Nazi Eugenics? Pffft... Try Bolshevik Dysgenics

The Nazi program to "breed better humans" gives us the vapors, but the real monsters were manipulating the gene pool a thousand miles east of Berlin by murdering the better humans (and their kids)

The most difficult book I have ever read was The Red Terror in Russia 1918 - 1923, a firsthand account of the horrors that transpired in Russia after the Bolsheviks seized power there in 1917. It was written by a Russian historian named Serge Melgunov, whose professional, even-keeled tone as he documents and describes one mind-blowing atrocity after another is all the more remarkable for the fact that he, himself, survived imprisonment in the hellish and blood-soaked nightmare of Bootyrskaya prison, the CheKa’s primary Moscow location for torture and murder. His is a historian’s dispassionate recounting of events that occurred at a particular time in a particular place and the sober and dignified manner with which he records those events lends his work the weight of both unmistakable authenticity and the deep impact that derives from the reader’s own power to construct—from the facts presented—a vivid and accurate picture of what happened in Russia between 1918 - 1923 as the Red Terror savagery raged.

Serge Melgunov’s record of Bolshevik crimes stands in stark contrast to the hysteria and self-promotion of frauds like Elie Wiesel, who survived not one, not two, but three whole Nazi “death camps.” Melgunov is an actual holocaust survivor; Wiesel is a laughingstock. Melgunov struggled to get an English-language version of his book published; Wiesel won a Nobel Prize. The translation linked to above was undertaken by a woman who considered the information contained in The Red Terror in Russia too important to be denied an audience in the English-speaking world. This is from the Translator’s Preface:¹

I came across "Red Terror" when researching material for an article on contemporary religious, political and ethnic terrorism in the 21st Century and did use many quotes from S. Melgunov's writing. But also I realized that it was my civil duty to the peoples of Europe and North America to translate his book into English for the very first time.²

The motivation for translating originated from the realization that many methods of the Bolsheviks are being increasingly applied in today's Western hemisphere: cynical lies in the mass media, confiscation of property, disarming of the population, the alienation of the young, redefining language. Even though I was intimately familiar with the methods of the communist regime in Russia, the book was an eyeopener. I even recognized some of the facts and could correlate them to stories my grandmother told me... Her stories were from the more recent late 1920s, but they were frightfully similar: searches by night, arrests, disappearances of people, executions, tips by informants, poverty, and suppression of rights.

She undertook the translation out of a sense of duty, apparently, but she wasn’t a professional translator and it shows in the raggedness of the result. But, it isn’t the raggedness of the translation that makes The Red Terror in Russia a difficult read (if anything, in my view, it adds poignancy), the difficulty lies in the soul-shattering thoroughness of Melgunov’s record of Bolshevik depravity. I could really read only about 10-15 pages at a time before I had to put the book down for a few weeks to give my, what—humanity, I guess—a chance to recover. Does that sound maudlin? Read the book and see whether you can’t understand.

Here’s how Melgunov described his own relationship to the book he wrote:

I would like those who read this book to be brave enough to comprehend it. I know that my work, incomplete in many areas, came out of print prematurely. But having acknowledged that, I have had and still have neither the physical nor mental strength to format it as properly as the subject matter deserves. Truly, one would have to have nerves of steel to immerse oneself fully within the horror seeping from the following pages and survive.³

An insight I derived from my own “power to construct—from the facts presented—a vivid and accurate picture of what happened in Russia” was the realization, as I read Melgunov’s book, that one of the driving forces of the slaughter was an intentional program of dysgenics—that is, the wholesale extermination of intelligent Russians and their children. That kind of enmity—the playing-for-keeps, calculated enmity of such a program—left its deep impact. It amplified the Bolshevik crimes in my mind to a level of which I had never before imagined humans capable; it made the relevance of the Bolshevik Revolution to the year 2023 immediate.

