[lbo-talk] RE: Kazimierz Witaszewski

[Chris Doss]

Everything I remember about life in Romania before
1963 (when I left) 
supports Woj's description. My father was Jewish and
so were most of his 
friends. In fact, if you look at a map of Jewish
emancipation in Europe, 
you will note that this happened in lock-step with
other social 
revolutions: starting with the French revolution and
ending with the 
Russian revolution.

Joanna

I caught a debate on Russian YV a couple of months ago
between Zhirinovsky and a member of the Communist
Party (and some other people). Zhirik was being
Zhirik, and the CP member was defending the October
Revo.

At one point, she made the point that "if there had
been no Revolution, you, being a son of a lawyer,
would be living on the Pale of Settlement."

(This is a reference to Zhirik's father having been
Jewish -- as he put it, "my mother was a Russian; my
father was a lawyer" [playing on the Russian words
"yevrei" and "yurist"]. Zhirinovsky was born Vladimir
Edelstein.) 

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