Tag #142578 - Interview #91884 (Leonid Aptekar)

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hen the words ‘rootless cosmopolitan’ were applied to Jews and trials charging ‘cosmopolitans’ [Campaign against ‘cosmopolitans’] [37] were conducted, i.e., a person was just convicted for being a Jew.  Everybody, even those who were devoted to the party and Stalin, knew this. This persecution did not affect workers.
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Ukraine

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Leonid Aptekar