one direction:
As a Jew, I'm interested in another question entirely: Why were
there so many Jews among the NKVD-MVD investigators - including
many of the most terrible? It's a painful question for me but I
cannot evade it. (Yevgenia Albats, The State Within a State: The
KGB and its Hold on Russia, Past, Present and Future, 1994, p. 147)
Jews abounded [also] at the lower levels of the Party machinery
especially in the Cheka and its successors, the GPU, the OGPU and
the NKVD.... It is difficult to suggest a satisfactory reason for
the prevalence of Jews in the Cheka. It may be that having
suffered at the hand of the former Russian authorities they wanted
to seize the reins of real power in the new state for themselves.
(Leonard Shapiro, The Role of Jews in the Russian Revolutionary
Movement, Slavonic and East European Review, 1961, 40, p. 165)
But if in the pre-German interval Ukrainians were being killed by the NKVD, and if
the NKVD was disproportionately, or even overwhelmingly, Jewish, then one might
summarize by saying that in the pre-German interval, Ukrainians were being killed by
Jews.
I Expand My Summary Table Once Again
The table which I have been developing in my letters to you of 30Jun99 and 01Jul99
can now be elaborated with the uppermost entry:
Date of my letter
Subject of my letter
Date of Attack
Violence that you should have reported in your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
04Jul99
The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny
Summer 1941
15May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Ivasiuk?
April 1979
30Jun99
Who murdered Vadim Boyko?
February 14, 1992
Violence that you might have caused by your 23Oct94 The Ugly Face of Freedom
09Apr99
Who blew the hands off Maksym Tsarenko?
Summer 1995
17May99
Who murdered Volodymyr Katelnytsky?
July 7-8, 1997
01Jul99
Who murdered Borys Derevyanko?
August 11, 1997
The new "The Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny" entry in the table above is of particular
importance not only because of the large number of victims involved, but also
because it demonstrates your going beyond the fault of overlooking Ukrainians being
victimized, to the greater fault of replacing the real killing of a large number of
Ukrainians by Jews with an imaginary killing of a large number of Jews by