A lot of sources states that during the years of the revolution, one of the Bolshevik leaders made a threatening statement with elements of xenophobia. We checked whether Trotsky said this.

Here is what text is often attributed to Leo Trotsky: “We must turn Russia into a desert inhabited by white blacks, which we will give such a tyranny that we never dreamed of the worst despots of the East ... We will shed such blood streams before which all the human losses of capitalist wars will shudder and pale. The largest bankers over the ocean will work in close contact with us. If we win the revolution, crush Russia, then on the funeral fragments we will strengthen the power of Zionism and become such a force that the whole world will go to the knees ... by terror, bloody baths we will bring the Russian intelligentsia to complete dullness, to idiocy, to animal jackets - the sons of the watchmakers from the Masters of Masters Odessa and Orsha, Gomel and Vinnitsa - know how to hate everything Russian! "

This quote can be found in social networks (Livejournal, "VKontakte", Twitter, Facebook), periodicals (magazines "Young Guard" And "Moscow Bulletin"), as well as in dozens of journalistic books on historical topics (for example, "Red Empire: take -off and fall", Ataturk: Special purpose ", "Cossack chieftains", "Ethnic repressions", "Secrets of Russian history of the XX century"). Very often it is given by anti -Semitic resources.

More than 80 years have passed since the murder of Leo Trotsky, but the figure of the author Theory of permanent revolution continues to excite the minds of history lovers in Russia and abroad. Given the inconsistency of the image of a revolutionary, whom a number of researchers even calls The author of the key principles of totalitarianism, the authenticity of the quote we consider cannot be excluded in advance. On the other side, It is knownthat at least before the revolution, Trotsky’s attitude to Zionism was complicated, even sometimes negative.

Immediately note that on the resource “Google Books»This quote cannot be found in the sources earlier than 1991. In the book "Cossack Atamans" indicated The publication in which Trotsky’s quote was printed at one time. It's about the newspaper "Our path" - The central organ of the Russian fascist party, published by emigrants in Harbin and Shanghai (China) in 1933-1943. This newspaper and its editor are sad known For obvious reasons, the publication did not have its own anti -Semite rhetoric, and to Trotsky, so such a source does not cause confidence. Even if the quote really appeared in it.

Journalist Valery Khatyushin, future editor of the magazine "Young Guard", in his Article 1991 A more specific source quotes: the memoirs of Aron Simanovich, former secretary Grigory Rasputin. It should be noted that Khatyushin’s quote has a more complete look, without an open.

Aron Samuilovich Simanovich, who gained wide fame as the proxy of Grigory Rasputin, was arrested after the February Revolution and imprisoned “Crosses”, from where the former merchant of the 1st guild came out only at the cost of huge expenses for bail and lawyers. After the liberation, Simanovich went abroad, where his memoirs called “Rasputin and Jews came out. Memories of the personal secretary Grigory Rasputin. " For a moment we close our eyes to the fact that this work leading Russian historians They called it The fruit of the fantasy of Khlestakov, to whom "only the most stupid fool can trust." The fact is that for the whole book The name of Leo Trotsky ... never meets. There is no quote that interests us with any attribution.

In a number of sources Mentioned A certain newspaper "Russian word" (No. 1) as a source of reference to the book of Simanovich. It should be noted that this emigrant publication began to go out in Buenos Aires in 1948, after the death of Trotsky, so that at best it could reprint his words. However, as indicated above, there is no such fragment in the memoirs.

Finally, in one of the numbers of the newspaper "Evening Nikolaev" for 2011 Approvedthat the quote was taken "from the speech of L. Trotsky before the fighters of the Bogulminsky division on the Eastern Front. The newspaper "Working Thought" of July 20, 1919. " To begin with, the only connection called "Bugulminsky Division" (not the Bogulminskaya) was Formed Only in 1941. As for the publication "Working Thought", the only one of the newspapers with the same name, outdoor In the indicated years in the area of the Eastern Front (in this case in Tobolsk), she defended the interests of the whites, so she could not get the words of Trotsky first -hand.

One of the numbers of the Tobolsk newspaper "Working Thought"

So, Trotsky most likely did not pronounce such words. Where did this saying come from then? Boris Nilov suggeststhat a number of revolutions for the quote were borrowed from the statement of the poetess Zinaida Hippius, who appeared in her diary At the end of November 1919: “Here is an accurate formula: if in Europe a country with such phenomenal can exist in the 20th century, in history it does not understand this unprecedented, universal slavery and Europe or accepts it - Europe must fail. And there is a road to her. <...> Yes, slavery. Physical killing of the spirit, every person, everything that distinguishes a person from an animal. Destruction, collapse of the entire culture. Countless bodies of white blacks. ”

Please note: in two quotes, white blacks, unprecedented slavery / tyranny, physical destruction and transformation into animals are mentioned.

But this, apparently, is not the only source of the text in question. No less intersections with a quote for false-Trotsky (let's call the author of the fake we consider) we see in the seven-volume work of the Menshevik Nikolai Sukhanov "Notes about the revolution". This is not only speech turnover (“win the revolution”, “in close contact”, “physically destroying”). In a number of places of the statement of Sukhanov and False-Trotsky, the opposite is exactly the opposite, as if the author of the fake took the thoughts and statements of Sukhanov and turned them 180 degrees. Compare.

Sukhanov: “An attempt to take power by the uprising and keeping it through terror would be utopian and hopeless. <...> Secondly, the troops go with completely peaceful targets and do not threaten in any extent a coup or a bloody bath. ”
False-Trotsky: "By terror, we will bring bloody baths ..."

Moreover, Sukhanov leads ... the speech of the real Trotsky of December 25, 1917, the author of the fake again makes it “shifting” from it.

False-Trotsky: "We will shed such flows of blood before which all the human losses of capitalist wars will shudder and pale."
Trotsky: “We were told that the uprising would cause a pogrom and sink a revolution in blood streams. So far, everything has passed bloodless. We do not know a single victim. I do not know in the history of examples of the revolutionary movement where such huge masses would be involved and which would have passed so bloodlessly. ”

Finally, in extended version The statements of false-Trotsky are the words: “Russia is our enemy. It is inhabited by evil, free monkeys, who for some reason are called people. ” Here the falsifier made a big mistake, because he took a whole revolution (“Evil -wool monkeys called people”) from the book "My life" Real Lev Trotsky. For the first time, this autobiography was released in Germany in 1930, which means that the fake could not be written before. There, Sukhanov, with Trotsky’s speech, came out of his seven years earlier. In the same Berlin, previously came out Diaries Zinaida Hippius. From all this, it follows that the false text of the false-Trotsky was blinded by the author-emigrant around the 1930s from what he had at hand-perhaps the matter took place in Berlin. One way or another, but he, apparently, has no attitude to the personality of Lev Davidovich Trotsky.