THE accusations by the Soviet Press of Zionist subversion (Guardian, 22 April) have an unsavoury pedigree, reaching back to the purges 1930s with the then attacks on "cosIn 1953 the fraudulent 'Doctors' Plot' was a thinly veiled anti-Semitic camsubsequently 20th party congress.
After the Polish student unrest in March 1968 Andrezej Werblan penned an article for the magazine Miesleczik Literati. The gist of this piece of wisdom was that a high proportion of the troublemakers were Jews who were 'particularly susceptible to revisionism.
This campaign led to the departure from the country of many of the re maining 25,000 survivors Nazi (Poland's pre-war Jewish population was sm)
There appears to be ar interesting congruence of views between the hardliners in Moscow and Warsaw and the extreme rightwIng historian David Irving. For Irving the Hungarian uprising was a plot by Zionists anc Jewish leaders The poor unfortunate masses of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary ap parently all really want to emigrate to Israe Solidarity has dissociated itself from the recent anti-Semitic rally in War..saw and from the obnoxious Irving's attempts at 'aid'.
It is also a matter of record that the hardliners tong tradition 'defending socialism the methods of the extreme right. Small wonder that after years of 'socialism' in Poland they are an ise cod try any within country and may ye weed to cal in the own which Soviet tanks to survive. reminded of the Words of They should the well-known PolishJewish Luxembourg: "The international fraternisation of the workers of the world is the highest and greates thing on earth; it is m principle, ideal and my rea best fatherland.
I would soone lose life itself than be disloya to this ideal.' JOHN KREEGER, London NW10 Soçialiot Chaltongo: 30 April 1991, Pago 1ª
-Crisis deepens in Polish CP'EVERYONE knows what it Suslov comes to talk to you, commented one Polish journalist on Soviet ideologist Mikhail Suslov's visit to Poland last week.
Committee prepared doubt reminded his Polish counterparts of means when As the Polish Communist Party Central to meet, Suslov no Stanislaw Kania, Gdansk shipyard worker declared that the leadership's actions 'were so dif ferent from our expectations, it's almost as if they Were an a, different party, not ours.