In 1998 Russia’s most famous anti-Semite outdid himself according to the Jewish Weekly In an hour long news conference in Moscow last week, ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky blamed Jews for starting World War II, provoking the Holocaust, sparking the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia — and destroying the country ever since. “The essence of the conflict around the Jewish people is that when their number grows too much in a country, war breaks out there,” he said. “You will always find Jews where the war is raging because they realize that money flows where blood is spilled,” he said at the news conference. Zhirinovsky said that the rise of Nazism in Germany on the eve of World War II was because “there were too many Jews. He said that Jews were responsible for anti-Jewish violence and even the Holocaust. “Jews themselves, Zionist leaders, often provoked anti-Jewish sentiments and Jewish pogroms.” He has at various times accused Jews of: Selling healthy children and transplant organs to the West, Sending Russian women abroad as prostitutes, Selling healthy children and transplant organs to the West, Provoking the Holocaust He refused to honour a moment’s silence for the Nazis’ Jewish victims in the Russian parliament, on the grounds that to do so would be an insult to the millions of Russian victims of the Second World War.
Mr Zhirinovsky always denied, or glossed over, his father’s Jewishness – even after a reporter found dug up documents in 1994 that showed his family name was Eidelshtein until he changed it at the age of 18. In the 1980s Zhirinovsky /Eidelshtein had sought to immigrate to Israel but didnt follow up on the application Deborah Lipson, spokeswoman for the Soviet Zionist Forum, an Israeli immigrants’ group, said Mr. Zhirinovksy was sent an invitation in late 1983. His father’s name was Volf, a common Jewish name in Russia, and former associates say Mr. Zhirinovsky told them his father was Jewish. Given his 1980’s application for Israeli citizenship surely the Russian state knew he was Jewish and surely Zhirinovsky himself knew he was Jewish In 2001 Zhirinovsky admitted he was jewish “My father was a Jew, a Polish Jew,” he says in a new book published this week. “His name was Volf Isaakovich Eidelshtein.” In 2003 he went to Israel “Anyone who says I am an anti-Semite is using propaganda against me,” he said at the airport.
“That is not right. I am not an anti-Semite or a fascist. The Jews are very smart and very talented, more than anyone in the world. I am not a provocateur. Zhirinovsky the Nationalist Russian Jew could easily be an Israeli asset His clownish persona would be an ideal cover According to Reuters, “Although nominally part of the Russian opposition, he is widely seen as a servant of Kremlin policy, used to float radical opinions to test public reaction.” Why the Kremlin would use a known Jew who adopts clownish tactics as a trial balloon for “radical opinions” is not explained by Reuters In 1990 Zhirinovsky, along with Vladimir Bogachev, took initiatives which led to the founding of the Liberal Democratic Party, the second registered party in the Soviet Union and therefore the first officially sanctioned opposition party. The Liberal-Democratic Party remained an important force in Russian politics. At the height of its fortunes, the LDPR gathered 23% of the vote in the 1993 Duma elections and achieved a broad representation throughout the country – the LDPR being the top vote-getter in 64 out of 87 regions.
Zhirovsky’s LDPR seems to have secured 3rd place in the 2016 Duma Elections deeply cutting into the Communist Party 17 % vote share His “Nationalist Party” is just another in a long list of European Nationalist Parties lead by Crypto Jews or following Jew friendly policies Zhirinovsky and his Jewish fake Nationalism have put paid to any chance of the real (Jew Lite ) Communist Party lead by “Christian Communist” Gennady Zyuganov who has said Christ was the first Communist Such Communism is certainty Bad for the Jews Any Communist resurgence is bad for Putin Which makes Vladimir Zhirinovsky another in a longish list of Putins JewsThe populist firebrand of the Russian political establishment stormed out of parliament, threatening to “shoot and hang” lawmakers from Russia’s ruling United Russia party, after accusing them of corruption. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, whose LDPR party seldom breaks ranks with United Russia, has long served as a tumultuous and ultra-conservative foil for Vladimir Putin at presidential elections.
Speaking to parliament Wednesday, in the midst of a characteristically aggravated preamble about corruption, Zhirinovsky whipped himself into a shouting frenzy that ended with death threats and a walkout. He first accused officials of covering for criminal gangs—a popular, if passé, trope of Russian politics—naming the Moscow region as one of the more corrupt ones. When a United Russia member for Moscow, Oksana Pushkina, piped up in defense of her region, Zhirinovsky shifted gears. “A hundred times I will say it,” Zhirinovsky screamed. “There are bandits and thieves in Moscow region,” he continued, threatening to take Pushkina to court, before issuing a more lethal threat. “In March of next year I will get into the Kremlin and I will have you shot and hanged, you no gooders and scoundrels,” Zhirinovsky concluded, picking up his written statement and leading all members of his part out of the assembly. For all the spectacle of his storming exit, Zhirinovsky returned to the assembly a few hours later, refusing Pushkina’s demand for apology and calling on her to apologize for speaking out of turn.
Parliamentary speaker and United Russia member Vyacheslav Volodin said the remaining three parties besides LDPR would like Zhirinovsky to apologize, as the parliamentary ethics committee looks at the statement. While Zhirinovsky’s outburst has undoubtedly reminded any voters that he is running for president, he may not have to answer to any law enforcement authority as he has parliamentary immunity—something he would need to be stripped of to be charged. He is renowned for making controversial pronouncements, most recently making a series of proposals that would restore Tsarist-era state symbols to Russia. Try Newsweek: Subscription offers Complete Trump Budget Expected in May, Mulvaney Says Can a Good Diet Help Ward Off Cancer? Christian Iraqi Immigrants Protest Mosque Construction Because of ISIS Violence Mauricio Pochettino: This Tottenham Hotspur Star Will Play More in Harry Kane’s Absence Tripping with Zhirinovsky (1995) TV Movie 27 May 1995
A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of Russian Nationalist politician, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The film shows the leader on a cruise surrounded by two hundred ... See full summary » Do you have any images for this title? Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in ... See full summary » My Summer of Love In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together. An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman. Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
In this documentary, set in Bosnia during the war, Pawlikowski steers clear of the usual cliches of war reporting. He takes on a more anthropological perspective relying not on commentary ... From Moscow to Pietushki: A Journey with Benedict Yerofeyev The film is about revisiting the locations of the world-famous Russian novel 'Moscow-Petushki' by Venedikt Yerofeyev. At the consecutive railway stations, passengers recall the writer who ... A docu-drama about teenage car thieves living on a northern estate. Trevor, a seventeen-year-old dosser, falls in love. To win his girl's heart, he might just have to go straight. Will he make it?The film shows the leader on a cruise surrounded by two hundred supporters getting plenty of media attention in New York. We are left with the nagging question: to what extent is Zhirinovsky really dangerous? To take that further, to what extent are populist politicians truly dangerous? Add content advisory for parents » Release Date: 27 May 1995 (UK)