Soviet / Communist Antisemitism
Communist states often rejected antisemitism in theory while reproducing anti-Jewish suspicion in practice.
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The idea
Soviet ideology formally opposed ethnic hatred, but Jewish identity could be treated as bourgeois, religious, cosmopolitan, or politically suspect.
The recurring move
Accusations shifted toward code words: rootless cosmopolitans, Zionists, foreign agents, or disloyal intellectuals.
Czechia · Confessions replace evidence
The defendants’ confessions were coerced, and the trial was staged to validate a predetermined conspiracy. Eleven defendants were executed. Antisemitic allegations were part of the case, encouraged by Soviet advisers. The regime’s claim to oppose racism did not prevent it from conducting antisemitic persecution.
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