נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>An anniversary of sorts.</p><p>"On the night of 12 August 1952, in the basement of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moscow</span></a>’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/LubyankaPrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LubyankaPrison</span></a>, thirteen <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> were taken from their cells, one by one, and executed by gunfire. They had already endured more than three years of isolation, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/interrogation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interrogation</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a>. Some had been compelled to sign elaborate confessions, while others maintained their resistance until the very end. The official charges leveled against them included “<a href="https://babka.social/tags/bourgeois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bourgeois</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a>,” “<a href="https://babka.social/tags/treason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>treason</span></a>,” “<a href="https://babka.social/tags/espionage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>espionage</span></a>,” and “planning to establish a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Zionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zionist</span></a> homeland in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a>,” yet their true offense lay not in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> but in prominence; they were <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> in a state where Jewish identity, once briefly encouraged during the war, had by the early 1950s become a mark of suspicion and disloyalty."</p><p><a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-night-of-the-murdered-poets-seventy-three-years-later/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-ni</span><span class="invisible">ght-of-the-murdered-poets-seventy-three-years-later/</span></a></p>