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| Title | Soviet "anti-semitism": the big lie |
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| Publisher | Jewish Life |
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| Date | 1949 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 31 pages: illustrations; 20 cm |
| Original Item Location | DS146.R9M54 1949 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8321003~S5 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
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| Transcript | Poland and subsequently occupied Soviet territory and transported far into the Russian interior and beyond the Urals. About 150,000 others managed to reach Palestine, the United States and other countries beyond the seas.' "On the basis of these data which I believe to be conservative, Russia has saved over ten times as many Jews from nazi extermination as all the rest of the world put together. Let that also sink into your minds, my fellow Jews." Those who are so eager to besmirch the record of the Soviet Union might perhaps compare the previous statement quoted from Mr. Rosenberg with an analysis of the role of our own State Deparment in those days as recorded by Henry Morgenthau in Collier's, November 1, 1947. Said Mr. Morgenthau: "We know in Washington, from August 1942 on, that the nazis were planning to exterminate all the Jews in Europe. Yet for nearly 18 months after the first report of the nazi horror-plan, the State Department did practically nothing. Officials dodged their grim responsibility, procrastinated when concrete rescue schemes were placed before them, and even suppressed information about atrocities in order to prevent an outraged public opinion from forcing their hand." Soviet Fight Against Racism Those who are not completely consumed by this frenzy of hatred can easily find out for themselves, if they do not know already, the history of the fight of the Soviet Union against racism and anti-Semitism. From the very first days of its existence, the Soviet Union took steps to eradicate anti-Semitism. On July 27, 1919, a special decree was issued against anti-Semitism. In the first years of the Soviet regime, days of bitter struggle and constant battles against invading armies, the Soviet leaders never halted their continuous efforts to bring real equality to the Jewish masses, so many of whom had been declassed 23 |