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Feb. 26, 2022 - Radio Free Nortwest - H.A. Covington
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Oh, then tell me, Sean O 'Farrell, tell me why you hurry so.
Hush, you vocal, hush and listen, and his cheeks were all aglow.
I bear orders from the captain, get you ready quick and soon, for the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon.
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon Oh, then tell me, Sean O'Farrell, where the gathering is to be In the old spot by the river, right well known to you and me One word more for signal
Token whistle of the marching tune Warrior pike upon your shoulder By the rising of the moon By the rising of the moon By the rising of the moon With your pike upon your shoulder By the rising of the moon Greetings from the Northwest homeland, comrades.
The date is Saturday, February 26, 2022.
I'm Jimmy, and you're listening to Radio Free Northwest.
Radio Free Northwest A couple of little things to get to first.
Some housekeeping from myself and from Jimmy.
And then we're going to do a bit of a throwback.
I worked on a piece that either Asha Logos or Way of the World put together on the Holodomor.
And since nobody can talk about anything but Russia and Ukraine right now.
I thought it would be a good reminder of the history of the area so that you can start to understand how deep this stuff goes.
So housekeeping items.
Two projects that we're working on diligently and want to get your support on.
The one that we could probably use the most support on right now is the comic book.
We want to try to get the novels into a comic form.
I have a few artists that are working on that already.
But if you would like to contribute your talents, no matter how scant you may think they are, to the building of the War for the Independence of the Northwest Comics, W-I-N, Win Comics.
That's the group name on Gab.
Come find us, join the group, and start helping in whatever way that you can.
The other project, of course, is my audio version of the novels.
I know I am taking forever to get those chapters out, and I want to give you my sincerest apologies.
Time is not on my side.
I don't have a lot of spare of it.
And the editing of these chapters to make them as fun and dynamic as I hope they are to you is a very, very long process.
But I am lighting this fire under my own ass right now to make sure that I stay on top of this and get more chapters out in a more timely fashion.
So my apologies, and I thank you for your patience, and I hope you're enjoying.
And I can use voice actors.
As always, our little movement, for lack of a better word, is a sausage fest.
And I need female voices for the female characters because nobody wants to hear me imitate a girl anymore.
I have a few female actresses that I've used so far, and they've been fantastic.
But I don't think it's good for the listener's continuity of the story to have the same female voices for different characters.
So again, I'm calling on female volunteers to reach out to me so that we can get some voices recorded for the upcoming chapter.
That's kind of the big reason you haven't seen a new chapter in a little while is because we are about to introduce Ms. Emily Nightshade, the slinky 16-year-old assassin of the NVA.
And I want to make sure that she's voiced appropriately.
I have just a few housekeeping items to cover this week.
The first of which is that we will be formally moving the RFN release schedule to be on Saturdays, with the potential that some weeks the show might not get out until Sunday.
But Doug and I will try to stick to a Saturday release date as much as our schedules will allow.
Secondly...
I can't promise any schedule, but I'm continuing to work on this.
And finally, the podcast this week will be a slightly different format than normal, lacking the normal music breaks and other contributor segments.
In light of the current events occurring in the world, we've decided to play a piece that Doug put together on the Bolshevik Revolution and Holodomer.
This great evil...
Where does it come from?
How did it still end the world?
How did it still end the world?
What seed, what root did it grow from?
Who's doing this?
Who's killing us?
Robbing us of life and light.
Mocking us with the side of what we might have known.
Does our room Does it benefit the earth?
Does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine?
No.
Is this darkness in you too?
Have you passed through this night?
*Music*
The Bolshevik Revolution Darkness Descends This is the story of the Bolshevik Revolution from the perspective of those most deeply affected.
While other historical hardships have been turned into multi-billion dollar industries and are known to virtually every man and woman and child across the globe, those who suffered through the terrors of the Bolshevik Revolution and its resulting fallout did so in stoic silence and dignity, and their story remains untold.
