Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
state of mind diff. Germs had dumped Js on the border, green border policy.
Registered as they came over the border, porous. 6 mill SU citizens deported
internally, 1920-1952, policy for suspect groups.
What about everybody else? Sovietization mostly on urban centers, more keenly felt
than on periphery. Farmers in Bessarabia, barely felt Sovietization, have a talk,
mainly to get wine, gratice. 60,000 Polish Js removed, 39-41. 150,000 Js from
annexed territories arrive in unoccupied parts. Birobidzhan? Political theater. Where
to resettle millions of Js? Esp Ger, Romanian, Pol Js. No thought to SU Js. Birobidzhan
bubbled up, some infrastructure, autonomous region to 36, benign. JDC, presence,
resettling Js, feelers to SU, knows not ideal. Phillipines, Ghiana, Madagascar, not a
lot of viable options. Not mentioned in Evian, under League of Nations, all about Js
though not said. SU not interested in Ger/Pol Js, SU knows there will be war against
capitalist world, Ger/Pol capitalists sort of
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