Why were so many Soviet immigrants to the US Jewish?
>>224478538ussr was extremely antisemitic
Because the US government unironically favored them over the other soviet nationalities because oppression o algo
>>224478559>USSR was anti semitic>USSR was a zionist jewish bolshevik regimewhich of these are true
>>224478538You think the US would let some random pole or armenian in?
>>224478611learn to read
>>224478611The Soviet Union stopped being "Jewish" after Lenin died. Most of them fled to America or Israel and established the Kibbutz system. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia is 99% goy now
>>224478611Originally Jews played a notable role in the revolutionary movement but Stalin came to view them as threat to his power and purged them from the party and other positions in a series of campaigns (although they were only one of the many social and ethnic groups that were systematically imprisoned and executed under his rule). This then kinda transformed into less violent but very widespread systemic antisemitism under later leaders. I guess a lot of it had to do with the assumption that Soviet Jews were harboring sympathies for US-aligned Israel. Nonetheless, throughout Soviet history Jews made up a major portion of the intellectual class, particularly scientists and artists.
> During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union engaged in an unofficial, implicit linkage between massive grain sales and the emigration of Soviet Jews.
>>224478538Because during Soviet times Jews were essentially the only ones who had any chance of legally emigrating. It still wasn't easy but due to a combination of factors nearly a million Jews were eventually allowed to leave. Had the USSR allowed its citizens to leave at will, there would have been many more millions of other emigrants and the country would have collapsed much quicker, lol.
>>224478611Both. It was changing through the time.
>>224478538Because contrary to what many right wingers would have you believe, Stalin was based af
>>224478611>communists are internationalists but they were also radical nationalistspoltards are so stupid
>>224478559Ukrainian zainichis
>a place which worships money>a place which will not allow you said practicei wonder why too
>>224478538>Sovietbecause for most of the Soviet history a soviet citizen couldn't just leave the country, overseas visa was required, and they weren't just handed over to anybodymoving even to the another Warsaw pack country was very rare and usually related with the Party moving you for work, or a marriage in some cases.moving to any capitalist country let alone USA was basically impossiblehowever at late stages of USSR (70s-80s but I'm not sure exactly) there was a program for specifically ethnic Jews to leave the USSRso basically that's why the overwhelming majority of Soviet immigrants to US are Jewish
