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

wanted an examination, since his left arm had become stiff and he wanted
a diagnosis. Professor Bekhterev was sent for from an ongoing congress
and brought to Stalin in the Kremlin. He examined Stalin for a few hours.
When he returned to the congress, he said loudly, so that everyone could
hear, that he had just been consulted by a hysterical paranoiac. So
Bekhterev had made his diagnosis - extreme paranoia. Bekhterev died on
the following night. He was poisoned. No post-mortem was ever per-
formed (Svenska Dagbladet, 22nd of November 1988; Dagens Nyheter,
25th of October 1991).
Lazar Kaganovich told his American relative that it was Stalin who, on
the 29th of November 1934, had planned the murder of Sergei Kirov
together with Genrikh Yagoda (born in 1891 as Hirsch Yehuda), the
Jewish chief of the NKVD. Kirov was killed on December 1, 1934. Leon
Trotsky was officially accused of planning Kirov's murder and was even
sentenced for that crime in his absence.
It was Kaganovich who suggested how to get rid of undesirable
competitors. For example, he suggested executing Nikolai Bukharin for
acting as a lackey for the Nazis. Bukharin had earlier been called the
"golden boy of the revolution". Kaganovich and Stalin were after his
riches. Two thirds of the members of the Politburo were eventually exe-
cuted through Kaganovich's intrigues. Of the 139 who in 1934 were
elected members of the Central Committee, 98 were later liquidated.
Nikita Khrushchev also confirmed this. Other important functionaries of
the Party apparatus were also murdered, including Eismont, Tolmachev
and Martemyan Ryutin (a member of Bukharin's clique).
Lazar Kaganovich also made sure his relatives were given high posts
within the government apparatus. His brother Mikhail Kaganovich became
people's commissary for aviation affairs. Yulius Kaganovich was named
party secretary in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod). Boris Kaganovich became
chief of the military uniform industry. Other relatives of Lazar Kaga-
novich (Aaron Kaganovich, S. Kaganovich and others) also became
important officials. (Rudolf Kommos, "Juden hinter Stalin" / "Jews
Behind Stalin", Bremen, 1989, p. 158.)
Historians and media in the West have asserted that there were no
longer any Jews left in the administrative apparatus during Stalin's time. I
got a very different impression when I checked the lists of officials and
secretaries at different People's Commissariats in the years 1930-39.
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