrait of a Soviet CIA propagandist as a Nazi collaborator young

• Part Two: Radio Liberation from Bolshevism

• Part Three: The schizoid world of a Soviet anti-communist propagandist.”

• Rare 1960s propaganda film about the CIA's “Radio Liberation”

• Georgetown's Russian language program was run by a weaponized Russian fascist immigrant group