An official document presented to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet claims that Soviet Jews are a “fifth column” who remain “to undermine us from within,” according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.
The document is written by Soviet Academy of Sciences researcher Valery Emelyanov, a well-known anti-Semitic lecturer, the two groups said. Emelyanov asserts that the threat of Jews in the USSR is so great that “if there is a new war, we will not even have the opportunity to organize against this internal danger that we had in 1941.”
Zionist penetration of the Soviet Union is so complete, Emelyanov claims, that snowflake decorations in Soviet shop windows have a Star of David outline, as do loudspeaker grilles in the Moscow subway and crossword puzzles in newspapers. In the U.S., Zionists control 90 percent of the economy and 99 percent of the media. The document further claims, according to the two groups, that through the Masons, the Zionists have elected President Carter to control the White House and that Zionists order many Jews to remain in the USSR to subvert the country from within. Emelyanov proposes a vast anti-Zionist front and a mass educational camp to expose Zionism which “is racism aimed at every “goy on earth.”
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