Higher Education
Political Exclusion A GRAPHIC INDEX of the exclusion of Jews from Soviet political life is provided by the figures for Jewish representation in both Houses of the Supreme Soviet during the past 22...
...Mitin has distinguished himself throughout his career as an astutely inflexible sounding-board of Soviet policies...
...An official tabulation for the Soviet of Nationalities for that year was never made, on the ground that the ravages of the war, especially in the western regions of the country, precluded it...
...Of the 255 members of the Communist party's powerful Central Committee, only one is known and has been publicly identified as a Jew Mark Mitin...
...and British secret services, killed Comrades A. A. Zhdanov and A. S. Shcherbakov, outstanding leaders of the Soviet Communist party, will be cursed forever...
...Progressive mankind will never forget these black crimes of the Zionist lackeys of the imperialist secret services...
...In January 1946, five of the 801 members (.8 per cent) of the Soviet of the Union were Jews...
...In December 1937, 32 of the 569 members (5.6 per cent) of the Soviet of the Union, and 15 of the 574 members (2.6 per cent) of the Soviet of Nationalities, were Jews thus constituting 4.1 per cent of the Supreme Soviet's total membership...
...But the rapporteur of the Soviet of Nationalities indicated that Jewish numerical representation in that House had dropped from 11th to 26th place this, despite the known fact that the Jews occupy somewhere between seventh and tenth place among the populations of the many Soviet nationalities...
...These figures are available for December 1937, January 1946, March 1950 and April 1958...
...Premier Khrushchev himself has on several occasions pointed to Mitin as an example of a Soviet Jew in a prominent public position, evidently seeking by this means to refute aspersions of discrimination...
...The above figures show that in the postwar period, Jewish representation in the Supreme Soviet has been reduced from .8 per cent in 1946 (one-half of the pro rata proportion) to .4 per cent in 1950 (one-third of the pro rata proportion) to .25 per cent in 1958 (one-sixth of the pro rata proportion...
...At that time, then, Jews constituted no more than .8 per cent of the Supreme Soviet's total membership...
...His worthiness to be singled out as a leading representative Jew is brought into question, however, by the following characteristic statement he made on the Doctors' Plot in an early 1953 issue of the Cominform journal, For A Lasting Peace, For A People's Democracy: "The names of the doctor-killers who, on orders from the U.S...
...The Soviet Union's three million Jews represent about 1.5 per cent of the country's total population...
...In March 1950, two of the 678 members (.3 per cent) of the Soviet of the Union, and three of the 638 members (.5 per cent) of the Soviet of Nationalities, were Jews thus constituting .4 per cent of the Supreme Soviet's total membership...
...In April 1958, only three members of both Houses could be identified as Jews, out of a total of 1,364...
...Political Exclusion A GRAPHIC INDEX of the exclusion of Jews from Soviet political life is provided by the figures for Jewish representation in both Houses of the Supreme Soviet during the past 22 years...
...The evil crimes of the group of doctor-killers, like the activities of the Zionists participants in the anti-State conspiratorial center in Czechoslovakia and in the act of terror against the Soviet Legation in Tel Aviv are all links in the same chain...
...Thus the Jews constituted no more than .25 per cent of the Supreme Soviet's total membership...
Vol. 42 • September 1959 • No. 33
