Vladimir Begun (died 1989) was one of the leading Zionologists

Zionology

Soviet Anti-Zionism was a doctrine promulgated in the Soviet Union during the course of the Cold War, and intensified after the 1967 Six Day War. It was officially sponsored by the Department of propaganda of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and by the KGB. It alleged that Zionism was a form...

 in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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One of his controversial books, The Encroaching Counter Revolution, caused protests worldwide. In November 1975, the leading Soviet historian, academic M. Korostovtsev criticized it: "...it perceptibly stirs up anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism

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 under the flag of anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionistic views or opposition to the state of Israel. The term is used to describe various religious, moral and political points of view in opposition to these, but their diversity of motivation and expression is sufficiently different that "anti-Zionism" cannot be...

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Begun gained a certain position in the Soviet hierarchy

Hierarchy

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 and was transferred from provincial Minsk

Minsk

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 to Moscow

Moscow

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. Until his death, he staunchly opposed bringing Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...

's exhibition to Belarus, the famous artist's place of birth, on "anti-Zionist" grounds.

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