I am prepared to accept that there was a lot of Cold War propaganda about anti-Semitism.
But surely under Stalin the Doctor's Plot was an anti-Semitic campaign, as alleged. Shouldn't one expect anti-Semitism to flourish where nationalism is amplified. Would Chris's informant say that anti-Semitism declined in time, or that it was not so bad in the fifties either?
I'm a little sceptical about claims that Jews would make up fifty per cent of the intelligentsia, too. Doesn't this have a ring of anti-Semitism about it? I know in the UK for example, the people who regularly over-estimate the numbers of immigrants are those who dislike them.
And while we're at it, Chris's comment on Chechenya:
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