The central role Jews played in the ideological formation and implementation of Bolshevism cannot be denied. Hand-waving about a &quot;conspiracy theory&quot; will not change the ethnicity of Lenin, Trotsky, Kamenev, Sokolnikov, or Zinoviev (five of the seven members of the first Politburo) nor that of Sverdlov (first Communist party leader and progenitor of the Red Terror) nor of the many Jews who rushed to join the Cheka (the majority in certain regions) to carry out atrocities against the Russian and then Soviet populace. (Not to mention the significance of, oh, Marx.) The financial contribution of financiers like Jacob Schiff, likely though it seems, is the only aspect that lies in the realm of the unproven. Referring to those who point out the facts as &quot;conspiracy theorists&quot; is a disingenuous response solely intended to deflect attention from reality and again marginalize and dismiss the Nazis as &quot;irrational&quot; moustache-twirling villains. You don&#x27;t have to prove a &quot;conspiracy&quot; among the participants every time you apprehend a trend among a given population group for the trend to be true in a heuristic sense.