@Absalom
Does anyone know when the Soviets did this and who suggested it as well as who was in charge of the program?
Why let the Nazi's get all the "credit" for this when their bestest buddies and allies in the early days of WW-2 were doing the same thing?
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Since you asked, a note from history.
The Nazi hierarchy shut the door to all Jews before exterminating them.
Not so the Bolsheviks of Russia, who embraced them. Yet why?
Because, despite being neurotic malcontents, they were fierce revolutionaries.
The prime example being Leon Trotsky (family name Davidovich Bronstein)
who along w/Karl Marx was the essence of the self-loathing Jew.
Trotsky was directly responsible for ordering much of the extermination
of Jews and others under Lenin and later Stalin.
Stalin repaid him by having him assassinated in Mexico City in 1940.