Among the factors putting the West on the wrong course with China is that the West didn’t truly understand the nature of the communist Soviet system, thinking that the Soviet Union was a state like any other, according to Chang. . ..…

'Refuseniks,' those Soviet Jews who were openly fighting the government for the freedom to emigrate, marvelled at how the Communist regime managed to blame so many of its problems on Jews. At the same time that the government was persecuting Jews and spreading antisemitism, many..…