Another Forged ‘Stalin document’

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¹For a detailed debunking of the ‘Eremin letter’, according to which in 1906 – 12 Stalin was an Okhrana agent, see Kozlov (2001, chapter 8).

²Van Ree agrees (personal communication) that the document is probably a fake and that citing it as if it were genuine was a mistake.

³ Pravda, 23 December 1939.

⁴ Pravda, 25 December 1939.

⁵In December 1952, at the time of the ‘uncovering’ of the ‘doctors' plot’ there was a meeting of the party presidium. At it, according to Malyshev's diary (Malyshev 1997, pp. 140 – 41), Stalin stated that, ‘Any Jewish-nationalist is an agent of American intelligence. The Jewish-nationalists consider that their nation was saved by the USA (there it is possible to become rich, a bourgeois etc.). They consider themselves indebted to the Americans. Among the doctors are many Jewish-nationalists’. The term ‘Zionist’ is conspicuous by its absence.

⁶The visit lasted less than three days including air travel both ways. In her diary for 2 November 1939, written in Stockholm, she wrote ‘Back from Moscow. Moscow was like a dream—I flew there and back in less than 3 days’. This implies that she left Stockholm (and probably arrived in Moscow) at the end of October (Kollontai 1990, p. 185).

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Michael Ellman

I am grateful to Vladimir Kontorovich and Erik van Ree for helpful discussion. The author alone is responsible for any errors.