Genesis Philanthropy Group and Studio Namedni present a documentary trilogy about the phenomenon of Russian Jews – in Russia and beyond. Author and narrator: Leonid Parfenov. Director: Sergey Nurmamed.
Film 3: The KGB killing the head of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, opens a new chapter in the official Soviet attitude towards the Jews. The further execution of Jewish Antifascist Committee active members, the fight against “rootless cosmopolitans,” i.e. Jews, start the new state anti-Semitism. A new blood libel – “The Doctor’s Plot.” Stalin’s death prevents the massacre, but the official Russian-Jewish harmony will never be restored under the Soviet regime.
The number of the super stars loved by the whole country won’t decrease: Mikhail Botvinnik is the major chess player, Arkadiy Raykin is the major comic actor, Maya Plisetskaya is major primа ballerina, Alexander Galitch and Vladimir Vysotsky are the major bards. Other famous and widely acknowledged Jewish names remain in all spheres – from nuclear physics to pop-music, but Jews stopped being the co-authors of Russian communism. They are not allowed any more to the greater politics and are more engaged into anti-Soviet activity.
Soviet shadow economy could be hardly imagined without Jews too, illegal enterprise since 1960’s will be prosecuted with death penalty. The same decade marks the beginning of the dissident movement. The grandsons of the revolutionary Jews bring to the dismantling the statehood the same hot temper and audacity their grandparents infused into the czar’s demise.
The emigration permit in 1970’s makes the ethnicity the means to deny socialism and the reason to quit the country.
The fall of the Soviet Union will put an end to the «Jewish issue» as the last soviet generation knew it.
Film 1. Before the Revolution – with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfN3yQJxe8E&list=PL4lncidz0GcXufkLjBNW92MLZ07ALJm9l
Film 2. 1918 – 1948 – with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2dgWV63GMc&index=1&list=PL4lncidz0GcXufkLjBNW92MLZ07ALJm9l
Full trilogy in Russian: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lncidz0GcU_LcDay7w5qBue6VOPh8g5
Full trilogy with Hebrew subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lncidz0GcXYllza4GOObTX2U4uqb-FQ
Genesis Philanthropy Group site: www.gpg.org
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