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I wonder whats Stalin's take on how to deal with people with "conservative values"

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

J. Stalin

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

quotes without citations are great, am I right folks

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I tried looking for it. The first quote is getting a book by R. J. Overy called "The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia". The quote itself is not cited in the book but following it is a claim about thousands of jewish folks being arrested which is cited from a work called "The USSR, Zionism and Jews" (paraohrasing the name since I don't remember it exactly nor the author's) but I couldn't find it.

Edit: unsurprisingly the comment author cribbed the quote straight from a Wikipedia article about Soviet anti-Semitism.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's nothing wrong with a Wikipedia article, but 'Night of the Murdered Poets'(which I assume OP sourced from?) stating that Solomon Mikhoels died personally under Stalin's orders w/o any other citations raises an alarm.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

there's a lot wrong with most political Wikifedia articles, especially when it's related to communism