{"id":17803,"date":"2022-05-29T12:56:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T10:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17803"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T10:56:57","slug":"a-most-stinking-creepy-set-of-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17803","title":{"rendered":"A most stinking creepy set of Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most British diplomats and Foreign Office experts could not see the Soviets as fully European\u2014it was customary to suggest that they displayed Oriental features, torn between extremes of humanity and cruelty. They presumably inclined toward tyranny, possessed a peasant mentality, were disorganized, and could work only in short bursts of frantic activity. \u201cThe Russian temperament,\u201d wrote Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, the British ambassador in Moscow, \u201cstill finds sustained exertion distasteful.\u201d Occasionally the treatment of the Soviets as inferior Slavs gave way to their castigation as Jews, resulting in a curious blend of Orientalism, anticommunism, and anti-Semitism. Alexander Cadogan, for example, offended by Soviet accusations that the British were involved in secret negotiations with Germany, noted in his diary in January 1944: \u201cThis is quite monstrous. We tell the Russians everything and play square with them. They are the most stinking creepy set of Jews I\u2019ve ever come across.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Serhii Plokhy,\u00a0<em>Yalta<\/em>, (London: Penguin, <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2010), 63<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most British diplomats and Foreign Office experts could not see the Soviets as fully European\u2014it was customary to suggest that they displayed Oriental features, torn between extremes of humanity and cruelty. They presumably inclined toward tyranny, possessed a peasant mentality, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17803\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}