Our answer to the anti -Semites.

Who and why should make lists of "Jews in the Cheka"

The temples were destroyed, water was drank water from the tap, then on the list. This has not happened for a long time. Those. Of course, it was not anywhere, but somewhere in the gateway, on the pages of the corresponding newspapers or on the air of marginal channels. And so, from above, from, formally, one of the highest dignitaries of the country - this has not happened for a long time. The reaction to this decent people is clear, solid and this is optimistic. Everything is fine?

No, bad. And not only because federal channels are silent about this, like a fish about ice, and the Russian Orthodox Church did not disown such support. The problem is the content of our answer.

We are talking about the immorality of the statement of Mr. Tolstoy. We are talking about its danger to the country, about the inadmissibility of the attachment of a socio-political position (in this case, on the transfer of the Isaaca of the Church) with the national belonging of a part of the citizens separating this position, that the insult was inflicted not only to Jews, but also to all participants in the protest movement.

This is right, but this is not enough. We - in this case, first of all, Jews - must take another step. Heavy, unpleasant, but necessary.

The calculations were how many Jews were among those who smashed, killed, shot after 1917 - obvious anti -Semitism. But the fact that there were a disproportionate Jews among the executioners of the Cheka-NKVD is a fact. The fact that we do not want to discuss, at best, say that there were Russians, whom the majority were, and representatives of all the peoples of the empire, that these bandits had no nationality and so on. But this means that we give this topic a variety of scum, which on it quite successfully parasitize. We can despise them as much as possible and declare marginals, but we saw and see how easily and quickly these calculations are transformed into political programs and into political decisions.

We should not get away from the conversation, how the Germans who still drive their children to museums created on the site of concentration camps do not leave him - see what our ancestors, not Americans, are not Russians, we ourselves! By the way, they do not refuse from Goethe or the German Engineering School. In the same way, we , and not some newspaper “Tomorrow”, should publish lists of Jewish executioners, this is our business, to understand what damage to our country the people with whom we, today's Jews may be in distant relationship.

Ignoring the problem, an attempt not to notice it never leads to a good result. Vice versa. European liberals pay for unwillingness to discuss awkward issues related to migration - a change in the ethnic composition of cities, for example, the popularity of neo -fascists. No need to repeat other people's mistakes, we must study on them.

Of course, it doesn’t matter to whom the ancestors served in the Cheka, and who, like most of us, had nothing to do with the terror, except for his victims. It is important that in the culture, mentality of Russian Jews (or, in general, Jews?) There was something that predetermined not only a fantastic contribution to world civilization, not only the military and technological victories of Israel and absolute domination in the list of Nobel laureates, but also the appearance of executioners. And this must be understood and analyzed. We, Russian intellectuals of any nationalities, and not the Black Hundreds who again began to feel so freely in our country.

By the way, if the relatively large number of Jews among employees and heads of the ChK-NKVD is no more than a common prejudice, the phenomenon of public consciousness is, all the same, a worthy of serious analysis and public discussion. And for refutation, if there is something to refute, and to identify the genesis of this stereotype.

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