This gets interesting. Would those ethnic Jews be better off under Putin or under a potentially neo-Nazi Ukraine?
“Would those ethnic Jews be better off under Putin or under a potentially neo-Nazi Ukraine?”
I don’t really know.
What I know is in the 19th century there were an estimated 5,500,000 Jews living in Russia. Under a law introduced by Alexander III, all Russian Jews were forced to live in what became known as the Pale of Jewish Settlement - which consisted of Polish provinces, stretching from Riga to Odessa, to Vilna and Kiev.
What I know is that 2.25 million Jews lived in Ukraine before the WWII. Most of them were killed in situ, in the woods and in the diches by nazis’ ukrainian collaborators, a big number were sent to the death camp Belzec, situated just over the border in Poland, and out of 19% survivors, many emigrated in Israel.
Actually, there are some 50,000 Jews still living in Ukraine.