Joanna
Chris Doss wrote:
>--- joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
>The "oligarchs" are a tiny group of entrepreneurs who
>exploited the
>disintegration of the Soviet system to loot the
>treasures of the state
>and to amass plunder amounting to hundreds of billions
>of dollars. In
>order to safeguard the perpetuation of their business,
>they took
>control
>of the state. Six out of the seven are Jews.
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>I saw a truly twisted editorial on the Jewishness of
>the oligarchs recently in the Moscow Times, a
>veritable Moebius Strip of playing the anti-Semite
>card. According to the piece, the Kremlin is wrong to
>go after Khodorkovsky, because, although the writer
>admits that anti-Semitism is not a big problem in
>contemporary Russia, if Moscow nationalizes Yukos, the
>Russian economy will be "re-Sovietized," whatever that
>means. This, in the expressed view of the author, will
>result in a devastation of the Russian economy for
>reasons that are never explained. Then, because the
>commanding heights of the economy are run by Jewish
>oligarchs (like the dispossessed Khodorkovsky?), this
>will produce an anti-Semitic backlash in Russia.
>Therefore, we should all defend Khodorkovsky to spare
>Russia's Jews the looming threat.
>
>Whatever.
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