Tag #149402 - Interview #96226 (Ihil Shraibman)

When Stalin died, this was over, but I felt no relief. I cannot say that I heard about Stalin’s death with joy or relief… However, I think he was a merder [murderer in Yiddish]. He can be called so even for his execution of writers and Soviet intelligentsia. There were hundreds of thousands of camp prisoners [31], tens of thousands of them never returned home, and these processes started in 1937 [32]. He issued orders for all of these doings. In 1953 I was restored in the Union of Writers of the USSR.