The night of the murdered poets culminated months of torture and questioning during a secret trial in which the victims were charged with being rebels and agents of American imperialism who wanted to "establish their own bourgeois national Zionist republic." An estimated 400 intellectuals perished under Stalins attempts to dismantle Jewish culture in Russia. In the years following the dictators regime. the executions stopped. but the Stalinist elements of Jewish persecution and cultural oppression continue today in the Soviet Union. The flow of Jewish emigration has come to a virtual standstill. Daily media attacks on Zionism and Israel create an atmosphere of tension and August .1 9.85 fear among Jews throughout the U.S.S.R. Unlike other national minorities in Russia. the Jews have no schools for their children and are prohibited from teaching their national language.
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