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What Was Won Through The October Revolution and the Soviet Liberation of Byelorussia

21 Wednesday Jan 2015

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Khatyn Memorial Complex

11 Sunday Jan 2015

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This memorial complex is situated on the land of the former village of Khatyn.  It was the USSR’s answer to the Polish and western charges/propaganda over the Katyn killings.

The traditional figure is that one out of every four Belarussians were killed by capitalism.

The corresponding figure for Poland would be one out of five killed in the war, or one out of seven if you don’t count Polish Jews among the total as many of our Polish nationalists do not count Polish Jews as real Poles.

I have read recently the charge that the USSR killed three to four out of every 100 Poles, most of them counterrevolutionaries.

By some estimates, as many as 4 out of every 10 Belarussians were killed, murdered, exiled, enslaved etc by capitalism in its fascist variant.

In my family, to our knowledge, all members of our family that remained behind were killed or murdered.   Of course the genocide was so complete and the chaos was so devastating that we will probably never know what exactly happened to those who remained behind in our shtetl.  In that, we are not alone.

Again, however, I take comfort in the knowledge that my ancestors smote the iniquitous before their annihilation and most importantly, destroyed capitalism for a whole epoch.

Slava geroim!  Slava Komsomola!

More Brest Fortress Tour with Our Guide Anton

04 Sunday Jan 2015

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1922: List of young Jewish communist propagandists

03 Saturday Jan 2015

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Jewish Heritage Research Group in Belarus - www.JHRGBelarus.org

Following the 1917 Revolution, the Communists needed Jewish propagandists for their philosophy who would travel to shtetls (Jewish villages and hamlets) and explain the events of the Revolution and what it meant for the country.

They had to explain this to the residents, many of whom were illiterate and couldn’t even speak Russian.

дер эмесJews in collective farm reading jewish communist newspaper “Der Emes” – 1920’s

These young people were prepared over a course of three months. Following their graduation, they received a good salary and traveled from shtetl to shtetl to spread the idea of communism.

The young people, who became proponents of the new idea, were literate Jews, and the main requirement for the job was that they both read and spoke Russian and Yiddish.

In Belarus, the school for the agitators was in Minsk, and it opened on January 1, 1922; 35 new Jewish agitators graduated on April…

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