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The Epitome of Evil
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The Mysterious Death of Father Georgiy Gapon
The Mysterious Death of Father Georgiy Gapon Father Georgiy Gapon is known to history as the man whose actions sparked the 1905 revolution against the Tsar and the Russian government, which had momentous effects. Not least of which is the fact that it brought Leon Trotsky to the fore of the revolutionary movement in Russia. (1) Indeed had it not been for the events of Bloody Sunday caused by Gapon that served as the spark for the 1905 revolution. Then it is likely that the Russian Social Democratic Party (of which the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were factions) would not have come to power in 1917 and there would have been no Soviet Union, no Russian civil war and nobody would have ever heard of a certain Georgian namd Joseph Stalin. I have narrated and explained the events (and their jewish origin) of Bloody Sunday elsewhere, (2) but what I left out of that analysis is the rather odd way that their protagonist, Father Georgiy Gapon, met his maker. After the events of Sunday 22nd January where between 130-200 workers were killed and close to 800 were injured. (3) Gapon was sheltered by Maxim Gorky before making an abortive attempt to prove to his more intellectual supporters that he was alive by attending a meeting of the Free Economic Society and from which he was forced to flee after having been recognized and that recognition having caused a localized riot. (4) Gapon then fled via Finland to Geneva in Switzerland arriving in late January. There he met up with Lenin (on whom he had a significant intellectual impact) (5) and the assorted luminaries of the Russian Social Democratic Party in exile. Although this heavily jewish clique cold-shouldered Gapon by en-large; Lenin was a notable exception and spent hours in deep conversation with the fugitive priest. (6) After tiring of being treated like a pariah by self-styled (and oft jewish) revolutionaries in Geneva. Gapon moved to England where he befriended the anarchist luminaries Prince Kropotkin and Rudolf Rocker while he wrote a rather racy memoir of his life. (7) This certainly including a heavy acquaintance with the almost exclusively jewish clique that surrounded both Kropotkin and Rocker at the time as was ably described by Rocker's son, Fermin, in his memoirs. (8) As an aside I will note that as Gapon describes his escape from Russia in his autobiography; it is primarily jewish families that he describes as having knowingly sheltered him and helped him to hide from the wrathful forces of law and order. (9) Gapon evidently tired of his exile quickly and the fact that in Western Europe he was at most a curiosity and once the initial interest wore off; he was dumped on the social sidelines as yesterday's news. By December 1905 Gapon was back in Russia (10) and had resumed contact with the Okhrana (the Tsarist secret police); (11) in whose employ he had started out his life as a socialist agitator in the 'Assembly of Russian Factory Workers'. (12) What happened next is unclear, but what we do know is that Gapon (now again under the thumb of the Okhrana) either tried to convince his long-term friend and senior Social Revolutionary figure (as well as an ardent Zionist) Pinhas Rutenberg to become a police agent (13) or Rutenberg discovered that Gapon was sending messages to the Ministry of the Interior (i.e. the Okhrana). (14) We know for a fact that Rutenberg then told Social Revolutionary party leader Evno Azef (who like Rutenberg was also jewish) of what he knew. (15) Azef, who also happened to be an agent of the Okhrana, (16) who then had Gapon detained by his revolutionary thugs, moved and subjected an unofficial trial in Finland in early 1906. (17) Gapon was predictably found guilty of attempting dismantle organizations he had helped create on the orders of the Okhrana (18) and then hanged in a hotel room in Finland on 10th April 1906. (19) The mystery about Gapon's death is two fold. In the first instance we do not know for sure how Rutenberg knew that Gapon had become a police agent. Of the two alternatives I tend towards the belief that Gapon attempted to recruit Rutenberg as this would be the only real way that Rutenberg could be sure that Gapon was a spy for the Okhrana, especially in the light of the fact that the latter had been an ardent revolutionary and Rutenberg's close personal friend for quite some time. In the second we do not know why an agent of the Okhrana (Azef) instigated the hanging of another (Gapon). This fact has caused Figes to rather absurdly style Gapon's death an 'execution' by the Okhrana. (20) What Figes ignores in this is that Gapon's execution was standard revolutionary discipline in those times and as such Azef was almost certainly not following the Okhrana's instructions, but rather his own instincts. It is also absurd to think that Azef would have deferred to the Okhrana in such a matter as he was first and foremost a true-believing revolutionary who used his status as an Okhrana informer to protect himself from arrest so he could spread subversive ideas while being on the 'protected' list so-to-speak. Figes also rather pointedly ignores the fact that the Social-Revolutionary intellectual and political leadership of this period and earlier was overwhelmingly jewish. (21) What that essentially means is that Gapon, in spite of being an ardent philo-Semite, (22) was tried and executed by a kangaroo court of primarily jewish left-wing terrorists. That is the fact of the matter and attempting to blame the Okhrana is absurd, because the blame for Gapon's extrajudicial hanging has to lie almost exclusively with leadership of the Social-Revolutionary Party who were overwhelmingly jewish. References (1) Robert Service, 2009, 'Trotsky: A Biography', 1st Edition, MacMillan: Basingstoke, pp. 86-95 (2) http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot...h-origins.html (3) Nicholas Riasanovsky, 1993, 'A History of Russia', 5th Edition, Oxford University Press: New York, p. 407; http://www.historytoday.com/richard-...-st-petersburg (4) Orlando Figes, 1997, 'A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924', 1st Edition, Pimlico: London, p. 178; Georgy Gapon, 1906, 'The Story of My Life', 1st Edition, E.P. Dutton: New York, pp. 206; 210-212 (5) Robert Service, 2000, 'Lenin: A Biography', 1st Edition, MacMillan: Basingstoke, pp. 8-9 (6) Ibid, p. 172 (7) Figes, Op. Cit., p. 178 (8) Fermin Rocker, 1998, 'The East End Years: A Stepney Childhood', 1st Edition, Freedom Press: London, pp. 91-96 (9) Gapon, Op. Cit., pp. 235-236 (10) Figes, Op. Cit., p. 178, n. (11) http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans...tes/Gapon.html (12) Riasanovsky, Op. Cit., p. 407; Robert Service, 2003, 'A History of Modern Russia: From Nicholas II to Putin', 2nd Edition, Penguin: New York, p. 13 (13) http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans...tes/Gapon.html (14) http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSgapon.htm (15) Ibid; http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans...tes/Gapon.html (16) Ibid. (17) Service, 'Lenin', Op. Cit., p. 221 (18) https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/g/a.htm (19) http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSgapon.htm (20) Figes, Op. Cit., p. 178, n. (21) Erich Haberer, 1995, 'Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth Century Russia', 1st Edition, Cambridge University Press: New York, p. 272 (22) Gapon, Op. Cit., pp. 115-116; 250-252 ------------------------------------------ This was originally published at the following address: http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot...r-georgiy.html
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