It is no secret that the campaign conducted by the Rabbis and Jewish Communities abroad to send food parcels into Soviet Russia is a trick, part of the political campaign of our class enemies against the Soviet Union, the “Apikoires”, the Yiddish organ of the militant atheist organisation in Soviet Russia, writes in a leading article. The obvious
intention is to discredit the Soviet Union and the five year plan, it says, by making it appear that the Soviet Union has not enough food for its inhabitants, and that they are suffering distress and that it is necessary for Jews abroad to come to the help of the Jews of Russia by sending them food to save them from starvation.
The fact is, the paper proceeds, that there has been no unemployment and no distress in the Soviet Union for a long time, and in the matter of economic opportunities there is no distinction whatever between peoples of different nationalities. Every Jew who is at work must express his indignation at the action of the Rabbis and the Jewish communal workers abroad by refusing to accept their gifts, and hurling them back into their faces across the frontier.
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