Agency "Comrade" on the Jewish Question

The website of the People's News Agency "Tovarishch" contains materials from the seminar "The Jewish Question in Russia" held on January 22, 2004 (the venue is not specified). Among the authors of varying degrees of popularity are the political scientist Viktor Militarev and the sociologist Leonty Byzov.

V. Militarev in his introductory speech tried to identify the problem and describe some of the "mysterious" features of the behavior of Jews in Russia. He begins with the following: "... the Jews in Russia did not have time to emancipate [in the 10s of the 20th century - ed. ], and in one incomprehensible short movement they turned out to be the majority of journalists in almost all Russian newspapers of the beginning of the century, with the exception of newspapers " Union of the Russian People" and Monarchists" . And even today, the author adds, Jews make up the majority of journalists, especially on television.

Then V. Militarev turns to the problem of "Jewish capital": "For me, it is just as surprising how hundreds, and maybe thousands of Jewish bankers and financiers, and influential ones, among them or even a couple of dozen of the super-rich. I am completely unaffected by Jewish conversations about what, de, is in our genes. I don’t know any such genes. The main thing was a clear loss of cultural continuity. How did the regeneration happen? It is completely inaccessible to me " .

Among other things, V. Militarev also notes "... to put it mildly, the ambiguous role of the Jewish minority in the October Revolution and in the one that followed it . "

This provision is detailed in another speech at the seminar - Armen Asriyan : "Jewish Chekists treated the Russians even worse [than the Latvian shooters - ed. ] ... That is, the Jews not only lacked human solidarity towards the Russians, but also had them unconscious ethnic hostility" .

Incorrect statements reach the greatest concentration in the speech of L. Byzov . The very first paragraph contains accusations of Jews in a negative influence: "I personally love Jews ," the author declared, " but socially, I recognize their certain harm . "

“Jews, unlike other national minorities, do not behave like a national minority, but like a national majority ,” continues L. Byzov. “ For example, if a Russian marries a Tatar or a Chuvash woman, then they form a Russian family. But a Russian man who marries a a Jewess, is forced to reckon with the fact that his children will be Jews, and not Russians - for some very important features that will not be immediately visible ... For a Russian eye, Jews are some kind of Russians, they are indistinguishable from a Russian person. And only after marriage with a Jewess or a Jew does a Russian or, accordingly, a Russian begin to understand that they themselves, in some sense, cease to be Russian, that is, some deep, secret threads lead to the loss of their national identity .

Etc., etc., including accusations that "Jews are not capable of bringing mass sacrifices in war" , Russian women who are in mixed marriages begin to "sexually like the Jewish male type" , and "Russian intelligentsia did not enter the Jewish ethnos, but became part of the periphery of the Jewish subethnos and, during the state and institutional crisis of the late eighties, began to play the role of the fifth column" (and the staff of the Sakharov Center became a concentrated expression of this "fifth column").

Sources

• Militarev Victor. The Jewish Question in Russia. Opening remarks on the topic at the seminar on January 22, 2004 // NIA "Comrade". 2004. March 18
• Byzov Leonty. The Jewish Question in Russia. Presentation at a seminar on January 22, 2004 // NIA "Comrade". 2004. March 19.
• Asriyan Armen. The Jewish Question in Russia. Presentation at a seminar on January 22, 2004 // NIA "Comrade". 2004. March 19.