Many Russians are returning to a traditional scapegoat: Jews(N.Y. Times News Service) MOSCOW (April 15, 1997 09:19 a.m. EDT) -- At a recent rally near Red Square to protest the Russian government's delays in paying salaries and pensions, people's rage quickly focused on a different culprit. "Why are there no Russians in government?" Zinaida Piskunova screeched. "Why, why, why are there only Jews?" She is 46, a rosy-cheeked collective farm worker from the city of Yaroslavl who wore a flowered kerchief and a sandwich board that read, "Down With the Government, Zionist Know-It-Alls!" The people around her backed her up. "It's true," one man said. "First Livshits and Yavlinsky, then Berezovsky and now Nemtsov. And Chubais, he's probably a Jew too." He was listing some of the most prominent Russian politicians associated with economic reform, even though not all are Jewish and not all support the policies of President Boris Yeltsin's government. But the presence of more Jews in high places than any time under the czars or since the Revolution of 1917 is something that some Russians are depicting as sinister. Frustrated with the wrenching economic and social upheaval that followed the collapse of Communism, and the Soviet Union, in 1991, and spurred on by politicians willing to tap their resentments, many [199 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=3195109&hilit=CONSPIRACY+MEDIA> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&3101994 Score: 84 Subject: History of the NWO