Controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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1952
Night of the Murdered Poets
Thirteen prominent Yiddish writers and cultural figures were executed after secret trials, becoming the most remembered episode of the JAC repression.
1949
Arrests and fabricated espionage case
Prominent JAC members were arrested, tortured, and accused in secret proceedings of espionage, treason, bourgeois nationalism, and alleged foreign-backed plans for Jewish autonomy in Crimea.
1948
Assassination of Solomon Mikhoels
Mikhoels was murdered by Soviet state security agents in Minsk, with the killing presented publicly as a traffic accident.