Specifically, this article in the anti-communist Jacobin magazine says, "Robeson dedicated this performance to the actor and chairman of the Jewish AntiFascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, who had been murdered by Soviet security services. " (emphasis added) How does Alexey Markin, a Hamburg-based artist and art historian, know this? He doesn't. When you look at the sources and the chronology, you find that:
Stalin did not have Mikhoels murdered. The documents purporting to prove he did are falsifications. Mikhoels and his companion, Vladimir Golubov, were killed in a hit-and-run accident in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, during the night of January 12, 1948. ... The rumor that Stalin had Mikhoels killed comes from two sources published in the late 1960s. The first source is Only One Year, the second volume of the memoirs of Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Allilueva.... and lots more detail at https://www.idcommunism.com/2023/10/grover-furr-paul-robesons-meeting-with-itzik-fefer-june-1949.html If you have not looked at the evidence, you should not repeat the slur. But if you are a DSA social democrat, or a Trotsky---, or an ideologue for official U.S. anti-communism, you'll peddle it anyway. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41840): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41840 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119482398/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
