"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

and newspapers increased from 11 titles to 298 (the total edition rose trom
155 000 to 1 136 000). The publishing company Emess existed for 30
ycars. I must mention here that Jewish publications were not subject to
censorship as other publications were. A Jewish cultural personality
related to me that Glavlit (the censorship organ) did not censor their
periodical Sovetisch Heimland. That was a sign of the Party's particular
confidence. There was a department for Jewish cultural studies at the
Byelorussian Academy. An institute for Jewish culture was founded in the
Ukraine in 1929. Certain teachers' training colleges had special depart-
ments for the education of teachers giving qualified instruction in the
Jewish schools. The Jewish People's University was opened after the
"revolution", according to Encyclopaedia Judaica. Those Jewish organi-
sations, which did not suit the bandit chieftains, were closed.
Lazar Kaganovich was Stalin's right-hand man in the terror-machine.
There was no compassion in any part of his being, according to Robert
Conquest. He believed that the interests of the Bolsheviks justified any
crime. Nikita Khrushchev, who was one of his closest aides, characterised
him as the "most merciless man".
The American journalist Stuart Kahan published a very revealing book
about Lazar Kaganovich. Kahan is the grandson of Kaganovich's brother
Morris, who emigrated to the United States of America in the beginning of
the 1900s. He spoke at length with his relative in Yiddish on the 23rd of
September 1981 in Russia. The result was the book "The Wolf of the
Kremlin" (Stockholm, 1988).
Lazar Kaganovich confirmed to his relative, among other things, that it
was Trotsky who led the take-over of power on the 7th-8th of November
1917. He of course idealised Lenin and Stalin and kept to the Soviet
myths. He did, however, confirm the existence of secret supplementary
protocols of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
Kaganovich as a Grey Eminence
Lazar Kaganovich made a marvellous career after helping Stalin to silence
Nadezhda Krupskaya and, through her, appropriating the wealth which
Lenin had brought to Switzerland. Later he made a significant contribution
to the tight against Trotsky. Krupskaya became too troublesome for Stalin
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