RE : your words :
“Remember, at this time Count Bernadotte was trying to get Swedes and other Jews out of Germany – what ultimately led to Bernadotte’s shortening the war by getting Himmler to cut it short in Norway. For Bernadotte’s efforts, the Zionists reciprocated by assassinating him in 1948 for trying to achieve peace in Palestine – what the most unreliable Hugh Trevor Roper conveniently covered up by claiming such Swedes were all really anti-semites.”
Etc etc
and your false and misleading characterisation of Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Re “The Soviets lied about Wallenberg”
Sir,
The person in question : RAOUL WALLENBERG
You have certainly not heard the last word about this matter. But mysteries, even deep ones are to be solved and some will be. It’s just that some people are and have been keeping mum and of course have been saying less – much less than they know. Finito
This could be a little like taking coal to Newcastle!
No doubt you are deep in these matters. About Count Folke Bernadotte apart from his own accounts, I should like to refer you to pages 148 to 157 of “Ben Gurion” by Robert St John
How long do documents survive as classified Information? Can we ever get the whole, composite picture? Do you have it?
A historian of contemporary history does much the same as an investigative reporter and what is interesting is the point at which propaganda, espionage, counter-espionage, politics and history intersect – at which point gossip becomes even more fertile. But where else to go, where else is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
History is not always pleasant, because we sometimes have to face up to it. With history or even the falsification of history there’s always the question of contending interpretations of rumours of counter-rumours – and of what actually happened. Often, more than one authorized/ unauthorized version.
The main controversy about HTR is his dim view of African History – somewhat akin to the Islamic attitude about everything being Jahiliyya prior to the advent of Islam some 1,441 years ago.
First and foremost Sweden’s Royal Family and the nation at large still mourns Count Bernadotte who it appears was terminated because he wanted to give the Holy Land of Israel to the Arabs.
You are of course familiar with what Trevor Roper says, entitled “ The Bernadotte Myth” in his communication with Bernard Berenson, written at Christ Church, Oxford and dated 30 August 1952) to be found on pages 96 to 98 of Hugh Trevor-Roper : “Letters from Oxford”
To refresh you sir :
He tells Berenson, “Still I learn something about the world from these strange inhabitants of it. (See the enclosed note, which might entertain you, about the true facts concerning Count Bernadotte, now at last established by me. It is a copy of a prospectus which I sent to a paper: I don’t think it will inspire them to want the full story)”
It could be painful but still, I’ll quote it in full:
“Since 1945 there has been a great campaign in Sweden to build up the late Count Bernadotte as “the Prince of Peace” who by his diplomacy ended the war and rescued some 20,000 prisoners from the Nazi Concentration Camps. The campaign is connected with internal Swedish politics, i.e. the politics of the “neutral” party who claim that Sweden served humanity better by neutrality than it could have done by belligerency. It was begun by Bernadotte himself who published two books towards it (one has the significant title “Instead of Arms”) and indulged in heavy private propaganda, especially in England and USA. It has been continued in inspired articles, commissioned biographies, etc., largely emanating from Countess Bernadotte (the daughter of H.E. Manville, an asbestos-king); and has been largely successful. In fact it is both dishonest and untrue.
The negotiations which ensured the rescue of the 19,500 prisoners were almost exclusively the work of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s doctor, who had concerted the plan with the Swedish Foreign Minister; Gunther (6) long before Bernadotte appeared. When Bernadotte arrived in Germany, it was simply as an official of the Red Cross sent to arrange the details of transport according to plans already made between Kersten and Gunther. Further, when it came to implementing these plans, Bernadotte explicitly refused to save any Jews, telling Himmler that he shared his racial views. He also refused to take French and Dutch prisoners. In all this he was overruled by Kersten and disowned by Gunther, and Himmler in fact promised to Kersten and to the representative of the World Jewish Organization (with whom he had a secret interview!) that he would release the Jews, Frenchmen and Dutchmen as well as the Scandinavians to whom Bernadotte had sought to confine the operation.
