Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
Counterbalance, easing of pressures. Political prisoners freed. Antisemitism grew
more from below. Minor pogroms in EE, Czechoslovakia and Romania. Farther E, less
anti-Semitism fewer Js, less history. Islam there more tolerant. W Ukraine, perhaps
always will be anti-Semitism.
Protests in Maidan? Putin called protests in Ukraine pogroms. Fascist, may not mean
intellectual offspring of Hitler. More way of life or rule, mob forcibly overthrowing
elected governments. Threat of perpretual war, such people never satisfied.
Yanukovich was democratically elected. Mob was not homogenous, was majority of
young, liberal people. But people doing hard works, beating and shooting at
Ukrainian policemen. Putin pragmatic, brutal, but not crazy. Are we looking through
ideological lens? Putin not a cold warrior, does not want to reconstruct SU; more in
Washington. Lithuanians not afraid of Russia coming in; more afraid of gas prices
through roof
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