Have you missed a scary Friday THREAD about Russia's nasty habits? Here is a one about how Soviet Moscow and later Russian Moscow groomed and enjoyed worst antisemitism, and managed to combine it with anti-ukrainianism, and convince Western leftists, this all is "anti-fascist" /1
First of all, the Soviet Union was a hardcore antisemitic state. They publicly used images of a "spider Jew" which is about to suck blood out of the world, identical to the worst Nazi cartoons. Here: an antisemitic exhibition in Moscow. Note a nose and the David star /2
Where did it come from? Well, the Soviets had no problem of being allies of the Nazis. In 1939, they have invaded Poland together, held joint military operations against the Polish army, and celebrated their joint victory with a military parade. The even celebrated swastika /3
The Soviets even delivered to Gestapo those German communists (and Jews) who were stupid to escape to the USSR in a hope they would be safe. Many were killed in Germany after the deportation from Moscow. Some were even killed by the Soviet NKVD /4 bundesstiftung-aufarbeitung.de/de/recherche/d…
But the real wave of state anti-semitism came after the WW2. 1948-1952 the Soviets arrested and killed 13 out of 15 members of the board of a "Jewish Antifascist Committee" in Moscow, who were accused of "working for foreign governments". Every Jew was proclaimed a suspect /5
The Soviet propaganda created an image of a Jewish doctor who instead of treating patients poisons them out of hate against the USSR and for the money of the Western intelligence agencies and "The Joint" Jewish agency. Here is a typical cartoon, note "The Joint" inscription /6
As tensions between the USSR and Israel increased, the USSR invested in Arab partners, and state antisemitism became Soviet routine. The Jews were accused of being apprentices of the Nazis. Here: Soviet cartoons, a Rabbi orders to build "a new Auschwitz". Note a nose again /7
In harmony with the Nazi inspiration, the Soviets portrayed the Jews as blood-thirsty barbarians, obsessed with animal passion for destruction. As animals after all. /8
Interestingly, that the Soviets developed another target for their racist hate. They started to portrait Jews together with Ukrainians, picturing both as enemies. Anti-ukrainianism was developed as a twin of Soviet antisemitism, and they always appeared together. /9
Well, what happened next? In today's Russia, antisemitism perfectly matches anti-ukrainianism, as Volodymyr @ZelenskyyUa is a Jew who is the President of Ukraine! And exactly as 50 years ago, Moscovites picture a Ukrainian Jew as a Nazi. Just have a look at these RU cartoons! /10
@ZelenskyyUa Is it a "wild uncontrolled" development? No. Putin made antisemitic attacks on @ZelenskyyUa on TV. Putin: "The Western masters placed an ethnic Jew, a person with Jewish roots, at the head of Ukraine": /11
@ZelenskyyUa It is a classic antisemitic rhetoric on "puppeteers", "Jews". Moreover: this Putin's interview was not spontaneous. The journalist from RIA Novosti, a part of state-owned propaganda RT holding, clearly knew what to ask. Putin came WITH the intention to make this statement /12
It is not the first case when Putin attacks Zelensky's Jewish heritage. In June 2023, Putin said, Zelensky "is a shame of the Jewish nation" and "not a Jew at all" (whatever it should mean) /13
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Anti-semitism is very typical for KGB, Soviet/Russian Foreign Ministry, SVR etc. Moscow saw Jews as "natural traitors", many jobs and universities were closed for Jews. Not a surprise, that Putin's FM Lavrov said in 2022, Hitler "had Jewish blood" /14 bbc.com/news/world-mid…
In 2022, Moscow Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt left Russia and urged all Jews to do the same, as the level of antisemitism reached extremely dangerous level in Russia, and Jewish lives were directly endangered /15 rferl.org/a/moscow-rabbi…
But is it a new development? No. Already in 2017, powerful Russia's Investigative Committee started an investigation on... "ritual murder" on Czar's family in 1918: an antisemitic theory says that Jews killed Czar in a "ritual murder" to reign Russia: /16 dw.com/ru/ск-рф-прове…
This rhetorics only increased lately, but not appeared out of nowhere. For example, as Russian pop star Alla Pugacheva criticised Putin, she was openly called by her colleague Talyzina in media as "secretly a daughter of a Jew": /17 svoboda.org/a/antisemitska…
Putin went on with his antisemitic statements, saying about a Russian exile politician who emigrated to Israel: “he escaped to Israel. He is not Anatoly Borisovich anymore but some sort of Moishe Israelivich”. In Nazi Reich, Jews were forced to have “a typical Jewish” name /17
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