Purimfest
1953
Stalin
got
a
stroke
and
collapsed
(possibly
assisted
by
his
inner
circle)
on
Mach
1, 1953, during Purim. He died shortly thereafter on March 5,
1953.
In 1948 he supported the establishment of Israel, and even allowed or
instructed the Communist dictatorship of Czechoslovakia to provide arms
and military training for Israel's War of Independence. He assumed or
hoped that the then socialist state would turn into a Soviet colony,
just as the previously colonized Eastern and Central European countries
after the war.
Israel didn't join the Soviet colonies.
For this and other reasons the Soviet
Union launched a series of show trials and executions, such as trial of
Soviet Jewish writers and
later of Czechoslovakia's Communist leaders. Under leadership of
Hungary's dictator Mátyás Rákosi (Mátyás Rosenfeld) in
1952/early 1953
Hungary's Jewish/Zionist leaders were arrested and tortured in
preparation for a show trial. They were falsely accused of spying and
some of murdering Raoul Wallenberg in 1945 in the US Embassy basement.
In early 1953 this was soon followed by the infamous "Doctors'
Plot" in the Soviet Union, when a group of mostly
Jewish doctors was accused of planning to murder the Soviet leadership.
Gradually an antisemitic atmosphere was orhestrated and many Jews lived
in fear. Some historians write that the plan was to possibly publicly
execute the doctors followed by massive deportations of Jews in the
Soviet Union to be possibly
accompanied pogroms - with
similar
anti-Jewish
actions
possibly
in
the
Soviet
colonies.
Eight years after the Holocaust the Jewish people and
the free world were again in great danger, this time from Hitler's
one time ally, under whose influence international Communism, including
regimes in Central-Eastern Europe, China, Cambodia and other Communist
dictatorships, resulted
in eventual loss of an estimated 94 million lives.