Adolf to Azov

One of the most mysterious men of World War Two, had to be Joseph Stalin. Being born in Georgia and moving to Russia to be involved in a revolution, he is definitely an interesting man, similar to how Hitler is viewed in the west. Not only did he rule his country with an iron fist and kill many of his own people he was also antisemitic.

Early on the Soviet government was run by Jews, with many of its leaders, including Trotsky and Lenin being Jews themselves. Them killing Christians was part of their religion. While the Soviets came to power in the 1919’s many churches and synagogues were closed but the Jewish community was rather unaffected by these laws.

However, a few years prior one of his secretaries, who was Jewish, defected to France in 1928, and wrote a short negative piece on Stalin. Trotsky even tried to challenge Stalin’s authority, which forced him into exile, in 1929. After these event Stalin started questioning the Jews himself. To save face in 1931 Jospeh Stalin even passed a law stating that antisemitism would be considered illegal and would only be punished by death. He states in a memorandum to the Jewish News Agency in the United States:

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.

In 1928 the Jews also established their own oblast, faraway should anything bad happen, yet this project was never really seen as important, since the Jews had a fair amount of control at the time, but as Stalin became more wary of the Jews many of the Jews, the oblast was finally considered needed by the Jews, and many of them started to move there, for fear of their own safety.

This was two years, before Stalin’s great purge, where people who Stalin deemed as a threat were hunted down and executed, in 1936. Many of them were Jews. This just added to Stalin’s skepticism of Jews. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact also known as German-Soviet pact, furthered this development, with Stalin arresting and turning over Jews who where hiding in Russia, that Germany was trying to hunt down, such as Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski and Fritz Houtermans.

During World War Two, Stalin had to rebuild his economy, similar to Hitler did, this required him to get the corrupt Jews out of power, so industry could be run properly. Stalin did this without hesitation to save his people. Many of these Jews were force out of where they current lived and force to live Jewish Autonomous Oblast and other parts of Siberia. Much like the Germans were claimed as doing. These Jews were forced to work in horrible condition to support the war effort, without them being involved in the military.

The western allies knew about this, and since these countries were run by Jews, it created a secret hate that only blossomed after World War Two in something known as the Cold War.