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

course, a state secret. Shatskin later became an enemy of Kaganovich and
had to perish. Jews also led the most important sections of the Young
Communist Central Committee. For example, the chief of the press section
was the Jew Munka Zorky (actually Emmanuil Lifschits). The vice-
chairman of the State Planning Committee in the 1930s was Leon
Kritsman. One of the most important chiefs of the economy in the 1940s
was Yakov Kiselman.
The Destruction of Russian Culture
Together with his Jewish comrades, Lazar Kaganovich organised the
destruction of Russian historical and cultural heritage sites.
Being a Zionist Jew, Lazar Kaganovich hated the churches. Christianity
is regarded as a heresy within Judaism. Kaganovich began blowing up
architecturally unique and valuable monasteries and churches in Moscow.
A closer study reveals that this wave of demolition was not at all
haphazard, but had a certain mad plan behind it. If straight lines are drawn
between the demolished churches on a map, the resultant pattern stands
out as... the Star of David. (Galina Belaya, "Now the Jews Are Blamed for
the Soviet Tragedy", Dagens Nyheter, 2nd of January 1991.)
Many small churches were converted into public toilets or museums of
atheism. Such never happened to a synagogue. Kaganovich also took the
opportunity to destroy several medieval forts. Only a sporadic spate of
church destruction occurred during Lenin's time. There were certain
diligent Russian Bolsheviks who, in their ignorance, also damaged
synagogues. They later had to pay dearly for that.
At two o'clock in the morning on the 5th of December 1931, Kaga-
novich had the magnificent Christ the Saviour Cathedral blown up. It was
built in remembrance of Russia's deliverance from Napoleon in 1812 and
was finished in 1883. The cathedral was extremely richly decorated - half
a ton of gold, several tons of silver, amethysts, diamonds, emeralds,
turquoises, topazes, priceless icons. The chairs were set with jewels. It
took 44 years to build the church and it was allowed to exist for only 48
years.
Two German demolition workers refused to destroy the church. They
were both executed for their resistance. The Russian engineer Zhevalkin
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