In order to obtain the credit for the whole operation, Bernadotte made an alliance with Himmler’s head of intelligence Schellenberg( 7) . Schellenberg was afraid of condemnation as a war criminal for the major part that he had played in the Venlo incident (the kidnapping of Stevens and Best) (8)
Bernadotte promised to protect Schellenberg in Sweden if Schellenberg undertook to ascribe the rescue-work to Bernadotte. Although Bernadotte was unable to save Schellenberg from arrest when Schellenberg, as arranged fled to Sweden, this bargain was nevertheless kept, being in the interest of both parties. Bernadotte went to great lengths to give public testimonials to Schellenberg. Schellenberg in turn ascribed the rescue-work to negotiations between himself and Bernadotte.
For this plan it was necessary of course to silence Kersten. Bernadotte achieved this partly by threats, using his own position as a member of the Swedish royal house, and exploiting the fact that Kersten practises in Stockholm and is therefore vulnerable. Further Kersten knows no English and therefore could not control Bernadotte’s propaganda in England and America; and it was easy to denounce Kersten as Himmler’s doctor. In Bernadotte’s book Kersten is never even named, and before its publication Bernadotte threatened Kersten with harm in Sweden if Kersten made any protest.
These facts are well-known to several people in Germany, the World Jewish Organisation, and Holland. The Germans being mainly members of Himmler’s organisation keep pretty quiet; the Jews – after the murder of Bernadotte by Jewish extremists – dare not criticize him; but in Holland there have been reactions. (Kersten lives part of the year in Holland and is doctor to the Dutch royal family, and he saved great numbers of Dutchmen in the war.) Finally, last year, a Dutch Royal Commission was set up under a distinguished historian, Prof. Posthumus. (9) The report of this commission has been kept secret (presumably because of its damaging revelations about Bernadotte. I know that it does damage Bernadotte from personal conversations which I have had with Prof. Posthumus); but the result of it was that Kersten was made a Chevalier of the Order of Orange-Nassau and has now been recommended by the Dutch Government for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Of all the foregoing facts I am certain. They are based on documents in the Dutch Royal Institute of War Documentation, on affidavits from Germans and Swedes who were involved, on Himmler’s papers, and on evidence possessed by the World Jewish Organisation. I cannot publish the whole story, since I cannot produce some of the documents which prove it and since I must avoid causing difficulties in Sweden; but I can safely give an account which will be (a) proof against legal action, ( b) capable of substantiation, ( c) sufficient to prick the Bernadotte bubble.”
Notes:
(6): Christian Gunther ( 1886-1966), a career diplomat who wrote poetry and novels, was appointed Swedish Foreign Minister on the outbreak of the war in 1939 and implemented Sweden’s wartime policy of strict neutrality. He was Swedish envoy to Italy, 1946-50
(7): Walter Schellenberg ( 1910-1952), who trained as a lawyer, was in charge of counter-intelligence inside and outside Germany 1939-41. He was chief of foreign intelligence from 1941 until the collapse of the Third Reich, and preened himself as Himmler’s “eminence grise”. T-R reviewed “ The Schellenberg Memoirs” in Sunday Times of 18 November 1956.
(8) Major Richard Stevens ( 1893-1967), an Indian army officer who had recently been appointed head of Secret Intelligent operations in the Netherlands, and his chief field agent, Sigismund Payne Best (1885-1978) , were lured to the village of Venlo on the Dutch-German border in November 1939, and kidnapped by commandos led by Schellenberg. The two Englishmen were subjected to a show-trial and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
(9) Nicolaas Posthumus ( 1880-1960), was an economic historian, was director of the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation and edited “ The Netherlands during the German Occupation” ( 1946)
Continued:
I would also like to correct the several wrong impressions that someone who knows little about these matters might have when you say “For Bernadotte’s efforts, the Zionists reciprocated by assassinating him in 1948 for trying to achieve peace in Palestine”
These excerpts are from between the pages 148-157 referred to, (from Robert St John’s “ Ben-Gurion”. In my opinion St John is an objective observer and he sets the tone of the tragic drama from the beginning. Please bear in mind exactly what the situation was then, days, barely days after Israel’s Independence
Pages 148-9
“The first cease-fire came into effect at the end of the twenty-seventh day of fighting. It was arranged by Count Folke Bernadotte. Several weeks earlier Bernadotte and David Ben-Gurion had met for the first time at G.H.Q. Sharett (who had by now Hebraized his name from Shertok) was present. Also Dr. Ralph Bunche, Bernadotte’s American Negro assistant.
The tall blond member of the Swedish royal family, cultured and self-possessed, and the short, tough Jewish bulldog did not instantly appeal to each other.
