Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!mhuxj!mhuxm!mhuxi!dsg From: dsg@mhuxi.UUCP (David S. Green) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Re: Who is a Jew (Mr. Martillo's bark worse than his bite!) Message-ID: <219@mhuxi.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 14:24:22 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxi.219 Posted: Tue Oct 2 14:24:22 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 20:36:04 EDT References: <1438@ittvax.UUCP>, <223@fisher.UUCP> <225@mit-athena.ARPA>, <253@fisher.UUCP> <255@mit-athena.ARPA>Re: Who is a Jew (Mr. MartilTue, 2-Oct-84 13:24:22 CDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 23 > Martillo is very wrong in asserting that Soviet Communists have treated > their Jews worse then the Tsarists did. Jews in the Soviet Union are > persecuted and surpressed, but Tsarist Russia was only exceeded by > Nazi Germany in its virulent and violent attacks upon Jews. The worst > Soviet leader (Stalin) was, from a Jewish perspective, equivalent to > one of the less hostile Tsars. Pogroms do not take place in the > Soviet Union, and nothing apporaching a pogrom has ever taken place > there with the exception, again, of Stalin. > David Rubin > {allegra|astrovax|princeton}!fisher!david Well, I am glad to here that pogroms do not take place in the Soviet Union, Stalin was not as bad as some Tsars, and currently Jews are only "persecuted and surpressed." Maybe I'll take my next vacation in Siberia, I here that the skiing there is pretty good. Oh, by the way, do you know where I can get a good corned beef sandwich this Saturday? Now I really know what Yaqim means by ignorant-assimilated- askenazim-dreck. Shalom, David S. Green {ihnp4}!mhuxi!dsg phone: 201-564-4468 "Of Course I'm Sure... I read it in PRAVDA!!!"