Melgunov never mentions the word “dysgenic.” He simply records what happened. Here he quotes from an editorial by Leon Krayni in Issue No. 1 of the The Red Sword, the official publication of the Kiev CheKa in which “the intelligents” are distinguished as a class:

We must tear out the fangs of the bourgeois snake and, if necessary, its greedy mouth must be torn apart and fat belly must be cut open. The sabotaging, lying, treacherously pretending to be on our side⁴ classless intelligent speculators and speculating intelligents must be unmasked. We cannot and do not have the old moral values and humanity invented by the bourgeoisie for oppressing and exploiting the lower classes.⁵

And from instructions to the nation’s army of informants on how to be a snitch, printed in the April 16, 1922 issue of "Voice of Russia:"

1. Watch the factory administration and intelligent workers. Precisely determine their political orientation and report any anti-Soviet agitation or propaganda.

2. Watch all gatherings under the guise of playing cards and drinking (but with different goals). Enter them as much as possible and report the goals and plans with the names and exact addresses.

3. Watch the intelligents working at Soviet institutions and listen to their conversations. Determine their political affiliations. Find out where they go after work and immediately report anything suspicious. [If you see something, say something!]

4. Enter into all closed circles and family functions of the Messeiers intelligents. Learn their dispositions and become familiar with those who organize parties and what their goals are.

5. Look for any connections between local intelligents with others in the district, region, capital, and foreign countries. Report them immediately.⁶

Infiltrate the children’s birthday parties, they ordered. Disgusting pigs. On the massacres that began in Arkhangelsk after British troops left:

A writer for "Revolutionary Russia" (No. 7) reports in November, 1920, "September was a month of red terror in Kholmogory. More than 2000 have been executed by firing squad. Mostly the peasants and cossacks from the South. There are practically no intelligent anymore, there are none left.”⁷

And, fresh from a massacre of thousands in Astrakhan ordered by Trotsky (who is today honored as a “hero of the Jewish people” at the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv):

one of the tyrants of Astrakhan transferred to Baku, where he destroyed "many hundreds of Baku workers and intelligent people" at Nargen Island...⁸

Melgunov writes that by August, 1922, “[T]here is simply no political activity in Russia. It is a field covered only with dead bones. There is neither protest nor indignation. Everything is exhausted, humiliated, and suppressed.” Yet the terror rages on, while Stalin justifies the mass arrests of the remaining intelligents (engineers, doctors, students, et al.) as a “warning” to political adversaries.⁹

The slaughter continues on into 1923:

The executions for the instances of already non-existing active political "counterrevolution" are continuing along with the executions for religious [always Christian] "counterrevolution." We can read a very typical letter in "The Latest News" (February 22, 1923) about the "quelling" of the recent "riots" in Ukraine. "Quelling the riots,” writes a correspondent, “was in reality used for eradication of the remaining intelligent."¹⁰

And the victims included the former political allies of the Bolsheviks—the Christian “progressives” who, like the white people in the United States today running around in paroxysms of public virtue tearing down statues of confederates, had been so anxious to condemn their own people:

The lists of executed contain 15, 91, etc.. Of course all those are the "former princes, generals and nobility" or bandits, but in reality they are largely the socialists and democrat intelligent public, village teachers, cooperatives, workers and peasants.¹¹

But the overarching principle driving the bloodbath was dysgenic:

When we talk about quelling of the peasant uprisings; when we talk about execution of the workers in Perm or Astrakhan, it becomes clear that it is no longer about some special "class terror" against the bourgeois. Indeed, terror has been applied to all classes without exception from day one, but primarily to the classless intelligent.¹²

Children were not exempt from the Bolsheviks’ genocidal, dysgenic bloodlust.

Two middle-aged men, a young man, and a child. Successful peasants were considered “intelligents.” They, too, were executed and their property confiscated “for the proletariat.”

Among many accounts of the mass executions of men, women, children, and the elderly, whole groups of people machine gunned together in town squares (if you can imagine the horror of that), Melgunov writes,

Both parents and children have been executed. We found evidence of the following facts. The children have been executed before the parents' eyes, and the parents before the children's eyes.¹³

And, of course, there were the millions who died from the intentional famines.

