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| Solomon Katz |
The
graduates of one of my hometown high schools, Liceul Constantin
Dobrogeanu-Gherea, did not know who this Russian man was. This Bolshevik was
born Solomon Katz in Ekaterinoslav, the Russian Empire, in 1855, and died in
Bucharest, Romania in 1920.
Educated in
the Russian empire, Solomon Katz came to Romania in 1875 to escape the tzar but
three years later was kidnapped by the tzar’s agents and jailed in Russia. He
escaped from captivity and returned to Romania in 1879 when his socialist
activity began as editor of the Contemporary, The Social Magazine, and
Social Critique.
A member of
the Social Democrat Party of Romania, he became the founder of the platform of
the Workers Social Democrat Party established in 1893. Solomon Katz took the
fake Romanian name of Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea. He certainly did not hail from
the Dobrogea region of Romania.
Lev Trotsky
praised Solomon Katz’s communist achievements, writing that many ministers,
diplomats, and prefects had learned the “political alphabet” from Solomon Katz,
a.k.a. Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea.
Katz guided
the first generation of Romanian socialist workers to the Marxist platform. Katz
was one of the first “scholars” who guided all socialist parties towards the
Russian Revolution.
Solomon Katz
became one of the “parents of Romanian sociology.” His son, Alexandru
Dobrogeanu-Gherea, eventually became one of the founding fathers of the
Romanian Communist Party.
As students
we had no idea that this Russian Jew and his son were the reasons for our daily
misery. He was considered the most prominent Marxist theorist and thinker in
Romania, literary critic, sociologist, journalist, politician, and restaurant entrepreneur
in my hometown of Ploiesti.
This
business side of C. D. Gherea is little known. He invented the catering service
for the Ploiesti train station restaurant and held its sole concession from
1882 until his death in 1920. Young boys
sold sandwiches and glasses of beer from baskets to hungry travelers who did
not wish to disembark on the train platforms to buy something to eat and drink as
their luggage could have been stolen in their absence. Trains did not have dining
cars back then.
As it is often
the case, no matter how communist a famous person like C. D. Gherea was, he was
not communist enough for Elena Ceausescu, a woman with barely an elementary
education, so the high school’s name, Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, was changed
to Nikita Stanescu, a famous Marxist poet under Ceausescu’s communist regime.
Stanescu,
born and raised in Ploiesti, was a talented town boy who attended a high school
highly controversial to the communists because it was named after the Saints Peter and
Paul, and communists can’t have religion mixed in with atheism.
But Nikita
Stanescu, a very handsome man by any standards, was Elena Ceausescu’s favorite
poet. She was so concerned about his health, that she sent the minister of
health to his home, to treat him for the severe alcoholic addiction that was
killing him. Stanescu was alleged to have drunk two liters of vodka a day, that
is half a gallon, yet he never got drunk.
Close
friends say that the more Stanescu drank, the more creative he became. The
treatment he received in Mangalia, which Elena Ceausescu spent millions on,
vitamins and other drugs, extended Stanescu’s life by a couple of years. He
died at the age of 50 with a completely cirrhotic liver.
To a graduate
like me and former teacher, to name a high school after such a drunk, talent
set aside, is problematic – he was certainly not a role model of good behavior.
However, as a communist poet, everybody in the communist world sang his praises
and awarded him many famous prizes.
It is easier
to understand now why our history teacher never answered questions from
students that would have deviated from the communist historical narrative and
instead, she said, “democracy has gone to your heads.” Avram was trying to say
that democracy of any kind, including constitutional democracy was incompatible
with communist tyranny or any other tyranny for that matter.
We are
watching in the U.S. the communists in charge of our country altering history, dumbing
down the curricula, changing names of schools, universities, roads, buildings,
museums, ships, stadiums, football teams, destroying statues of people they do
not like nor respect, and installing unknown Marxist activists, local and from
around the world, in lock step with the global communist movement pushed by the
U.N., using global warming scheme, conventions, agreements, accords, and
programs that have now taken complete control at every level of government in
every participating country.
Just like
Solomon Katz emigrated from czarist Russia and changed Romanian society for
almost a century, to benefit the Russian Bolsheviks whose communist ideas and
platforms he was implementing, foreign nationals today are bribing groups and
individuals at all levels of government to make sure that the global communist
government will dominate the world, with a few billionaires at the helm. President
Donald Trump was but a four-year bump in their plans, but they managed to
neutralize him in an all-out assault unlike any other and rendered the country
ungovernable.
