CALLING a spade a spade. That’s what this article is doing. It identifies the leading oligarchs, the Russian billionaires who have fled their native country, taking their ill-gotten gains with them, as Jewish — a minor detail which no other western media outlet, to my knowledge, has dared to do.
Of course visitors to my website are well aware of the common feature linking all these Russian gangsters, who have thrived on the chaos produced by the Soviet collapse.
I remember when I visited Moscow in June 1992 to bring back, as the first historian to do so, the Goebbels Diaries from the KGB archives, I was staggered at the despairing poverty of the masses — people lining the sidewalks, literally shoulder to shoulder, selling whatever they could, doorknobs, lampshades, anything to get cash to feed their families. Meanwhile, the oligarchs were slithering in, maneuvering and networking, for a quick kill. The Russian mafia thrived on their backs, like an epidemic of disease-bearing lice.
Nobody, neither Forward nor this website, suggests that all Russian Jews are fraudsters, thieves, and embezzlers, just because these oligarchs have excelled in such trades. But when the next Big H comes, as seems more distressingly likely with each year that passes, it will be the ordinary Jews who are lined up to take the punishment, while the real culprits — the Sharons, the oligarchs, the Wolfowicz‘s, have made good their escape.
The real Guilty Men will have long settled down to their comfortable exile, having flung their ill-gotten profits out of the window ahead of them, into the vaults of which ever new country is willing to receive them: in this case, it seems, Israel, Greece, and, to our own eternal shame, Tony Blair’s United Kingdom.
Well done Forward, for calling a spade a spade.

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