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The Detroit Jewish News, 1967-06-09

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday,

June 9, 1967-23

D eutseher s Biography Exposes New Livonia National Bank Being Built

Stalin s Frightful Anti-Semitism

In his political biography of
Stalin, Isaac Deutscher maintains
that "Stalin cannot be classed with
Hitler, among the tyrants whose
record is one of absolute worth-
lessness and futility." He believes
that the better part of Stalin's
work, as in the instances of
Napoleon and
Cromwell, "will
outlast Stalin
himself." In the
less than better
part of the Soviet
dictator's life
Deutscher points
to "a moral
gangrene," as in
the case of the
"doctors' p 1 o t."
Deutseher
points out in his
newest work. the
Stalin
second edition of
the Stalin biography, published
by Oxford University Press (200
Madison, NY16), in his comment
On the "doctor's plot": "The tale
about the anti-Soviet conspiracy
of world Jewry had the odor of
the Protocols of the Elders of
Zion and the concoctions of Goeti-
hels' Ministry of Propaganda. If

"vituperated against the 'Jewish

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p

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gun on its new office t_
over their heads grew huge and which is located at Plym-

outh and Wayne Roads.
black."
In earlier times, when Stalin The construction pictured
is scheduled to be completed by September.
humanity of Hitler's anti-Semit- functioned under the name of
ism." Deutscher explains that Koba, Deutscher relates that
Stalin didn't want to appear in "there were few genuine Russians
the role of the Jews' defender among the moderate Socialists—
and adds: most of them were Jews or Geor-
"He was frightened of the popu- gians, whereas the overwhelming
lar appeal of anti-Semitism, and majority of the Bolsheviks were
the eagerness with which Russian Pure Russians. 'Somebody among
and Ukrainian Jew-baiters had, in the Bolsheviks remarked jestingly
• Stockholm
• Copenhagen
the occupied areas, responded to that since the Mensheviks were
Nazism confirmed him in his the faction of the Jews and the
• Oslo
• Bergen
Bolsheviks that of the native
fear."
Russians, it would become us to
• London
• Amsterdam
Deutscher indicates that Jews make a pogrom in the party.' Anti-
were evacuated from danger Semitism could hardly be read
JULY 10th - JULY 31st
areas, that the Jewish Anti- into this heavy jocular aside. be-
Fascist Committee was encour-
he cause nobody had been more blunt
from Detroit

war' " with a counter-blast "that
would expose the dreadful in-

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qualifies the point by recalling than Koba in the condemnation
joke was
that Henryk Erlich and Victor of ambiguous
racial hatred.
But to the
enough
grate on the
Alter, leaders of the Jewish ears of most Socialists." But this
Bund, were executed as Nazi was in the days when Koba was

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not in power and in the early
"Jews serving with the armed stages of Soviet power. The dimen-
forces fought bravely," Deutscher sions of hatred under Stalin were
write s, "were decorated, and immense and the Deutseher expose
promoted even to the highest once again places a finger of guilt
ranks. But qua Jews they were upon Stalin as an arch anti-Semite.
not accorded any merit. As a
nationality they were virtual
Press and radio were
the intrigue had been allowed to obliterated.
silent about the destruction of
run its course—if the trial of the European Jewry behind the enemy
doctors had been held—it could lines. They mentioned only rarely
have only one sequel: a nation- the death camps of Auschwitz or
wide pogrom. Yet the government Majdanek, or else mentioned them
that had instigated the intrigue in such a manner that no one
was still professing Marxism- could guess that the Jews provided
Leninism, was still ordering the the main contingent of victims.
writings of the founders of the After the war Soviet citizens guilty
proletarian Internationals to be of collaboration with the Nazis and
printed in millions of copies, and of Jew-baiting were punished as
was still including a study of traitors. But even then the truth
these in the educational curricula about the martyrdom of the Jews
obligatory in its schools."
remained suppressed; and the
What caused the anti-Semitism symbol of the suppression was
of Stalin's regime? In his re- Bahyi Yar in Kiev, where fifty or
view of Stalin's last year, de- sixty thousand Jews had been
scribing the megalomania and done to death while the city was
xenophobia that "were to cure held by the Germans, but no monu-
the people of their sense of in- ment or other sign was allowed
feriority," Deutscher states that to honor their memory." (Only
it was "not surprising that while this year, this has been corrected
so much crude national ar- and the monument is planned).
rogance was being fostered, the
Deutscher's account of the
old only half-hidden prejudices Stalinist anti-Jewish attitude in-
of anti-Semitism also surged up." eluded a review of the period
Enmity towards Jews was al- when the USSR representatives
most unabated, Deutcher points supported the establishment of
out, despite all that the Bol- Israel. Then came the Jewish
shevik government had done demonstrations of joy and the
"in its better years" to combat change in
Stalin "could 1
in tit
at d ue.
prejudices.
not tolerate it." He ordered arrest I
Deutscher e x p I a i n s: "Anti- and deportation of Jews and
Semitism drew nourishment from demonstrations d u r i n g Golda
many sources: from Greek Ortho- Meir's ambassadorship were pro-
doxy and the native tradition of hibited: "The party agitators be-
pogroms; from the population's gan to denounce the state of
war-time contacts with Nazism; -... Is
rael as a tool of western im-.
from the fact that Jewish traders perialism: and they upbraided !
and artisans. unadjusted to a pub- . those Soviet Jews who by show-
licly owned economy, were con- ing friendliness towards it had
spicous in the illicit and semi- 'shamefully failed to give their';
illicit commerce flourishing amid undivided loyalty to the Soviet
a scarcity of goods; from the great fatherland."
number of Jews among the early
At this point Deutscher gives

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Bolshevik leaders; and from their
relative importance, even after the

extermination of those leaders, in
the middle layers of the Stalinist

bureaucracy. The simple-minded
Communist often looked upon the

Jews as the last surviving element
of urban capitalism; -while the anti-

Communist saw them as influential
Members of the ruling hierarchy."
The equivocal attitude of Stalin
receives added explanation.
Deutscher writes that Stalin was
personally "free from crude racial

prejudice" and was wary of of-
fending "party canon which was
hostile to anti-Semitism." Jews
were prominent in his entourage-
Litvinov in diplomatic service;
Kaganovich was "Stalin's facto-
tum" to the end; Mekhlis, Zaslav-

a full account also of the re-
strictions imposed upon Rus-
sian Jews, the purges, the bans
on press and theater—to such
an extent that Jews "felt that
they were the object of an
obscure and ominous intrigue;
and just before the end of

Stalin's rule, the cloud hanging

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"Just a little." replied the youth.
"That is all anyone ever has

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"sycophants." "Yet," Deutscher
states, Stalin "was not averse from
playing on anti-Jewish emotions '
He kept referring to Radek, Ka-
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