The End I can't begin to do it justice.
The goal here is to provide a reminder, both in loving memory of the fallen and as a warning to the living, history has a way of repeating itself if we let our guard down and become complacent.
So Money rules our age.
It has the power to infiltrate, sabotage, overthrow, destroy.
And then help author the history books to cover its tracks.
To this day, what happened from 1916 to the 1940s in Russia and the Ukraine is poorly understood, rarely discussed, and actively avoided.
The End Conservative estimates put the death toll at 30 to 50 million, though many suspect the real number may be much higher.
Though we'll never know exactly how many perished, it's safe to say that this period bore witness to the largest slaughter of innocent life in history.
This is for them.
The truth is like a lion.
You don't have to defend it.
Let it loose.
It will defend itself.
Augustine of Hippo In the late 1700s, groups of Prussian Germans seeking a new home in which they could worship in peace, live simply and without modern distractions, and have the freedom to handle their own education and government, signed an agreement with Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.
These Germans, largely from Mennonite and Anabaptist backgrounds, had begun to be renowned for their ability to make even the most difficult soil produce great yields, and because they sought nothing more than to till the land and lead lives of quiet devotion to God.
They'd come to be known as model citizens.
The deal was straightforward.
They would make the land bloom, teach their farming techniques to the surrounding Russians, and in turn be permanently exempt from being drafted to fight their kin in Europe, should a war break out.
Additionally, they'd be allowed to structure their own communities to run as they saw fit.
Thousands agreed and began the great migration eastward by selling off all of their belongings to start anew.
Most settled along the Volga River, or directly above the Black Sea, in New Russia.
Incredibly, many of those that could afford to do so even declined to accept the Russian offer of financial assistance.
*Music*
Conditions proved difficult, with much of the granted land being of extremely poor quality.
Undaunted, guided by faith, ingenuity, and a powerful work ethic, the land began to cooperate.
At long last, these communities began to experience true freedom, security, harmony, and were deeply thankful.
The End
Meanwhile, in St. Petersburg, in the year 1894, the Russian Tsar Alexander II had fallen seriously ill.
A bear of a man, known for his immense strength and straightforward manner, he'd been affectionately known as the peacemaker for his efforts to avoid international intrigue, drawing the nation into unnecessary wars.
He was to die a short time later at the age of 49, leaving the throne to his eldest son Nicholas, who neither wanted nor expected to attain this ultimate responsibility.
at such an early day.
At the time, nobody could have imagined that his term as Tsar would be the last in Russia's storied history.
"I saw Alex for one hour only.
It is sad that my wife was My work takes so many hours which I would prefer to spend exclusively with Alex.
I am so indescribably happy with her.
Never did I believe there could be such utter happiness in this world.
Such a feeling of unity between two mortal beings.
A marvelous, unforgettable day in my life.
The day of my engagement to my precious beloved Alex.
Walked around the entire day in a haze, not fully conscious, actually, of what happened to me.
The relationship was a happy one, and the Tsar and Tsarina were quickly blessed with four girls: Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia.
Despite these blessings, worries began regarding the lack of a male heir to the throne.
The throne is a very important thing.
These worries were put to rest in 1904 with the birth of Alexei, but only temporarily.
Alexei was born with the hereditary disease hemophilia, impairing the blood's ability to clot properly, and was not expected to live to adulthood, thus marked the first in a series of devastating misfortunes.
*music*
The early 1900s represented a time of significant change.
The advent of a central banking system allowed international financiers to compete for ultimate power with kings, parliaments, and monarchies.
No man better epitomized this new breed of man than Jacob Schiff.
In 1904, Schiff invited a number of Jewish communal leaders to a meeting in his home.
Within 72 hours, war will break out between Japan and Russia, he informed them.
His words proved accurate, and under the guise of protecting Jews in Russia, they starved the Tsar of needed capital while loaning heavily to Japan.
