Zionist conspiracy theory in Stalinist propaganda
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An antisemitic conspiracy theory revived within Stalin-era Soviet state propaganda that translated the world-Jewish-conspiracy narrative of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into the official language of anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism. It depicted Jews/Zionists as agents of American imperialism operating through the 'international Jewish bourgeois organisation' Joint, reaching its apogee in the 1953 Doctors' Plot with the 'Joint-Zionist' accusation. It persisted in later Soviet decades, identifying Zionism with fascism and racism and providing the theoretical backdrop for UN Resolution 3379 of 1975.
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- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: comprehensive article on the Zionist imperialist conspiracy theory, its formation in Stalinist propaganda (anti-cosmopolitan campaign, EAK trial, Slánský trial, Doctors' Plot), and evolution through the Brezhnev era.
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia: Soviet anti-Zionism as state doctrine, Zionology, and the adaptation of Protocols of the Elders of Zion tropes into Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda.
- britannica.com Encyclopaedia Britannica: the Doctors' Plot accused doctors of serving 'international Jewry' and the Joint, exemplifying the Stalinist Zionist conspiracy theory.
- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov BMJ/PMC: Clarfield's analysis of the Doctors' Plot as a show trial in which doctors were accused of a 'vast plot conducted by Western imperialists and Zionists,' underscoring the Joint-Zionist conspiracy frame.