A Jewish friend recounts an anecdote. The year is 2000. A lone man stands before the closed doors of the Soviet visa office. waitIng in vain for permission to emigrate. A pedestrian approaches. "Are you a Jew?" the pedestrian asks. "No." the man says. "Im an idiot." The implication: The Jew was a fool because he didnt emigrate in 1989 when emigration was possible. What makes the current bout of antiJewish sentiment in Moscow especially frightening is its concurrence with unbridled ethnic unrest across the country. from the Baltic republics to the Caucasus and Central Asia. As national minorities voice continuing displeasure with the Kremlin.
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