Stalin was born Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, in the
mountain village of Gori in the province of Georgia in 1879. His father was
a peasant from the town Dido-Lilo. His mother, Ekaterina Geladze, was a
devoutly religious woman whose forebears had been serfs in the village of
Gambarouli.
Not a great deal is known about Stalin’s father, except
that he sometimes worked as a labourer and sometimes as a cobbler in a shoe
factory in Adelkhanov. He is said to have been an easy-going individual who
liked to drink a great deal. Stalin’s mother, however, was a devoted mother
and worked hard. She took in washing to earn extra money for her family’s
benefit. Her ambition was to see Stalin become a priest. She skimped and
saved to provide him with the necessary education. Young Stalin attended
the elementary school in Gori for four years and won a scholarship which
entitled him to attend the Tiflis Theological Seminary. But Stalin wasn’t
cut out for a religious life. He was continually getting into trouble with
the seminary authorities. He was expelled after completing four years of
study. He then joined a group of young revolutionaries.
Stalin first married Ekaterina Svanidze, who bore him a
son, Yasha-Jacob Djugashvili. This boy was never very bright. Even after
his father became dictator, he worked as an electrician and mechanic.
Stalin’s second wife was Nadya. Allilyova who bore him
two children, Vasili, a son, and Svetlana, a daughter. Vasili became a
major-general in the Soviet Air Force. He usually led the flying
demonstrations on special occasions of state after his father became
dictator. He was thrown into the discard after his father died.
Stalin and his second wife don’t seem to have got along
very well together. Stalin had an affair with a beautiful Jewess, Rosa
Kaganovich. She is reported to have been living with Stalin when his second
wife, Nadya, committed suicide.
It is believed that in addition to Stalin’s love affairs,
Nadya became more and more depressed as the result of the ruthless way in
which Stalin slaughtered so many of her co-religionists whom he accused of
being diversionists.
Rosa’s brother, Lazar Kaganovich, was a great friend of
Stalin’s. He was made a member of the Politburo and retained his office
until Stalin died. Kaganovich proved his ability as Commissioner for Heavy
Industry when he developed the Donetz Basin Oil Fields and built the Moscow
subway. Kaganovich’s son, Mihail, married Stalin’s daughter Svetlana.[1]
What became of Svetlana’s first husband remains a mystery. It would appear
that Svetlana’s first hubby removed himself, or was removed, to allow
Kaganovich’s son to marry Stalin’s daughter, just as Stalin’s second wife
removed herself or was removed, to allow Stalin to marry Kaganovich’s
sister, Rosa. It is reported that Stalin did marry Rosa after his wife’s
suicide.
Molotov, vice-premier to Stalin, was married to a Jewess,
the sister of Sam Karp, owner of the Karp Exporting Co. of Bridgeport, Conn.
Molotov’s daughter was engaged to Stalin’s son, Vasili, in 1951, so the
Politburo was to a certain extent ‘A Family Compact’.
As was mentioned previously, Stalin only became a member
of the Upper Crust of the Russian revolutionary party because, during the
preliminary phases of the Russian Revolution, many of the better known
leaders were in jail. Stalin never rose to any very exalted position in the
Communist Party during Lenin’s dictatorship. It was during Lenin’s last
illness that Stalin jockeyed for position, and then he moved out in front,
to eliminate Trotsky and other Jewish contenders. Once he took over the
leadership he never relinquished it until his death.
How Stalin rose to power is an interesting story. Lenin
suffered a paralytic stroke in May 1922, and this affected his speech and
motor reflexes. In December of that year he appointed a triumvirate
composed of Zinoviev, Kamenev and Stalin to share the problems of
government. Shortly after Lenin suffered another stroke and died. Trotsky
has suggested, and his followers believe, Stalin helped bring about Lenin’s
death because he was irritated by Lenin’s incapacity and prolonged illness.
When the triumvirate started to function in Moscow the
Politburo included of Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Bukharin, Tomsky,
and Stalin. Zinoviev and Kamenev had been Lenin’s right hand men from the
day he became dictator. They naturally regarded themselves as the senior
members of the triumvirate and logically his successors. Zinoviev treated
Stalin in a circumspectly patronizing manner and Kamenev treated him with a
touch of irony.[2]
Zinoviev and Kamenev considered Trotsky as their real
competitor for the dictatorship after Lenin died. In Trotsky’s book
“Stalin” he records that Stalin was used by both Zinoviev and Kamenev as a
counterweight against him (Trotsky) and to a lesser extent by other members
of the Politburo also. No member of the Politburo at that time thought
Stalin would one day rise away above their heads.
