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by Michael Walsh ONE OF THE 20th Century’s great mysteries is what happened to Imperial Russia’s gold reserves following the Wall-Street-financed coup in 1917 that overthrew the Tsarist government. This coup is known wrongly as the Russian Revolution. At the outbreak of World War One the gold reserves…
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by Mike Walsh BEFORE THE OUTBREAK of the Great War (1914-1918) there were available in selected Jewish-owned Warsaw shops greeting cards with images that were unavailable to Gentiles. The postcards carried the image of the tzadik. This is an image of a rabbinical Jew with the Torah in his one hand and…
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