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#19 – The Anti-Humans

The Martyr Made Podcast

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Romanian Jewish Communists in the Early 50s and 60s

The Soviets often empowered aggrieved minorities by placing them in politically significant positions in Romania. In the immediate post-war period this often meant Jewish communists because Jews had not had an easy time in Romania during the war or even before the war really to say the least. This was a tactic by the Soviets it's why you see it repeated in several countries and why you saw similar tactics in European colonial governments around the world. The French and the British found a group that they could put in charge that the majority of the local population would not be particularly thrilled about and who knew that if they lost their position whether it was because they lost the favor of the colonial master or because they weren't willing

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