Ben-Gurion eyed the visitor suspiciously.
“I have only come to discuss a truce proposal,” Bernadotte said in English with a heavy Scandinavian accent. “ I cannot deal with the whole problem of the future of Palestine.”
There was something about the way he said it that antagonized Ben-Gurion
On his part, Bernadotte decided that the Israeli leader was showing “ a bitter spirit”
“Twice my government has agreed to an unconditional truce;” Ben-Gurion declared. “The Arabs have refused. In spite of that, the Security Council has applied no sanctions against Arabs.”
They argued over many technicalities: then Ben-Gurion said:
“If there is a truce, Jews now separated from their families in Jerusalem must be permitted to be reunited with them.”
When Bernadotte made no reply, Ben-Gurion went on:
“My own daughter Renana is in Jerusalem. I would like to see her. I have not seen her for a long time.”
Bernadotte quickly answered:
“Your official position as commander-in-chief will place obstacles in the way of such a visit.”
The argument went on for a long time. At last the mediator looked at his watch and said he must leave, he had an appointment to attend a concert in Tel Aviv.
It was during the truce which was finally arranged that Bernadotte had to face his next major crisis.
The truce had been in effect nine days when a ship called the “Altalena” approached the shores of Israel”
( It was an Irgun ship and Ben-Gurion wanted them to turn over their arms to the government and of course they refused. After a hasty cabinet meeting Ben-Gurion,
“ordered the army to disarm Irgun forces at Kfar Vitkin and Israel naval units to take control of the “Altalena”. In both cases, force was to be used if necessary. The unloading was stopped: the “Altalena” moved out to sea, flanked by two Israel corvettes. It looked like Ben-Gurion had won a bloodless victory.
But the next morning after the Altalena had anchored within sight of the seafront hotel at Tel Aviv occupied by Bernadotte’s staff, a small boat of Irgun men came ashore, set up guns on the beach and announced defiance of Ben-Gurion, of the regular army, of the United Nations, and of anyone who might try to take from them their ship or its cargo.
Ben-Gurion called his Cabinet into another emergency session. He asked for and received authority to issue an ultimatum to Altalena: surrender or face “military measures”.
Civil war began early that morning………
“ The spectacle of Jews killing Jews on the beach of the only all-Jewish city in the world less than a month after the creation of the first Jewish state in nearly two thousand years had distressed many people, but gradually the world came to see that Ben-Gurion’s firmness had broken a potential revolution and brought under control a terrorist organization that for years had successfully defied everyone……
In early July the war began again, with Saudi Arabia joining in, which made it six to one instead of five to one…..”
…..Pages 154 – 55:
“In September, Ben-Gurion felt his suspicion of Bernadotte’s friendliness justified when the UN mediator finished work on his own plan to bring peace to the Middle East. Israel was to give up all the Negev, Ramle, and the New City of Jerusalem; Haifa was to become a free port and Lydda a free airport and all Arab refugees were to be taken back.
Ben-Gurion was at G.H.Q on 17th September when he received a telephone call from Jerusalem.
“Bernadotte has been killed”
The mediator had been on his way to keep an appointment with Dov Joseph, military governor of the New City.
Four men in a jeep blocked the road: Using sten guns, they killed Bernadotte and a French U.N. observer sitting in the car beside him.
The four men in khaki escaped but the Stern Gang had already publicly taken “credit” for the assassination, and had sent notes to consulates in the Jewish part of Jerusalem threatening similar action against anyone who “interferes with the interest of Jewish nationalism”
Ben-Gurion did not vacillate: the instructions that went out from G.H.Q. to the military commander in Jerusalem were his:
“No.1: Arrest all Stern members.
“No.2: Find and surround all Stern bases and confiscate all arms.
“No.3: Kill all resisters
“No.4 : Impose a curfew, close borders and all roads leading out of Jerusalem.
“No.5: Take no action against the Irgun unless they help the Sternists”
“ No.6: Act as soon as forces are available”
That evening the Cabinet approved the Prime Minister’s suggestion to give Irgun until Tuesday noon to disband as a military unit. A twenty thousand dollar reward was posted for the capture of Bernadotte’s murderers.
