[AnalogReigns]

Slavic antisemitism is STILL particularly strong.

I took a language course in Germany in ‘06. Never met one German who, if the subject came up, wasn’t totally ashamed and saddened by the Holocaust and WWII. Never met one German I thought was antisemitic.

I did however meet some foreign students from the former USSR who were openly antisemitic. One girl in particular, about as cultured and well educated as can be, a concert pianist, spoke multiple languages, brilliant conversationalist, etc. etc,....but looked me straight in the eyes saying “Ohh, I HATE the Jews!” She just seemed to assume that was normal.

Really shocking and sad.

[dfwgator]

I did however meet some foreign students from the former USSR who were openly antisemitic. One girl in particular, about as cultured and well educated as can be, a concert pianist, spoke multiple languages, brilliant conversationalist, etc. etc,....but looked me straight in the eyes saying “Ohh, I HATE the Jews!” She just seemed to assume that was normal.

Did you ever see the end of Schindler's List, when the liberated Jews asked where they should go, the answer was..."Don't go east, that's for sure. They hate you there. I wouldn't go west either, if I were you."

[Grzegorz 246]

“Slavic antisemitism is STILL particularly strong.”

Funny racial remark. There’s no such thing as “Slavic antisemitism” just like there’s no “Slavic... anything else”. Slavs are simply too heterogeneous group.

[Cronos]

Well, Analog -- I think saying "Slavic" is a pretty broad-based brush -- I don't know what Slovenes etc. think

the anti-semitism in the East is a mixture of historic Tsarist attitudes and the visible people of Jewish extraction who were in the communist leadership (Trotsky, Bela Kun etc.) -- conveniently ignoring the fact that these were mostly atheist and also half Jewish at best