Also, I don’t know how well justified is the the categorical expression “wipe out”, considering that Christian veneer is covering ancient Pagan rites (and not only in Russia but in most old Christian countries). ‘Piggy-backing’ comes to mind, actually.

No they weren’t. They were a Turkic empire that the elite of which adopted a variety Judaism for likely geopolitical reasons.

Look here, Shedd, I ain’t gonna take that kind of lip from nobody!

First, my comment was intended as a joke and not to be taken seriously. But since you are dense enough to take it seriously, here is your opportunity to learn something, so make the best of it now.

You say, “Of course in Russia, a local Jewish person is simple a ‘Jew’.”

It was repeated many times and not only by me that there is no word ‘Jew’ in Russian language, the word there is ‘Evrei’ (Hebrew). So remember that. Just like in America nobody says ‘Hebrew’, in Russia nobody says ‘Jew’. Complete reversal, if you will. Why is that important? Because we are talking about people that grew up in and were defined by Russian cultural and linguistic milieu. So American idiom becomes useless here and Russian idiom becomes paramount. And in Russian language, distinctions are very clear: there are “evrei’ (with strong emphasis on ethnicity) and there are ‘iudei’ (with strong emphasis on religion) and they are not one and the same. Part of the reason for that is that while Americans never knew non-Hebrew Jews, Russians knew plenty through their history. Heck, there is a legend that Saint Vladimir was courted by Rabbis, Imams and Catholic priest when he was choosing religion for his subjects. So there was a chance the whole Russia could go ‘Iudei’. There was also powerful Khazar kaganat the young Russian state had many dealings with (Khazars were Tartars practicing Judaism). Interestingly, the term ‘iudei’ in Russian is not perjorative and may be even used respectfully.

If all that new knowledge, freely shared, doesn’t make you want to offer me an apology, you take that apology and stick it up your ‘tokhes’, all I can say.

I think you’re miscontruing my point, which was 1) that there is no market for such a book and 2) more importantly any translator would be wondering “gee, I wonder if I’ll wind up dead like the author.” Which is why it hasn’t been translated and probably never will be.

I never thought I’ll see a moment in which I actually sympathize with Zhirinovsky. Thanks for the link, Chris.

Gee, CD, you really don’t seem to have a grip on what is published or done on radio or TV here in the USA. Have you been away from the country so long that you’ve forgotten – or simply been brain-washed over time?

Just to start and scratch the surface of how wrong you are – consider for example the television interviews and books written from conversations with Tim McVeigh.

How about “Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party” by Flores Forbes?

You can’t possibly have forgotten about the US television interviews with Shamil Basayev?

I’m all for offering critical opinions of how things are done here in the US, but let’s stick to reality. Many interviews and books about and even written by terrorists are published in the US.