This publication led to the request by the US NAS to Shafarevich to resign his membership, because the NAS charter prohibited stripping an existing membership .[19][20] In an open letter to the NAS, Shafarevich denied that Russophobia is antisemitic.[21] Most recently Shafarevich expanded on the subject in his book "Three thousand year old mystery", which contained further anti-Semitic allegations, as well as attempts at justification of Stalin's repressions directed at Jews (such as executions of the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, several writers and poets, etc. in 1947-1953) [22]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Shafarevich
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Date: 2010-02-09 08:40 pm (UTC)This publication led to the request by the US NAS to Shafarevich to resign his membership, because the NAS charter prohibited stripping an existing membership .[19][20] In an open letter to the NAS, Shafarevich denied that Russophobia is antisemitic.[21] Most recently Shafarevich expanded on the subject in his book "Three thousand year old mystery", which contained further anti-Semitic allegations, as well as attempts at justification of Stalin's repressions directed at Jews (such as executions of the members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, several writers and poets, etc. in 1947-1953) [22].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Shafarevich