By Alex Gordon Alex Gordon, Ph.D HAIFA, Israel — The chosen people were chosen by the Nazis for extermination in World War II on the sole basis of their blood. Many Jews of the USSR fell victim to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty of August 23, 1939, because of which during the war on Soviet territory the Soviet authorities kept all possible silence about the Nazis’ crimes against the Jewish population. Isaac Deutscher, a British biographer of Stalin and Trotsky, wrote: “Stalin’s propagandists found nothing better to do than to be embarrassingly silent. He forbade them to respond with a counterstr…