Shame On Jew!

Lev Davidovich Bronstein, another Russian Revolutionary Ukrainian Jew, though second only to Lenin, he founded the Red Army and served as Commissar for War and Foreign Affairs. He successfully extracted Russia from war with Germany and subdued the Whites in the Civil War and the invading Allies just after the revolution. By the 1920’s he was expelled and deported from the Soviet Union. A noted writer and philosopher he developed ideas faithful to Leninism but alternative to Stalinism based around permanant revolution and the fourth revolution. A Cosmopolitan Jew who had lived in Odessa, Istanbul, Vienna, New York, it was in Mexico City at the parental home of Frieda Kahlo (with whom he was having an affair) that a gardener with an ice pick paid off by Stalin ended his life.

Shande: So start a revolution and you’re not allowed to finish? More than anyone in the 20th Century you embody the prototypical wandering Jew, you knocked on almost every country’s door and even if you were let in it was just for a while and then you were on your way. Ooh, they didn’t like you in Russia and banned your books for sixty years, but the leader of the American Communist party and the founder of the Chinese Communist party were both Trotskyites. You were the inspiration for the arch-nemesis in Orwell’s 1984 Emmanuel Goldstein, your granddaughter is now head of the US Institute on drug abuse and you even once wrote for the Forverts in New York.