Anti-Semitism in the Moscow Polytechnic Institute exists not only among non-party students but also among the Communists, is the charge made by the “Comsomolskaya Pravda,” Communist youth organ. The paper reports that during a trial in the university of tow anti-Semitic students, the prosecutors were ridiculed by students who shouted anti-Semitic epithets for seeking to protect the “Zhids” (Jews). The paper also complains that an anti-Semitic spirit exists among the students of the Engineers Institute.
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