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Word: friso (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were well-assimilated Soviet Jews whose mission was to counter any 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...

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

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