Pile of dead Christian boys, victims of the intentional famine engineered by a Latvian Jew named Martin Latsis, head of the Ukrainian CheKa. He’s the guy who wrote in The Red Sword, the Ukrainian CheKa’s official publication, “[D]o not look for evidence that the accused acted...against Soviet power…. The first question you should ask him is what class he belongs to, what is his origin, education, profession. These questions should determine his fate. This is the essence of the Red Terror.” Like I said, depraved monsters. (Latvians played an outsized role in the Bolsheviks’ depredations. So many Latvians—including nearly the entire 150,000 strong community of Latvian Jews—moved to Russia after the Bolsheviks seized power to assist with the building of the new workers’ paradise that there was a whole section of Moscow that became known as the Latvian Quarter. The Latvian Quarter had its own bakeries, theaters, hair salons, and well-stocked grocery stores. No starving Russians allowed. Incidentally, those “missing 150,000” would later be counted as Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust in Latvia.)

And, of course, there was the end of the Romanovs, the preeminent Russian example of the murder of the “better humans” along with their children. As Melgunov tells it:

Only someone under the spell of exceptional political cruelty, who lost all human senses, would not be turned off by the circumstances of the royal family’s massacre in Ekaterinburg. The parents and children were crowded into one room and slaughtered before each other's sight. As the red army man Medvedev, one of the eyewitnesses of the "execution," said in his testimony to an investigation in February, 1919, the preparations for the execution were slow and "everyone obviously figured out their fate." History does not know another scene of massacre like that which marked the night from July 16 to 17, 1918.¹⁴

What was it like in Russia (our enemy!) four years after the depraved Bolshevik monsters had seized power in that unfortunate country? Here is how it was described in an essay titled “Vessel of Death,” written by an A. Chumakov in Moscow and published in September 1921 by the CheKa itself:

And we know inside our shaken mind and we see with our fogged eyes what dozens of previous generations did not know or see—what many generations of our distant descendants will only guess...

We no longer tremble at mysterious, previously incomprehensible Death, for it has become our second life. We no longer tremble from the harsh smell of human blood, for its hard vapors saturate the air we breath. We no longer tremble from the endless lines of those being taken to execution, for we have seen the last agony of the children executed by firing squad in the streets, have seen the mountains of mutilated and frozen victims of terrorist madness, and have perhaps ourselves stood more than once at the last step.

We have gotten used to those scenes, like people get used to the sight of familiar streets, and we hark to the sounds of shots fired no more than to the sound of a human voice.

That is why the country remains silent in the face of triumphant Death and Russia’s compressed chest cannot emit an elemental scream of protest or at least of despair. It managed to survive those unforgettable four years of civil war somehow, but its poisoned soul remained imprisoned by Death. Probably that is why Russia, being executed and tortured in the chambers now, is silent...¹⁵

And Russia is still silent, at least it is to us in the captive West, but it is still the target of that foaming-at-the-mouth genocidal hatred from the literal descendants (yes, the literal descendants—we imported them under the 1991 Lautenberg Amendment and, due to rising anti-Semitism, paid their moving expenses, even if they chose to move to Israel rather than come here) of those Bolshevik monsters. They now control the levers of power in the United States. They brazenly instigated the current war against Russia. The executions continue and now we Americans are the pistols in the executioners’ hands—ignorant as mud about the massive crimes of the Bolsheviks.

But every schoolchild knows all about the evil Nazis.

The desirability of eugenics was accepted as self-evident throughout the West when the Nazis came to power in Germany in the 1930s. As Edward Dutton writes at VDare (Funny Thing: A Century Ago, Eugenics Was The Elite Consensus—Just Like Critical Race Theory Is Now):

Many countries, including the United States, were so concerned about “degeneration” that legislators passed laws allowing them to sterilize perceived “defectives.” In 1907, Indiana passed a law to “prevent the procreating of confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists.” By 1913, twelve other states had passed similar laws. In 1924, to test the constitutionality of Virginia’s law, the superintendent of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feeble-Minded filed a petition to sterilize one Carrie Buck. Buck had a mental age of 9 and her 52-year-old mother had a mental age of 8. Her mother had been a prostitute, and three illegitimate children of whose paternity she was not sure. Carrie herself had an illegitimate child.