Russia suffered a devastating defeat, serving to inflame anti-Jewish sentiment in the royal court, and leading the Russian Minister of Finance to declare, Our government will never forgive or forget what the Jew financier Schiff did to us.
He was one of the most dangerous men we had against us abroad.
Adding insult to injury, Schiff also helped organize the distribution of revolutionary literature to Russian POWs held in Japan, planting the first seeds of an effective propaganda campaign that would serve to challenge the course of world history.
The animosity became so intense, the Tsar penned the following in 1905.
I do not believe that everything that is now going on in Russia is due to the Russian people.
The labor strikes are organized by the Polish and Jewish engineers.
The world accuses us of making pogroms, but I believe that the pogroms are a natural appearance.
The Jews wish to dominate over Russia and over the Russian Tsars.
We defend ourselves.
The Tsar, Western monarchies, even U.S. presidents believed they were being compelled to make way for an international central banking system, by any means necessary.
And Nicholas knew that his resistance to this new powerful force, in addition to Russia's possession of large oil fields, made him a primary target.
Though the leading men in Europe and the States had for decades been observing what was occurring, If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property, Until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered, I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.
James Madison You are a den of vipers and thieves.
I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the eternal God, will rout you out.
Andrew Jackson The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace, and conspire against it in times of adversity.
It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor and prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated into a few hands and the republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom.
There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots, and the bankers went anew to grab the riches.
I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and torturous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.
Otto Bismarck I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the empire on which the sun never sets.
The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British empire, and I control the British money supply.
Nathan Rothschild.
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately.
Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something.
They know that there is a power somewhere.
So organized, so subtle, So watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
I have unwittingly ruined my country.
All our activities are in the hands of a few men.
We have come to be one of the most completely controlled governments in the civilized world.
No longer a government by conviction and the vote of a majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
Woodrow Wilson Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet, Heinrich Heim.
A struggle that had been raging since the advent of the Rothschild Bank in London was now reaching critical mass in Russia, and threatened to topple the last major power standing between the upstart bankster class and ultimate power on the world stage.
According to witness accounts and royal diary entries, a feeling of inevitable doom began to pervade the palace, the suspicion that something awful was on the horizon.
Despite the heartaches and setbacks, the royal family was able to find moments of very real contentment, not knowing that these were to be their last years together.
The royal family was able to find moments of very real contentment, not knowing that these were to be the first time they were able to find moments of very real contentment.
The royal family was able to find moments of very real contentment, not knowing that these were to be the first time they were able to find moments of very real contentment.
you you The Russian people were bombarded with negative press, portraying the Tsarina as a German spy, and the Tsar as cold, monstrous, and uncaring, touting visions of a great worker's paradise should he be disposed.
Tensions mounted, culminating in the Bloody Sunday Massacre, a workers' march that went horribly wrong as troops opened fire on the crowd as the Tsar was away visiting his troops.
*music*
Despite the peaceful intentions of the marchers, the authorities panicked.
To back up the Cossacks with their whips, they called out the infantry with their rifles.
The second volley was aimed directly at the marchers.
Several hundred were killed.
The radical press grabbed the opportunity to blacken the Tsar's name.
I was at the palace when the telegram arrived.
Both Alex and I were with Nicky.
He turned ashen pale.
Alex broke down and saw it.
The whole palace was plunged into mourning that day.
Ninth of January.
A distressing day.
The troops have been forced to fire in several parts of the city and there are many killed and wounded.
Lord, how painful and sad this is.
The damage had been done.
Even worse for the Tsar, unbeknownst to him at the time, Jacob Schiff had provided the incredible sum of twenty million, nearly a billion in today's money, to two then-unknown men, Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin.
Both set off for the capital and surrounding territory with the aim of securing a following with the express purpose of fomenting revolution.
The End Reports begin to flow in of agents swarming in Petrograd, handing out money to troops and officials.
