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A LESSON FROM ARGENTINA’S DIRTY WAR FOR TODAY
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Jay Schaffner
March 30, 2025
Stansbury Forum
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_ My message – Those of us boomers – We have a vital role to play
in organizing and fighting the MAGites march to fascism. _
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When my father immigrated to the United States when he was fourteen,
his older sister was not allowed passage as part of the family visa,
since in the year in that took to issue, she had gotten married. Anna
and her husband Efraim were in a quandary. The year was 1921. The
family were refugees from the Ukraine, which had been part of the old
Russian empire. Efraim had been a conscript in the Czar’s army, from
which he deserted, and now was wanted by the White Russians. He was
then in the Red Army and in the Ukraine in 1921, he did not think
there was any hope for the Red Army, so he also deserted.
Anna and Efraim boarded a ship in London for Buenos Aires, Argentina.
My father would not see his sister for 54 years. During the period of
Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s, when Argentina suffered under a
murderous fascist dictatorship, my father and uncle convinced Anna to
come to the United States. The first time they saw each other in 54
years. (Efraim had died a few years before.) They had written one
another, about the weather, about their work, their families, nothing
else, all in Yiddish. My father living under McCarthyism, fearing
deportation because he was a naturalized citizen; Anna living under
Peron and Peronism. They never expressed their views of the
government.
Surprise, surprise, when they met after 54 years, they found that they
were both members of the Communist Party in their respective
countries. Anna was here two years, then she decided she was going
back. She was confident that she would be OK. She lived another few
years – the junta never came for her.
Years later Judith and I were in Buenos Aires. We went to Memorial
Park, the monument dedicated to the 30,000 who were perished by the
junta during the Dirty War. There were seven panels, for each of the
seven years, organized alphabetically, with people’s ages. Nearly
everyone was in their 20s, early 30s or a teenager. Anna was right,
they left people her age alone.
My message – Those of us boomers – We have a vital role to play in
organizing and fighting the MAGites march to fascism.
APRIL 5, 2025 – HANDS OFF! – REMOVE, REVERSE, RECLAIM!
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Local 802, American Federation of Musicians. He is now retired.]_
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