Yes, it makes a difference. I'veencountered it, and I am Americam Jew2 (of Russian Jewsih descent), so a superior being.
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>In any case, it's nothing compared to what Georgians, Dagestanis and
>Armenians have to deal with. God help you if your passport says "Chechnya"
>on it. Street thugs don't run around beating up Jews; they run around
>beating up Caucasians.
Yes, well, we weren't talking comparitively. And of course it hasn't been so long since the pogromchiki were bearing and raping Jews either.
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>Though there have been some arson attacks on synagogues recently. Not in
>Moscow, though, way out there in the provinces.
That is, in most of the country . . . .
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>RE: Your comment: Judaism was considered a nationality on Soviet passports,
>hence your friend's behavior.
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Of course I know that, but my point, which I am not conveying well, is that she clearly shared the antisemite's attitude that Jews are not real Russians. It was sort of like Pat Buchanan's comment that blacks are different from "normal Americans."
jks
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