Jonas Noreika and the Mass Uprising against Judeo-Bolshevism in Lithuania during June-July 1941

Back in 2018 jewish organizations suddenly started shrieking about a Lithuanian patriot named Jonas Noreika who fought the Soviet Union during the Second World War. (1) This is following an article by his ungrateful Chicago-born granddaughter Silvia Foti in the left-wing jewish dominated and run internet rag (2) that is Salon.com. (3)

Despite Foti’s claims to have done a lot of ‘original research’ it quickly becomes apparent that she is reliant for her claims on ‘local historians’ like Simon Dovidavicius. (4)

For example she claims that:

‘Within three weeks, 2,000 Jews had been killed in Plungė, half the town’s population, “and where my grandfather led the uprising,” she wrote. “By the end of the trip I came to believe that my grandfather must have sanctioned the murders of 2,000 Jews in Plungė, 5,500 Jews in Šiauliai and 7,000 in Telšiai.”’ (5)

Yet Foti forgets to mention the context in which these killings occurred where jews had played a central role in fighting against Lithuania’s independence in 1918 and then also played a hugely disproportionate role in the Lithuanian communist party from 1918 to 1939 and also in the Soviet regime in Lithuania from 1940 to 1941 as I explained in my article on the jewish role in communism in Lithuania between 1918 and 1941, which I quote at length:

‘Going back to late 1918 then: the Soviet Union had become semi-established under Lenin and the disproportionately jewish Bolshevik party. As part of what was believed to be the long awaited proletarian revolution: two of Lenin's principal officials - Adolph Joffe and Dmitry Manuilsky - sought to destroy the nascent Lithuanian state by organizing a Soviet takeover. This they sought to achieve by masterminding the creation of a new Lithuanian government (the 'Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic') in mid-December and the orchestrating the resulting Soviet invasion in late December 1918.

Had it not been for bravery and steadfast fanaticism of Lithuanian and German anti-communist volunteer army units. Then the advance of the Red Army might not have been successfully stopped, but checked it was and eventually the Soviet Union was driven back with its tail between its legs.

Now of those two agents one – Joffe - was a jew. This is notable in and of itself, but when we look at the 'government' he formed it gets even more interesting. Some two out of the eight members of the provisional revolutionary government were jews. These were Semyon Dimanstein and Yitzhak Weinstein. Regarding the remaining political players one was a Pole (Kazimierz Cichowski) and another was long-time associate of jewish Bund activists (Zigmas Aleksa-Angarietis). The latter was also a fairly important Marxist thinker in his own right at the time.

This means that jews played a key role in attempting to snuff out an emergent independent Lithuania since one of the two principle architects of the policy was jewish. Out of two of the eight members of the Politburo of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic were jewish. If we discount the key background players Joffe and Manuilsky that leaves us with a quarter of the Politburo being jewish, which in turn is clearly in massive disproportion to the minority jewish population in Lithuania at the time.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania between them only had approximately 265,000 jews by 1940, (1) which in turn breaks down as:

Estonia: 4,434 jews (0.4 percent of the population) in 1934.

Latvia: 93,479 jews (4.8 percent of the population) in 1935.

Lithuania: 153,745 (7.6 percent of the population) in 1935.

This jewish-lead attempt - remembering that Lenin had approved the invasion, and that Trotsky was the Commissar for War supervising the invasion at the time - to take over Lithuania did not however decrease jewish power inside the communist party of Lithuania. By the end of 1939 there were 1,120 members of the Lithuanian Communist Party (LCP) who were not in prison. Some 60 percent of these were Lithuanians (670 individuals), while 31 percent of them were jews (346 individuals). The remaining 9 percent were a motley collection of German, Polish and Russian communists.

This is clearly a huge number with approximately a third of all non-imprisoned members of Lithuanian Communist Party in 1939 being jewish. When we turn to the imprisoned members of the party then the figure becomes even more alarming with 287 individuals imprisoned of which 145 were jewish. This translates into the alarming statistic that 51 percent of imprisoned members of the Lithuanian Communist Party in 1939 were jewish.

When we add these figures together, we come to the figure of the Lithuanian Communist Party having 1,407 members in 1939 and of these 491 were jews. This translates to 35 percent of the members of the Lithuanian Communist Party members being jewish in 1939, which translates to jews being represented 4.6 more times in the Lithuanian Communist Party than in the general population.

What Truska does not mention however is that a further 516 jewish communists emigrated from Lithuania to the jewish autonomous region in Birobidzhan between 1931 and 1936.

If we factor in these 516 jews who left Lithuania for Birobidzhan at the behest of Stalin's emissaries. Then we get 1,923 de facto members of the Lithuanian Communist Party and of them some 1,007 were jews. That translates to 52 percent of the de facto members of the Lithuanian Communist Party being jewish, which means relatively speaking that there were 6.8 times more jews in the Lithuanian Communist Party than in the general population.

