FACT CHECK · SOVIET UNION, JEWS
Claim: Lenin's Red Terror and the Bolshevik Jewish section
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Red Terror, 1918-22: ordered by Lenin, run by Dzerzhinsky's Cheka. The Bolshevik Yevsektsiya shut synagogues and banned Hebrew teaching.
SOURCE
Standard histories (as supplied 17 Oct)
PEOPLE ALSO SAY
- “Bolshevik synagogues”
- “Banned hebrew”