The Petrograd Soviet had 300 members, of whom 271 were Jews.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
No source gives the claimed 300-member total or the 271-Jewish count for the Petrograd Soviet. The sources that do give figures put the Soviet at almost 3,000 deputies (Wikipedia) and the wider Soviet elite at about 3,000, of whom nearly 300 were Jews (HSE), which contradicts the claimed total by roughly an order of magnitude.
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… London Times, the very well-known Robert Wilton, who wrote The Last Days of the Romanovs in 1920, actually lists all their names, and in the Soviet there were 384 Bolshevik deputies, and about 300 were Jews, and the same thing for their so-called opposition. The Petrograd Soviet had almost 300 people, and 271 were Jews, and of that 271, 265 were brought by Krochsky from Brooklyn, um, and he arrived with, you know, Wall Street millions. Um, and, you know, if you've read The Last Days of the Romanovs, a lot of this will be, uh, is already well known. …
The Pete Quiñones Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Wikipedia's Petrograd Soviet article reports the Soviet gained almost 3,000 deputies within two weeks of its formation, far above the claimed total of 300 members.[1]
Contradicts. HSE research estimates the Soviet elite at the end of 1917 and start of 1918 at a little over 3,000 individuals, of whom nearly 300 were Jews across all political stripes, so the claimed 271 Jews out of 300 members is not supported.[2]
Context. The Old Bolsheviks study counts 92 Russians and 29 Jews among a specific delegate group, a different body and measure from the claimed figure.[3]
Context. No source directly addresses the specific figures 300 or 271 for the Petrograd Soviet, and no fact-checker has examined this claim.
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- 1Petrograd Soviet - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 2Rus sian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917hse.ru · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3The Old Bolsheviks in 1917marxists.org · not rated · cited for: context
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