----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Doss" <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:03 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89
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> No, I would not deny that. It's true. You see anti-Semitic graffiti and
> here comments on occasion. What I would deny is that it is a major feature
> of contemporary Russian society -- as opposed to, say, dislike of
> Caucasians (people from the Caucasus, I mean) -- and by any standard is at
> a historical low point. It most definitely is not a motive in government
> policy, for God's sake.
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> --- On Tue, 8/5/08, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
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>> Are you denying that "the tradition of all dead
>> generations weighs
>> like a nightmare on the brains of the living", and -
>> though it's changing
>> with the generations -there still exists a deep streak of
>> antisemitism
>> within the more backward sectors of the Russian and other
>> East European
>> populations analagous to antiblack racism in the US?
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