> The Soviet military was bad for everyone, but Jews tended to get hurt more. I know one Jewish man from the USSR, now deceased, who told me he emigrated from

> The Soviet military was bad for everyone, but Jews tended to get hurt more. I know one Jewish man from the USSR, now deceased, who told me he emigrated from the USSR to avoid conscription; he said that the military at times used Jewish soldiers as cannon fodder: They were sent to the front without arms to draw and consume enemy fire.