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Soviet Policy and Jewish Fate:
In Russia and in Israel
- Abstract
It took almost three years after Stalin’s death to find out what had happened to the Jews of the Soviet Union during what was almost as fateful a period of Jewish history as that which unfolded under the curse of Hitler. And though the events taking place in Russia between 1950 and 1953 have only an indirect connection with the present hostile Soviet attitude toward Israel, it is nonetheless a significant one. Both in the case of its treatment of the Russian Jews, and of its hostile policy toward Israel, Moscow has been able to pull the wool over the eyes of Jews outside the Communist world; it has moved against Jewish rights and interests with a freedom that it would not have had, and would not today retain vis-à-vis Israel, if Western and Israeli Jewry had protested energetically enough against the first signs of anti-Semitic “opportunism” on the Kremlin’s part.
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