[RUS] Communist Party leader Zyuganov names the Zionist Jews

[Zenaan Harkness]

In an open letter, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov claimed there
is a Zionist conspiracy to seize power in Russia and asserted that
“Zionist capital” has wrecked Russia’s economy. The letter appeared to
be aimed at the Russian business tycoons known as the “oligarchs,” who
were instrumental in reelecting President Boris Yeltsin over Zyuganov in
1996. Most of these business people are Jewish, including Boris
Berezovsky, who has called for outlawing the Communist Party in Russia.

Zyuganov wrote the letter in the aftermath of criticism in parliament of
Albert Makashov, a member of his party. In recent months, Makashov has
made virulently anti-Semitic statements. The lower house of parliament,
the State Duma, in which Zyuganov’s party is the largest single faction,
has refused to condemn Makashov.

“Zionism has in reality revealed itself as one of the varieties of the
theory and practice of the most aggressive imperialistic circles
striving for world supremacy,” according to Zyuganov, who also compared
Zionism to fascism. “The only difference between them is that Hitler’s
Nazism was performing under the guise of German nationalism and sought
world supremacy openly. And Zionism, performing under the guise of
Jewish nationalism, is operating stealthily, using other people’s
hands.”

Zyuganov said that by attacking Zionism he did not mean to attack Jews.
“We have never put an equation mark between the notions of a ‘Jew’ and a
‘Zionist,'” he said. “The spread of Zionist ideology among the Jewish
people is by far not the fault, but a misfortune of the Jewish people.”

Zyuganov added that Jews were welcome to leave Russia, or recognize
Russia “as their only “Motherland,” or “assimilate” into its ethnic
groups, but they could not be some kind of “inner emigrant in it, acting
for the damage of her interests in favor of another state or an
international corporation.”

“One of the reasons of the present catastrophic conditions of the
country, mass impoverishment and dying out of its population,” Zyuganov
insisted, was the “Zionization of the government authorities.” He
claimed these officials were ignoring “the aggressive, destructive role
of Zionist capital in ruining Russia’s economy and plundering her
property owned by all.”

Source: Washington Post, December 25, 1998.
http://www.washintonpost.com/