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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bizarrely xenophobic vibe to many comments in this thread . . . .[/quote]

Agree.  Seriously.

Ilya was born in Russia as a Jew.

Do most of you have any clue what that was like back then?

[b]Along with the rest of his family, they were required to carry their “internal passport” whenever they set foot outside their apartment.  The police/military could, and often did, demand:  “your papers please!” (yeah, Nazi-style).[/b]

Only Ilya’s internal passport didn’t list him as “Russian;” only as a “Jew.”

Here:  I’m posting this link in light of the obvious ignorance of many of you when it comes to anti-Semitism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Soviet_Union[/quote]

This was a requirement for all in the Soviet Union, and a way for suppressing the rural areas. It was almost impossible for anyone from the rural areas to obtain internal passport or travel papers, and as a result they were effectively prevented from moving outside of the rural poverty.  . . [/quote]

Anti-Semitism in Russia was (and still is) atrocious and commonplace.

When I first met my old friend Vlad, he informed me he was half-Russian.  The other half, he explained, was “Jew.”  He was not kidding.

His family was banished from Moscow to Novosibirsk.  His father was expelled from the university and assigned a mortuary job washing bodies.  Vlad’s father was a refusnik and he made Aaliyah the moment he could in late 1989.

You people trying to minimize Russian antiSemitism are deplorable and awful! [/quote]

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