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6/28/2025, 7:45:59 PM
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The Doctor's Plot and the Dissolution of the Jewish Antifascist Committee happened before and alongside the UN talks to establish the state of Israel, which Stalin supported, with the (unsubstantiated) idea that Israel would somehow succumb to Socialism in time.
>In 1948 the Soviet Union recognized the state of Israel, seeing its creation as a blow to British imperialism inflicted by progressive Jews of Russian and Polish origin. Alarm at the enthusiasm shown by Soviet Jews for the new state, combined with evidence of Israel's growing links with the United States, produced a rapid volte-face in Soviet policy. Henceforth, Zionism was officially condemned as part of an imperialist plot to subvert the Soviet Union
Leading up to this there were concerns about Zionism revitalizing a jewish national spirit within the USSR, which concerned him because of the potential for dual loyalty to Israel. He was also concerned about being overthrown, but the generalization of "le paranoid schizo stalin" is oversimplifying it desu senpai. Russia also has a fairly long history of the state turning against jews that goes back to the days of Imperial Russia, so it didn't really come out of thin air either. It's right though that it made very little sense for him to think that Israel would ever accept soviet style socialism when it's first 2 leaders were jews who came from soviet states and had experienced the repression of religion first hand.
Side note, the Jewishness of early communist leaders/bolsheviks seems like it's become almost a taboo topic in the West, but in Russia it's more of common knowledge, that doesn't get poo pooed for being recognized. Pic related has a couple of relevant chapters iirc. Also a good paper by laurent rucker about the Soviet Israeli "Alliance" from '47-49.
The Doctor's Plot and the Dissolution of the Jewish Antifascist Committee happened before and alongside the UN talks to establish the state of Israel, which Stalin supported, with the (unsubstantiated) idea that Israel would somehow succumb to Socialism in time.
>In 1948 the Soviet Union recognized the state of Israel, seeing its creation as a blow to British imperialism inflicted by progressive Jews of Russian and Polish origin. Alarm at the enthusiasm shown by Soviet Jews for the new state, combined with evidence of Israel's growing links with the United States, produced a rapid volte-face in Soviet policy. Henceforth, Zionism was officially condemned as part of an imperialist plot to subvert the Soviet Union
Leading up to this there were concerns about Zionism revitalizing a jewish national spirit within the USSR, which concerned him because of the potential for dual loyalty to Israel. He was also concerned about being overthrown, but the generalization of "le paranoid schizo stalin" is oversimplifying it desu senpai. Russia also has a fairly long history of the state turning against jews that goes back to the days of Imperial Russia, so it didn't really come out of thin air either. It's right though that it made very little sense for him to think that Israel would ever accept soviet style socialism when it's first 2 leaders were jews who came from soviet states and had experienced the repression of religion first hand.
Side note, the Jewishness of early communist leaders/bolsheviks seems like it's become almost a taboo topic in the West, but in Russia it's more of common knowledge, that doesn't get poo pooed for being recognized. Pic related has a couple of relevant chapters iirc. Also a good paper by laurent rucker about the Soviet Israeli "Alliance" from '47-49.
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