Karl Radek
| Karl Radek | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Incredibly sinister looking Jew, Radek | |||
| Born | Karol Sobelsohn 31 October 1885 Lemberg, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Died | 19 May 1939 (aged 54) Verkhneuralsk, Soviet Union | ||
| Nationality | Jewish | ||
| Occupation | Subversive, terrorist, agitator | ||
| Organization | Social Democratic Party of Germany Communist Party of the Soviet Union Communist Party of Germany | ||
Karl Berngardovich Radek (31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939), born Karol Sobelsohn in Lemberg, Galicia (Ukraine), was a prominent Jewish Communist active firstly in Germany, then the Russia, subsequently the Soviet Union. A member of the 'Left-communist' grouping of the Bolsheviks, in 1918 he was co-editor, with Uritsky, of the journal Kommunist. Later, he was one those accused during Stalin's Great Purge and the Moscow Trials and died in a Gulag or labour camp.
Life
Karol Sobelsohn, better known as Karl Bernhardovic Radek, or simply Karl Radek, was a communist Jew, journalist and international conspirator. Born in Lviv, Austria-Hungary, what is nowadays in the Ukraine, he operated in Poland and Germany before the First World War around the "social-democratic" movements. From Switzerland during the war, he was part of a Jewish network with Paul Levi of the Communist Party of Germany, who he personally introduced to Vladimir Lenin.
February Revolution
As the so-called February Revolution in Russia broke out, many of the communist Jew conspirators were caught off guard; Radek amongst them. He was one of the terrorists smuggled back into position in Russia by degenerated elements of the Prussian government on the "sealed train", which also carried Vladimir Lenin back from Zurich. Following the so-called October Revolution, Radek was an active Bolshevik terrorist in Saint Petersburg.
Sweden
For a time after this, Radek went to Stockholm, Sweden, where he produced two journals which translated Bolshevik documents into the German language. Again he moved to Germany in 1918, where in the chaotic aftermath of the end of World War I, he tried to agitate with the Communist Party of Germany, as part of scheme to enslave the Germans under the same system as it was in Russia. In 1923, along with Dmitry Manuilsky of Comitern, Radek unsuccessfully attempted to mirror the earlier Judenputsch, before the death of Lenin.
Stalin
With the ascent of Joseph Stalin, Radek's influence decreased and he lost his place on the Central Committee in 1924, being expelled from the CPSU in 1927. He made a comeback during the 1930s however and was one of the hands behind the 1936 Soviet Constitution. During the Moscow Trials of the 1930s, he was part of the Trial of the Seventeen, where he confessed his part in the Trotskyite-Zinovievite conspiracy. Radek was sentenced to 10 years of penal labour and died while attacking another inmate.
