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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
#6. To: aristeides, bluegrass (#1)
In his book "Stalin Against the Jews," Arkady Vaksberg makes a plausible case that, despite the fog of his rhetoric against "anti-Semitism," Stalin's '30's purges were deliberately targeted at top Jewish members of the Party---such as Yagoda, Kamenev, Zinoviev, and of course his arch-enemy, Trotsky. (Then again, it might have simply been a reflection of the predominance Jews achieved in the early Soviet regime---for that see Yuri Slezkine's "Jewish Century")
Putative re-location of Jews to the "Jewish Autononomous Oblast" of Birobidzhan (Pete Seeger had a "folk-song" celebrating it: "Now if you look for paradise/You'll see it there before your eyes/Stop your search and go no further on/There we have a collective farm/All run by husky Jewish arms..."), located in the remote Russian Far East, was according to Vaksberg to serve as a pretext for Stalin's own "Final Solution," which the "Doctor's Plot" just before Stalin's death was to inaugurate.

Peetie Wheatstraw posted on 2006-08-30 14:10:38 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
#8. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#6)
That makes sense. Hitler admired Stalin by the late 30s believing Stalin had shed the Communist Revolution yolk(this would seem to reference the point in your post), and was now the head of a 'proper' nationalist state. Hitler certainly admired Stalin's ruthlessness and entirely immoral/ammoral will to power, and in Hitler's last days, the Corporal said he should have done what Stalin did and killed all the generals when he had the chance.

JohnGalt posted on 2006-08-30 14:37:32 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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#10. To: JohnGalt (#8)
That makes sense. Hitler admired Stalin by the late 30s believing Stalin had shed the Communist Revolution yolk(this would seem to reference the point in your post), and was now the head of a 'proper' nationalist state. Hitler certainly admired Stalin's ruthlessness and entirely immoral/ammoral will to power, and in Hitler's last days, the Corporal said he should have done what Stalin did and killed all the generals when he had the chance.

Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, recounted that even after the end of the war, Stalin often expressed regret that Hitler had turned on him, and sighed about all the great things he and "the Germans" could have done together.

Peetie Wheatstraw posted on 2006-08-30 14:52:54 ET Reply Untrace Trace Private Reply
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