Avira
“And again, Stalin’s death meant almost nothing to the spiritual plight of Russian jewry. I’m not familiar with a plan to commit a Holocaust, but even if that were the case, the Soviet union was the “enemy” and it prevailed. And when it fell, it had already shmaded, r”l, millions of our brethren. That’s not a messianic victory, it’s a tragedy of historic proportions.”
Firstly, yes look it up. Stalin was planning on having a third killed in pogroms and then kindly shipping off the rest of the Jews to camps in Siberia where they would work without proper clothing or heating until they’d die. If they got too to work at all…
So that was an immediate threat and BH The Rebbe was able to put an end to it. Then The Rebbe also predicted the downfall of the Soviet Union before Gorbachev thought in that direction, and prepared Eretz Yisrael to absorb them. As well as The Frierdiker Rebbe and Rebbe being the only ones!!! to keep Yiddishkeit alive in Russia during the Soviet Union. This is well known…