Millions of additional Soviet Jews move to Israel in the 1990s

Here is the TL:

France doesn't fall in 1940. After a couple of years of bloody warfare, Britain and France defeat and destroy Nazi Germany--though not before Nazi Germany murders most of the Jews under its control. In response to the Holocaust (which is smaller in this TL since there's no Operation Barbarossa, no Nazi occupations of Hungary, northern Italy, and Yugoslavia, et cetera), Britain and France decide to create a Jewish state in Palestine (probably in only a part of Palestine rather than in all of Palestine for demographic reasons). Afterwards, Israel wins its war of independence and wins any subsequent wars with its Arab neighbors as well.

The Soviet Union still collapses in the very late 20th century in this TL. However, in this TL, the Soviet Union is going to have an additional couple of million Jews due to the lack of an Operation Barbarossa in the early 1940s. Since the U.S. will probably still mostly close its doors to (ex-)Soviet Jewish immigration at the end of the Cold War in this TL, this would leave Israel as the main option for ex-Soviet Jews to move to.

How would Israel be affected if, instead of a million ex-Soviet Jews moving there in the 1990s (and beyond), this number was something like three million ex-Soviet Jews?
 
More Soviet Jews would mean that Stalin sees a larger than OTL Soviet Jewish community as a larger internal security risk. Stalin might have lived longer without going through the stress of Barbarossa, so he might have just enough time left to carry out the purge he was starting up in the early '50s.
 

Lusitania

Donor
Without the invasion of Soviet Union the Soviets coukdvof become much stronger. How will that affect their involvement in the Middle East.

Your premise also begs the question about the USA. How would it of evolved. Would Pearl Harbor still happen? Atomic weapon?

Sorry but the butterflies are huge in Europe, Middle East to even determine if Israel exists in 1990s. What happens from 1950-1990. Lots of questions to answer before we contemplate if there were actually more Jews to settle in Israel.
 
More Soviet Jews would mean that Stalin sees a larger than OTL Soviet Jewish community as a larger internal security risk. Stalin might have lived longer without going through the stress of Barbarossa, so he might have just enough time left to carry out the purge he was starting up in the early '50s.
I don't think that it's proven that Stalin planned to deport Soviet Jews en masse. However, even if that would have actually been the case, a lot of them would have probably survived. After all, a lot of Volga Germans, Chechens, and Crimean Tatars survived their deportations.
 
Generally, the eastern European jews were a lot more conservative/orthodox than the more liberal and assimilated jews in the western part of the continent, lived in greater poverty and haven't had much formal education.

If those eastern European jews have had a much bigger share in the emigration process to Israel than they did IOTL, it can quite safely be assumed that the policies of TTL Israel would have been a lot more conservative and aggressive, especially towards non-jewish subjects of the state. And quite possibly, the Halakha might play a similarly prominent role in the lives of citizens that the Sharia does in many countries with a Muslim majority.
 
I don't think that it's proven that Stalin planned to deport Soviet Jews en masse. However, even if that would have actually been the case, a lot of them would have probably survived. After all, a lot of Volga Germans, Chechens, and Crimean Tatars survived their deportations.

A lot... more then half of the Crimean Tatara died on the road to Central Asia. Don't know about the Volga Germans though...
 
Generally, the eastern European jews were a lot more conservative/orthodox than the more liberal and assimilated jews in the western part of the continent, lived in greater poverty and haven't had much formal education.

If those eastern European jews have had a much bigger share in the emigration process to Israel than they did IOTL, it can quite safely be assumed that the policies of TTL Israel would have been a lot more conservative and aggressive, especially towards non-jewish subjects of the state. And quite possibly, the Halakha might play a similarly prominent role in the lives of citizens that the Sharia does in many countries with a Muslim majority.
Soviet Jews appear to have become largely secular by the collapse of the Soviet Union, though.
 
I don't think that it's proven that Stalin planned to deport Soviet Jews en masse. However, even if that would have actually been the case, a lot of them would have probably survived. After all, a lot of Volga Germans, Chechens, and Crimean Tatars survived their deportations.
Stalin didn't take much care to ensure good conditions for the deportees. Survival rates for the deportees aren't as low as the situation of prisoners in German concentration camps, but an appallingly high proportion of the original populations died during the deportations.

Altogether it is estimated that nearly 3.3 million people were deported to Siberia and the Central Asian republics between 1941 and 1949 (Boobbyer 2000; this figure includes other groups deported on religious or political grounds). By some estimates, up to 43% of the resettled population died of diseases, malnutrition, and general mistreatment during this period
 
Stalin was killing two birds with one stone by getting cheap labor in Siberia and moving "disloyal" minorities to Central Asia and Siberia. The death rates for deportations were disturbingly high.
Ouch. :(

Thus, let's have Stalin not deport the Soviet Jews anywhere before his death in this TL.
 

Lusitania

Donor
The Soviet Union that does not witness Nazi invasion is one that has an extra 30 million citizens at end of war. It is one that still has majority of its manufacturing in the west. Therefore one that is much stronger and powerful.

How would this Soviet Union deal with Middle East. Would it be a much bigger supporter of Arabs who together are able to defeat Israel in 1948 or thereafter.

How would Soviet Union under Stalin rule for longer period of time act. Would there of been a Soviet invasion of middleast and Europe following the fall of Nazi Germany.

I am not sure but I do know that there is a good chance there is no Israel or that the Soviet Union not collapse in 1990s. I am not sure there is even a UN to create Israel. The British not going to do it on their own.
 
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