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In depth · What you probably didn’t knowHow the Soviet Union helped bring Israel into being: Gromyko at the UN, Czech arms and a break in relations
From the UN vote on the partition of Palestine to arms deliveries from Czechoslovakia, how did the Soviet Union put its support for Israel into practice in 1947 and 1948?
In depth · What you probably didn’t knowThe Doctors’ Plot: antisemitism in Stalin’s final years, 1948–1953
On 13 January 1953, Pravda published false accusations against nine doctors. The Soviet news agency TASS implicated the Joint, an American Jewish organisation.