Mikhail Kalinin
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Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and, from 1922, of the USSR Central Executive Committee; Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, 1938-1946 · Soviet Union
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“The Jews, in fact, have lived in Russia for centuries, and they have as much right here as any other part of the population.”
English: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 1926; translator not credited. Original-language text not found.
Kalinin, then Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, answered a Komsomol member who reported peasant opposition in the Crimea to the settlement of Jewish families on the land. The statement was published in Izvestia and reprinted in other Soviet papers, according to JTA.
Statement in reply to a letter from V. Ovchinnikov of the Crimean Komsomol, published in Izvestia, July 1926, in English in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily News Bulletin, 30 July 1926 ("Text of Kalinin's Statement on Jewish Question in Russia") Source
Content note: Addresses an antisemitic accusation against the government. The words are shown as they were said or written. Why
“The Soviet Government is accused of being a Jewish Government, but this is so much nonsense. It is true that the Soviet Government restored their rights to the Jews, but to which Jews? It restored rights only to the impoverished working class Jews, but the Jewish capitalists it treated exactly like all other capitalists.”
English: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 1926; translator not credited. Original-language text not found.
Kalinin, then Chairman of the Central Executive Committee, answered a Komsomol member who reported peasant opposition in the Crimea to the settlement of Jewish families on the land. The statement was published in Izvestia and reprinted in other Soviet papers, according to JTA.
Statement in reply to a letter from V. Ovchinnikov of the Crimean Komsomol, published in Izvestia, July 1926, in English in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Daily News Bulletin, 30 July 1926 ("Text of Kalinin's Statement on Jewish Question in Russia") Source
“The Red Army, however, proved capable not only of halting the attack of the German-fascist hordes, but also of dealing them a series of heavy blows one after the other—at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, on the Dnieper and beyond—blows under which the former vanity and self-assurance of the Germans have been considerably cowed.”
English: Soviet War News (London), translator not credited. Original-language text not found.
Opening of the article, written while the Red Army was advancing in Ukraine and Belorussia, on the sources of Soviet military strength. The article was issued in English as a booklet by Soviet War News in London.
M. I. Kalinin, "Why We Win" (London: Soviet War News, 1944-45), p. 5 Source