Stalin is credited to have blasted jews out of soviet russia, through the so called "great purge", but the story is a tad more subtle I think while he definitely went after them specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin_and_antisemitism >>The accusation that Joseph Stalin was antisemitic is much discussed by historians. Although part of a movement that included Jews and rejected antisemitism, he privately displayed a contemptuous attitude toward Jews on various occasions that were witnessed by his contemporaries, and are documented by historical sources.[1] In 1939, he reversed Communist policy and began a cooperation with Nazi Germany that included the removal of high profile Jews from the Kremlin. As dictator of the Soviet Union, he promoted repressive policies that conspicuously impacted Jews shortly after World War II, especially during the anti-cosmopolitan campaign. At the time of his death, Stalin was planning an even larger campaign against Jews. According to his successor Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin was fomenting the doctors' plot as a pretext for further anti-Jewish repressions. ... Similar purges against Jews were organised in the Eastern Bloc countries, such as with the Prague Trials. During this time, Soviet Jews were dubbed persons of Jewish ethnicity. A dean of the Marxism–Leninism department at a Soviet university explained the policy to his students: "One of you asked if our current political campaign can be regarded as antisemitic. Comrade Stalin said: "We hate Nazis not because they are Germans, but because they brought enormous suffering to our land. Same can be said about the Jews."[51] **It has also been said that at the time of Stalin's death, "no Jew in Russia could feel safe."[52] Throughout this time, the Soviet media avoided overt antisemitism and continued to report the punishment of officials for antisemitic behavior.[53]** My understanding is that, jews in russia found in israel, the zionist project, a new venture/project that was more interesting for them essentially but zionists were ideologically at odds with the USSR, and the alternative project under the USSR banner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast , a region of the union reserved for jews essentially wasn't super sexy in comparison https://pic8.co/sh/Iu1QiW.png a bit too cold and too far removed from anything I guess... And still under soviet total control... So they gradually decided to jump the soviet ship essentially when the israel project began to take off, and that's when stalin pulled the plug on them, for treason, while always denying he was after jews and maintaining a strong anti-antisemitism propaganda within the union. Pretty schizo stuff. >>The JAO was designated by a Soviet official decree in 1928, and officially established in 1934. At its height, in the late 1940s, the Jewish population in the region peaked around 46,000–50,000, approximately 25% of its population.[14] By 1959, its Jewish population had fallen by half, and by 1989, with emigration restrictions removed, Jews made up 4% of its population. By 2010, according to census data, there were only approximately 1,600 people of Jewish descent remaining in the JAO, or about 1% of the total population of the JAO, while ethnic Russians made up 93% of its population.[15] Article 65 of the Constitution of Russia provides that the JAO is Russia's only autonomous oblast. It is one of two official Jewish jurisdictions in the world, the other being Israel.[16] ... Culture JAO and its history have been portrayed in the documentary film L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin!.[52] The film tells the story of Stalin's creation of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast and its partial settlement by thousands of Russian and Yiddish speaking Jews and was released in 2002. As well as relating the history of the creation of the proposed Jewish homeland, the film features scenes of life in contemporary Birobidzhan and interviews with Jewish residents. ... General Pavel Sudoplatov writes about the government's rationale behind picking the area in the Far East: "The establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Birobidzhan in 1928 was ordered by Stalin only as an effort to strengthen the Far Eastern border region with an outpost, not as a favour to the Jews. The area was constantly penetrated by Chinese and White Russian resistance groups, and the idea was to shield the territory by establishing a settlement whose inhabitants would be hostile to white Russian émigrés, especially the Cossacks. ...