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I dont totally know the history here but just to be clear, the Red Army did this no more than the Western allies did correct?
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I dont totally know the history here but just to be clear, the Red Army did this no more than the Western allies did correct?
I want to piggy-back off this, since I got in a wiki-hole last night that found me reading about the Doctor's Plot. Along with Jewish artists being killed, post war Stalin, wiki would have me think, was a truly virulent anti-semite.
Anyone have more info about this that isn't tainted by anti-communist wiki-editors? What actually happened any why? I'm not here to have Stalin's saintly image upheld and the only thing he did wrong was stop at Berlin, but I'm hoping to have a better understanding of this period.
Maybe more importantly, I understand that when people, myself included, defend the USSR, we're not defending it wholesale and uncritically, though against western lies it can seem so, but try to come from a place of understanding the conditions that brought about the decisions that were made, and that in our own post-revolution experience, we wouldn't simply do exactly as the Soviets did, because our own conditions will be drastically different.
My friend who brought me to the ML side of things (i still technically call myself a Luxembourgist but whatever, I'm effectively an ML at this point) told me that the thing with the Doctor's plot is that it was genuinly kind of a legitimate bad on Stalin's part, but it wasn't motivated by genuine antisemitism, just old man paranoia. But idk thats a sourceless claim from a third party I bet someone else will come along with something better.
Espresso Stalinist has their flaws, but they hosted an interesting write-up about it https://espressostalinist.com/2014/08/24/the-doctors-plot/
Riumin's actions seem really suspect throughout the events
edit: oh and here is Bill Bland's book on the topic. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bland/1991/10/doctors-case-death-stalin.pdf
I will say the "rootless cosmopolitanism" campaign is pretty tropey and gross
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That's similar to what I've heard, I hope someone can enlighten us a bit more
From https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1931/01/12.htm :
Anti-Semitism
January 12, 1931
Reply to an Inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States
In answer to your inquiry :
National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.
Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-semitism is dangerous for the working people as being a false path that leads them off the right road and lands them in the jungle. Hence Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable, sworn enemies of anti-semitism.
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 January 12, 1931
First published in the newspaper Pravda, No. 329, November 30, 1936