According to the U.S. State Department, large denomination ruble notes were passed directly to the men in the Pavlovsky Regiment just a few hours before it mutinied against its officers incited with the revolution.
The situation was swiftly going from bad to worse to completely out of control.
With the First World War now raging, Russia was crippled both at home and abroad, losing battles in Europe and losing hearts and minds on the streets of the homeland.
As the Tsar was returning home from visiting the troops on the front lines, revolutionary troops blocked his way.
Confronted with the full gravity of the situation on the 15th of March, 1917, the Tsar stepped out of his train car for the last time and abdicated the throne.
15th of March.
For the sake of Russia, I decided to take this step.
All around me I see treason, cowardice and deceit.
My grandfather, when he heard the desire abdicated not only for himself, but also for his son, Alexis, he became pale like snow.
and started having tears and even sobbed and said well now Russia is finished just like that in the south an anti-bolshevik white army came into being
Finally recognizing the true nature and aims of Lenin, Trotsky, and the new Schiff-financed Bolshevik revolutionaries, a white Russian army quickly formed.
largely composed of nobles, former military leaders, and assorted czarist and monarchist loyalists, in a desperate attempt to restore order.
The first step is to restore the power of the world.
Articles, diary entries, and white Russian propaganda posters indicate that many who rallied to the defense of the Tsar in traditional Russia saw this battle as far larger than just one man or family or royal title or government structure.
This was a battle for the very soul of Russia.
In their words, a battle for the Christian soul of Russia against a foreign, invasive element.
The Bolsheviks had imprisoned the Tsar and his family in the palace.
After stealing everything of value, they then transferred the Romanovs to a private home in Ekaterinburg.
As the situation deteriorated by the day, the Tsar and Tsarina devoted much of their time trying to boost the spirits of their children and keep hope alive.
Kurodsky and Tsvartlov worked out this very cunning plan, empowering the Yekaterinburg Soviet to liquidate the family, using as a pretext all sorts of fabricated plots, attacks and attempts to rescue them.
And I have documentary proof of this.
I didn't find him.
Like, Goloschokin.
For example, Goloshokin, head of the Yekaterinburg Soviet, went to Moscow twice, just before the killings.
Twice he was in Moscow for instructions, for meetings with Lenin, Sverdlov and others.
It was all pre-planned.
The foul act of annihilating Nicholas II was not accidental.
The local Bolsheviks appeared to have carried out the murders on their own initiative.
But it now seems clear that it was on orders from Lenin.
Lenin took great care, however, to hide the truth.
Even from his ambassador to Berlin, Adolf Joffe.
In 1918, when my father was Soviet ambassador in Berlin, he received a communication down the line from Moscow that the former Tsar, Nicholas II, had been shot.
He asked, and what about the family?
He got no reply, and somehow the question was hushed up.
And when Dzerzhinsky, head of the secret police, passed through Berlin, father leant on him and said, Why did you not reply to my queries when everyone was asking me, from the Kaiser down, all Alexander's relatives, you know?
Dzerzhinsky replied, it was a special order from Lenin.
He said, let Joffe be told nothing.
It will be easier for him to lie about it there in Berlin.
The expected salvation from the Tsar's cousin, King George V, It wasn't to be.
Though completely planned out and ready to execute, at the last moment he withdrew the plan to rescue his relatives in what seems to have been a stunning act of cowardice still not fully understood to this day.
Many speculate George had been threatened with similar worker uprisings.
Hatred seemed to fuel their Bolshevik captors.
And rumors began to circulate about the horrific treatment the Romanovs were enduring in their last few weeks of confinement.
Though nobody in Russia knew just yet the depths these men would be willing to stoop to over the coming years, Alexei, now nearly 14, suffered his most serious bout with hemophilia and, without proper medical care, began to die.
Diary entries state that he gasped between screams.
Mama, I would like to die.
