The “America First” revisionists are hoping to minimize Hitler’s atrocities by pointing to Soviet atrocities while cynically and disingenuously tying those atrocities to Jews. By way of the Bolsheviks, via esp. Trotsky. Because of course they are. This has been a tactic of Holocaust deniers and minimalists for decades. So keep these facts handy: 95% of the Bolsheviks were not Jews. They came from whatever non-Jewish groups existed in Czarist Russia, Russian Orthodox Christian being the majority of that number. The “Largely Jewish senior Bolshevik leadership” you’re hearing pushed as a neo-Nazi adjacent talking point lately is the statistical manipulation of an earlier “24% of Bolshevik leadership was Jewish” trope, paring Bolshevism down to 6 people, 4 of whom were ethnically Jewish. The 24% number comes from a group in the low double digits — which should give the game away: ignore the masses (they’re controlled and blameless) and focus on the leadership (though not the 76% non Jew). To make Soviet communism Jewish, focus on 4 Bolsheviks, and ignore everything non “Jewish” happening contemporaneously and subsequently. Bolshevik leaders were purged, killed or exiled. Lenin and Stalin weren’t Jewish. Keep in mind it was the Czarist secret police who wrote and disseminated “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” to scapegoat Jews and take heat away from the failing policies of the Czarist regime. This was one reason Russian Jews revolted in numbers slightly higher than their demographic percentage, though still quite low. But that didn’t save them, ultimately. On Trotsky (via Grok): Trotsky was ethnically Jewish by descent (Ashkenazi Jewish origins common in the Pale of Settlement). However: • He received no religious education and never practiced Judaism. • He did not speak Yiddish, kept no kosher practices, and never attended synagogue. • He rejected Jewish identity in favor of internationalist Marxism, famously describing himself as an “internationalist” rather than Russian or Jewish when asked. • Biographers note he viewed his Jewish origins as incidental (“fortuitous residues” burned away by Marxism). He opposed antisemitism and pogroms but devoted little attention to the “Jewish question” as a separate issue. Post Trotsky: Of Lenin, Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev, how many were Jews? The answer is zero. A big fucking Hebrew goose egg. The democide in Soviet Russia was committed by Communist totalitarians who were no more Christian than they were Jewish. They were Marxist-Leninists. Stalinists. That they killed millions of Christians is similar to Mao killing millions of Buddhists,Taoists, Confucians, practitioners of Chinese folk religion, et al. If you follow the fake “America First” rationale, however, that the vast majority of Marxist-Leninists were erstwhile Christians means Christians are to blame for the mass slaughter of other Christians in the name of godless State worship. But somehow we never hear that argument.