Eugenics, Racism and Fascism, Socialism, Communism, Etc.

[Kelley Walker]

At 12:19 PM 6/26/01 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
>CB: Not to mention that the Soviet Union and the Red Army in the era of 
>Stalin saved the Jewish people from extermination by the Nazis.
>
> >>> gcf at panix.com 06/26/01 10:11AM >>>
>LeoCasey at aol.com:
> >                                                  ... Stalinist USSR and
> > Stalinist satellite regimes in Eastern Europe were marked by anti-Semitic
> > purges....
>
>Well, now, let's not over-abuse the ghost of the seminarian
>Dzhugashvili here.  There was an ingrained culture of
>anti-Semitism in Russia and eastern Europe which predated the
>advent of the Communist regimes by several centuries, and
>which, according to my ex-Soviet friends and colleagues, has
>outlived it as well.  Fun as it may be to heap the shabby
>corpse with obloquy, not every gob available belongs upon it.

and the same can be said for those countries we refer to as fascist. which 
is why it doesn't do to associate it so strongly with anti-semitism in the 
first damn place.