RJ11
1/29/2009 6:10:00 AM
In article <e038d018-ec95-4285-989c-452fbe2fa4ce@a12g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
Istvan Lippai, posting as "TurkeyBoy <ataturkey@hotmail.com>", wrote:
(snip some drivel about "Jews and Communism")
On the percentage of Jews in the Communist movement:
<quote>
The alleged predominantly Jewish leadership and composition of the Russian
Communist Party has been a stock argument both against the Jews and against
the Communists outside of Russia as well. A glance at the statistics of
party membership taken at various times between 1918 and 1938 suffices to
disprove that underlying legend as far as membership is concerned. In 1918
the Russian Communist Party had 124,000 members. Of these, 75 per cent
were Russian Slavs, 10.8 per cent Letts (Latvians), 6.3 per cent Poles, 3.7
per cent Esthonians, 2.6 per cent Jews.
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</quote>
On the persecution of Jews by the Communists:
<quote>
In August 1919, all Jewish religious communities [in the Communist
USSR] were dissolved, their property confiscated and the overwhelming
majority of synagogues shut for ever. The study of Hebrew and the
publication of secular works in Hebrew were banned. Yiddish printing
was permitted, but only in phonetic transcription, and Yiddish
culture, though tolerated for a time, was placed under careful
supervision.
</quote>
RJ.