--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> A larger point is why people resort to such crap to
> make a point?
Because it is a cheap propaganda tactic designed to appeal to Westerners' belief that Eastern Europeans are incorrigible anti-Semites, which is part of the West's general attitude to Eastern Europe as a barbaric "Orient" occupying a place similar in their belief systems as that Said describes the Middle East as being. It is the same reason why, when anti-Kremlin propagandists describe the nationalization of Yukos as "expropriation of Jewish property," people in the target audience actually believe them. Similarly, if people who live in the city of Auschwitz want to build a disco at the train station that leads to the death camp, that must be a sign of Polish anti-Semitism, as opposed to the train station just being a good place to build a disco.
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