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And if the Russians are so bad, so why did you come to Russia?

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According to numerous evidence and facts, from the second half of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980s, Jews who were educated or worked in the field of mathematics in the USSR were discriminated against when entering universities, graduate schools and work, defending dissertations, while trying to publish article or book when traveling to scientific conferences and abroad

One of the most scandalous areas of this discrimination was the massive prevention of admission of applicants of Jewish origin to the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. Georgy Shpiro calls the current rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy (at that time supervised the work of the selection committee), dean of the mehmat Oleg Lupanov, as well as professor and senior examiner Alexander Mishchenko, the main conductors of the discriminatory policy on mehmat. Alexander Shen adds to this list a number of members of the selection committee. The leading researcher of the Mehmat Vladimir Tkachuk writes about mass discrimination of Jews in those years at the entrance exams in mathematics in the popular manual “Mathematics for the applicant”. A similar system operated at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University and some other prestigious universities

There were significantly fewer Jews admitted to the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University in 1978 than under the conditions of the “percentage rate” of the Russian Empire. This year, 21 graduates of one of the Moscow mathematical schools entered the faculty, of which 14 were Russians and 7 were Jews. All 14 Russians were accepted, out of 7 Jews - only 1 (he received the I prize at the International Mathematical Olympiad and for 3 consecutive years received the 1978st prize at the All-Union Olympiads). Among the Jews who were not accepted, two were the repeated winners of the Moscow Olympiad (Prizewinner of the All-Russian Olympiad Zinovy ​​Reichshtein could not enter the Mechmath of Moscow State University in 1988, and later became a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, successfully completing graduate school at Harvard University in XNUMX).


The tasks themselves, which were offered to Jewish applicants at the entrance exams at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, gained fame and became the subject of discussion in the international scientific community. Academician Sakharov noted that one of the tasks offered to Jewish applicants he himself solved with difficulty as a result of an hour's work in peace and quiet at home, and the applicant had only 20 minutes during the exam with an unfriendly examiner. Sakharov noted that for the solution he used his considerable experience in solving complex mathematical problems, as well as a large stock of mathematical knowledge.

Ethnic discrimination was recorded both statistically and documented. Senderov not only investigated the problem, but compiled lists of the most tricky tasks, prepared a memo on how to answer the exams, and helped applicants in their struggle with the selection commissions. Senderov published the results of his research together with Boris Kanevsky in 1980 in a samizdat entitled “Intellectual Genocide”.