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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4510688,00.htmlThe leaflet demanded the city's Jews supply a detailed list of all the property they own, or else have their citizenship revoked, face deportion and see their assets confiscated.
Donetsk, a Ukraine province with 4.3 million people - 10 percent of Ukraine's population - and 17,000 Jews, is home to much of the country's heavy industry, and is thus the biggest prize of the eastern regions where pro-Russian separatists have captured government buildings in the past week.
The leaflet, signed by Chairman of Donetsk's temporary government Denis Pushilin, was distrbiuted to Jews near the Donetsk synagogue and later in other areas of the city where pro-Russians activists have declared Donetsk as an independent "people's republic", defying an ultimatum from Kiev to surrender.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)CFLDem
(2,083 posts)R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)to a darker time.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I mean, Moscow is playing games here folks.
And yes, same shit different century
Raksha
(7,167 posts)From the Ynet article: Jenia from Israel, who also received the letter from a Jewish acquaintance, said "the Jews in Donetsk are uncertain of anything; it is unclear who is responsible for the leaflet and who controls the city at the moment.
"We don't feel safe like we used to because of the political instability in the area; there isn't a legitimate president or sovereign. Currently Donetsk is ruled by a junta."
It was my own knee-jerk reaction of fear and anger that clued me in that it's very likely we're being played here.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)seen this movie before, is kicking in.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)There is no defense for this at all.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donetsk-pro-russians-order-jews-register-be-deported-supporting-kiev-rule-1445111
I will wait here for the defenders of this shit to show up
Raksha
(7,167 posts)clearly intended to spread panic in the Jewish community. I suspect the ploy will fall flat on its face--too damn obvious.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)While the text of the resolution urged all parties to ensure that anti-Semitic and anti-minority incitement is not tolerated, it also expressed the concerns of several Ukrainian Jewish leaders regarding what they believe is the politicization of anti-Semitism for ulterior motives.
In explaining his invasion of Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin branded Ukraines new authorities as fascists backed by anti-Jewish militants.
During a press conference in Moscow on March 3, Putin warned against the rampage of reactionary forces, nationalist and anti-Semitic forces going on in certain parts of Ukraine, including Kiev.
While the text of the resolution urged all parties to ensure that anti-Semitic and anti-minority incitement is not tolerated, it also expressed the concerns of several Ukrainian Jewish leaders regarding what they believe is the politicization of anti-Semitism for ulterior motives.
In explaining his invasion of Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin branded Ukraines new authorities as fascists backed by anti-Jewish militants.
During a press conference in Moscow on March 3, Putin warned against the rampage of reactionary forces, nationalist and anti-Semitic forces going on in certain parts of Ukraine, including Kiev.
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/WJC-denounces-exaggerated-accounts-of-Ukrainian-anti-Semitism-347185
polly7
(20,582 posts)Parubiy himself is a well-known neo-Nazi, who founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine in 1991. The party blended radical Ukrainian nationalism with neo-Nazi symbols. Parubiy also formed a paramilitary spinoff, the Patriots of Ukraine, and defended the awarding of the title, Hero of Ukraine, to World War II Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, whose own paramilitary forces exterminated thousands of Jews and Poles in pursuit of a racially pure Ukraine.
During the months of protests aimed at overthrowing Yanukovych, Parubiy became the commandant of Euromaidan, the name for the Kiev uprising, and after the Feb. 22 coup Parubiy was one of four far-right Ukrainian nationalists given control of a ministry, i.e. national security.
But the U.S. press has played down his role because his neo-Nazism conflicts with Official Washingtons narrative that the neo-Nazis played little or no role in the revolution. References to neo-Nazis in the interim government are dismissed as Russian propaganda
- Robert Parry http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/16-6
elleng
(130,956 posts)Beware.
amandabeech
(9,893 posts)Where are the fascists in Ukraine? Where are the Nazis in Ukraine?
Anyone recall any post about the interim government in Kiev demanding that all Jews register?
Ghastly!
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Putin Putin Putin.
And people in the US hold this tyrant up as some model of leadership?
janlyn
(735 posts)How could it not horrify anyone?
It wasn't but one generation ago that great atrocities were committed. And anyone who doesn't believe it could easily happen again are fools.
This is the type of bigotry that forced my great-grandmother to pretend to be christian in public and practice her faith in secret! A fear so overwhelming that to protect your children you would denounce anything if it made you safe!
I don't cry easily at all but, I am fighting back tears at the thought that this could happen again!!
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)And that means from the entire Ukraine. There are too many anti-semites in that part of the world and I don't think it matters much where in the Ukraine they are.
janlyn
(735 posts)will they be willing to leave? My mother told me that no one wanted to believe that things would get as bad as they did. And that those that believed that it would and chose to leave while they still could were ridiculed by their neighbors for jumping at shadows.
And for most it would mean giving up their entire lives as they know them to leave.
So, most will not. Just like some who refuse to leave before a hurricane, hoping that it will not hit them.
I can understand why my Mum always said hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)People know what can happen now. It's burned into our collective memories.
janlyn
(735 posts)But it wasn't as if history didn't show had bad it could be even before WWII. I will hope that it is as you say, and that it is still fresh in their minds!
Maybe given the fact that anti-semitism has never been hidden in that part of the world, they will heed the warnings!!
Please let it be so!