Why didn’t the Jews ever care about this place?

>>14977847 (OP)

Why would they? They already have juicy goyim in western europe and america asking to be taken from the behind.

>>14977847 (OP)

It's obvious. Nobody gives a shit about a culturally insignificant locale without any resources in the middle of fucking nowhere. That's like saying "gee, why did the Koreans not like Central Asia?"

>he's never visted Koreatown in central asia

>>14977847 (OP)

It was only ever meant to be an outpost on the Tunguska River since the Chinese had made incursions in the area previously, Stalin just used the whole Jewish resettlement thing as a convenient excuse to finally man this outpost. It didn’t really matter that Jews largely stopped settling there by the 40s because enough Russians had arrived and the settlement was finally stabilized.

>>14977847 (OP)

russia was and is a shithole

>>14977847 (OP)

>Meme Jew relocation scheme in the mid 20th century

>Jews didn't care

Tried and true.

>>14977847 (OP)

In the early Soviet Union, most sources of income for Jews had been made illegal since private ownership, small business, or certain crafts were not endorsed in Leninism. As a result, Jewish unemployment increased by a fair bit, and so Kozmet, was formed by the Soviets to encourage the Jews into agriculture. The committee also looked to find areas to settle these Jews, with two raions in Crimea, and three in Ukraine being established, before the JAO was proposed in the late 20s and formed in the mid 30s. The region was chosen since most prior settlers had links to the Cossacks which the Soviets were actively trying to oppose since they either favoured, aided, or outright joined White Russian attacks from across the border in China. At its peak, Jews only made up ~25%, this peak having occured after WWII with Jews fearful of remaining in their traditional areas of settlement known as The Pale in Eastern Europe due to the Holocaust, however upon the establishment of Israel in 1949, this peak quickly declined. 

They didn't care because it was incredibly far away from any area they knew, in a hostile environment with a difficult climate, and by the time Jews cared enough to actually move away, a better alternative with even more Jews appeared, and one that could be argued by the clerical class as fulfilling God's will since Israel was between the Nile and Euphrates, as opposed to some sliver of land next to China. 

Many Soviet bureaucrats also perceived the JAO as a failure, exacerbated by the inexperience of most Jews in farming, and only pursued because it was a Stalinist policy. When contrasting it to Khruschevs more successful Virgin Lands campaign, one can speculate a more appropriate area for the Jews would've been in Central Asia. 

Interestingly enough too, the JAO served as inspiration for Gypsies to lobby for their own autonomous areas, though they did so unsuccessfully, partly due to the failure or the JAO.
