The anti-Jewish interview given by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the Paris newspaper Le Figaro last week was broadcast by Radio Moscow on its domestic service, but without his remarks on the Soviet Jews having failed to make a success of Birobidjan because of their “distaste” for collectivism, it was reported here today by the American Committee for Liberation.
The Committee, which maintains an anti-Communist radio station in Munich, has broadcast the full text of Mr. Khrushchev’s disparaging remarks about Jews in Russian and other Soviet languages. This, the Committee announced, was done “to make up for Moscow Radio’s dereliction.”
The Committee also said that Frol Kozlov, who was recently named First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, is a “pronounced anti-Semite” and played a major role in the so-called doctor’s plot when a group of Soviet physicians, mainly Jews, were falsely accused of having plotted against the lives of Stalin and other Soviet rulers. “At the time, Kozlov denounced the Jewish doctors as spies and traitors, part and parcel of the Zionist war-mongering machine, “the Committee reported.
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