Eduard Topol vs. Mikhail Fradkov

On April 2, 2004 Novye Izvestia published an interview with the writer Eduard Topol. In it, the author of well-known political detective stories reacted negatively to the appointment of M. Fradkov as head of government, did not fail to recall his letter to Boris Berezovsky, which stated that "in Russia, a Jew cannot be either president or even prime minister. Moreover, this is for us and there is nothing, since there are practically never peoples who are satisfied with their power. And there are no grounds for this in Russia, and there won’t be any soon. Consequently, in Russia, any dissatisfaction with the government is necessarily personified nationally. And, thus, the appointment of Fradkov threatens ", in my opinion, Russian Jews are in big trouble. Unless he turns to the oligarchs with the same call with which I turned to them after the default - to help the needy strata not with Faberge eggs, but with real nationwide charity programs. In a country where 30 million people live below the line of not only poverty, but poverty, all nouveaux riches - Jews, Russians, and Tatars - are obliged to compete in the size of their donations, as American billionaires do - and Soros, and Turner, and Gates ... "

E. Topol's opinion, in our opinion, fully coincides with the repeatedly articulated opinion of A. Tsipko (which the latter, by the way, stopped voicing after the appointment of the prime minister). However, such statements, in our opinion, are extremely incorrect and dangerous. Not only do they actually accuse Russian citizens of anti-Semitism without exception, but, coupled with social rhetoric, it is precisely such theses that contribute to inciting anti-Semitic sentiments.

Sources

• Sergei Tkachuk: Eduard Topol: "Abramovich bought Chelsea thanks to the Iraq war" // New news. 2004. April 2.