Igor Shafarevich on the Jews and the Subversion of Russia
The death of Russian mathematician Igor Shafarevich is a sad day, and the world ought rightly to mourn his passing. (1) Shafarevich was acclaimed as one of the greatest Russian mathematical minds of the twentieth century (2) as well as a noted Soviet dissident. (3) After the fall of the Soviet Union and particularly after the rise of Vladimir Putin; Shafarevich became something of a hate figure for the anti-Putin press. (4)
This was largely because of a book called ‘Russophobia’ that Shafarevich published in 1989. (5) In it Shafarevich argues that an elitist national minority – who he calls ‘the small people’ - are subverting the national majority – who he calls ‘the large people’. The ‘small people’ are predominately jews and ‘hate everything Russian’. (6)
Shafarevich argues that the jews – in the Soviet Union, Western Europe and the United States – serve as an adversarial elite who wish to break down and prevent an organic national consciousness among the ‘large people’ (i.e. Russians, Europeans, Americans etc) and are as such an internationalist force who will and do oppose nationalism at every turn. (7)
To do this they preach internationalism and cosmopolitanism, which destroys the ‘large people’ but keeps the ‘small people’ intact. (8) Thus in essence prefiguring the modern arguments about the demographic extinction of White people (aka ‘White Genocide’/’The Great Replacement’) by two decades.
To illustrate and support his thesis Shafarevich points out – quite correctly I might add as others have also pointed out – (8) that jews were disproportionately and significantly represented among the personnel of the Soviet organs of repression.
Epstein summarises Shafarevich’s views as follows:
‘In the 20th century, therole of the Small People is most often played by Jews, whose "Russophobia"-their hatred of everything Russian-became the official policy of the Soviet government, and led to the crimes of communists against the Russian people, such as the suppression of Orthodox Christianity and the devastation of peasant way of life.
According to Shafarevich, Jews are profoundly hostile to traditional national values because of their religious self-identification as the chosen people and also as a result of the two millennia of their diasporic existence.
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According to Shafarevich, the motive for the Jews' destructive obsession is an irrational force that he calls "Russophobia." This word was not a new one, but it was Shafarevich who theorized and popularized it. Russophobia is a hatred of everything Russian, including its history, customs, fashions, its pagan and Christian beliefs. He and his followers blame all failures and crises in contemporary Russian history, from the October Revolution, to the disintegration of the USSR, to the proliferation of post-Soviet democratic reforms, on the pernicious influence of Russophobes, including American Presidents and influential Western businessman. Within Russia, Shafarevich charges not only intellectuals, such as Amal'rik and Pomerants, but also creative writers of Jewish origin, such as Isaak Babel', Ilya Ilf, and Vasily Grossman, with a genetically determined "contempt and squeamishness" toward Russians and other Slavs.’ (10)
So in essence to Shafarevich; Red October was the beginning of a scheme by an adversarial group – which late become an elite – that was dominated by jews to destroy Russia’s religious and cultural history and heritage and by so doing eliminate its national consciousness and create the socialist ‘new man’.
Hence Shafarevich has as a result often defended nineteenth century Russian policies towards the jews – which viewed them as a subversive element and ‘an enemy within’ – and also pointed out quite correctly that no matter how much ‘oppression’ occurs to as a minority group then it can truly be used to justify mass violence against the majority group. (11)
Thus, we can see that in losing Shafarevich; we lost an ardent foe of jewish influence and an eloquent voice encouraging political sanity.
References
(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/world/europe/igor-shafarevich-dead-dissident-mathematician.html?_r=0
(2) http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Shafarevich.html
(3) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/world/europe/igor-shafarevich-dead-dissident-mathematician.html?_r=0
(4) For example: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/just-who-is-a-russophobe-105292
(5) The only English (heavily edited of course) version of the text I know of can be found in Anon, ‘Shafarevich Decries 'Russophobia,' Jewish Nationalism’, Soviet Union: Political Affairs, 22nd March 1990, pp. 2-39
(6) Mikhail Epstein, 1994, ‘From Anti-Socialism to Anti-Semitism: Igor Shafarevich’, 1st Edition, The National Council for Soviet and East European Research: Washington D.C., p. 1
(7) Ibid., p. 3
(8) Ibid., p. 4; Krista Berglund, 2012, ‘The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker’, 1st Edition, Birkhauser: Switzerland, p. 210
(9) http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_weber.html
(10) Epstein, Op. Cit., pp. 1; 4; supported by Berglund, Op. Cit., pp. 248; 257-259
(11) Berglund, Op. Cit., pp. 257-259