The Doctors’ Plot was 52/53, by which time Stalin had been in absolute power for over 25 years. It seems fairly obvious therefore that Jews, as such, were not a top priority of his.
He was perfectly willing to scapegoat Jews, if convenient, just as he had targeted tens of millions before them, but by 52 he was running out of other groups to aim popular anger at.
One of Hitler’s first acts on taking control was to start isolating Jews from society, Stalin didn’t start remotely similar action for 25 years. I don’t think the anti-semitism is comparable.
You said in your original post that Jews were not targeted as Jews in Communist Russia and then in response to my reply stated they were “sometimes used as scapegoats.
Well, if they were Scapegoats then they were certainly scapegoats because they were Jews...hence...they were purged for being Jews and enemies of the state as such for being precisely that
and at times associated with Stalin’s enemies rightly or wrongly
There are reams of writings of Soviet purges of Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/125203/surviving-stalins-purges
http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/history/stalin.htm
I know you. Your main thing here is fingering what you think is racism...and I having been a target of that know well enough.
I can only surmise you wish to believe the Nazis whom you see as Uber Nationalist white racists were worse to Jews than the Commies of whom at first at least counted many Jews in the revolutions.
Well...I agree...the Nazis were worse but just barely..and some would argue maybe not.
But that logic that Jews were not persecuted by the powers in the Soviet Union after Lenin died is just poppycock frankly and given you write lucid enough should know better.
Jews suffered under the Tsars and then allied with the new collectivist powers largely and damn if they didn’t get chewed up again...and all for being Jewish or like you said to some degree....scapegoats as Jews...being guilty of association with other Jewish segments like those under Trotsky.
Stalin had a real thing against Jews...maybe as a Georgian...but he feared any influence they could gain distinctly as Jews and authorized the killing of many many indiscriminately.
He spoke to his confidants of the “Jewish Menace” to his power consolidation as well as any Final Solution sort to his west