I am not afraid of death, but I am so afraid of what they will do to us here.
His fears soon prove justified.
*Music*
At 1.30 a.m. on July 17th, the family was woken up by Yurovsky and told to prepare to move once again.
They were led into a small basement room.
There, the eleven prisoners, the family and a small retinue, were suddenly confronted by eleven armed men.
There had only been time for incoherent exclamations.
Both Yurovsky and one of the guards, Medvedev, recorded in legal depositions their versions of what had happened.
All the members of the son's family were lying on the floor, very severely wounded.
The block was running in streams.
Yakov Jurovsky.
I myself killed Nikolaus point blank.
The block was running in streams.
None but the Tsar himself died quickly.
As he moved to shield his son, he received a bullet to the back of his head.
His last words went purposefully unrecorded by his murderers in all official accounts.
And were only admitted to decades after the fact by the lead gunman, From a letter of Alexei Karolin in Megiddo Gorsk.
I remember Ermanov was asked, What did the Tsar say before the execution?
The Tsar, he replied, said, You know not what you do.
No.
Ermakov could not have invented that sentence.
He did not know those words.
This assassin and atheist.
Nor was there any way he could have known that those words of the Lord were written on the cross of Nicholas's slain until Sergei Alexandrovich.
The Tsar repeated them, as Ella must have repeated them, at the bottom of the mine.
Forgive them for they know not what they do.
After firing a shower of scattered bullets at the rest of the family, all but the Tsar were still alive, severely wounded.
They then attempted to finish the job with bayonets and rifle butts.
This too failed.
Alexandra, using her last ounce of energy to make the sign of the cross, was shot point-blank range.
As the smoke cleared, a low moan was heard.
Alexei remained conscious with eyes open.
He was promptly shot in the head.
As the bodies were being placed on stretchers, one of the girls awoke, cried out, and covered her head with her arm.
She was bayoneted, yet again cried out.
She then received a revolver bullet to the head.
After over 70 bullets and countless bayonet and rifle butt assaults over the span of more than 20 minutes, the carnage was finally complete.
The End Reports state the murderers became excited by the gleaming from the young girls' clothing just after the murders.
Undressing them, it was discovered they'd attempted to hide some of the Romanov dynasty jewels by sewing them into their clothes.
These were taken, the bodies mutilated, and obscene scrawlings were left covering the walls.
The End According to recently discovered documents, it's stated the Bolsheviks then took liberties with the girls before mutilating and tossing the corpses down a mine shaft and covering them with sulfuric acid.
A grenade was then tossed in to collapse the mine.
Though the attempt failed.
Urofsky left the corpses with associates as he exited, with a bag containing over 20 pounds of royal jewels.
*music*
The bodies would later be exhumed, burned, smashed to pieces, and reburied.
The entire execution and disposal standing as a lasting testament to the incompetence and barbarity of the Bolshevik leadership.
Sverdlov, however, He sent a wire to Schiff to let him know the deed had been accomplished.
The royal family was dead.
The Romanov dynasty had been destroyed.
Meanwhile...
Stripped of the Tsar's protection, the peace of the German Kulak communities had been completely shattered.
The new government promptly violated the contractual agreement signed by Catherine the Great and attempted to force the Kulaks into military service under threat of slave labor or death.
Worse, a former peasant worker paid and taken care of by a local Kulak family for many years by the name of Nestor Monko seized the opportunity presented by the changing times To become the leader of an anarchist faction, Black Army, a collection of bandits who took advantage of the climate to move from community to community, robbing, raping, and pillaging.
Stuck between the Black Army and the Red Army, the lives of these farmers became a living hell, in which any given moment could be their last.
They represented everything the atheistic and materialistic armies were taught to despise.
And because of this, it became open season in which even women and children wouldn't be spared.
The Anabaptist and Mennonite communities, many of which were based around the foundational concepts of pacifism and non-participation in politics, traditional commerce, or warfare, were faced with a difficult decision.
