Russian anti-semitism

[ChrisD(RJ)]

You must also remember that from the point of view of the former USSR and 
eastern europe, jews enjoyed two advantages after the second world war 
compared to the rest of the population: 1) many of them that had relatives 
abroad and received constant aid in the form of goods or money, which they 
could barter or profit from in their own country. 2) they were pretty much 
the only ones who could get out.

Joanna
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I have often wondered why so many of the big-name oligarchs (Berezovsky,
Gusinsky, Abramovich) are Jewish (something that is a real boon for
anti-Semitic propagandists in Russia, by the way) and why the Mafia is
dominated by ethnic Jews. Their biographies are so murky it's hard to say
just how they got to where they are now. Would you hazard a guess that
(possibly) having resources and/or ties abroad gave them a leg up on the
rest of the population? Berezovsky used the Right of Return to get Israeli
citizenship and funnel money to banks in that country.

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal