26.2.2014. 18:37 |
Židovi i Ukrajina
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In Ukraine, Both Sides Exploit Jewish History
By DAVID FIRESTONE
Thanks to extermination and emigration, the Jews of Ukraine, who numbered about 2.7 million at the beginning of the 20th Century, are now down to perhaps 250,000 and falling. But their history is playing an oversized role in the drama of revolution unfolding in Kiev, as both sides exploit them and their memory to gain an upper hand in public opinion. The Russian government of Vladimir Putin has decided on a simplistic smear of the protesters who brought down the government of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych: they are neo-Nazis conducting a “pogrom” against Ukraine.
Zahvaljujući eksterminaciji i migracijama, Židovi u Ukrajini, kojih je bilo oko 2,7 milijuna na početku 20.stoljeća, sada su spali na možda 250.000 , i dalje njihov broj opada. Ali njihova povijest i sada igra važnu ulogu u drami revolucije koja se odvija u Kijevu i obje "strane" koriste njih i njihovo sjećanje kako bi potakli javno mišljenje. Ruska vlada Vladimira Putina je odlučila da jednostavno "izbriše" ljude koji protestiraju i koji su doveli do pada vlade bivšeg ukrajinskog predsjednika Viktora Yanukovycha: oni su neo-nacisti koji provode "pogrom" protiv Ukrajine.
"Mi smo prisiljeni da primjetimo da naši zapadni partneri nisu zabrinuti za sudbimu Ukrajine, već za njihove jednostrane geopolitičke interese", žalio se ruski je ministar vanjskih poslova . "Oni nemaju principjelni odnos prema kriminalnim akcijama ekstremista, uključivši njihove neonacističke i antisemitske manifestacije"
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It sounds so thoughtful of Mr. Putin’s government to worry about anti-Semitic statements, and unquestionably there is reason to be deeply concerned about some of the far-right elements at the Kiev barricades. One of them, with a significant presence among the protesters, has been the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party, whose members are fond of quoting leaders of the Third Reich, and which recently honored Stepan Bandera, a collaborator with the Reich who founded a Ukrainian fascist organization.Swastikas have appeared on a few synagogues, and sieg he
il salutes were seen around Maidan Square. At least two Jews were beaten, and fears of potential violence led a prominent Chabad rabbi in Kiev, Moshe Reuven Azman, to urge the city’s Jews to leave town and, if possible, the country.
It’s scary, but it’s hardly a “pogrom,” as Mr. Putin described it in December. As Amelia Glaser reported in Tablet Magazine today, many of the protest organizers are themselves Jewish, and the movement is by no means monolithically right wing....
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