Either endure the non-stop bandit raids and pray that genocide might somehow be avoided, or form self-defense organizations to protect their families.
In his book, A Russian Dance of Death, Dietrich Neufeld includes excerpts from recovered diaries from that time, including the following from October 23, 1919.
We feel as if we have been condemned to death and are now simply waiting for the executioner to come.
Those who are not sunk in apathy are thinking of escape, but we have been notified that anyone caught three steps from his house will be shot without warning.
Actually, there are so many armed riders around that any attempt to escape would mean certain death.
Besides, there are the families to consider.
And where could one go?
Allying with the Red Army, the Makanavists invaded the colonists' homes, murdered and raped at will, and spread venereal diseases and typhus.
The latter epidemic ultimately infected roughly 95% of the local population.
Of which more than 10% died.
Over 1 million Germans in Russia would die in the coming years, with over one-third of the Kulak population being decimated in the most brutal manner imaginable.
With the hierarchy and governance structure of Russia utterly destroyed, Schiff and his associates had accomplished their aims, but they hadn't bothered to create a plan to build something new out of the rubble.
Opportunists and swindlers swept in to fill the void, creating a deeply corrupt and chaotic environment And ultimately, a cacistocracy of the most dangerous sort.
Despondent at the new direction of his nation, the Tsar's brother-in-law, the Grand Duke Alexander, stated, For the first time in history, a revolution is being engineered not from below, but from above, not by people against their government, but by the government against the welfare of the people.
Heads of state in America and Europe struggled with the question of whether or not to formally recognize the new government in Russia.
Surviving documents indicate feelings of unease, and many saw it as a coup, orchestrated primarily by a non-Russian element against Russian interests.
The whole record of Bolshevism in Russia is indelibly impressed with the stamp of alien invasion.
The murder of the Tsar, deliberately planned by the Jew Sverglov, and carried out by the Jews Goloshenkin, Syromolotov, Safarov, Voikov, And Yurovsk is the act, not of the Russian people, but of this hostile invader, Robert Wilton.
With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of leading figures are Jews.
Moreover, the principle, inspiration, and the driving power comes from Jewish leaders, Winston Churchill.
There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so many Jews are Bolshevists, in the fact that the ideas of Bolshevism at many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism, the Jewish Christ.
It seems only the public figureheads of Bolshevism are occasionally non-Jewish.
Russians argue that because the funding for the revolution came from Jewish sources, the underlying Marxist philosophy derives from Jewish thinkers, the instigators on the ground in leadership of the party and the Cheka secret police are almost entirely composed of Jews, and the only state-protected ethnic group is now the Jews.
With anti-Semitism and offense punishable by death, while Christians seem to be the targets of all manners of aggression and atrocity.
That this battle seems to be one of race or culture, and not at all the class war scenario championed by the press.
R. Thomason, diplomat.
50% of Soviet government in each town consists of Jews of worst type.
U.S. Consul, Caldwell.
Jews' predominant in local Soviet government, anti-Jewish feeling growing among the population.
U.S. Consul Summers.
Rumors even circulated in governments around the world that the Romanov Massacre had been a case of Jewish ritual murder.
These discussions were quieted by leveling accusations of anti-Semitism until 2015, in which the Russian Orthodox Church opened a new investigation into the matter, an investigation that is still ongoing.
U.S. Consul Madden Summers, universally hailed by his peers as a man of integrity, He was candid in expressing his disgust at the atrocities he was witnessing in his cables back to the States.
He was to die shortly after, at the age of 40, with the officially listed cause being overwork.
The Bolshevik regime then went on to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and signed away everything that Russia had gained for 300 years.
Miroslava Wutka was seven when her father was exiled.
She never saw him again.
In the winter of 1931, they came to evict us from our house.
Activists, a group of people, if they could be called people, came into the house and looked over everything and made us very frightened.
