What are your thoughts on the fact that jews held an absolute majority of leadership positions in the Soviet Union?

date-a-jew-suggestions:

jew-ish5755:

date-a-jew-suggestions:

I hate this fuccin website

Hey. I’m (1) a Volga German (2) raised in Russia and other parts of the former USSR, as well as (3) a Jewish convert with (4) a college degree in Russian language, history and culture and this person is, for lack of a more polite term, full of shit.  

(1) Many prominent Bolsheviks were Jews, but that’s not the same things as holding the majority of leadership in the Soviet Union. While Jews were well-represented in certain party organs, the majority of leadership positions were held by ethnic Russians. This becomes even more pronounced after the Purges. 

(2) The existence of prominent Jewish Old Bolsheviks does not, by any means, indicate that antisemitism did not exist in the Soviet Union. The fact that Bolshevik ideology formally eschewed antisemitism and that ethnic, religious and gender discrimination were officially illegal in the Soviet Union did not stop antisemitism (or any other kind of discrimination) in the Soviet Union. In fact, in many cases these Jewish Old Bolsheviks falling out of favor with Stalin fueled Soviet antisemitism.

(3) If you can’t bring yourself to care about being wrong, please consider the very real and damaging impact of the sentiment you’re spreading. This deeply problematic and historically ignorant argument continues to fuel antisemitism in the west as well as in Russia and other former Soviet republics because equating “Soviet” with “Jewish” is a common way that the suffering of the Purges are rationalized in modern political discourse – “The Jews did all the awful things in Soviet history and we therefore don’t have to (1) address our historical or modern antisemitism and (2) grapple with the fact that some of our most beloved national heroes participated in state terror”.

Essay posted to my blog because I acknowledge that most people won’t want to read the details behind the summarized points.

Finally, on a personal note, please don’t spread misinformation like this about Soviet society and history. When you perpetuate the myth of the Soviet state being controlled by Jews, knowingly or unknowingly, you erase the very real oppression and state-sponsored borderline ethnic cleansing of my people (Volga Germans) and countless other minorities within the Soviet Union. 

Soviet Jews did not engineer our suffering, our mass deportations, our sentences to the Gulag or summary executions. They endured those things beside us, and our blood still cries out for justice together. 

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