Stalin in the 60's

The crime Jews were to be framed for (during the Second Holocaust) was to be called "Cosmopolitanism". Basically, the fact that they kept ties with the rest of the diaspora in other countries.

But yes, I can probably see Beria having a very stern talk with the rest of the jellyfishes pointing out that, while he himself was a very dangerous man, they would all be dead soon if Stalin is allowed to live, and he's the only one with the resources to carry out the unpleasant deed, as long as the others stay out of his way.

All of the Politburo were craven bootlicks (Stalin made it so) but they did possess surprisingly good self-preservation instincts.
To counter this move, a sad point of "jellyfish" and "bootlicks" is that they often will betray someone like Beria, if they believe that they can win "brownie-points" from Stalin for snitching on a potential "saboteur"....
 
...but it also contradicts the character of Stalin that we all throw around, that he was a pragmatic and stern leader. Now, considering this, do you seriously believe he would commit mass murder (which appears to be the implication behind this post) not only at all, but so soon after one of the most devastating campaigns of genocide ever?

Please look up Stalin's various purges, including the wholesale murder of the officers in his own army.

Surviving documents list over half a million executions, and more died in prison or work camps. As with most documents from the Soviet era, the lists are clearly incomplete.

Stalin was quite capable of mass murder.

To counter this move, a sad point of "jellyfish" and "bootlicks" is that they often will betray someone like Beria, if they believe that they can win "brownie-points" from Stalin for snitching on a potential "saboteur"....

Yup, a key problem with a conspiracy against a dictator: it only takes one person to sell out all the others.
 
With the "Second Holocaust" taking place, what effect would this have on the fledling state of Israel? When Stalin died in OTL in 1953, the state was les than 5 years old. At the very least, the country will face a greater number of refugees, which will certainly alter any Suez Crisis in 1956, and will also alter any analogues of the 6-Day War (1967) or Yom Kipur War (1973)...
 
With the "Second Holocaust" taking place, what effect would this have on the fledling state of Israel? When Stalin died in OTL in 1953, the state was les than 5 years old. At the very least, the country will face a greater number of refugees, which will certainly alter any Suez Crisis in 1956, and will also alter any analogues of the 6-Day War (1967) or Yom Kipur War (1973)...

Related to this, will Stalin happily sell massive amounts of equipment to the Arabs (I have no clue)? Without it, there won't BE a 1967 or 1973 war. Will the USSR sell (relatively) new equipment or mid-WWII vintage gear?
 
The crime Jews were to be framed for (during the Second Holocaust) was to be called "Cosmopolitanism". Basically, the fact that they kept ties with the rest of the diaspora in other countries.

But yes, I can probably see Beria having a very stern talk with the rest of the jellyfishes pointing out that, while he himself was a very dangerous man, they would all be dead soon if Stalin is allowed to live, and he's the only one with the resources to carry out the unpleasant deed, as long as the others stay out of his way.

All of the Politburo were craven bootlicks (Stalin made it so) but they did possess surprisingly good self-preservation instincts.

I don’t think Stalin was targeting Jews en-masse. Jewish organizations would’ve been gutted and ‘’intellectuals’’ decimated. However Jews outside those categories would likely have been fine. Uneducated cobbers like Kaganovich for example.

As for Beria, he was no direct threat to Stalin. Who already removed him from his power-base at the NKVD, which had been split into the MVD & MGB and the men replacing him had ambitions of their own. By 1953 Beria was a walking corpse in Stalin, he was lucky the old man had a stroke, otherwise his end wouldn’t have been far off.

The Old Guard would likely have been purged. With a couple of exceptions like Voroshilov and Khrushchev, both of whom Stalin ‘’liked’’ after a fashion and whom he didn’t see as threatening. To the point where screw ups that would’ve seen other men shot, were forgiven.

Genocidal anti-Semitism was not a Soviet policy, and the idea of a second Holocust are purely conjectural.

 
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