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...anti-Russian remarks. In a news conference at the Brussels Press Club, the Moscow group contended that there was no official persecution or mistreatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. Later, in an interview with TIME'S Friso Endt, the group's ranking member, Colonel General David Dragunski, raised doubts about his own Jewishness. When Endt asked whether he spoke Yiddish or Hebrew, Dragunski replied that he spoke neither, which is not unusual among Soviet Jews' But he also insisted that there was no difference between the two languages, which is not a mistake that many Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Mazel Tov, Comrade! | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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