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Article: Documenting Madness in Stalin's Soviet Union.
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- Israel Faxx
- Article date:
- July 15, 2005
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By Ynetnews.com
In January 1948, the body of an unidentified man was discovered on a side road in Minsk. Seemingly, this was just another hit and run case; but it was soon revealed the dead man was Moscow Jewish National Theatre director Solomon Mikhoels, the most famous Jew in the Soviet Union.
Two days prior to his death, Mikhoels was kidnapped by agents of the Peoples Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD - the Soviet secret police), who later executed him and disguised the act as an accident. See clip from 'Stalin's Last Purge' ...