The Stern leader, Nathan Freidman-Yellin was caught at Haifa port about to flee the country. Hundreds of other Sternists were rounded up. Irgun accepted the ultimatum and disbanded.”
This is complete claptrap.
HTP’s absurd claims concerned not only false ones about Bernadotte being a nothing-Nazi adherent to Scotland having no history, the decline of the English gentry bringing on the English civil war, and Bernadotte himself stopping the Stern Gang departing from the Altalena.
Before the Israelis were contending that Yitzak Rabin was responsible – for which the Israeli intelligence services arranged his assassination too.
How the TL can let a nut like you blog on its site is beyond me!
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Sir,
The assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte was a great tragedy.
Hugh Trevor-Roper was deliberate in judgment, excelled in many areas and continues to be a great man in the estimation of many.
“Twenty years on, we can see even more clearly how Trevor-Roper was right and Thatcher wrong.”
We should not judge HT-R exclusively on the basis of one or two mistakes or differences of opinion and leave out all his laudable contributions and achievements.
I notice that some of the reviewers of his “Letters from Oxford” sort of chose to misjudge and misinterpret the tone of those letters. So, it was not in vain that Pope wrote satirically,
233-234 :” A perfect judge will read each work of wit with the same spirit as the author writ”
All sorts of things were said about Graham Greene – he most probably did not win the Nobel Prize because of his political views – and lesser writers have been awarded that prize – lesser, in spite of whatever opinion Mossad’s or Shabak’s best friend Trowbridge H. Ford may harbour about him.
May they all rest in perfect peace: Count Folke Bernadotte, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Graham Greene and Yitzhak Rabin.
http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2009/10/30/11/
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But this all started about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg – what the American, British and Swedish governments, in that order, were responsible for.
Wallenberg clearly was a spy for the Allies in Budapest, and we should all praise what he did there to save at least 20,000 Jews.
The problems occurred when the Soviets had encircled the city, and Wallenberg was spirited out on January 17, 1945 so that he too could be saved from any last-ditch reprisals by the Nazis.
People act as if Budapest was already in Soviet hands, and as if Wallenberg’s disappearance was some kind of Moscow dirty work, when the Red Army only broke the Nazis’ attempt to break the Soviet encirclement on Feb. 14th. It still took them some time to actually capture the city, and drive the Germans from the country.
During this time, Bernadotte was doing everything he could to save other Jews, and get Himmler to take over from Hitler and end the war. Executions of mass numbers, especially Jews, were still continuing. 7,000 Jews were, for example, executed in Kaliningrad on January 30th.
In this context, for Averell Harriman to ask Stockholm if it wanted the Allies to intervene in Wallenberg’s release was the height of hypocrisy, and cowardice. He should have done everything to see to the release of this great man who had done so much for the Allied cause.
By acting as if the Allies had had no role in his troubles not only risked his fate but also that of Bernadotte’s efforts.
If the Swedish Foreign Minister had agreed to Harriman’s offer, the German-infested FO would have told Berlin, jeopardizing what Bernadotte was attempting and maybe even making the Germans to try harder to recover Wallenberg.
I see Harriman’s offer as the beginning of the Cold War, and as it progressed, thanks to the continuing inaction by Washington, London and Stockholm, Wallenberg became less and less of a bargaining chip, and more a doomed victim.
The efforts to blame his fate simply upon Soviet cruelty is simply ludicrous. West inaction drove Wallenberg to suicide.
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http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Yantarny+Journal
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Kaliningrad+atrocity
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=W+Averell+Harriman
Sir,
Through the years, the main man in question:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.israpundit.com+Wallenberg
Many thanks for greater clarity about what you understand about the Wallenberg affair.
You allege that Raoul Wallenberg was driven to commit suicide. When did this happen?
Possibly nuttier than a fruitcake, but still, in all humility, once again it’s ignorance in search of enlightenment that approaches thee for further enlightenment on the matter. Since you have been so kind as to begin explaining what you see , I hope that you don’t mind my asking you a few questions so that I (we) may understand things even a little better.
Re – “what the American, British and Swedish governments, in that order, were responsible for.”
The purpose of my earlier request to meet you face to face was to among other things emphasise what I’ve known for the past twenty one years: that the American Government in concert with special contacts here in Sweden did make extra-ordinary efforts during the Harriman period of President Roosevelt and later. You may regard this as a disjointed piece of information but it’s incontrovertible fact ( and signed) What I read with my own eyes and my eyes were not telling lies. I will never tell you that I know something if what I claim to know is not true.
