Jewish heads of state/government

[md-2000]

@jimmmy

I want to be really careful of this because all Neo-Nazi literature of the past half century contains this as “fact” & I want to beat yje next poster on it to the punch but

Lenin was of one-quarter Jewish ethnic ancestry. His maternal grandfather, Israel (Alexander) Blank, was a Ukrainian Jew who was later baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.

A great, great deal has anti-semitically been made of this (& of Trotsky’s jewishness) – if Lenin had any Jewish “identity” it has not documented. Lenin also had as much Volga German ancestry through his mother, who had a Lutheran religious identity. Much less has been made of this.

I recall reading some article discussing Trotsky’s writings. At one point he mentions he deliberately turned down (or failed to pursue) the leadership of the Soviet Union because too many anti-Semites were already claiming communism was a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, and having a Jewish person in the top job would only add fuel to that fire. This of course did not stop Stalin from acting out his own insecurities.