- Pacific
September 25, 2011
"The evidence
Montefiore willfully ignores suggests that even in his early career Stalin was
already an instrument of the corporate PTB who were building up the Soviet Union as an
industrial and military counter-balance to the USA."
Review by Guy Nicholls
(Edited by henrymakow.com)
In 2004 Simon Sebag Montefiore described Georgian Prime
Minister Mikhail Sakashvilli as "the dashing young victor of Georgia's Rose
Revolution" (1).
His biography of another Georgian, Josef Stalin, up until the Russian Revolution in 1917,
was published in 2007. Young Stalin was favorably reviewed in all the establishment
media. Montefiore contends that the man who Trotsky deemed a "mediocrity" was
actually the master tactician and prolific fund-raiser behind the Russian Revolution.
Simon Sebag Montefiore is
the scion of an old Illuminati banking family. Simon's great-great uncle, Sir Moses
Montefiore, was a banking partner of N M Rothschild & Sons. The book is an attempt to
paint the former Soviet dictator and mass murderer as the Robin Hood of Revolution and
rebut Trotsky's charge.
Aside from failing to convince us that Stalin was more of a swashbuckling revolutionary,
soon to be a major Hollywood movie, Montefiore fails in a number of other ways to
rehabilitate his subject.
Indeed, though it might be highly entertaining as a novel; from an historical point of
view, a vast lacunae of unanswered questions lies at the heart of the book. Though
Montefiore was given access to the Rothschild archive and newly released Georgian
documents, the book is thoroughly and deliberately under-researched.
THE MONTEFIORES
Banker Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was one of the founding fathers of the Jewish
Freemasonic group, B'nai B'rith, and an active Zionist in the nineteenth century (4).
Montefiore visited Palestine seven times during his lifetime and also paid a visit to
Russia in 1872. Trotsky himself was a B'nai B'rith member having joined in New York from
whence he sailed for Russia in 1917 with Wall Street gold.
Readers will find little depth to the coverage here of far more significant sources of
finance behind the Bolsheviks than supposed master bank-robber, Stalin (5). Wall Street
financier, Jacob Schiff and the Warburg group as well as the Rothschild agent, Alexander
Parvus are airbrushed in this account. These men --the true shapers of history-- do not
figure in Young Stalin.
Parvus had been a pioneer of the permanent revolution tactics used in the Young Turk
Revolution in 1908. This turned out to be the Judaeo-Masonic rehearsal for the Russian
Revolution. According to Solzhenitsyn, Parvus taught Lenin and Trotsky as well as the
German High Command how a small clique could seize power in Russia (6).
Parvus was an instrument of the powers of "Alien High Finance" described by Ivor
Benson (7). According to Benson, financiers like the Warburgs, Rothschilds and Montefiores
were able, by Stalin's time, to control politics on an international basis. In other
words-though of course Simon Sebag isn't going to tell us this - an illegitimate financial
elite is the true power behind figures like Stalin and Hitler in the last century!
WHO WAS STALIN'S FATHER?
A number of conspiracy researchers like Cliff Shack hoped Montefiore would shed light on
Stalin's relationship with the Rothschilds (8). Shack along with another researcher, Greg
Hallett, has suggested that Stalin was fathered by Edmond de Rothschild who in his
capacity as a wine entrepreneur had been let loose in Georgia, a country which, according
to Montefiore-"virtually floated on wine" (9).
There he may well have come into contact with Yakov Egnatashvilli the prosperous Georgian
wine merchant for whom Stalin's mother worked. Alas, we can only wonder why the
possibility that Stalin was a Rothschild bastard remains unexplored by Montefiore!
Montefiore describes Stalin's elation in 1902 when he secured a job in the Rothschilds'
Batumi refinery and how within days he had burned down the warehouse (11). We can only
speculate about the secret evidence Montefiore tells us exists re-"the secret contact
with the Rothschild management-the start of his murky relationship with the oil
barons" .
Despite his having access to the family archive, we never learn whether Stalin was a paid
saboteur FOR or AGAINST the Rothschild oil interests. Nor do we discover how long his
relationship with the "Franco-Jewish dynasty", as Montefiori quaintly refers to
them lasted. He tells us about the protection rackets Stalin ran to extort money for the
Bolshevik cause from the oil tycoons. We also learn that he enjoyed the protection of the
manganese-mining tycoons (12) but due to Montefiore's irritating intellectual fan-dancing,
this crucial part of Stalin's career remains murky.
It is, however, illuminating to discover that once in power in 1925, Stalin farmed out
contracts for the development of Soviet oil to the Rockefellers whereby in return for
financing his Five Year Plans, they got a half-interest in Soviet oil including the Baku
field.
In the same year Stalin also allowed the Harriman interests and Guarantee Trust to develop
and exploit the Georgian manganese mines at Chiatura. Montefiori notes that Stalin had
been active at Batumi, Baku and Chiatura before the Revolution, but he does not
touch on the relationships Stalin may well have cultivated with the US financial oligarchy
at this time. Anthony Sutton found that US-built infrastructure and technology were
crucial to subsequent Soviet industrial development (13).
