For the first time in the history of Soviet Russia, where the Zionist movement is officially banned, an appeal was today directed from Moscow to an official Zionist organization in England. The appeal was sent by Eugene Fedorov, chairman of an anti-Fascist rally in Moscow, to the Zionist Youth Federation of Britain.
“We will not lay down our arms until the Fascist monster which brings torture and death to the Jewish and other people will be destroyed,” the appeal read. “A world of freedom and justice can only he established by armed destruction of Hitler’s Germany. We appeal to all Jewish people to multiply their efforts in all parts of the world against Hitlerism, the most bitter enemy of Jewry. Victory will be ours.”
The appeal came in reply to a message of encouragement sent by the British Zionist Youth Federation to Moscow in answer to the call issued to the youth of the world by a meeting of Russian youth in the Soviet capital on September 28, urging young people in all democratic lands to mobilize all their forces in aiding the countries which are fighting Hitler’s invasion.
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