But that hidden history—almost entirely ignored in all our narrative accounts of McCarthyism, whether hostile or supportive—is itself incomplete. There actually exists a hidden history behind that hidden history, one that involves the central role of Jews and Jewish groups.
The crucial fact so rarely expressed in mainstream works is that from the earliest days of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution down through the McCarthyism battles of the 1950s, the activist core and leadership of the Communist movement had always been heavily Jewish, both in Russia and in most other countries as well. As I wrote in 2018:
Meanwhile, all historians know perfectly well that the Bolshevik leaders were overwhelmingly Jewish, with three of the five revolutionaries Lenin named as his plausible successors coming from that background. Although only around 4% of Russia’s population was Jewish, a few years ago Vladimir Putin stated that Jews constituted perhaps 80-85% of the early Soviet government, an estimate fully consistent with the contemporaneous claims of Winston Churchill, Times of London correspondent Robert Wilton, and the officers of American Military Intelligence. Recent books by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Yuri Slezkine, and others have all painted a very similar picture. And prior to World War II, Jews remained enormously over-represented in the Communist leadership, especially dominating the Gulag administration and the top ranks of the dreaded NKVD.
Similarly, although Jews were only about 3% of our own population during the first half of the twentieth century, that same sort of huge overrepresentation was found in America’s Communist movement as I discussed in one of my earliest American Pravda articles from 2018:
