Exactly 50 years ago, on June 5, 1967, one of the most famous and fleeting wars of the 20th century began, the Six Day War of Israel against its Arab neighbors, Egypt, Syria and Jordan, which ended with the complete rout of those who threatened to "throw Jews into the sea". It was these words that made the Egyptians rejoice and savor the future destruction of Israel. The Hero of the Soviet Union, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
It turned out otherwise, Cairo asked Tel Aviv for peace on the third day of the war, having lost virtually all of its aviation and the Sinai desert, which Israel returned after 12 years in exchange for a peace treaty with Egypt. However, like the Gaza Strip.
And then, in the 67th, the Jews regained access to their holy places in Jerusalem, which they had been deprived of for many years, took control of the territories of Judea and Samaria, intended by the UN decision to create a Palestinian state, but captured by Jordan.
Solzhenitsyn, whose attitude to the "Jewish question" in Russia was very critical, wrote about the Six-Day War as follows:.
"The Israelites came to the Wailing Wall - and it was a high time, the Bible breathed into the broadcasts of the twentieth century. And we rejoiced with the Israelis: is not their justice a return to Jerusalem?. It seems to me that the duty of all nations of the world, as having a home for the homeless, is to help the Jews build this house. Extreme savagery that the Soviet government made from the Israeli question its political toy ... ".
The brilliant victory of Israel became simultaneously a grandiose defeat of the Soviet Union, which supported and armed Egypt and Syria, plundering them with the Jewish state. The Soviet leaders then responded to the Arab catastrophe and their humiliation with a new wave of state anti-Semitism, once again awakening the anti-Semitism of the people and everyday.
I remember this time perfectly and in detail.
For example, on June 6, without explanation of reasons, the head of the Computing Center TsNIISK, where I worked as a programmer, did not come to work, Leonid L. Sapsovich. A day later it was revealed that when he got home on the subway, he first asked to apologize for the raging peasant calling him "the Yid's face," and then, when he refused, slapped him on the face. Of course, the passengers stood up for the peasant, because, in full accordance with the formidable "statement of the Soviet government", demanding to curb the "Zionist aggressor", personally denounced Sapsovich as a Zionist representative.
My zatlab stayed 15 days, but he was not expelled from the party. Colleagues at the institute, where the Ostankino TV Tower was designed, he was defended.
And even about the doors of the main Soviet universities that were slammed before the Jews, I do not speak.
Six-day war in 1967, the introduction of Soviet tanks in Prague in 1968, put the brains of a significant part of my generation.
We grew much faster.
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