2/2: #Russia: Stalin and Molotov signed the death sentence of Party member Solomon Levenson, June 10, 1938. Dovid Margolin, Commentary, Senior Editor, Chabad.org.
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2/2: #Russia: Stalin and Molotov signed the death sentence of Party member Solomon Levenson, June 10, 1938.
Dovid Margolin, Commentary, Senior Editor, Chabad.org.
https://www.commentary.org/articles/dovid-margolin/soviet-jews-stalin-great-terror/
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| 0:40.5 | magazine is about the mass grave, 10 to 14,000 estimates, buried there of the elite of the |
| 0:48.4 | Communist Party in 1937-38, executed by order of Stalin, Molotov, Estanov and Kaganovich. |
| 0:57.2 | Signatures on documents that memorial, the remembrance NGO in Moscow until it was closed down by Vladimir Putin, |
| 1:06.0 | have assembled, so you can travel and see the Kaminarka, you can travel and see the Buttovo. |
| 1:11.6 | If you have relatives there are questions, but largest story is making war on Jews, |
| 1:17.2 | making war on the spiritual center of Jews. And I ask you, David, because you are practicing |
| 1:25.1 | Jew here in America in the 21st century. This story of the war on Jews that launched by Stalin, |
| 1:32.9 | and you mentioned that the chief rabbi of Moscow, Medaliya, was executed by Stalin in the same |
| 1:38.3 | purge of 1937-38. Did Stalin write of it at the time? Because the reputation is that it was the |
| 1:47.0 | cosmopolitan plot of the 1950s where Stalin was going to execute Jews. Was he writing about that |
| 1:54.4 | at this time in 1938, shooting Jews because they were Jewish? Not that I know of John, and in a way, |
| 2:04.8 | and the historian Stephen Kotkin, who is a wonderful historian, a biographer of Stalin, |
| 2:13.4 | it's even larger, his works on Stalin that. And he told me that Stalin actually wasn't |
| 2:20.8 | the anti-Semite that he was made out to be, not that he was some kind of phylo-Semite, but |
| 2:26.3 | it's a different type of hatred. It's a different type of targeting of the Jew that's going on in |
| 2:32.9 | the Soviet Union, and of course the great contrast is with Nazi Germany, and there's a quote, |
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