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Soviet Jewry

By kat24

  • Hitler takes over Germany

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    Holocaust

  • Period: to

    Soviet Jewry

  • USSR invades Poland

  • Nazi Push into Soviet Union: Slaughter Jews at Babi Yar

    Jews were at risk in any German occupied area of the USSR

  • Potsdam Agreement and End of WW2 532+synagogues burned by this time

  • Korean War: Stalin wants to aid N.Korea

  • Stalin's Doctor's Plot

    Accused Jewish doctor's of conspiring to assassinate Soviet leaders

  • Vietnam War

  • Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry founding demonstration

  • Israel and USSR break ties

  • Boris Kochubievsky tries to leave Soviet Union

  • Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair

  • Washington gathering urges Nixon to press Soviets for ^ human rights

  • Jackson-Vanik Amendment in US

    Soviets had restricted freedom of emigration and other human rights of the Jews so the US changed its trade laws to the detriment of the USSR

  • Anatoly Shcharansky Arrested

  • Anatoly Shcharansky Released