"Many #Americans know of #JosefStalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for #politicalcrimes, and over 680,000 #executed.

Fewer know about the repressions that began after #WorldWarII and ended with #Stalin’s death in 1953. Much like the repressions of the 1930s, they involved fabricated #plots, #arrests, coerced #confessions and #purges. Unlike the Terror of the 1930s, they were accompanied by a wave of #statesponsored #antisemitism – including the purge of #Jews from multiple occupations and unwritten quotas that limited their professional and educational opportunities.

The abolition of the #Jewish #AntiFascist Committee on Nov. 20, 1948, and the arrest and execution of its members was central to this postwar #assault."

https://theconversation.com/stalins-postwar-terror-targeted-soviet-jews-in-the-name-of-anti-cosmopolitanism-265562

"Many #Americans know of #JosefStalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for #politicalcrimes, and over 680,000 #executed.

Fewer know about the repressions that began after #WorldWarII and ended with #Stalin’s death in 1953. Much like the repressions of the 1930s, they involved fabricated #plots, #arrests, coerced #confessions and #purges. Unlike the Terror of the 1930s, they were accompanied by a wave of #statesponsored #antisemitism – including the purge of #Jews from multiple occupations and unwritten quotas that limited their professional and educational opportunities.

The abolition of the #Jewish #AntiFascist Committee on Nov. 20, 1948, and the arrest and execution of its members was central to this postwar #assault."

https://theconversation.com/stalins-postwar-terror-targeted-soviet-jews-in-the-name-of-anti-cosmopolitanism-265562

China is using threats, diplomatic pressure, economic measures and manufactured media narratives to attack new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and influence Japanese politics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/20/japan/good-relations-with-communist-party-is-a-fools-errand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #china #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #xuejian #reiwashinsengumi #us #ldp #shigeruishiba #komeito #japaninnovationparty #ccp #philippines #shinzoabe #laichingte #xijinping #worldwarii

US #Holocaust #Museum announced temporary closure of exhibit detailing #UnitedStates turned away #Jewish #refugees during #worldwarii This decision reportedly follows an order from #Trump to vet #Smithsonian museums for content considered to be #antiamerican. Closure of the exhibit, which highlights a critical historical narrative, has sparked a conversation about the boundaries of such vetting processes and their impact on historical education. @NoLieWithBTC: Museum closes exhibit #censorship

US #Holocaust #Museum announced temporary closure of exhibit detailing #UnitedStates turned away #Jewish #refugees during #worldwarii This decision reportedly follows an order from #Trump to vet #Smithsonian museums for content considered to be #antiamerican. Closure of the exhibit, which highlights a critical historical narrative, has sparked a conversation about the boundaries of such vetting processes and their impact on historical education. @NoLieWithBTC: Museum closes exhibit #censorship

Black-and-white, but far from simple, Kon Ichikawa’s film is a survival story that stares into humanity’s darkest corners. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/20/film/fires-on-the-plain-restoration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film#konichikawa #worldwarii #japanesefilm #eijifunakoshi

Young volunteers and experts are racing against time to recover the remains of Japanese soldiers who died during World War II, most of them abroad. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/japan/history/bones-world-war-ii-remains/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #worldwarii #india #palau #asiapacific #okinawa

Toshihisa Yamada’s first feature gives a lightly fictionalized spin to the tale of the “lucky” Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that survived World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/14/film/yukikaze/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #worldwarii #yutakatakenouchi #toshihisayamada

It seems evident that the two bombs would be dropped to confirm their relative effectiveness before Japan could realistically respond. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/08/06/japan/were-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-necessary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #worldwarii#atomicbombing #hiroshima #nagasaki

"#YIVO’s story, which began in 1925 in #Vilna (now #Vilnius) as a means to lend scholarly legitimacy to the #Yiddish language and #Jewish people of Eastern #Europe, took a more existential turn in #WorldWarII, by which time YIVO’s headquarters had relocated to #NewYork, with most of its materials remaining behind."

https://forward.com/culture/731245/yivo-institute-jewish-research-exhibit-centennial-history/

"#YIVO’s story, which began in 1925 in #Vilna (now #Vilnius) as a means to lend scholarly legitimacy to the #Yiddish language and #Jewish people of Eastern #Europe, took a more existential turn in #WorldWarII, by which time YIVO’s headquarters had relocated to #NewYork, with most of its materials remaining behind."

https://forward.com/culture/731245/yivo-institute-jewish-research-exhibit-centennial-history/