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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

of any possible resistance from the people and nations which they robbed.

Industrial production and the related capitalistic relationship was not formed in
all countries simultaneously, therefore the Israelites trampled down one country after
other, as soon as a developed structure of industrial production appeared there; capi-
talistic economic relationships were engendered within the feudal ones. Therefore, in
many countries national cadres were behind the capital, some of them were from na-
tional aristocracy, some — from the incipient new class — the national bourgeoisie
which absorbed the most active elements of a nation. The main burden of the transi-
tional period from feudal to capitalistic economic relationships was laid on the shoul-
ders of the national bourgeoisie and progressive aristocracy.

It was exactly these national forces that became the pioneers and explorers of
new economic relationships and created the new economic infrastructure of their
countries. The Israelites mostly played the role of observers and usurers in a new
economic structure. Only when the transitional period was over did they appear in the
economic “arena” with almost unlimited financial resources and quietly and imper-
ceptibly, very often through figure-heads, took the most important and profitable in-
dustries, leaving for “local” industrialists the most laborious and less profitable prod-
ucts. The process of property redistribution from the national “hands” into Judaic
ones went, in most cases, pretty slowly (Fig. 40) in order not to provoke a negative
reaction to it from the side of healthy national forces.

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