Re: Muddy waters
It is not difficult to read that he is antisemittic. IMO he stepped across a line. It could be interesting if he would explain the roots and nature of Russian antisemitism, but he just uses that theme as a cover to state his own antisemittic opinions.
Since this thread is pointing in all directions anyway and touch onto anecdotes from Russia, I was once stopped in Moscow by a group of youths. They asked if they could take a picture of them together with me. I agreed and they took several photos. Then they said they would send me some music they had made and asked me for my address, which I provided. Some weeks later I received a cassette wrapped in a paper with swastikas, SS-symbols and slogans like "all jews must die" etc. in German and Russian. I really did not see it coming, they seemed very friendly and openminded during our meeting, so it came as a total shock. The Russian neonazism makes me really [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img], they are sort of supporting an ideology which label them as inferior.
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