>>> Marvin Gandall
There was very little if any intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews prior to the Russian Revolution, but a great deal of it afterwards. There was a reason Jewish communities were notably "soft on Communism". Doctors' Plots and Slansky trials notwithstanding, the Communist parties denounced antisemitism ^^^ CB: Yes, and the socialist governments made it a _crime_, along with other racisms.
Anti-Semitic prejudice persisted in the populations at large, as discussed by andie and others, but the Communist Parties and governments were militant in seeking to eradicate the prejudice.
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and recruited heavily among East European Jews, and the USSR alone provided sanctuary to the remnants fleeing the Nazis and their pro-fascist collaboraters, the latter drawn from the same social classes as the old pogromists.
^^^^ CB: And of course, but for the Red Army, who knows how far the Nazis would have gotten in the genocide against Jews.
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