The evidence Montefiore willfully ignores suggests that Stalin even in his early
career in the oilfields was already becoming an instrument of the corporate PTB who were
building up the Soviet Union as an industrial and military counter-balance to the USA.
Montefiore with the Rothschild archive at his finger-tips merely signs off on his
threadbare coverage with the suggestion that Stalin was "probably" still on
their payroll in 1907 (14)!
STALIN AND THE FABIANS
The London Conference of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party was hosted by the
Fabians during April-May 1907. The fact that London was a training ground at this time for
foreign subversives and terrorists much like the "Londonistan" we know today is
alluded to by Montefiore who likens the Bolsheviks at that time to jihadis today (15).
Characteristically Montefiore keeps the real purpose of Stalin's visit and the connections
between the early Bolsheviks and the British Fabians vague.
Evidently Stalin's terrorist exploits had so alienated his fellow Georgians that none of
his delegation had voting rights. The Bolsheviks had been routed in Georgia and Party
finances were at a low ebb. Nevertheless the Conference was covered by the tabloids which
reflected the vicarious fascination the British had for these exotic swarthy anarchists
from the East (6)!
Every day Okhrana agents and British Special Branch kept eyes on the subversives. Whether
Stalin received training from British military intelligence on this visit or subsequently
as Greg Hallett has suggested, is another off-limits topic area for Montefiore (13).
STALIN: KHAZAR BANDIT ON THE LOOSE!
Pictured wearing a scarf resembling a Jewish prayer shawl Stalin's dashing
(Sakashvilli-like) features stare out from the cover of the book. Montefiore's coverage of
the spectacular Tiflis bank raid Stalin organized on his return to Georgia from London in
1907 implants the image of the romantic young brigand in our minds. Yet just what
dividends for the Bolshevik revolutionary cause did Stalin's repertoire of permanent
revolution tactics achieve?
Notwithstanding all Stalin's "shakedowns, currency counterfeiting, extortion, bank
robberies, piracy and protection rackets-as well as political agitation and
journalism" the Bolsheviks were still losing support and desperate
for money.
Despite Stalin's much flair vaunted flair as a "super-conspirator" (256) the
Bolsheviks were deeply penetrated by Okhrana double agents. Stalin himself fell victim to
their machinations in 1913 when he was betrayed by Malinovsky and sent to Siberia (
278-281).
WERE STALIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION A FRAUD?
By his failure to address the question of how far Stalin's links with international
finance may have been forged early in his career, Montefiore has in fact answered
the question that lies at the heart of this book.
For Montefiore admits that if Stalin had been a "phoney," then the whole Soviet
experiment must have been a fraud too (228)!. To an establishment historian, the
possibility of answering both questions in the affirmative is unthinkable. To the rest of
us-as well as all his millions of victims-no amount of execrable poetry and vicarious
revelations about his romantic liaisons should be allowed to deceive into thinking
otherwise!
Bibliography
(1)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3613154/Ukraines-destiny-is-being-decided-on-the-streets-in-the-courts-and-in-the-Kremlin.htm
(2)
http://engforum.pravda.ru/index.php?/topic/131914-patarkatsishvili-to-replace-saakashvili-oligarchs-to-rule-gruziageorgia/
(3) http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3047georgia_soros.html
(4) For Montefiore's involvement in British intelligence and the opium trade see
Kalimptgis,K. et al: Dope Inc. (1978)
(5) Montefiore, to his credit, does finger the Paris Rothschilds and various oil barons
and tycoons as Bolshevik financial backers but surmises that they were all misguided and
all lost fortunes after the Revolution! YS pp.206-207.
(6) Lenin in Zurich: The Bodley Head:London, 1976
(7) Benson, Ivor: This Age of Conflict
(8)
http://was-stalin-a-rothschild.blogspot.com/2011/08/young-stalin-by-simon-sebag-montefiore.html
(9) YS p.24
(10) http://jaxrevenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/was-stalin-sabbatean-frankist.html
(11) YS Chapter 10
(12) Ibid. pp.135-136
(13) On the theory Stalin's activities in the oilfields were on behalf of John D
Rockefeller all along
see:http://rakemucker.blogspot.com/2007/12/did-john-d-rockefeller-help-bring.html.
The Sutton work is Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
here:http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/
(14) YS p.194
"To Achieve One World
Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism,
their loyalty to family traditions and national identification." (Brock Chisholm - Director of the World Health Organization)
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to
believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a
reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police
State Dictatorship it's going to
get." (Ian Williams Goddard)
The fact is that "political correctness" is all about creating uniformity. Individualism is one of the biggest obstacles in the way of the New World Order. They want a public that is predictable and conditioned to do as it's told without asking questions.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." Thomas Jefferson