Radosh, the Rosenbergs and DSA

[Justin Schwartz]

Of course, Sputnik put paid to those jokes for some years. It is, however, 
true that the Soviets did make a bunch of ridiculous claims that they, or 
Russians, has invented or discovered various things first. --jks


>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Radosh, the Rosenbergs and DSA
>Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 10:31:03 -0500
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>Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> > However, Radosh says that Julius provided the Soviets with lots of
> > high-grade nuclear intelligence. This is simply false,
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>The _core_ racism in the Rosenberg case was not anti-semitism (though
>obviously it 'helped' that they were Jewish) but what might be called
>"anti-peasantry." I remember the general atmosphere of the case fairly
>clearly, and the keynote of the whole was that those stupid russian
>peasants were not technically capable of making a nuclear weapon. This
>went along with endless clumsy jokes on how the russians kept falsely
>claiming that they had made this or that invention or scientific
>discovery.
>
>Carrol

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