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Communism and religious persecution (view source)
Revision as of 06:51, June 27, 2016
, 06:51, June 27, 2016→Atheism, communist China and involuntary organ harvesting
However, despite Chinese communists efforts to suppress [[religion]], [[Christianity]] is experiencing rapid growth in China (see: [[Growth of Christianity in China]]).
However, despite Chinese communists efforts to suppress [[religion]], [[Christianity]] is experiencing rapid growth in China (see: [[Growth of Christianity in China]]).
== Soviet Union and persecution of the Jews ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism vs. Judaism]]
According to the Jewish Virtual Library:
{{Cquote|The protest movement on behalf of Soviet Jewry, which spread throughout the United States and other Jewish communities during the 1960s and 1970s, was in large measure a response to the Holocaust. The revelations of what the Nazis had done to the Jews, coupled with the revelations of the general inactivity and indifference of much of the Western world's leadership to their fate, left world Jewry (particularly that of America) with a deep sense of anger and guilt (the latter because of their own relative passivity during the years of the Holocaust). Thus, when news started to spread of the Soviet Union's attempts to destroy the Russian-Jewish community, American Jews were outraged and determined to do something.
Of course, the Russian government was not seeking to annihilate the Jewish community (though in the early 1960s, well over one hundred Jews were executed on trumped-up charges of economic crimes). However, the government systematically closed down synagogues and published a large number of anti-Semitic books, some of which accused Judaism of being a Nazilike religion. Cartoons of Israeli General Moshe Dayan routinely appeared in Soviet newspapers showing him wearing an armband with the Nazi swastika.
In 1964, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) was founded in New York by Jacob Birnbaum, who has headed it ever since along with Glenn Richter. Since its inception, SSSJ has been assertive in demanding the Jews' right to live as Jews within Russia, and to leave the country if they so wish. Other Soviet Jewry support groups were quickly founded around the country: Many of them eventually joined together to create the Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry. In 1971, the leading Jewish organizations in the United States founded the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. And in its early years, the Jewish Defense League, headed by Meir Kahane, used to follow and harass Soviet diplomats stationed in the United States.
The combined reach of the various Soviet Jewry protest organizations was extensive.<ref>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Human_Rights/sjmove.html Jews in America: Soviet Jewry Movement]</ref>}}
== Notes ==
== Notes ==