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Several months after the Mikhoels assassination, other Jewish figures were arrested. His death signalled the beginning of the country-wide repression of the Jews accused of espionage and economic crimes. A campaign against Zionism was launched in the fall of 1948, but by the end of the decade, Jews
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and new satellite countries. The anti-semitic attacks had become frequent in Soviet towns ravaged by war; at the marketplaces, in depleted stores, in schools, and even at state enterprises. Protest letters were sent to Moscow from numerous Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian towns by the
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The Jewish demands to return lost property caused and open resistance of a certain part of Slovak community. The frustration was transformed into anti-Jewish riots that took place in Bratislava and several other cities and
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of 1952–53 accompanied by publications of anti-Semitic texts in the media, and hundreds of torture interrogations. Most communities in the Soviet Union never acknowledged the involvement of the local auxiliary police in
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met in late August, 1944, with a commander of a Jewish partisan unit from Belorussia. Answering a question concerning attitudes of the non-Jewish population towards Jews in
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on September 4–7, 1945, around a hundred Jews were beaten, of whom thirty-six were hospitalized and five died of wounds. In
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for their own safety. The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFC) was targeted by Soviet authorities directly in the so-called
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members in the German-occupied territories of the USSR quietly returned to their former lives, including members of the
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Upon the Soviet takeover of Poland, "only a fraction of deaths could be attributed to anti-semitism," wrote
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The Soviet authorities failed to address the years of Hitler's anti-Jewish propaganda, wrote Colonel
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participating in the pacification actions, in which some 30,000 Jews were murdered, and members of
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had disappeared from the upper echelons of the party in the republics. This was followed by the
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in August 1946 and in August 1948, including anti-Jewish riots in several other locations.
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alone. Khrushchev proclaimed that the Jews were not welcome in the Ukraine.
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battalions responsible for the extermination of 150,000 Jews in the area of
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and many other towns, Jews were forced to remain in the areas of former
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against the new pro-Soviet government. According to David Engel, the
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reportedly took place on 1–5 August 1946, the biggest one being in
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campaign of the second half of the 1940s and in the
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Index

Postwar anti-Jewish violence
in central Europe

Aftermath of the Holocaust
Kunmadaras pogrom
Miskolc pogrom
Poland
Kraków pogrom
Kielce pogrom
Slovakia
Topoľčany pogrom
Kolbasov massacre
Partisan Congress riots
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Nazi German
Red Army
Stalinist policies
Soviet republics
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
the Holocaust
David Dragunsky
Nazi collaborators in the Soviet Union
Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels
Berdichev
Mogilev-Podolsk
Balta
Zhmerinka
Vinnitsa
Khmelnik
Stara Rafalovka

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