In 1956 Jews were between 1.25 and 1.75%
of the Soviet Union's population,
but in several government
departments—over 50% of the staff was
Jewish.
The 1984 book The Soviet
Government and the Jews 1948-1967 states:
"... the minimum estimate for Jews living in the Soviet Union in 1959 was about 2,500,000 and the maximum estimate about 3,500,000," page 17
Ekaterina Furtseva (1910 - 1974)
then Minister of Culture,
with
Italian actress Sophia Loren in
Moscow in 1965
Ekaterina Furtseva, was a Soviet
politician, the first woman elected
to the Politiburo.
In 1956 she gave an interview to the
American Marxist newspaper The
National Guardian,
in which she commented on Jewish
dominance in departments of the
Soviet government:
Gee,what a surprise !
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