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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Who is a Jew (Mr. Martillo's bark worse than his bite!)
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Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 09:29:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  4 09:29:44 1984
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References: <1438@ittvax.UUCP>, <223@fisher.UUCP> <225@mit-athena.ARPA>, <253@fisher.UUCP> <255@mit-athena.ARPA>Re: Who is a Jew (Mr. MartilThu, 4-Oct-84 08:29:44 CDT
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I'd like to reemphasize a point I made in an earlier article.

I did not suggest that Soviet Jews were not oppressed.  What I did say
was that the degree of oppression is less than under the Tsars. I do
not dispute that Soviet policy is to destroy Jewish identity in the
Soviet Union (note that it is Soviet policy to destroy the identity of
all constituent peoples (a.k.a. Russianization); Jews are more
severely treated than most because of Jewish persistence), but the
Communists, unlike the Tsarists, are not using slaughter as a tool.

					David Rubin
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