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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is true that Jews were persecuted in Ukraine. For a long time, and that neonazism in full blast there too. I am not familiar with Jewish persecution in the early 1990s in the Soviet Union. I am aware of the religious suppression, but not that Jewish population was persecuted since the death of Stalin.[/quote]

It's true that things got easier after Stalin. But the Jewish population in the former USSR was always persecuted. Your nationality on all your paperwork was listed as "Jewish", not "Ukrainian" or whatever - your passport, your birth certificate, your school report card, your library card - it was basically to make sure people could identify you as "other". There were official quotas as to how many Jewish people were allowed into universities each year. Casual discrimination was extremely common - people could fire you, insult you, give you lower grades, even assault you, and there would be zero consequences. I remember as a kid being horrified if people found out I was Jewish - I did not have the "typical" Jewish appearance or last name, and you just never knew how someone would treat you if they knew. [/quote]

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