Things get even worse in terms of over-representation when we turn to the amount of jews in the young wing of the Lithuanian Communist Party in this same time period. Out of some 263 active members only 81 were Lithuanians, while 165 were jewish.

This effectively inverts the ratio of Lithuanians to jews found in the main party with only 31 percent of the members of the Lithuanian Lenin's Communist Youth Union actually being Lithuanian and 63 percent of them being jews.

What this means is that there were double the number of jews than there were Lithuanians in the Lithuanian Communist Party's young wing!

Further among the MOPR (International Red Aid) activists in Lithuania in 1939 - MOPR had begun to be wound up in late 1938 due its considerable open involvement in the Spanish Civil War and Stalin's foreign policy considerations - out of a total to 234 only 90 were Lithuanians, while 141 were jews.

This translated into a percentage means that of the MOPR activists in Lithuania: only 38 percent were actually Lithuanians, while 60 percent were jews.

When we consider this, we can see that the Lithuanian Communist Party was more or less completely dominated by jews well out of proportion to their representation in the Lithuanian population.

This is all the more surprising when we consider that the majority of jews were small business owners in Lithuania when a statistical survey was undertaken in 1937. This was later confirmed during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania from mid-1940 to mid-1941. When the Soviet government started progressively cleansing the Lithuanian Communist Party of many of its jewish members, because they had been capitalists for most of their waking life (while just being communists at night and in their leisure time) before the invasion!’’ (6)

Further the jews of Lithuania were largely pro the Soviet occupation of the country in 1940

‘Predictably the jews of Lithuania viewed the Soviet invasion and occupation of Lithuania in the summer of 1940 positively. Although there were naturally some dissenters particularly among the official, as well as the religious and Zionist, jewish organizations.

Interestingly jews were not heavily involved in the 'People's Committee' that declared Lithuania a Soviet Republic on July 21st, 1941, with only 4 of its 78 members being jewish. Of the delegation that left to bring Stalin the official news of his latest conquest only a single jew was among the 20 members.

That said in the summer of 1940 in the powerful Politburo of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party out of 13 members some 4 were jews (or 4.1 times their representation in the population of Lithuania). This translated into a percentage is 31 percent of the highest governing institution in Soviet-occupied Lithuania and closely parallels the jewish domination of the Lithuanian Communist Party at the end of 1939.’ (7)

Indeed, this significantly and heavily disproportionate jewish power continued – albeit less overtly – till the German invasion of June 1941 as I have also explained in the same article and which I also quote at length:

‘This removal of jews from highly visible positions was part of Stalin's broader policy of minimization (as well as positive discrimination against non-local or non-Russian Communists) in relation to the over-representation of non-Russian nationalities in the Soviet government. This policy was enacted in order to lessen the antagonism of subject populations, such as the Lithuanians (the Ukrainians are another similar example), as even with the Soviet terror apparatus beginning its bloody harvest. The Lithuanian Communist Party consciously put as few jewish communists into the public view as possible, because of violent popular anti-jewish feeling.

As part of this policy the intake of a large number of Lithuanian Communist party representatives and members helped to dilute the figures sufficiently for there to be only 593 jewish full and provisional members of the Lithuanian Communist Party organization out of a total of 4,703 individuals (of which only 2,184 or 46.4 percent were Lithuanian) in June 1941. This expressed as a percentage is 12.6 percent of the Lithuanian Communist Party.

Obviously, this is still a significant and hugely disproportionate over-representation of jews in the party (as well as 1.6 times their representation in the Lithuanian population), but it is significantly lower than it had been in the year before the Soviet occupation.

In the Lithuania's second city of Kaunas however the proportion of the jews was much higher with some 25.9 percent of all members of the Lithuanian Communist Party members being jewish in comparison to 21.7 percent being Lithuanian. This is indicative that while the jews had now become a much smaller demographic component of the Lithuanian Communist Party. They still wielded a level of influence which was very close to that which they had enjoyed before the Soviet occupation.

This can be shown by pointing out that of the 25 directors and deputy directors of departments within Soviet-occupied Lithuania: 7 were jews (5 from Lithuania and 2 from Russia). Thus the amount of leading jewish figures in the bureaucracy - who were often more powerful in many respects than members of the Lithuanian Communist Party's Politburo - stands at 28 percent, which is once again roughly equal the amount of considerable over-representation of jews in the Lithuanian Communist Party at the end of 1939.

This compares unfavourably to the extraordinary lack of representation of jews among the official Lithuanian Communist Party bosses, but this, contrary to Truska's interpretation, does not mean that the jews were not powerful in the Lithuanian Communist Party (and also invalidates Kirby's claim that the over-representation was because jews were simply better educated), but rather that Stalin was enforcing his policy of making Communism seem less overtly jewish so as to not antagonize subject populations such as the Lithuanians.

The point is very simple: the official political representatives of the Soviet Union in Lithuania were decidedly Lithuanian.

