Paul
Goble
Staunton, April 17 – Ukraine’s
Donbass news agency is reporting that three masked men in clothes unmarked
except for Russian Federation flags distributed on Tuesday broadsides outside
the Donetsk synagogue ordering Jews to register or face forcible expulsion and the
confiscation of property (novosti.dn.ua/details/222825).
It is, of course,
possible that this is a provocation – it is virtually certain that Russian
officials will describe it as such and for evidence that is at least a fake, see kavpolit.com/articles/antisemitskie_listovki_osobogo_naznachenija-3348/ – but the content of the flier, a photocopy
of which is included in the Novosti.dn.ua report, is extremely disturbing,
especially if it reflects the views of the Moscow-backed insurgents and their intentions.
An informal translation of the text
follows.
Respected
citizens of Jewish nationality! Given
that the leaders of the Jewish community of Ukraine support the Banderite junta
in Kyiv and are hostile to the Orthodox Donetsk Republic and its citizens, the
Main Staff of the Donetsk Republic orders the following:
All citizens of
Jewish nationality over the age of 16 who live on the territory of the
sovereign Donetsk Reublc must before May 3, 2014, appear before the Donetsk
Republic commissar for nationality affairs in Room 514 of the government’s
offices. The cost of registration is 50
US dollars.
In addition to
the sum of 50 US dollars, those registering must bring their passports so that
their religious affiliation can be entered, documents about the members of
their families, and also notarized documents about all the real estate and
means of transportation you own.
Those who refuse
to register will be deprived of citizenship and forcibly expelled from the
republic and their property will be confiscated.
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