In an article referring to the Soviet anti-Semitic book, “Judaism Without Embellishment,” the Italian Communist Party newspaper, L’Unita warned today that failure to fight anti-Semitism would damage the Soviet Union throughout the world.
The article, signed by the paper’s Moscow bureau chief, Giuseppe Boffa, said that Stalin was responsible for anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.”Stalin, particularly in his last years, spread a certain nationalistic and therefore anti-Semitic spirit among the people, ” the article declared. This spirit was also extended to intellectuals, Government officials and even officials of the Communist Party, the article stressed.
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