Ukrainian Jews Told To Register Or Be Deported

by JASmius

Looks like Vladimir Putin's minions really are going full frontal Godwinn:

Ukrainian Jews leaving Passover eve prayers were handed leaflets ordering them to either register with an interim government that is trying to make the eastern province of Donetsk Russian or face deportation.

Deportation where, exactly?  Western Ukraine?  The direction this crisis is headed, that would be a most decidedly temporary arrangement at best.

Armed, masked men were waiting outside one synagogue, reports Ynet News, Israel's largest news website, to hand worshipers the leaflets telling them to register with the forces who are trying to return the city to Russia.

Well, heck, there's nothing Nazi-esque about that, is there?

The flyers said that all Jews in the province who are over the age of 16 must register, provide a list of property they own and pay a registration fee of about $50 or "else have their citizenship revoked, face deportation and see their assets confiscated."

".....now, as opposed to after all Jews in the province have registered, at which time their citizenship will be revoked, they'll be deported, and their assets confiscated more efficiently later."  Or just rounded up and sent to death camps, whichever is easier.

Pushilin admitted the flyers came from his organization but disavowed the contents, which said that Jews were being ordered to register because of their support for the Bendery Junta, a reference to Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement that fought for Ukrainian independence at the end of World War II.

At last, a non-anti-Semitic motivation for this garish act of fascism.  See, it's also about crushing Ukrainian nationalism as well!  That changes everything!

Incidentally, did I mention that the proportion of Jews in the "People's Republic of Donetsk" is one in two hundred fifty?  So, anti-Semitic stereotypes notwithstanding, it's not like Pushilin's temporary fiefdom is being overrun by God's chosen people, although in vintage Putinesque gangster fashion, they could line their pockets to some extent by their intended Kristallnachtian plundering.

Unsurprisingly, it's proving to be a hard sell to its intended victims:

Jewish resident Olga Reznikova, 32, told Ynet she never experienced anti-Semitism in the city until she saw this leaflet. She said it reminded her of the "fascists in 1941," a reference to the Nazis who occupied Ukraine during World War II. Hitler's regime murdered one million Ukrainian Jews in the Holocaust.

"I do not intend to register," she said. "I am 32, I have lived in Donetsk my entire life and have never had to deal with anti-Semitism until I laid eyes on this piece of paper.

The risible irony?  The Kremlin is using bogus charges of anti-Semitism against the Ukrainian government in Kiev to justify its slow-motion invasion.  Psychological projection once again, the telltale fingerprint of leftalitarianism.

It's a pity Denis Pushilin isn't going after Muslims instead.  That might actually motivate Barack Obama to muster at least a token level of resistance to Czar Vlad's resurrection of the Evil Empire.