Anti-Semitism Without Jews: Communist Eastern Europe, by Paul Lendvai. 1971. Doubleday & Company, New York
Although the events of March 1968 occurred more than 50 years ago, and took place while Poland was under the yoke of totalitarian Communist rule, influential Jews keep bringing it up to this day, and beating up Poland over it. A body of myths have been developed around the events of March 1968, and I correct some of these myths.
The author is a Hungarian Jewish journalist who has provided considerable detail about Communist-ruled Poland in the late 1960s. While he does his best to awfulize the situation that faced the Jews, even juxtaposing it with the earlier German-made Holocaust as can be expected, he also inadvertently provides revealing information that upends the standard anti-Polish narratives. That is my focus.
SOME JEWISH PRIVILEGES UNDER COMMUNISM
Jewish privilege is nothing to sneeze at. In describing the Jews in the Soviet-imposed Communist puppet governments of Eastern (Central) Europe, Lendvai remarks, “The Jews tended to be concentrated in certain fields and functions: the security police because they were the most reliable and the most fanatically anti-fascist [in other words, the most doctrinaire Communist]; the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade because they were almost the only ones the Party trusted who could also speak foreign languages; in the press and radio because of their urban traditions and often higher educational level.” (p. 77). So, once again, Jews were effectively the brains and the drivers of Communism.
Communism was a means of expanding Jewish power and privilege, and surely the Jews, of all people, themselves knew it. Lendvai comments, “Jewish Communists were not only ubiquitous, but coming from an urban group with a higher level of education they were often able to get to the top faster than non-Jewish comrades of the same or different social origin.” (p. 61).
Not surprisingly, the Jews were the main beneficiaries of Stalin’s new rule over Poland and other countries, as admitted by Lendvai, “The Jews were seen as people who derived a glaringly disproportionate advantage from the birth of the new regimes. This was certainly true.” (p. 72).
JEWS 1968 FICTIONS: WHY MARCH 1968?
Getting power and privilege from Communist rule was not enough for the Jews. From the beginning, Jews had sought additional favors under Communism. For example, the Jewish socialist Bund broke with Lenin over the Jewish demand for a separate Jewish-only revolutionary workers movement. Later, Jews within Communism itself worked together to expand their power and privileges at the expense of the goyish Communists. See:
https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/property-restitution-1997-law-baseless-tych/
Communism was always based upon duplicity. On this basis alone, it is hardly surprising that goyish Communists, who became ever more abundant, eventually sought to take the power and privileges away from the Jewish Communists and to give it to themselves. In other words, the goyish thieves took away the booty confiscated earlier by the Jewish thieves. So, all of a sudden, the Jews started crying about Communism. They weren’t crying when they were the ones that were dominant.
In later years, the Zionists and the Communists had a falling out, and this came to a head in the June 1967 War, when the Zionists and Israelis decisively defeated the Soviet-backed Arab forces. The goyish Communists had scores to settle, and they did.
JEWS 1968 FICTIONS: WHEN IS AN EXPULSION AN EXPULSION?
Judeocentrists have a way with language. It is Orwellian. Note below how Lendvai effortlessly slips in the term “expulsion” when, from his description alone, it was no such thing! He elaborates on what happened once some of the Jews were removed from their positions of power and privilege in 1968. He writes, “With their savings exhausted, their children mostly expelled from the universities and no sign of a decent job, the purged Jews were left with no alternative but to apply to the emigration office.” (p. 176). Huh? No alternative? The opinion of having “no alternative other than emigration”–an emigration that was executed voluntarily in any case–is hardly the same thing as being expelled!
EMIGRATION, NOT EXPULSION
Lendvai continues, “This is turn was the beginning of a new ordeal. Countless Polish Jews applied for a passport to Britain, the United States, or some other West European country. Many of them did not want to renounce their Polish citizenship. The answer was invariably the same: you can emigrate if you wish, but you have to repudiate your citizenship and exit permits are valid only for Israel. The reason was apparently twofold. As the customs inspector remarked, ‘If you could travel to countries other than Israel, all Poles would ask for permission to emigrate or to travel to the West, and half the country would not return.’” (p. 176). Given the realities of Communist-ruled countries, this statement makes perfect sense. Remember the Berlin Wall? It was not there as a decoration.
Not to be denied, however, Lendvai goes off, “The real reason, however, was more simple: by linking the exit to the renunciation of citizenship, the way back was blocked. In other words, this was a forced expulsion.” (p. 176). In other words, Lendvai and other Jews are talking nonsense. In this universe at least, a renunciation of citizenship as a precondition for emigration is not remotely the same thing as being the victim of an expulsion!
COMMUNIST “REPAYMENT” REQUIRED FOR THOSE LEAVING–NOT ONLY JEWS
Lendvai complains that the emigrating Jews had first to pay a 5000-zloty “exit fee”. (p. 177). When adult children had undergone higher education, they additionally had to repay the government for the cost of schooling.” (p. 178).
Isn’t this just terrible to do to the Jews? Problem is, Communists commonly required all those allowed to leave Communist countries to pay some kind of “exit fee” before leaving, if only by serving the society while on a very long “waiting list” for emigration. Lendvai is clearly playing the Jewish victim card.
JEWS 1968 FICTIONS: NO JEW DIED BECAUSE OF MARCH 1968
The “events of March 1968” are terriblized and not put in perspective. Lendvai finally displays some common sense as he comments, “True, no one was killed in Poland, if we exclude the forty known cases of suicide of Jewish and non-Jewish Poles whose lives, dreams, or futures were shattered from one day to the next.” (p. 94).
So much for Lendvai’s silly attempt to equate the acts of the Polish Communist government with that of Hitler! (p. 177).
JEWS 1968 FICTIONS: NO ATTEMPT TO MAKE POLAND JUDENREIN (FREE OF JEWS) AS A GOAL OF MARCH 1968
Lendvai cites Jewish sources that affirm the presence of at least 25,000 Jews in 1968 Poland. (p. 174). During the years 1967-1971, approximately 12,000–15,000 Jews emigrated from Poland. See:
This meant that over 10,000 Jews were still left in Poland after the “horrors” faced by the Jews in 1968. So, had the Polish Communist government actually set out to “finish Hitler’s job” by getting rid of all of Poland’s remaining Jews, as insinuated by Lendvai (p. 177), they did an atrociously poor job of it!
So much for the Jews 1968 fictions.
