Jewish Communists by name, Soviet Union/Eastern Europe, 1917-1950s

  1. V.I. Lenin, supreme dictator (part-Jewish).
  2. Leon Bronstein (Trotsky): supreme commander of the Soviet Red Army.
  3. Grigory Apfelbaum (Zinoviev): executive, Soviet Secret Police.
  4. Solomon Lozovsky: deputy Soviet foreign minister.
  5. Maxim Wallach (Litvinov): Soviet foreign minister.
  6. Yuri Andropov: director, Soviet KGB, later supreme dictator of the Soviet Union.
  7. Jacob Sverdlov: first president of the Soviet Union. Sverdlov ordered the massacre of the Czar's family--women and children.
  8. Jacob Yurovsky: commander, Soviet Secret Police.
  9. Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich: chief mass murderer for Stalin.
  10. Mikhail Kaganovich: deputy commissar of heavy industry, supervisor of slave labor, brother of Lazar.
  11. Genrikh Yagoda: chief of Soviet Secret Police, mass murderer extraordinaire.
  12. Matvei Berman and Naftaly Frenkel: founders, the Gulag death camp system.
  13. Lev Inzhir, commissar for Soviet death camp transit and administration.
  14. Boris Berman: executive officer of the Soviet Secret Police and brother of Matvei.
  15. K.V. Pauker: chief of operations, Soviet NKVD Secret Police.
  16. Firin, Rappoport, Kogan, Zhuk: commissars of death camps and slave labor, supervised the mass deaths of laborers during the construction of the White Sea--Baltic Canal.
  17. M.I. Gay: commander, Soviet Secret Police.
  18. Slutsky and Shpiegelglas: commanders, Soviet Secret Police.
  19. Isaac Babel: officer, Soviet Secret Police.
  20. Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin (Aleksandr Orlov): commander, Soviet Red Army; officer, Soviet Secret Police.
  21. Yona Yakir: general, Soviet Red Army, member of the Central Committee.
  22. Dimitri Shmidt: general, Soviet Red Army.
  23. Yakov ("Yankel") Kreiser: general, Soviet Red Army.
  24. Miron Vovsi: general, Soviet Red Army.
  25. David Dragonsky: general, Soviet Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union.
  26. Grigori Shtern: general, Soviet Red Army.
  27. Mikhail Chazkelevich: general, Soviet Red Army.
  28. Shimon Kirvoshein: general, Soviet Red Army.
  29. Arseni Raskin: deputy-commander, Soviet Red Army.
  30. Haim Fomin, commander of Brest-Litovsk, Soviet Red Army.
  31. Sergei Eisenstein: director of communist propaganda films which depicted Christian peasants (kulaks) as hideous, money-grabbing parasites.
  32. Ilya Ehrenburg, Minister of Soviet Propaganda.
  33. Nikolai Bukharin: Lenin's chief theorist.
  34. Samuel Agursky: commissar.
  35. Karl Radek: member, Central Committee.
  36. Mikhail Gruzenberg (Borodin) commissar.
  37. A.A. Yoffe: commissar.
  38. David Ryazanov: advisor to Lenin.
  39. Lev Grigorievich Levin: physician, poisoner of Stalin's enemies.
  40. Lev Rosenfeld (Kamenev): member of the Central Committee.
  41. Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to Britain.
  42. Itzik Solomonovich Feffer: commissar, Soviet Secret Police.
  43. Abraham Sutskever: Soviet terrorist-partisan.
  44. Mark Osipovich Reizen: Soviet propagandist, winner of three Stalin Prizes.
  45. Lev Leopold Trepper: Soviet espionage officer.
  46. Bela Kun (Kohen): supreme dictator of Hungary in 1919. Kun was later Stalin's chief terrorist in the Crimea.
  47. Matyas Rakosi, Jewish Communist mass murderer of Christians in Hungary and Kun's eventual successor.
  48. Zakharovich Mekhlis: top executioner for Stalin.
  49. Henrykas Zimanas: leader of Lithuanian communist terrorists, butcher of Christians.
  50. Moshe Pijade (sometimes spelled Piade): commander, Yugoslav Communist People's Army. Tito's top butcher of hundreds of thousands of Croatian Christians.
  51. In post-war Poland that nation was completely dominated by Jewish communists: the torturer Jacek Rozanski, head of the Secret Police; the Politboro commander Jacob Berman, and commissars Minc, Specht (Olszewski) and Spychalski.
  52. Solomon Morel : commandant of a post-war Communist concentration camp for Germans in Poland. Stalin deliberately put Jews in charge of such camps. Morel tortured and murdered thousands of Germans, sometimes with his bare hands. (cf. "The Wrath of Solomon," Village Voice, March 30, 1993 and John Sack, An Eye for an Eye).
  53. Mark Zborowski: "...considered by historians of Soviet terror operations to have been the most fearsome...(Soviet) spy of all time" (Stephen Schwartz, Forward, Jan. 26, 1996).
  54. Leon Rosenthal, Stalin's propaganda agent in Spain.
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This version edited for length.

List above was originally compiled by Michael A. Hoffman II.




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