The Yiddish press in the Soviet countries has already started its annual campaign against the movement among Jews abroad to supply the Jews in Russia with matzoth for Passover.
The parasites, idlers and clericals who have been left in Jewish life in the Soviet Union are linked up with the black forces of the Fascist Jewish bourgeoisie and clericalism abroad, the Stern”, of Charkoff, for instance, writes. The so-called matzoth question is in reality a counter-revolutionary move by the Jewish Fascists abroad.
The campaign to get Jews in Russia to write to their relatives abroad that they should send them Passover food parcels is only a move, it alleges, to be able to say that there are all these Jews who have not enough food in Russia.
There are still plenty of clericals, idlers and parasites left in the towns and townships, it says, who will take the opportunity of writing such letters, and there will also be probably many of the workers who are not class-conscious who will write to their relatives abroad complaining of their bitter fate, and asking for Passover parcels. We must therefore explain to the masses, the “Stern” says, the counter-revolutionary nature of this movement of the foreign Jewish bourgeoisie. We must explain to them that the Jewish bourgeoisie of America and Poland are not thinking of the matzoth, but are exploiting the matzoth campaign for a counter-revolutionary agitation against the Soviet Union. We must develop an atmosphere of social contempt for all those people who take advantage of the despicable help which is offered by Jewish Fascist clericals abroad.
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