[lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89

[Marvin Gandall]

Chris Doss writes:
>
> I like my criticisms to be based on reality, and not historical ethnic
> hatred. For instance, I would like some evidence for the (rather
> preposterous) claim that Berezovsky was targeted because he was Jewish, as
> opposed to, oh, being an enemy of the government, which for some mad
> reason shortly thereafter appointed a Jew as its Prime Minister, a fact of
> which andie seems totally unaware. Andie does not need evidence for this;
> he "knows" it, because he "knows" Russians are evil and nasty
> anti-Semites. The same reason he finds it a laughable conspiracy theory
> that the US government would commit a terrorist attack to start a war in
> Iraq, but take sit as a fact (!!!!) that the Russian government would
> commit a terrorist attack to start a war in Chechnya.
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Really - the government appointed "a Jew as its Prime Minister"?

http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/02/26/europe/OUKWD-UK-RUSSIA-ELECTION-ANTISEMITISM.php