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

The Red take-over in Estonia's second largest town, Tartu, was orga-
nised by the Jewish cultural organisation Schalom Aleichem together with
the Communist Party. The Young Revolutionaries' Committee was foun-
ded on the 22nd of June 1940 by the Jews Selda Pats (actually Zelda
Paatz) and Moisei Sverdlov. The same Moisei Sverdlov led the Young
Communists in Tartu. (Olaf Kuuli, "The Revolution in Estonia 1940",
Tallinn, 1980, p. 112.) All anti-Estonian activity in Tartu was co-ordinated
by Selda Pats and her brother Jaakov Pesah from Schalom Aleichem.
The Jews had unlimited freedom in Estonia before the Soviet
occupation. They had all kinds of organisations, their own schools and
newspapers, within the framework of cultural autonomy. (Judisk Kronika,
No. 10, 1986.) There was a professorial chair of Judaic studies at the
University of Tartu.
International Jewish circles have later denied all this. Max I. Dimont
wrote in his book "Jews, God and History" (New York, 1962, pp. 374-
375) that anti-Semitism was prevalent in the Republic of Estonia and that
the Jews were persecuted. He claimed that Estonia had no democracy and
that anti-Semitism "became the highest form of statesmanship". According
to him, the Estonians demanded a solution of the Jewish problem. He
asserted that "the Jews were legislated out of the professions". The
Estonians supposedly made that "anti-Semitic legislation was increased".
Dimont, however, understood the real situation since he was studying in
Finland at the time. Dagens Nyheter's (a liberal-socialist daily newspaper)
Osmo Vatanen has helped to spread these myths. He claimed that the Jews
could not find work in Estonia before 1940. {Postimees, 21st of February,
1992.)
What was it really like? There were only 4434 Jews in Estonia in 1934.
According to the history professor Hain Rebas, Estonia opened its borders
to Austrian Jews. Yet a small number of Jews owned 11 per cent of the
industry and controlled a still larger part. (E. Martinson, "Profession -
Treachery", Tallinn, 1970, p. 22.) Over half of the shops in Tallinn's Old
Town were owned by Jews. The wealthy merchant Heinrich Gutkin (born
in 1879) represented Jewish interests in the Parliament.
Together with Russian Jews, many Estonian Jews began directing the
terror against the Estonian people in connection with the Soviet occu-
pation. Hans Grabbe (actually Hasa Hoff), a board member of the Jewish
cultural organisation Licht, became one of the NKVD chiefs. He became
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