Jews were perceived as intellectuals. Uh... This was so among the regular people, but did not appear to play a large role in the decisions made by the Party (r

Jews were perceived as intellectuals. Uh... This was so among the regular people, but did not appear to play a large role in the decisions made by the Party (read: party leader). The anti-intellectual official line was stronger in the post-revolutionary times, and still my grandmother had no problem being accepted to Moscow State University (in the 1920s), Department of Chemistry. The Fifth Problem describes a much later time period, mid-1980s (and the problem, in the narrow sense, apparently started in late 1960s). A very different society. Similar discrimination is today in US. Jews are discriminated for being white. We are not specifically discriminated. Yes, as perceived members of the white race category (whatever that means) we are, in effect, discriminated against, whenever Affirmative Action is employed. This kind of discrimination is not quite similar.