[throwmeaway33]

I'm always suspicious about these second hand stories; especially when they're dramatized like this.

For instance he says:

"You could apply to one and only one university. If you didn’t get in, you’d be conscripted into the army the following Fall."

And then explains how he applied to a second university and then how he was offered to apply to a local university in Tashkent.

Just to be clear, I don't disagree with his premise, it's just the whole thing is overly dramatized. My uncle also almost didn't get into MSU because they decided he was Jewish, and my dad was rejected and had to go to a different school. The whole thing was really weird because they decide your jewishness solely based on your last name. (which is sorta black magic)

Also, from everything I heard, antisemetism wasn't institutional - ie. directed from top down. I've never heard of the quota thing (if it existed, it was done on a school by school basis). For instance MSU was known for being very antisemitic, while other branches of government were not. You've got to remember that a lot of the revolutionaries were jewish, even Lenin was a jew (sorta).