Jewish circles, in the Soviet Union were reported today to be seriously worried over a documentary film titled “Beware: Zionism!” which was screened privately in Moscow recently and is allegedly anti-Jewish in content. According to the reports reaching here, word of the film has spread through artistic circles in the Soviet capital and has aroused indignation even among non-Jews. One was quoted as saying that the film would drive out of Russia those Jews who want to remain.
Jewish circles in Moscow fear that the film, by the well-known director Yuri Karpov, is the beginning of a new anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist propaganda offensive by Soviet authorities. The 90-minute film depicts the Czechoslovakian crisis of 1968 as “Zionist provocation” and describes Alexander Dubcek, who was then the Czech Communist Party leader, as a captive of the Zionists.
The film also recalls an early chapter of Bolshevik history. It notes that the woman who shot and wounded Lenin was Dora Kaplan; a Jew. In the past she had always been referred to simply as a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. The film also alleges that Leon Trotsky and Alexander Kerensky, both Jews, were in contact with the Zionists.
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