Thread by @sumlenny

Antisemitism was indigenous for Moscow Soviet propaganda TOGETHER with antiukrainianism. While currently Russian propaganda tries to present Ukrainian freedom fighters as “antisemites”, in 70s Moscow used to blame them to be “pro-Jewish” and “Zionists”. Here: Soviet cartoons:

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Soviet Union was an extremely antisemitic state, with official antisemitism (ethnic Jews were banned from many jobs, or types of university education). Here more examples of Nazi-like communist antisemitism in Moscow:

More Soviet antisemitic cartoons:

More Soviet antisemitic cartoons (there were TONS of them):

And more Soviet antisemitic AND antiukrainian cartoons:

@fuecks @MarieluiseBeck - hier ein Thread zu sowjetischer antisemitischen UND antiukrainischen Propaganda (gleichzeitig!) Die Sowjets hatten ihren Hass gegen Israel UND Kiew gleichzeitig. Ein klarer Fundament für die aktuelle Politik Moskaus.

Here more Soviet anti-Semitic cartoons. Jews were compared to monkeys and accused to be "the new Nazis" (here on a cartoon: a "Zionist" studies construction plans of Nazi death camps he "wants to construct" for Palestinians). The USSR had created contemporary Western antisemitism