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In the 1950s Stalin was planning to deport all Jews to the North and Far East [to Birobidzhan] [14]. There were many discussions on this subject, but it never came to it because Stalin died in March 1953. I remember this day very well. People were very worried. They couldn't imagine their life without him. I just felt sorry for him like I would have for any other human being. When Khrushchev [15] denounced the cult of Stalin at the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU [16] we believed that all he was saying was true because we were taught to believe our government.
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1953
Location
Ukraine
Interview
Rachel Gitelis
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