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"Many #Americans know of #JosefStalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for #politicalcrimes, and over 680,000 #executed.

Fewer know about the repressions that began after #WorldWarII and ended with #Stalin’s death in 1953. Much like the repressions of the 1930s, they involved fabricated #plots, #arrests, coerced #confessions and #purges. Unlike the Terror of the 1930s, they were accompanied by a wave of #statesponsored #antisemitism – including the purge of #Jews from multiple occupations and unwritten quotas that limited their professional and educational opportunities.

The abolition of the #Jewish #AntiFascist Committee on Nov. 20, 1948, and the arrest and execution of its members was central to this postwar #assault."

https://theconversation.com/stalins-postwar-terror-targeted-soviet-jews-in-the-name-of-anti-cosmopolitanism-265562

Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’

Thirteen Jewish leaders and artists were killed on the ‘Night of the Murdered Poets,’ one of the campaign’s most infamous examples of persecution.

The Conversation
Dec 1 at 2:39pmWeb
Show threadNochem ben Shlomo6d ago

@dukepaaron

One can read the transcripts of the actual "trial." Very chilling for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was clear that even the hand-picked KGB "judges" believed that the defendants were not guilty. The defendants were of my grandparents' generation and were from the same areas of Russia. They were all very politically savvy with years of experience.

On the other hand, there were parallel trials in the US going on at the same time targeting Jewish Communists (Smith Act trials, Rosenberg trial). A very bleak time. Similar to what is going on now.

Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov, eds. Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar
Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, trans. by Laura E. Wolfson. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.