In Jan. 1948, Mikhoels, president of the Jewish AntiFascist Committee in the USSR and a worldknown Jewish social activist, died accidentally. Though the Soviet Administration declared that Mikhoels died from a traffic accident, the Soviet declassified documents implied that it was a murder secretly planned by the USSR Ministry of State Security of the USSR. Superficially, the death of Mikhoels resulted from leak of Stalin’s privacy, while actually, it was an extreme action taken by the Soviet Administration to prevent domestic Zionism reviving on the eve of Israel’s founding. The death of Mikhoels shot the first gun of antiSemitism in Soviet countries, which began the Soviet Jews’ “Black Years” in history.

Mikhoels； Stalin； the Soviet Jews； the USSR Ministry often State Security USSR； antisemitism； the Jewish AntiFascist Committee in the USSR