FACT CHECK · ANTISEMITIC TROPES
Claim: Most Bolsheviks were Jews
FALSETHE ANSWER
The 'Judeo-Bolshevism' myth, a staple of Nazi propaganda. Soviet party census, 1922: Jews were about 5% of members. Stalin ruled 30 years, purged Jewish Bolsheviks and banned Hebrew and Zionism.
SOURCE
T.H. Rigby, Communist Party Membership in the USSR (1968)
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