IMPORTANT: Former Soviet Propagandist: Putin is probably the most Jewish-friendly ruler in Russia’s history – My Comments

[One of my supporters found a fascinating discussion on Quora and the top writer was a Russian who had been a Soviet propagandist. He ends by saying that Putin is probably the most Jewish-friendly ruler in the history of Russia. This makes a lot more sense to me when I look at Putin's background. Putin loves Jews and Jews love Putin. That's why Putin is the ruler of Russia. And remember all the tunnel Jews who boast about having total control to run the entire Russian economy. Here is a lovely article by this Russian. Jan]

The American supporter who sent me this, also made these very important points which I agree with:

So anti-semitism in the USSR began as a grassroots phenomenon and eventually permeated society. It makes me think again that white people everywhere act the same way. Even with all the Soviet multicult propaganda, when African students arrived at Moscow University, they were regarded with contempt by their white peers because of their stupidity and violence, girls who dated blacks were excommunicated. Another interesting tidbit: the former soviet guy also gives his opinion that the middle class is "the backbone of a robust democracy and powerful civil society." We’re seeing and will continue to see the collapse of the white middle class, particularly here in America.

Here’s the full article:-

Dima Vorobiev

Former Propaganda Executive at Soviet Union (1980–1991)
Upvoted by Tom, Ph.D History, University of Leeds (1984)
Updated 4y

In the grander European scheme of things of the 20th century, the Soviet Union wasn’t particularly anti-Semitic. I’d rather say we were close to the middle of normal distribution.

Political dimension

The reason the USSR gained the notoriety as a flagship of anti-Semitism in Europe was our confrontation with Israel after their triumph in the Six-Day War in 1967. This gave rise to a wall of “anti-Zionist” propaganda, now enthusiastically recycled by many detractors of Israel in the West and the Middle East.

Soviet “anti-Semitism” is perfectly encapsulated in an apocryphal story about the witty British orchestra conductor Thomas Beecham. He had a conversation with a Communist minder of a Societ cultural delegation visiting Great Britain in the late 1950s.

Soviet bureaucrat: “This talk about anti-Semitism in the USSR is absurd. Look at us, our orchestra has 30 Jews. How many have you got in yours?

Thomas Beecham: “No idea. Never occurred to me to count them.”

Grass root phenomenon

Jews were a late arrival to our part of the world. They came in a package with the part of Poland that we annexed at the end of the 18th century. From there anti-Semitism metastasized to the rest of Imperial Russia. In the early 20th century, the Black Hundreds fused grassroot anti-Semitism with nationalistic imperial ideology, beating the Nazis to it by more than a decade.

But soon the Communist revolution happened.

An ambitious minority, the Jews played a central role in the victory of the Communists and the rebuilding of the country. This not least because they were almost 100% literate in the midst of a peasant country where most of the old educated classes were murdered, imprisoned or exiled. Using their foreign contacts, they became prominent in building the OGPU/NKVD/KGB international spy network, the revolutionary cells of Comintern, and proliferating our agents of influence inside the movements for peace and disarmament. They also were very important in our education, science and research, and mass culture.

Great turnaround

In WW2, we played a unique role in saving Jews from annihilation at the hand of the Nazis. And yet, few years after the victory the love story between Soviet rule and Jews took an abrupt end.

The state of Israel was formed. Despite our help and all the accumulated goodwill, they turned out to be staunchly Zionist. Stalin watched the loyalty of our own Jews to shift toward Israel—and considered this a treason. Preparations were made for a nationwide ethnic cleansing of Jews, just like what happened to ethnic Germans, Poles, Greeks, Chechens and other minorities before the war. Only Stalin’s death prevented it from happening.

Glass walls and ceilings

Yet, this opened the valve through which the grassroot anti-Semitism started to permeate the Soviet system from underneath. The “uncertain” loyalty of Jews led to an undeclared quota system and glass ceilings that barred them from many attractive careers. They kept inventing things, building weaponry and winning chess titles for Soviet rule—but among my 40+ strong class of International Journalism in the Moscow State University there was only one of them, and even he was only half Jewish.

Then I started my career in propaganda—and never did I meet a single Jew among the myriad of KGB and GRU spies either inside or outside of the perimeter. Pretty amazing, if you think about it, against the long list of Jewish operatives in the service of the Soviet Union before the war.

Foreign agents

By the time I entered the business of propaganda, the emigration of Jews had already picked enough steam to cause serious problems for the USSR internationally. The Refuseniks brought upon us a series of economic sanctions (Jackson–Vanik amendment). In the eyes of the mass of commoners this made even loyal Jews “foreign agents”. People were upset by the fact that the Jews were “privileged”: they were allowed to legally emigrate, while it was totally impossible for the rest of us.

Enter Russian ethnic nationalism, long suppressed by the Communists. By the 1980s, the Czarist-era narrative of “Jews hurting Russian people” resurfaced across all classes of society. Glasnost not only uncovered dirty secrets of Soviet rule. Anti-Semitic reading became kosher. Unlike the previous decades, by the late 1980s you as an upwardly-mobile Communist functionary no longer risked to taint your personnel file by publicly voicing anti-Semitic grievances.

No wonder hundreds of thousands of Jews headed for the exit once the perimeter became porous around 1988–89. The exodus also took in its wake many people from other ethnicities. Looking back, it’s easy to see how this drained the country of the future middle class, the backbone of a robust democracy and powerful civil society comparable to what Israel has built.

Below, a Soviet-era cartoon decrying Zionism. An Israeli trooper and a Ukrainian nationalist are pouring each other drinks. Their bottles are marked “Anti-Communism” and “Anti-Sovietism”. The Ukrainian has a studio mike tucked under his belt. This points at the American radio station Svobóda that we considered the main channel of nationalist propaganda directed toward the Soviet audience.

The current narrative of Russian nationalists about “Ukrainian Nazis and their Jewish masters” is a rehashed Soviet propaganda construct. Interestingly, many Jews here on Quora broadcast it—omitting the “Jewish” part of the formula, of course, and substituting it with “Americans” and “Europeans”—out of sympathy with President Putin and his attempts to bring Ukraine to heel: Putin is probably the most Jewish-friendly ruler in Russia’s history.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-Soviet-Union-so-anti-semitic