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Imagining evil

How a century of depicting a Jewish-Bolshevik threat caused hatred and genocide in Europe

VLADIMIR LENIN and a group of Bolshevik commanders arrive in the Red Square in May 1919.
VLADIMIR LENIN and a group of Bolshevik commanders arrive in the Red Square in May 1919.
(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
JANUARY 10, 2019 08:52
Updated: JANUARY 10, 2019 08:53
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