The Night of the Murdered Poets: Remembering One of Stalin’s Forgotten Killing Sprees

FEE ^ | August 12, 2022 | Lawrence W. Reed

[caver]

Captured Soviet soldiers were also returned to the USSR and promptly sent to the Gulags or were executed.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yep

[Paal Gulli]

Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them

[gleeaikin]

I doubt there were many tears shed, although probably a lot of vodka toasted and drunk.

[AZJeep]

Actually, there were miles long lines of mourners and thousands had been trampled during the funeral!
There are still some who love Stalin. Weird, kind of Stockholm syndrome.

[gleeaikin]

In dealing with child abuse, knowledgeable professionals know that the abused child often fawns on his abuser. As you say, Syockholm type behavior.

[Lazamataz]

The so-called “trial” lasted six weeks. It was a farce from the start, its outcome pre-determined. Authors Rubenstein, Naumov and Wolfson in their book, Stalin's Secret Pogrom, described it as “nothing less than terror masquerading as law.” The Jewish defendants—most of whom were poets and literary figures for whom the JAC was a cause, not a full-time profession—were denied defense attorneys. Even the presiding military judge, Alexander Cheptsov, complained about the dearth of evidence but he was overruled by the higher-ups in the Communist power structure. All were found guilty. The rule of law was trampled by the law of the ruler.

Sounds like the J6 Commission.