Karte von Israel/Palästina im Jahr 1985 laut einer russischen Enzyklopädie
Von VoKai
Karte von Israel/Palästina im Jahr 1985 laut einer russischen Enzyklopädie
Von VoKai
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Are you sure it’s not Soviet encyclopedia?
It says Jordania
So the area occupied by Jordan from 1948-1967 is shown as part of Jordan, but also, the parts of Palestine allocated to the Arab state in the 1947 UN Partition Plan (which the Arabs rejected wholesale) are shown as part of an (unlabeled?) Palestine. Makes total sense.
It’s interesting how Soviet maps continued to use the UN partition lines (I’ve also seen their topographic maps using said boundary)
Lebanese Gaza?
Yeah that’s some weird combination from the partition plan and the pre 67 borders, this never was how the situation looked on the ground.
Russia didn’t existed in 1985.
There is no Palestine. The map shows Israel within the 1947 partition plan, Jordan and Egypt.
The USSR was the first country to recognize Israel, but it later shifted to supporting Palestine
Russia has backed Arab attempts to destroy Israel since Israel committed the unforgivable sin of aligning with the democratic West rather than the Russian-led East during the Cold War.
To this day, the anti-Israel movement uses framing straight from the Russian propaganda playbook (Western „imperialists“ vs anti-Western „freedom fighters“) to justify its perpetual violence against Israel.
Compare with Soviet maps from [1979](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/17qpyn8/soviet_map_of_palestine_1979/) and [1956](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1lfzn0c/comment/mytvcf5/). Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1950 and Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967. Yet the maps are unchanged. Jordan only renounced its claim to the territory in 1988.
The preference to show the West Bank being part of Jordan despite being occupied by Israel for decades tracks with USSR politics.
Soviet ideology before 1944 condemned Zionism.
Stalin changed his mind for a few years and the USSR was the first country to grant de jure recognition of Israel (17 May 1948). Stalin believed that Israel would emerge socialist, pro-Soviet, and decrease the influence of the UK in the middle east.
But Stalin returned to anti-Zionism policy soon after recognition of Israel, as part of intensifying antisemitic campaigns which included charging people with being Zionists. („Anti-cosmopolitan campaign“, „Doctors‘ Plot“, etc).
And as Israel became closer to the US in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR became more hostile to Israel and wanted Arab countries in the USSR’s sphere of influence.