But on the other hand as the saying goes, “Those Who Know Don’t Say, Those Who Say Don’t Know ”
The last question for you is this : exactly WHAT is it that the American, British and Swedish Govrenments haven’t done but should do or have done to be or to have been assured of Raoul Wallenberg’s freedom?
Nothing fuzzy about me Sir, and if you must know, I identify with “BugginOut” here:
Check it out:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/quotes
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I think that Wallenberg died on or about the 1947 date that the Soviets claim.
If you know about the efforts of the West powers to free him, why not state them so the rest of us can become more sympathetic to them rather than just imply that those who know what really happened didn’t talk?
What should be Americans and Brits have told Stalin when they learned of the Soviets having saved him? Wallenberg is our man and you should recognize what he has done. We will do whatever is reasonable to secure his release, but if you don’t, we shall consider it a most hostile act.
Answer: case closed!
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Sir,
I thought that you were going to suggest that the Soviets redeem one or two of their spies or American spies in exchange for him (there were so many defectors now and then, not to mention the full time recruitments in some of Britain’s universities in the 40s , 50s, 60s….
In focus: Raoul Wallenberg:
http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=google-coop&cof=FORID%3A13%3BAH%3Aleft%3BCX%3Aatlas%2520shrugs%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fintl%2Fen%2Fimages%2Flogos%2Fcustom_search_logo_sm.gif%3BLH%3A30%3BLP%3A1%3BVLC%3A%23551a8b%3BDIV%3A%23cccccc%3B&adkw=AELymgV4EsqX4jcCSaFSYz43nBFGNxce6I-tSOLPRLwUVZgund5etqBbzAOIKgx4deCUC7Wo7CI15aGNgRGK8h6rqsqWXdVXRnDBYqrGfV1kUaC6d1hxWkUFIseXF5xFrtbo2QOJHPF-YAuK7EajGpxFPdGM-MMRFg&boostcse=0&q=+Wallenberg&btnG=Search&cx=011272781630429997772%3Anyqp33fbnxu
I am very serious about these matters and using my ten senses too.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=Raoul%20Wallenberg&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&sa=N&tab=wn&fp=a2c66d4f91169d04
You have had various things to say about the matter. Is this then your last word?
Do you shrug your shoulders and give up? But we have to get to the bottom of the affair.
Raoul Wallenberg affects us in so many ways.
In reading this I thought of him:
http://groups.google.com/group/usaafricadialogue/browse_thread/thread/3b88bb0d5522e8db
(Of course it’s all a matter of keeping hope alive – hope against hope and the best wishes are that he is still alive and lives to Moses’ goodly age of 120…
I thinking about the questions still swirling around this man Dawit Isaak:
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=Dawit+Isaak
And in reading about the fate of Davit Isaak I find myself thinking about Raoul Wallenberg – inevitably – and one of your questions comes up again – this time I ask you the same : what has the Swedish Government done, and what more can the Swedish Government do, short of dropping or threatening to drop a bomb or two on Isaias Afwerki, the president of Eritrea’s head to get Isaak Dawit out of prison?
If what you believe is true – that Mr. Wallenberg passed out of this life in 1947 – then all hope is gone of finding him alive – but his light is not out and as we all agree that light is still shining in this world, the light of one of the most Righteous Gentiles to be born in the vale of tears.
But just because your personal investigations have come to a dead end, has the case been proscribed? Should it be by your decree?
What I know ( as per special communication some twenty one years ago) is generally known by those who know, and amongst those who know what I mentioned ( direct contacts between USA and USSR via Sweden – among others) I am certainly the smallest, tiniest, (most little) nut in the bugger machinery: Therefore I leave it up to you to enquire from them. You could write to the State Department and I’m sure that they will direct you further into the citadel of true knowledge. Keep on digging where you’re standing. Re-wording Pope ,” Dig deep or taste not the Pierian spring, where shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again”, sayeth Ai.
I would leave no stone unturned and neither did he:
the one and only :
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You can leave it up to me,if you want, but don’t expect anything, as I already consider the case closed – Wallenberg, it seems, committed suicide when he learned that he had been abandoned by the West.
