The Daily Telegraph’s editors were clearly remiss in failing to spot the implications of their tale on George SorosOne of the wilder conspiracy theories I have seen was in a neo-Nazi newspaper in the mid-1990s in Moscow. The article revealed that Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev were both assumed names and that the men had been born Baruch Yeltzer and Mikhail Solomonovich Gorbachev (his real patronymic is Sergeyevich). In other words, the architects of Russian misery after the collapse of the Soviet Union were secret Jews.
This was outlandish even by the standards of eastern European antisemitism. It was also hypermarginal in the media. You had to buy pamphlets on the street to read approximately plots to dilute the purity of the Russian race by a cabal of Jews/Zionists (the two words were interchangeable). Then came the internet. These days you are never more than a couple of clicks absent from weapons-grade antisemitism.
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Source: guardian.co.uk