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What does it mean?
The speaker predicts Jews will become a powerful socialist group within the Soviet Union.
In plain terms
Jews will become a strong socialist group.
What can you take from it?
Identify groups as political assets.

Where it applies

  • political analysis
  • state rhetoric

Putting it to work

  • mobilizing voters

Questions to consider

  • What motivated this prediction?

Another view

Uses hostile language for a group.

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