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Title: Stalin's death penalty for "anti-semitism"
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Published: Aug 30, 2006
Author: Joseph Stalin
Post Date: 2006-08-30 13:47:16 by bluegrass
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Works, Vol. 13, July 1930-January 1934, Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1955, p. 30
"Anti-Semitism: Reply to an Inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States"
Joseph Stalin
In answer to your inquiry:
National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-semitism is dangerous for the working people as being a false path that leads them off the right road and lands them in the jungle. Hence Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable, sworn enemies of anti-semitism.
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
J. Stalin January 12, 1931
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#1. To: bluegrass (#0)
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

Ironic, in view of what happened in the last years of Stalin's rule.

aristeides posted on 2006-08-30 13:49:34 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#7. To: aristeides (#1)
Ironic, in view of what happened in the last years of Stalin's rule.

Solzhenitsyn and others put Stalins later years in proper context. Killing or exiling Jews was not due to his anti-semitism but rather to his paranoia of the Trotsky wing of Communism which happened to be mostly Jews.
When power was at stake, Stalin had no qualms about killing his own.
Over the years Jews have vehmently claimed that Lenin and Stalin were not Jews.

Cynicom posted on 2006-08-30 14:30:34 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#9. To: Cynicom (#7)
Over the years Jews have vehmently claimed that Lenin and Stalin were not Jews.

Lenin's maternal grandfather was Jewish---that's it. His grandmother on his mother's side was, IIRC, Swedish and Swiss German. His father was Kalmyk Mongol. Lenin wouldn't even qualify as "Halbjude."
I don't know where this factoid that "Stalin was Jewish" came from, but it's false. Stalin was an ex-seminarian---there's even an anecdote recounting that Stalin's mother would rather Stalin had become a priest than General Secretary, and told him so before she died in 1937.

Peetie Wheatstraw posted on 2006-08-30 14:50:42 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#15. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#9)
I don't know where this factoid that "Stalin was Jewish" came from, but it's false.

I have never read any scholarly works by non-Jews that were able to speak with that certainty.

Cynicom posted on 2006-08-30 15:29:29 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#16. To: Cynicom (#15)
I have never read any scholarly works by non-Jews that were able to speak with that certainty.

Cite a few such non-Jewish scholarly works for me. I've seen speculation that Stalin was Ossetian (an Iranian people)---that was current even during Stalin's lifetime. (Incidentally, "South Ossetia," part of Georgia during the Soviet era, is now seeking to secede and be united with "North Ossetia," part of the Russian Federation, with Russian connivance of course). Never seen anything remotely plausible that he was Jewish---first time I saw such a claim was here in fact.

Peetie Wheatstraw posted on 2006-08-30 15:37:32 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#22. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#16)
Cite a few such non-Jewish scholarly works for me.

If I could recall everything I have ever read, I would not be here.

After his death, world Jews have been at great pains to deny he was Jew.
If you remember all you have ever read perhaps you could cite me anything that is definitive proof of the statement you made. I have never seen anything to prove he is or is not and I suspect that argument will never be satisfied either way.
Just as an after thought, In our recent time it has been an oddity of the Americans that have discovered they are Jewish. They all seem to be in politics and fear an outing when they "discover" what others had known.
Albright, Clark, Kerry, H. Clinton and a few others come to mind.

Cynicom posted on 2006-08-30 17:28:50 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#30. To: Cynicom (#22)
ust as an after thought, In our recent time it has been an oddity of the Americans that have discovered they are Jewish. They all seem to be in politics and fear an outing when they "discover" what others had known.
Albright, Clark, Kerry, H. Clinton and a few others come to mind.

It is striking, isn't it? Maybe not, really, when you consider the persuit of power...

tom007 posted on 2006-08-30 22:37:22 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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#31. To: tom007 (#30)
It is striking, isn't it? Maybe not, really, when you consider the persuit of power...

There were two or three more but their names escape me..
Kerry was the most laffable one...The newspaper had to tell him he was Jew and he was astonished. Yet many knew the things his grandfather did to hide his race.

Cynicom posted on 2006-08-30 22:41:46 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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