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Religion in Russia: Mr. Geltman believes

the Soviet solution to the Jewish question will be every bit as final as Hitler’s— and uses 50 years of history to prove his point Soviet antisemitism is not an occa- sional article or an occasional book or an occasional frame-up or an oc- casional purge. It is bone of the bone of the Soviet system. Jews as Jews must die out. Dr. Elias Shulman, the Yiddish-American scholar, has ob- served: “The intention of the Soviet Union is clear: destroy the Jewish people.” Even the most loyal Jew must be done in—so long as he func- tions as a Jew. And even if his role as “official” Jew for the Soviet dic- tatorship has been assigned him by the regime—still he must die. That has been Soviet policy from the Year One of the Russian Revolution.

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Religion in Russia: Mr. Geltman believes

the Soviet solution to the Jewish question will be every bit as final as Hitler’s— and uses 50 years of history to prove his point Soviet antisemitism is not an occa- sional article or an occasional book or an occasional frame-up or an oc- casional purge. It is bone of the bone of the Soviet system. Jews as Jews must die out. Dr. Elias Shulman, the Yiddish-American scholar, has ob- served: “The intention of the Soviet Union is clear: destroy the Jewish people.” Even the most loyal Jew must be done in—so long as he func- tions as a Jew. And even if his role as “official” Jew for the Soviet dic- tatorship has been assigned him by the regime—still he must die. That has been Soviet policy from the Year One of the Russian Revolution.