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A lifetime of anti-Jewish propaganda — from Stalinist Russia to Kanye West

By 1952, seven years after Hitler’s defeat, Stalin was consolidating his own version of a final solution to the Jewish problem. According to him, class struggle was becoming more brutal, and Soviet society needed to vigilantly fight class enemies. That year, the lens of class justice focused on a new villain. “Rootless Cosmopolitans,” a euphemism […]