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ZionologyZionology (Russian language: сионология sionologiya) was a doctrine promulgated in the Soviet Union during the course of the Cold War, and intensified after 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 was presented as a socio-political science, but there is little if any evidence that the Zionologists ever complied with the scientific method. In line with the official Soviet anti-Israel and anti-West policies, they frequently recycled anti-Semitic libels in the Marxist context. Zionism, the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to Zion and their self-determination there, formed under strong leftist and socialist influences, was misrepresented according to the Communist Party policies. In his 1969 book Beware! Zionism, leading Zionologist Yuri Ivanov defined it as the "ideology of loosely linked organizations and political practice of Jewish bourgeoisie, fused with monopolistic spheres in the USA. Zionism sets off militant chauvinism and anti-Communism." Some Zionology books, "exposing" Zionism and Judaism, were included in the mandatory reading list for military and police personnel, students, teachers and Communist Party members and were mass published. Several notable Zionologists were ethnic Jews who were supposed to represent an "expert opinion". Often their works consider any expression of Jewishness as Zionist and therefore subject to being stamped out. In November 1975, the leading Soviet historian and academic M. Korostovtsev wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Central Committee, Mikhail Suslov, regarding the book The Encroaching Counter Revolution by Vladimir Begun: "...it perceptibly stirs up anti-Semitism under the flag of anti-Zionism." The third edition of the state-published in 1969-1978 thirty-volume Большая Советская энциклопедия (БСЭ, The Large Soviet Encyclopedia) qualifies Zionism as racism and makes the following assertions: Paul Johnson and other historians point out that November 10, 1975 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 that labelled "Zionism" as "racism" was orchestrated by the USSR. It was rescinded by the Resolution 4686 in December 1991, which coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Another recurring Zionology theme was Holocaust denial, such as the allegation of secret ties between the Nazis and the Zionist leadership. The thesis of 1982 doctoral dissertation of Mahmoud Abbas, a cofounder of Fatah and one of the leaders of the Palestinian Liberation Organization who earned his Ph.D. in history at the Oriental College in Moscow, was "The Secret Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement". [1], [1]
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