Then they said...
Get out.
This isn't your house anymore.
But mother wouldn't leave.
At least let us spend the rest of the winter here, she begged.
Where can I go with these children and old people?
The men picked her up and threw her outside.
A militiaman or activist stood in the doorway as a guard.
Mother shouted to us, children don't leave the house.
There were tears and screams.
It was frightening.
We grabbed hold of the benches in the house, screaming and refusing to let go.
Then the men began to take us out one by one.
They would throw one of us outside and then another.
Thus, they threw us out of the house, one by one, all six of us.
Though the Kulak may have epitomized the object of their hatred, the Ukrainian peasants, along with the Orthodox Christian Russian peasants, many of whom had supported the Tsar, weren't far behind.
What was for many years portrayed as an accident of incompetence and poor leadership, the mass famine that would soon cause tens of millions of innocent civilians to die, has now been shown to be a purposeful, willful act.
The survivors work as slave labor, producing raw materials for export to the West.
This is the end of the line for many of the best farmers and cultural and religious leaders of Ukraine.
The end of the line is the end of the line.
Borders were sealed off, and men went from home to home, confiscating every last scrap of food.
Those who protested were killed under the guise of being enemies of the people.
A regulation was passed to protect state property, which allowed the new regime to shoot starving citizens, many of whom were children, who attempted to pick so much as a single stalk of wheat in the fields.
In less than two years, Over 10 million died, 7 million in Ukraine alone, and at least 3 million of these people were children.
Despite still producing enough grain in a year to feed their people for two years, the people watched helplessly as officials confiscated and hid it away in sealed mills and silos, selling a large portion off to Western governments to present an optimistic picture of the economy.
Half a world away, kinsmen and abandoned victims voice protests and form relief committees.
Help is offered from Canada, the United States, Switzerland, France, Belgium.
Cardinal Initzer initiates relief in Austria, Metropolitan Sheptytsky in western Ukraine.
But all shipments of the world are now.
grind to a halt at the Soviet border.
The Soviet Red Cross flatly denies the existence of famine.
The hands of the international organization are tied.
Idealized scenes of work and happy peasant life are the staple diet in Soviet movie theaters as the famine rages on.
The song is sung by the "The Furnace of the World" in the World of War, and the "The Furnace of the World" is a part of the world.
During the height of the famine, a British traveler named Gareth Jones, who was to die soon after under mysterious circumstances at the age of 30, braved the travel ban and spent three weeks touring the devastation.
After speaking honestly about his findings in lectures in Berlin and London, the new Bolshevik head of the Soviet press office, Konstantin Almansky, sprang into action.
*music*
Holding secret meetings with journalists in the hotel room of a correspondent, the new Bolshevik head of the Soviet press office, Almansky, demanded they use their position to denounce Jones' report under penalty of losing their credentials.
One of the most willing propagandists for the Bolshevik party line was Louis Fischer.
Though he had spent much of his life in Palestine as a member of the Jewish Legion, Followed by travels across Europe, he was an American citizen and contributor to The Progressive in the New York Evening Post.
At the peak of the famine, he'd pin, I think there is no starvation anywhere, and incredibly blame the food shortages on Ukrainian nationalists.
He would be one of the first to publicly counter Jones' first-hand reports stating emphatically, There is no starvation in Russia.
He was not only the greatest liar among the journalists in Moscow, but he was the greatest liar of any journalist that I ever met in 50 years of journalism.
And we used to wonder whether, in fact, the authorities hadn't got some kind of hold over him, because he so utterly played their game.
But it didn't.
The New York Times, who featured his reports, when it came to the famine, the great famine in Ukraine, brought about by capitalization, that was when his reporting was particularly disgraceful, because he denied that there was any famine.
The Soviets actually grant Durante permission to tour Ukraine unchaperoned.
He reports in the Times that all talk of famine now is ridiculous.
