A regime based on Marxism, itself rooted (as we have seen) in anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, a regime which set about its business by identifying whole categories of people as ‘class enemies’ and then persecuting them, was certain to create a climate hostile to Jews. In fact Jewish traders were among the chief victims of Lenin’s general policy of terrorism against ‘anti-social groups’. Many were ‘liquidated’; others, perhaps 300,000 in all, slipped across the borders into Poland, the Baltic States, Turkey and the Balkans. It
