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The American Jews Who Are Proud to Be Pro-Putin

An alarming number of Jews who fled authoritarian Soviet Russia for America are now admirers of Mr. Putin, a peculiar show of intellectual sclerosis and utter ethical failure

Lev Stesin
Lev Stesin
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In 1990, I had just turned 16. The Soviet Union was almost ‘Kaddish-ready’ and my entire family was departing the land many of us loved to call our ‘prehistoric homeland’. Among my Jewish family friends hardly anyone didn’t want to leave and didn’t hate the country; almost all admired the West in general and the U.S. in particular. That was my impression as an adolescent and I missed a lot of nuances. Nevertheless, the general picture was correct.

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