Editing Samizdat (section)

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Jewish samizdat advocated for the end of repression of Jews in the USSR and some expressed a desire for ''[[aliyah]]'', the ability to leave Russia for an Israeli homeland. The ''aliyah'' movement also broached broader topics of human rights and freedoms of Soviet citizens.<ref>Meerson-Aksenov, "The Jewish Question in the USSR – The Movement for Exodus," 385–86.</ref> However, a divide existed within Jewish samizdat between more militant authors who advocated Jewish emigration and wrote mostly in politically-focused periodicals, and those who argued that Jews should remain in the USSR to inculcate Jewish consciousness and culture, writing in periodicals centered on cultural-literary information.<ref name="Ro’i2010">{{cite web |last1=Ro’i |first1=Yaacov |title=YIVO {{!}} Samizdat |url=https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Samizdat |website=The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe |publisher=YIVO Institute for Jewish Research |access-date=12 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415123100/http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Samizdat |archive-date=15 April 2011 |date=14 October 2010}}</ref> 

[[Crimean Tatars]], [[Volga Germans]], and [[Meskhetian Turks]] also created samizdat literature, protesting the state's refusal to allow them to return to their homelands following Stalin's death. Descriptions in the samizdat literature of Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans, and Meskhetian Turks documenting the political injustices borne by those peoples are dominated by references to "genocide" and "concentration camps".<ref name="Zisserman-Brodsky2003">{{cite book |last1=Zisserman-Brodsky |first1=D. |title=Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union: Samizdat, Deprivation and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism |date=2003 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4039-7362-7 |pages=74–75 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jbHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA74}}</ref> Ukrainian samizdat opposed the assumed superiority of Russian culture over the Ukrainian and condemned the [[Russification of Ukraine|forced assimilation of Ukrainians]] to the Russian language.{{sfn|Joo|2004|p=573–574}}