[1][2][3] Writer Vladimir Voinovich described this perception as follows: The word "Jew" is not censored, but it is used in a scientific sense, like the Latin "penis".
"[2] Notable Soviet antisemitic campaigns included the Doctor's Plot, the struggle against the "rootless cosmopolitans" and the crackdown on the movement of refuseniks.
A dean of the Marxism-Leninism department at one of the Soviet universities explained the policy to his students:[2] One of you asked if our current political campaign can be regarded as antisemitic.
Comrade Stalin said: "We hate Nazi[s] not because they are Germans, but because they brought enormous suffering to our land".
Some people, however, have become so wary of this construction that they have extended the stigma to any use of Jew as a noun, a practice that carries risks of its own.