Vladimir Begun

Vladimir Yakovlevich Begun (; 1929–1989) was a prominent official Zionologist in the Soviet Union. He was a senior writer and researcher at the Institute for Philosophy and Law of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, a state communist propagandist, and a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR.

Begun's works focused on themes such as the Jewish conspiracy against communist countries. He characterized Zionism as the worst enemy of communism and an extended arm of Western imperialism. Together with other propagandists, he blamed Judaism and Torah as the roots of the Zionist danger. He maintained that it legitimized a "chosen people" ideology of racial superiority.

Begun gained a certain position in the Soviet hierarchy and was transferred from provincial Minsk to Moscow. Until his death, he staunchly opposed bringing Marc Chagall's exhibition to Belarus, the famous artist's place of birth, on "anti-Zionist" grounds.