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   From: ojevind.lang@bredband.net   
      
   "Raven"  skrev i   
   meddelandet news:4c6404bd$0$56776$edfadb0f@dtext02.news.tele.dk...   
      
   [snip].   
      
   >   Perhaps when someone with a foreign name becomes xenophobic he feels   
   > that he has something to prove.  During WWII in the Soviet Union there was   
   > a poet Ilya Ehrenburg who wrote the most hateful anti-German material   
   > conceivable. This lasted until Stalin decided that his cause would be   
   > better served if the vitriol, quite understandable under the circumstances   
   > of course, be directed against the Nazi ideology rather than the German   
   > ethnicity/nationality.  I wonder if the good Ilya would have been less   
   > hateful against Germans if his last name had been Russian.   
      
   He was Jewish, which may explain his visceral hatred of the Germans.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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