True https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin_and_antisemitism#Doctors'_plot >Comrade Stalin said: "We hate Nazi not because they are Germans, but because they brought enormous suffering to our land. Same can be said about the Jews." ... I think hitler held a somewhat similar line, correct me if I'm wrong, something like "I don't hate jews because they're jews, but because they're communist" It seems to me to be one of the strategies, to deal with jews; you don't attack them for being jews, because that only reinforces their group solidarity/cohesion and makes you pass as a "bigot" and give them a victim status, legitimizing self defense etc... You attack them for what they do, their deeds It's a game of play pretend >It has also been said that at the time of Stalin's death, "no Jew in Russia could feel safe."[53] Throughout this time, the Soviet media avoided overt antisemitism and continued to report the punishment of officials for antisemitic behavior.[54]