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Socialist racism: Ethnic cleansing and racial exclusion in the USSR and Israel

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During the 1970s, both the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks in Soviet Central Asia compared their plight to that of the Palestinians. The Stalin regime deported both the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks from their homelands to dispersed settlements in Central Asia. The similarities between the Soviet policies of expelling and permanently excluding the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks from their homelands and similar Israeli policies towards the Palestinians are not entirely coincidental. The Zionists based their mass expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 and subsequent prohibition on allowing them to return to their homes in part on the Soviet model. The similarities between the two instances of ethnic cleansing are due in large part to this conscious emulation of Stalin's methods by the Zionists.

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Otto Pohl, J. Socialist racism: Ethnic cleansing and racial exclusion in the USSR and Israel. Hum Rights Rev 7, 60–80 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-006-1022-7

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