Also similarly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets (killing prominent members of

Also similarly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets (killing prominent members of the Jewish Anti-Facist Committee after they were no longer needed to appeal to the west during WW2 and started to write about Jewish topics the USSR was wary of like Israel and the Holocaust) and the turn against the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (and Yiddish both of which had previously been promoted) https://www.npr.org/2016/09/07/492962278/sad-and-absurd-the-u-s-s-r-s-disastrous-effort-to-create-a-jewish-homeland https://www.npr.org/2016/09/07/492962278/sad-and-absurd-the-... as part of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-cosmopolitan_campaign https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-cosmopolitan_campaign