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humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

he Soviet government entertained the idea of resettling all Jews in the USSR in a designated territory where they would be able to pursue a lifestyle that was “socialist in content and national in form”.

^ it was an idea for their benefit. sure - it didnt work, but the intentions here were positive.

In the spring of 1928, 654 Jews arrived to settle in the area; however, by October 1928, 49.7% of them had left because of the severe conditions.
They left Karl - means it wasn’t concentration camps gun to their heads.

After the war ended in 1945, there was renewed interest in the idea of Birobidzhan as a potential home for Jewish refugees. The Jewish population in the region peaked at around 46,000–50,000 Jews in 1948, around 25% of the entire population of the JAO.[15]

Again - Karl - do you remember the climate for jews back in the days ? noone would give them land. US turned jew ship back: history.com/…/wwii-jewish-refugee-ship-st-louis-1… and they were all killed.

USSR should get nothing but a praise for giving them land and accepting jewish refugees.

Maybe it didnt work out in the end - but the intentions here were good and pure.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast

making it into some anti-communist spiel doesnt hold water.

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