12-31-2012, 09:31 PM
ZScout is spot on about the Yiddish language in the BSSR. Old Belarusian also could be written in Cyriliic or Latin script. Various language reforms happened in the early days of the Soviet Union that increasingly brought Belarusian closer to Russian. The state emblem of the BSSR did have 'Workers of the World Unite' in Yiddish (the most spoken language in Minsk at the turn of the century) but this was removed in the 50's, not out of any anti-Semitism but simply in acknowledgement of the fact that Belorussian Jewry had been all but wiped out during the war.