This area of government received few of the thousands of Soviet apparatchiks that were exported to man the new bureaucracy, but it is incorrect to believe - as Truska implies - that power rested with these Lithuanian puppets, but rather with the high-ranking Soviet (or otherwise) bureaucrats and officials behind the scenes who carried out the reign of terror that Stalin was about to inflict on Lithuania. This also accords with what we know about Stalin's distrust of the personnel of other communist parties who were prone to not be in full accord with him ideologically and thus worthy - in Stalin's eyes - of mistrust bordering on paranoia.

This jewish operational control is shown by the fact that jews dominated Soviet-occupied Lithuania's media with Leiba Sausas being deputy director of the Telegram Agency (ELTA), Emanuelis Ciranskis being deputy chairman of the Radio Committee, Genrikas Zimanas being deputy editor of the Lithuanian Communist Party's Central Committee’s official organ ('Tiesa') and Eugenijus Vicas being the deputy editor of the new communist Russian language daily newspaper 'Truzenik'.

Further the Soviet censorship bureau in Lithuania ('Glavlite') was run by three jews: Bencionas Borisas Gurvicius, Abelis Sinjoras and Libe Korbaite, while 9 of its 32 employees charged with political censorship of the media were jewish. This is a representation of jews among the official political censors of Lithuania of some 28 percent, which again directly parallels the level of jewish over-representation and domination of the Lithuanian Communist Party at the end of 1939.

When we move onto those who were directly involved in the Soviet terror apparatus in Lithuania - which was responsible for at least 34,460 deportations and a great many deaths - it gets even more frightening as the new director of the State Security Department Antanas Snieckus (later dictator of Lithuania for nearly three decades and who incidentally was himself possibly jewish and certainly associated closely with jews in Lithuania) established a twelve man headquarters for the wave of Soviet terror that was about to sweep Lithuania.

Of those twelve individuals some six of them were jewish, which is - of course - fifty percent and in massive disproportion to the size of the jewish population in Lithuania although such over-representation is in keeping with Soviet terror mechanisms in general.

In relation to the staff that this headquarters employed it is perhaps not a surprise to learn that out of 254 members of the Snieckus' State Security Department some 44 were (Lithuanian) jews, which is nearly 20 percent of the total number of staff.

This is once again well out of proportion to the size of Lithuania's jewish population and while the proportion of Lithuania jews in the terror apparatus dwindled to some 10 percent of the total from August 1940 to June 1941, which Truska makes much of.

Once again this is largely because Stalin had begun importing large numbers of his own officers. Many of whom we have good reason for suspecting were jewish such as those described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 'Gulag Archipelago' and reasonably represented by rising jewish NKVD/NKGB/SMERSH star Solomon Milshtein who was extremely active in and around Lithuania in 1940.

This then means that all that Truska has demonstrated is that Lithuanian jews were not as over-represented in the Soviet terror apparatus as time went on, but what he has not proven, or even considered, is that a large part of the incoming Soviet terror apparatus was jewish. As well as that when you combine the Lithuanian and Soviet jewish contribution to the wave of deportations and killings that Soviet occupation brought to Lithuania. It makes the jews stand out as an oddity in relation to the sheer scale of their disproportionate involvement and culpability especially when we take into account their status as a minority population both within Lithuania and the Soviet Union proper.

Further it is clear - when take the above into consideration - that the real government (i.e., its bureaucracy) of Lithuania during the Soviet occupation of mid-1940 to mid-1941 was significantly and disproportionately jewish. In addition to the fact that the Lithuanian Communist Party before the invasion was similarly governed, and also in this case staffed, by a large and disproportionate number of jews.’ (8)

What both Dovidavicius and Foti are doing here is classic intellectual sleight of hand and they are harping on about the Lithuanian people spontaneously rising against the jews and murdering a few thousand jews given the opportunity afforded by the arrival of the German forces in their country and their subsequent liberation from the Soviet Union’s Red Terror in 1941, but yet they don’t ask the obvious question: why?

Well the reason this happened is because the jews of Lithuania had been a central – and one can even say core – as well as enthusiastic part of Stalin’s reign of terror between 1940 and 1941 in Lithuania with its mass executions, deportations and destruction of Lithuania’s society and its heritage in favour of Stalin’s communist ‘new society’.

That is why Lithuanians view Jonas Noreika as a hero because he died as he lived: fighting Judeo-Bolshevism and its intentions to destroy Lithuania!

References

(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-in-lithuania-say-national-hero-killed-jews-should-not-be-honored/ ; https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-historical-fraud

(2) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/the-jews-behind-saloncom

(3) https://www.alternet.org/my-grandfather-was-nazi-collaborator

(4) https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-in-lithuania-say-national-hero-killed-jews-should-not-be-honored/

(5) Ibid.

(6) https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jews-and-communism-in-lithuania-1918

(7) Ibid.

(8) Ibid.