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‘Aryans’ and ‘Khazars’: Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Contemporary Russia

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Recently, the old anti-Semitic myths, both the Aryan and the Khazar, have been revived in Russia and have begun to spread. The Aryan myth, which is rooted in the Nazi propaganda of the 1920s and 1930s, was picked up and developed by the contemporary Russian radical nationalists. It restores to general history the Manichaean and Messianic approaches that reduce all complex historic processes to a struggle between two agents — the ‘Aryans’ (i.e. the ‘Slavic-Russes’) and the ‘World Evil’ (i.e. the Jews). It describes the ‘Slavic-Aryans’, the first humans, who mysteriously appeared at the Northern continent, ‘Hyperborea-Arctida’, and dispersed to become the ancestors of most of the peoples of the world and founders of the principal ancient civilizations. Later, they were forced out from their former lands by an evil agent represented by the ‘savage nomads of Arabia’.1

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884-896

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978-0-333-80486-5

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Shnirelman, Victor A. ‘Aryans’ and ‘Khazars’: Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Contemporary Russia. Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide. Palgrave Macmillan. 2001: 884-896.  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1007/978-1-349-66019-3_57