10 facts that we learned from Parfenov’s second film about Russian Jews

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In March, 2017 of the year was released The second part of the trilogy of the Russian journalist Leonid Parfenov "Russian Jews»dedicated to the life of Jews in the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1948.

Edition "Paper»Collected a brief retelling of the main events and ideas shown in the new Parfenov film.

1. The “Whites” tried to use the Jewry of Leon Trotsky (at the birth of Leib Bronstein) for propaganda purposes, explaining “red liquid bolshevism”.

These actions did not have much success.
Initially, even Trotsky himself did not want “enemies” to receive “such additional weapons” as his Jewish roots. To this Lenin answered him: “We have a great international revolution. What significance can such trifles have? ”

2. Bolsheviks did not consider the nationality of criminals

The two most high-profile attempts on the “leaders” were committed by Jews Fanny Kaplan and Leonid Kannegiser. In retaliation, the Bolsheviks executed more 500 people on the basis of their social origin: titled nobles, businessmen, professors. In the Union of the time, there was no trend behind this: the attackers were perceived not as Jews, but as Russian counter-revolutionaries.
The same will happen in the 1940 year, when a Jew by birth Eitingon on the orders of Stalin will kill Trotsky. For him, the former “leader” is only a danger to the country and a political enemy, he did not think about his ethnic roots.

3. "The most famous Jew of world painting" Mark Z. Zagarovich Chagall devoted all his paintings to Vitebsk, where he was born.

Moving to study in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Paris, he devoted each of his paintings to Vitebsk. On the first anniversary of the October Revolution, he pasted in his hometown more than 450 murals and pictorial posters with signatures "Chagall to Vitebsk".

4. Immediately after the 1917 revolution, Jews began to occupy high-ranking positions in (then) the RSFSR. Often they were loyal to the government that did not oppress them.

5. People of "Jewish appearance" were successful intelligence officers, they were easily introduced into any country, as the nation was assimilated throughout the world

The work of Soviet agents was for many Jews an opportunity to break through to the top.

Thus, the group of Yasha Serebryansky, who was born in a poor Jewish family near Minsk, committed “one of the most arrogant” abductions in history. Right from the street, they managed to quietly kidnap Alexander Kutepov, one of the most influential "white" generals who emigrated to Paris.

6. In the Soviet literature spread "Odessa dialect"

“Odessa Stories” by Isaac Babel were introduced into Russian literature by those whose first language was Yiddish. Many writers - Olesha, Ilf, Petrov - were from Odessa. With their transition to the category of classics in the USSR, “Odessa speaking” spread - grammatically correct, but deliberately distorted speech.

7. The image of Odessa became the most popular in the USSR for a long time

Leonid Utesov in the Soviet repertoire begins a new role of the national artist - Odessa. This is only partly a nationality, but more craft, image and character. Often this is a southerner, pevun and joker, a seasoned merry guy on the background of serious northern Russian types.

8. In the USSR, fought with anti-Semitism by propaganda

In 1935, Germany formulated the “Nuremberg Laws” on the purity of the German race, claiming the inferiority of the Jews. Then the Soviet propaganda, under the personal order of Stalin, began to stigmatize the regime of anti-Semites: caricatures appeared, satirical epigrams. Thus, the fight against anti-Semitism has become part of Soviet anti-fascism.

9. However, in 1939, Stalin dismissed hundreds of Jews from high-ranking positions.

Not believing in an alliance with Great Britain, he decided to move closer to Hitler. To achieve this, Litvinov, a Jew by origin, was dismissed from the post of People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. In addition to Litvinov, hundreds of Jews were fired from high-ranking positions.

10. In 1941, more than 600 thousands of Jews were called to war.

In the center of Moscow, by order of Stalin, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed under the leadership of the actor Solomon Mikhoels. With speeches, he traveled to the United States and Britain — the countries provided material assistance to the USSR.

In one of his speeches, Mikhoels stated that the Soviet Union helped the Jews of the whole world. Before the Soviet government began to oppress the Jews, 3 of the year remained.

The final part of the trilogy Parfenova "Russian Jews" will be released in the middle of 2017 year, after which the film will be shown on television.

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