In 1927, when the case landed in the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices ruled that Carrie should be sterilized to protect the people of Virginia.

Wrote Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:

“It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes.”

[Buck v. Bell, 1927)]

And, he famously concluded, “three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

Today, eugenics is held up as an example of Nazi wickedness, while the murderous dysgenic program of the Bolsheviks is utterly unknown. This mass deception and mass ignorance seems, to me, as fatal as it is intentional. And here’s why we aren’t going to vote our way out of this.¹⁶

Florida State Representative Randy Fine, a Jewish,¹⁷ Brevard County Republican, successfully shepherded two bills through the Florida legislature—one in 2019, the other this year—respectively defining “anti-Semitism” and providing a way to arrest and imprison anyone guilty of it. I’ve explained the details elsewhere, so I won’t repeat myself here, but this totalitarian un-American Bolshevist outrage passed through both houses of the Florida legislature unanimously. Even more outrageous(ly), the ambitious quisling, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, signed both bills into law in Israel. I mean, how much more in-your-face can it get? Well, here’s how: the White House just made the gist of the first bill a national priority under the loathsome Deborah Lipstadt (whom Ron Unz memorably destroys in his magisterial American Pravda: Holocaust Denial). Does anyone believe our Congress is going to be any more capable of stopping this travesty than the Florida state legislature?

So, what do we do? Buy a truckload of dried beans and crawl in a hole somewhere? No, the one thing we can do is spelled out for us by looking at what the Bolshevists themselves are most afraid of. The truth. When the Bolshevists seized power power in Russia in 1917, they made anti-Semitism a capital offense and the penalty for graffiti mandatory execution on the spot.

In Israel, State Representative Randy Fine chortled at the signing of his Bolshevist legislation that “Nazi thugs” in Florida who “attacked” Jews with graffiti would now serve time in a Florida prison.

That’s all you need to know, Americans, those of you with the balls to fight back while we still can, anyway. You know what to do.

Representative Fine was most peeved at this graffiti someone had the audacity to install in his district! He calls it “attacking Jews.” By the way, under the Bolsheviks, some synagogues, for example, in Odessa, even began receiving state funding to run Yiddish-language schools. Randy Fine wants to put you in prison if you tell anyone about that. (I love Jews who hate Randy Fine.)

1. I have cleaned up the translation throughout this post.

2. She also mentions the book was published by Hyperion Press in English in 1975 and then went out of print. I can’t explain the apparent contradiction.

3. The Red Terror in Russia 1918 - 1923, Serge Melgunov, Ch. 1, “Author’s Preface to the First and Second Editions”

4. These are undoubtedly the intelligentsia—the writers, the journalists, the professors, and so on—the “pretending-to-be-on-our-side” who sought social status by disdaining the common Russian’s patriotic love of Russia and who come in for such scorn from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 200 Years Together. I write about it here.

5. Op. Cit., Ch. 5 , “Terror Foisted”

6. Ibid., Ch. 11, “Pride and Decoration”

7. Ibid., Ch. 6, “Bloody Statistics”

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid., Ch. 6, “Bloody Statistics” (6.8 1922 - 1923)

10. Ibid.

11. The Days, May 13, 1923; Socialist Messenger, 1923, No. 5.

12. Op. cit., Ch. 8, “Class Terror”

13. Ibid., Ch. 4, “Systemic Hostage-taking”

14. Medvedev's testimony and others have been published by G. G. Telberg in America and reprinted in Issue No. 5 of "Historian and Contemporary" magazine in Berlin.

15. Op. cit., Appendix A, "‘Vessel of Death,’ Documenting Operations of the Extreme Commissions”

16. I’m going to vote for RFK, Jr., but our problems are beyond the capabilities of democratic fixes.

17. I wouldn’t identify Randy Fine as Jewish if this was just about some unrelated matter like, say, his admission he spent campaign money on young blonde “political consultants.” But as this is about his efforts in Florida to legislate prison terms for “anti-Semites,” hell, yeah, his Jewishness is relevant.