And how could anyone expect anything reliable from the scumbag State Department after it has done nothing after all these years.
Even scumbag defector Oleg Gordievsky has nothing to say about Wallenberg, though he goes on at great length about how the Soviets and their successors allegedly killed many others during all this time, even an attempt to assassinate him too!
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Sir Trowbridge –
(Lord Ford if you so prefer):
Administrations come and go but the essential backbone of the bureaus remains unchanged.
Similarly, your consistency is admirable.
Reminds me of this joke:
http://laughwithmulla.blogspot.com/2009/06/who-to-believe.html
More seriously, Raoul Wallenberg is still a man of the moment: his light shines on; he is an unfading topic in the news. He is a good example of the phrase “giving oxygen to the dead “. Assuming that he has passed on, we are “giving oxygen to the dead ” as per my friend Schalom’s definition, i.e. to keep the memory of those who are not with us alive, we must celebrate them by talking about them, cherishing their memory, sometimes visiting their graves and still caring about them.
Always: http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?ei=UTF-8&p=Raoul+Wallenberg
Wishing you a pleasant Sunday, April 11, 2010
Cornelius.
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You are sounding more sensible about the whole tragic matter, so my posts have been worth it.
At dinner on this most pleasant Sunday, be sure to lift a glass to dear Raoul, who we all miss so much, and who deserved a so much better fate. Skå!!
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My last thoughts are what happened on the Soviet side, and I am increasingly thinking that it was the actions of Yuri Andropov which the Russians are now concerned about revealing, though this does not soften my criticism of the Western powers in not achieving Wallenberg’s exchange way before Andropov went to work on him as being an anti-Soviet spy.
There is just too little discussion of Andropov’s days in the partisan forces after he left Karelia, and they became part of the Red Army in 1944. I suspect that Andropov’s special forces ferreted Wallenberg from besieged Budapest, and the KGB agent expected great rewards for this great catch.
Nothing, of course, happened in this regard, and when the Cold War started heating up, I suspect that he really put the screws to Wallenberg, causing him to commit suicide but it could have been the result of a heart attack.
It would explain why Andropov became so alarmed and vindictive after the Hungarian Uprising – the last thing that he expected after his having captured Wallenberg in Budapest in January 1945.
If this is the case, little wonder that Moscow is keeping secret what it still can.
More, if and when I find it.
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I do think that I have gotten onto something new, the anti-semitic campaign by MGB chief Viktor Abakumov and Communist Party Chairman Zhdanov which drove Wallenberg to suicide, or possibly killed him.
After the war, these two guys got involved in purging Jews from important positions gained during the war, and eliminating the more cosmopolitan members of the Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC) – what culiminated in the killing of Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Moscow Yiddish Theatre and the JAC’s chairman, in January 1948.
Seems most likely that Abakumov tried to force Raoul to admit that he was behind the JAC’s nationalist deviations, resulting in his dying in the process.
Beria, who oversaw the Soviets’ intelligence operations,then went after both men with a vengeance, and when the process blew back in the alleged Doctors’ Plot against Stalin, he stopped both of them.
For more, see Amy Knight’s Beria, and Mitrokhin’s real hatred of Andropov, who tried to legitimize what the earlier anti-semites had done.
Looks like Beria even led the poisoning of Stalin – what makes the Wallenberg such a hot issue still in Moscow.
It seems to have sparked the falling apart of Stalin’s underlyings, leading to his assassination.
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Many, many thanks Sir.
I feel this kind of appreciation (Letter 112) like at the end of a long journey which you have shortened by such concision and clarity:
http://www.al-islam.org/murajaat/
And so I incline my ear to hear what you may be saying about other matters…..too…
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Sweden should build a real memorial for Raoul Wallenberg as he accomplished in death more than he even achieved in life.
His refusing to confess that the Jewish Antifascist Committee was seriously compromised by Western intelligence – what Andrei Zhdanov tried to make him do in July 1947, and led to his death by suicide or a heart attack, caused by stress – set off a struggle within the Soviet leadership which was ultimately its undoing.
Zhdanov had the makings of another vicious, unnecessary Stalin, as writers indicate by referring to his Zhdanovshchina, and he conveniently died of heart disease a year later – preventing a hand-made replacement of Koba from ever emerging.
Must write an article about the apparent conspiracy which got rid of this most dangerous Soviet leader.
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