[lbo-talk] Chomsky: Israel Lobby ?

[Chris Doss]

I think it was part of the Bolshevik understanding of
nationality, which was a typically naive 19th century
one -- one people, one place, one language, one
culture. Borobidjan is not in a fantastic location,
but remember that making a "Jewish state" in the USSR
in a populous area would have required ethnic
cleansing. Borobidjan (which has about a 5% Jewish
population today, though there is a cool-looking giant
menorah outside the train station) was at the time
sparsely populated by Cossacks and the native people,
the name of which I don't remember.

The guard at my local bar has a Kuban Cossack for a
father and a Don Cossack for a mother. He likes to
talk about the Soviet "genocide of the Cossacks."* At
the same time he's a fan of Stalin, who helped carry
out the genocide. I can't figure this out.

*It really was harsh. Medvedev describes the partial
annihilation of the Don Cossack Host as a great crime
of the Soviet regime. The Cossacks were the first
people in the USSR to be forcibly deported. About
19,000 were murdered in 1919. The Bolsheviks
incorrectly believed them to be inherently Whites,
when in fact most were either neutral, wanted an
independent state, or supported the Reds. Actually the
more I dig into Cossack history the more I dislike the
Bolsheviks. They were kind of like the neocons,
forcing reality to fit their ideology.



--- Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/31/06, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > There was a Jewish autonomous region in the SU.
> 
> That region isn't exactly prime real estate though. 
>  Was this really
> created to protect Jews or was it to ghettoise them?
> 
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