Zinoviev was considered senior member of the triumvirate
when he was delegated to give the opening address of the 12th Party
Congress, a function Lenin had always reserved for himself on previous
occasions. Zinoviev didn’t go over too well. Stalin was quick to take
advantage. Before the congress was over, Stalin had secured control over
the Communist Party machine and held a dominant position in the
triumvirate. This was the situation when Lenin died in 1924.
In April 1925 Stalin had Trotsky removed as war
commissar. He then broke relations with Zinoviev and Kamenev and allied
himself with Bukharin, Rykov, and Tomsky. Zinoviev, Kamenev and Trotsky
then united forces in opposition to Stalin, but they had moved too late. In
February, 1926, Stalin had Zinoviev expelled from the Politburo; then from
the presidency of the Petersburg (Leningrad) Soviet; and finally from the
presidency of the Third International. In October, 1926, Stalin had Kamenev
and Trotsky expelled from the Politburo. Next year Stalin had his three
enemies removed from the Central Committee of the Communist Party and
shortly afterwards he had them read out of the party altogether.
In 1927 Trotsky tried to start a revolt against Stalin on
the grounds that he was departing from the Marxian ideology and substituting
an imperialistic totalitarian dictatorship for a genuine Union of Sovietized
Socialist Republics. What everyone seems to have failed to realize was the
fact that Stalin had been nominated to rule the Soviets by the international
bankers. He had to purge Russia of all men who might obstruct their Long
Range Plans.
During the purge several million people were slain and
about an equal number sent to forced labour. Many men who had been leaders
of the revolutionary movement, since the First International was formed,
were hounded to death or imprisoned. Amongst the leaders Stalin purged were
Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Martynov, Zasulich, Deutch, Parvus, Axelrod,
Radek, Uritzky, Sverdlov, Dan, Lieber, and Martov. About the only Jews
close to Stalin at the time of his death were Kaganovich, his brother-in-law
and Rosa, his third wife.
Stalin continued to develop Lenin’s policy to establish
the Communist sphere of influence between the 35th and 45th parallels of
latitude right around the northern hemisphere. Many revolutionary leaders
in other countries became convinced that Stalin had developed personal
Imperialistic ideas and was intent upon making himself ruler of a world-wide
totalitarian dictatorship. They were right. Stalin took his orders, as
Lenin had done, from the men who are “THE SECRET POWER”
behind the World Revolutionary Movement, until 1936 and then he began to
ignore their mandates, as will be proved.
Stalin did not want to involve his armed forces in wars
with other nations. His policy was to feed the revolutionary fires in all
countries to the south between the 35th and 45th parallels of latitude. His
policy paid off exceedingly well. At the time of his death, Communistic
control had been established over half the territory in the Northern
Hemisphere. About half the world’s population had been subjugated.
Lenin had stated in 1921 that Spain was to be the next
country Sovietized. Upon his death Stalin accepted the subjugation of Spain
as a pious legacy. Once Spain had been turned into a so-called proletarian
dictatorship it would be an easy matter to subjugate France and Britain.
Germany would then be between the nut-crackers. If by some mischance the
subjugation of Spain failed to materialize, then the incident could be used
to help bring about World War II.
While preparing for the Spanish revolution, Stalin was
ordered by the international bankers to take an active part in an economic
war which was planned in 1918 immediately after the Armistice had been
signed. Generally speaking, the people who had not been engaged in the
actual fighting became prosperous during World War I. When the fighting
ended the people in the allied countries enjoyed two boom years. Then,
after speculative investments had just about reached their peak, vast
amounts of money were withdrawn from circulation. Credits were restricted.
Calls were made on loans. In 1922-25 a minor depression was experienced.[3]
This economic juggling was a preliminary experiment before the
Powers-That-Be brought about the great depression of 1930.
After 1925 financial policy was reversed and conditions
steadily improved until prosperity in America, Britain, Canada, and
Australia, reached an all-time record. Speculation in stocks and bonds and
real estate went wild. Then, towards the end of 1929 came the sudden crash,
and the greatest depression ever known settled down over the free world.
Millions of people were rendered destitute. Thousands committed suicide.
Misgovernment was blamed for the economic upset which made paupers out of
tens of millions of people, and trillionaires out of three hundred who
were already millionaires.
