1952 ⟶ Prague Trials
The Prague Trials in Czechoslovakia.
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⚖️ Prague Trials
The Prague Trials in Czechoslovakia.⟶
Prague TrialsShow trialsCommunismAnti-SemitismCold WarCzechoslovakiaZionism
Czech Republic✍️ Execution of Soviet Yiddish Writers
The Night of the Murdered Poets. The thirteen most prominent Soviet Yiddish writers, poets, actors and other intellectuals were executed, among them Peretz Markish, Leib Kwitko, David Hofstein, Itzik Feffer, David Bergelson. In 1955 UN General Assembly's session a high Soviet official still denied the "rumors" about their disappearance.⟶
Soviet UnionStalinismYiddish cultureJewish intellectualsThe Night of the Murdered PoetsPersecutionAnti-SemitismCold War
Soviet Union🏥 Doctors' Plot False Accusation
The Doctors' plot false accusation in the USSR. Scores of Soviet Jews dismissed from their jobs, arrested, some executed. The USSR was accused of pursuing a "new antisemitism." Stalinist opposition to "rootless cosmopolitans" – a euphemism for Jews – was rooted in the belief, as expressed by Klement Gottwald, that "treason and espionage infiltrate the ranks of the Communist Party. This channel is Zionism." This newer antisemitism was, in effect, a species of anti-Zionism.⟶
Doctors' plotSoviet UnionAnti-SemitismStalinismFalse accusationsAnti-ZionismCold WarPersecution
Soviet Union🧠 Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act Controversy
The Alaska Mental health Enabling Act of 1956 (Public Law 84-830) was an Act of Congress passed to improve Mental health care in the United States territory of Alaska. It became the focus of a major political controversy after opponents nicknamed it the "Siberia Bill" and denounced it as being part of a communist plot to hospitalize and brainwash Americans. Campaigners asserted that it was part of an international Jewish, Roman Catholic or psychiatric conspiracy intended to establish United Nations-run concentration camps in the United States.⟶
Alaska Mental Health Enabling ActConspiracy theoriesAnti-SemitismCold WarCommunismPsychiatryUnited StatesPolitical controversy
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