Yet, documents from the British Foreign Office reveal that in private conversations at the British Embassy, Durante said as many as 10 million people have died.
When they were discussing the question of recognizing the Soviet Union, the United States government recognizing the Soviet Union, the articles of Durante were considered as very valuable evidence.
on the side of the recognition In the spring when my little sister died, her body lay in the house a whole week.
We kept it until Mother came back from the state farm.
People would come to our house and knock on the door every day, asking whether we had any corpses.
We'd shout, "No, we don't." Then the wagon would continue down the street collecting corpses.
When Mother came home, we had to bury my sister.
How could we bury her?
There was nothing for a coffin.
We wrapped her in a sheet.
Placed her on a sled and took her to the cemetery.
We put her between two coffins in a big grave.
Coffins were placed on top also.
And that's how we buried her.
Trotsky famously quipped, You are starving?
This is not famine yet?
When your women start eating their children...
Then you may come and say we are starving.
Despite hundreds of documented instances of this very thing occurring across the now barren land, the situation had evolved from a power grab to an attempted genocide.
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Lennon eventually outlined the need for famine, By stating, destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat.
Lenin's goal was nothing short of crushing the church and every last vestige of religious belief in Western tradition.
Those who dared to fight back were tortured and killed without compunction.
We survived thanks to parishioners, the railroad employees.
We had a chance to travel beyond the borders of Ukraine.
And we had neighbors, Soviet officials.
They always had food.
We came through their garbage cans.
We eat rotten potatoes, rotten cabbage and beets, and the scraps of food which they threw away.
I am not ashamed to admit it.
Because it was a matter of survival.
I didn't want to die.
The collective farm where my father worked stood since 1928.
It was a good, strong farm.
But although this was the best farm around, it was suffering even more than the others.
Because they were disciplined and had everything organized on time.
While government trucks were...
Pull right up to the winnowing machines and take everything.
He even took the chaff.
My father was already swollen.
Not too much.
His feet were swollen.
And his eyes.
All in the typical look of starvation.
You're hiding.
And in the house, there was nothing left but half a pumpkin.
And that's all.
Now, I wrote half a foot.
I went to the collective farm to get horses.
They are a friend of mine from the communist youth league said weekly.
I came to take your father away.
I'll take him.
Maybe he'll survive.
But it's too late for us.
I know, sir.
There is no reason.
Done.
Village Mothers Dying of hunger, throw their children onto trains heading into the cities in the desperate hope someone will take pity and feed them.
I entered the car, red road car, and then I saw it was full of children.
Some of them were enormously thin, but others were thin at the top of the body, but their legs...
were enormous and stomachs were enormously swollen.
Some of them had convulsions.
In general, if a child was lying very quietly, we already knew this child will die soon.
The only horrors worse than the Hall of Mador, as the Great Famine would come to be known across the world.
We're those inflicted by the Cheka and the NKVD, the secret police and enforcement arms of the Bolshevik regime.
Tortures and atrocities far too brutal to be pictured or even mentioned here.
What had been a nation on its way to becoming a dominant and well-respected world power after 300 years of Studious rule, with the world's largest gold supply, a wealth of natural resources, and a breadbasket region of immensely efficient farmers, had been turned into a horrific and brutal chaos almost overnight.
As the Romanov's remains lay in a crude, unmarked, shallow grave, their executioners proceeded to loot the nation, Starved tens of millions of innocent civilians and lied brazenly to the world, blaming the victims for their peril.
competent, hard-working, patriotic Russians and Ukrainians were replaced with those most willing to compromise themselves for positions of power and influence.
Recent polls show that the vast majority of those in the Western world I've still never heard of Holomador, a testament to the fact that victors truly do author history.
We live in an age of great ease, comfort, and convenience, making it difficult to relate to such immense tragedy, and so easy to forget.
The End Please don't.
Thank you.
Here was our place.
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