In 1925 Stalin started his five-year industrial plans to
increase the so-called Sovietized countries internal recovery. The plan was
to exploit the natural resources, manufacture raw materials into useful
commodities, and modernize industrial and agricultural machinery. This vast
Five Year Plan was financed by loans from the international bankers. This
programme, when added to the development of the Russian and German war
potential under the Abmachungen (agreements) previously referred to, gave a
great boost to Soviet economy. The fact that the Rulers of Russia could use
millions of men and women as slaves gave those who enslaved them an
additional advantage over nations which employ paid labour, and maintain a
high standard of living.
The next move was the collectivization of farms. For
centuries the serfs in Russia had been little better than slaves of the
landed proprietors. Lenin had won their support by promising them even
greater concessions than they had been granted under the benevolent rule of
Premier Peter Arkadyevich Stolypin from 1906 to 1914, when over 2,000,000
peasant families seceded from the village mir and became individual
land owners. By January 1st, 1916, the number had increased to 6,200,000
families.
But, in order to secure the loans they had made for the
Abmachungen and industrial development programmes, the international bankers
insisted that they control the import and export trade of the Sovietized
nations. They also demanded the collectivization of farms as the only means
to obtain greatly increased agricultural production.
History records what happened when Stalin enforced the
edicts. He has always been blamed personally for the inhuman atrocities
which made the peasants comply with the laws. Many versions of what
happened have been given. The truth, as I reported it to American
newspapers in 1930, has never been published to date. It is acknowledged
that over 5,000,000 peasants were executed, or systematically starved to
death, because they refused to obey, or tried to evade the edicts. Over
5,000,000 more were sent to forced labour in Siberia. What is not generally
known is the fact that the grain which was confiscated from the Russian
farmers was pooled together with a vast quantity of grain purchased by the
agents of the international bankers in other countries except Canada and the
United States. In addition to this corner on grain the international
bankers bought up huge supplies of processed and frozen meats in the
Argentine and other meat producing countries. Canada and the United States
could not find a market for their cattle, or their grain.
During the period 1920-1929 the international bankers
subsidized shipping in most countries except Britain, Canada, and the United
States. As the result of this commercial piracy, it became impossible for
ships owned in Britain, Canada, and the United States to compete with ships
owned by other countries. Thousands of ships were tied up idle in their
home ports. Export trade fell off to an all-time low.
The falling off of exports from the allied nations was
accompanied by increasing the importation of cheaply manufactured goods from
Germany, Japan, and central European countries. To enjoy reasonable
prosperity, five out of every eight wage-earners in Canada must obtain their
pay directly or indirectly as a result of the export trade. When the export
trade falls off a recession immediately follows, due to loss of purchasing
power among five-eighths of the population. This immediately affects those
who earn their living by rendering services of one kind or another. If the
export trade remains down, then the recession deteriorates into a
depression.
To make absolutely sure that the skids were completely
knocked from under the economic structures of allied countries, the men who
had cornered grain and meats began to dump their supplies on the markets of
the world at prices below the cost of production in Canada, America and
Australia. This action brought about a situation in which the granaries of
the countries allied together in World War I were bursting with grain they
couldn’t sell, while the people of other countries were starving to death
for want of bread and meat. Britain needs to earn £85,000,000 a year from
her ocean services in order to offset her unfavourable annual trade balance
each year. The British economy was given a severe jolt when unfair
competition made it impossible for her to earn this money. The British
people were forced to buy their bread and meat in the cheapest markets.
This artificially produced economic mess-up was used by the men who
master-mind international intrigue to cause grave misunderstanding between
different units of the British Commonwealth of Nations and thus weaken the
bonds of Empire.[4]
As the result of this economic war, the shipping,
industrial, and agricultural activities of the allied or capitalistic
countries were brought to a virtual standstill, while the Soviet States and
the Axis Powers worked at full capacity. Once again it must be remembered
that the men who plot and plan the World Revolutionary Movement always work
on the fundamental principle that wars end depressions and pave the way for
revolutionary action in countries that still remain to be subjugated. This
being a fact, it was essential to the furthering of their Long Range Plans
to arrange international affairs so they could bring about World War II when
they wished to do so. As Spain had been indicated by Lenin and Stalin as
holding a key position, the manner in which Spain was used will be studied
next.
footnotes
1 The
marriage of Svetlana Stalin to Mihail Kaganovich was reported in the
Associated Press, July 15th, 1951.
2 Note
: ‘Stalin’, by Trotsky, page 337 (ibid page 48).
3 This
is explained in Chapters 1 and 2 of “The Red Fog”.
4 This
phase of history is dealt with more extensively elsewhere.
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