And top members of the white ribbon opposition (but Navalny is not) and 1st wave oligarchs (ex: Khodorkovsky).
Or course here it is very easy to get "antisemitism" label, but it is just one of those questions where we should just look at the data without prejudice.
Is it something strange in this picture when we have (mostly) oppositional Jews in media in Moscow and (again, mostly) pro-Putin Russians in provinces? Should we start some sort of "positive discrimination" program to get more Russians from provinces to the central media and cultural life? Just for the sake of the country's integrity? Scandal :))
A bit of history:
I do not know how American elite is constructed but in Russia since Peter the Great we had a divided society. In tsarist times there was globalized elite, speaking French, having high German percentage. But 90% of the country were uneducated peasants. It was like 2 nations - smaller nation and bigger nation in one country. Jews in those times were highly discriminated and could not live in most parts of the country.
So, for obvious reasons, Jews took very active part in the Revolution, Most members of Lenin's bolshevik cabinet were Jews, for example. So Jews were emansipated and, traditionally being highly educated (everyone at least could read sacred books), took very active role in the country's life, substituting the old aristocratic elite.
Stalin, though, was not Jew, he prosecuted many of old revolutioners and, after all, started openly anti-semitic politics in the end of his reign, pushing young Russians to all positions. But he died soon and Jews basically kept their positions in the educated class.
So these are roots of the situation you see here on LJ. Very high persentage of Jews in the educated elite leads to their natural prevalence in the intellectual blogging platform. And being more globalized rather than rooted in the Russian imperial culture most of them are anti-Putin.
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Date: 2013-09-05 02:27 pm (UTC)Or course here it is very easy to get "antisemitism" label, but it is just one of those questions where we should just look at the data without prejudice.
Is it something strange in this picture when we have (mostly) oppositional Jews in media in Moscow and (again, mostly) pro-Putin Russians in provinces?
Should we start some sort of "positive discrimination" program to get more Russians from provinces to the central media and cultural life? Just for the sake of the country's integrity?
Scandal :))
A bit of history:
I do not know how American elite is constructed but in Russia since Peter the Great we had a divided society.
In tsarist times there was globalized elite, speaking French, having high German percentage.
But 90% of the country were uneducated peasants.
It was like 2 nations - smaller nation and bigger nation in one country.
Jews in those times were highly discriminated and could not live in most parts of the country.
So, for obvious reasons, Jews took very active part in the Revolution,
Most members of Lenin's bolshevik cabinet were Jews, for example.
So Jews were emansipated and, traditionally being highly educated (everyone at least could read sacred books), took very active role in the country's life, substituting the old aristocratic elite.
Stalin, though, was not Jew, he prosecuted many of old revolutioners and, after all, started openly anti-semitic politics in the end of his reign, pushing young Russians to all positions.
But he died soon and Jews basically kept their positions in the educated class.
So these are roots of the situation you see here on LJ.
Very high persentage of Jews in the educated elite leads to their natural prevalence in the intellectual blogging platform.
And being more globalized rather than rooted in the Russian imperial culture most of them are anti-Putin.