“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture… There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all… I have many friends who are Jews.”

— Anastas Mikoyan

Statement of January 1959, as quoted in "The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967" (1984), p. 66

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Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman 1895–1978

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“All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture… There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all… I have many friends who are Jews.”

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