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…showed last 75 words of 2737 total…to be Jewish. Because of this the Russian Jewish population dropped. Once having been six million strong, it had now fallen to under a half million (Kniesmeyer 67). After hundreds of years of discrimination, Jews in Russia were finally totally free. Jews were accepted into Russian society and given good jobs. Since 1991 Jews have become even more important to Russian society. They have become lawyers, doctors, and politicians. Russian Jews could finally say they had survived.