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===Support for Stalin===

===Support for Stalin===

Despite the fact that in 1947 Stalin joined the United States in supporting the creation of [[Israel]], and supported Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, he ordered the murders of many [[Jewish]] intellectuals and artists living in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s. Robeson is often criticized for continuing to support the Soviet Union despite his awareness of state sponsored intimidation and murder.<ref name=Duberman354 /> Having experienced firsthand for himself during the 1930s a climate in Russia that he perceived as free from racial prejudice and then to see no western country or superpower actively attempt any comparable commitment to the rights of minorities or blacks, Robeson indefatigably refused any pressure to publicly censure the Soviet experiment.<ref name=Duberman354 /> In his opinion, the existence of the USSR was the guarantee of political balance in the world. During a 1949 address to the [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|Communist front]] [[National Council of American-Soviet Friendship]]<ref>In 1953 the [[Subversive Activities Control Board]] (SACB) found that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, "advances positions...markedly pro-Soviet and...anti-United States Government...is a Communist-action organization which has as its primary purpose to advance the objectives of the world Communist movement under the [[hegemony]] of the Soviet Union; it has the policy to support and defend the Soviet Union under any and all circumstances...We conclude that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., is substantially directed, dominated, and controlled by the Communist Party of the United States...and is primarily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to...the Soviet Union, a Communist foreign government."</ref>

Despite the fact that in 1947 Stalin joined the United States in supporting the creation of [[Israel]], and supported Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, he ordered the murders of many [[Jewish]] intellectuals and artists living in the Soviet Union during the 1940s and 1950s. Robeson is often criticized for continuing to support the Soviet Union despite his awareness of state sponsored intimidation and murder.<ref name=Duberman354 /> Having experienced firsthand for himself during the 1930s a climate in Russia that he perceived as free from racial prejudice and then to see no western country or superpower actively attempt any comparable commitment to the rights of minorities or blacks, Robeson indefatigably refused any pressure to publicly censure the Soviet experiment.<ref name=Duberman354 /> In his opinion, the existence of the USSR was the guarantee of political balance in the world. During a 1949 address to the [[Communist front]] [[National Council of American-Soviet Friendship]]<ref>In 1953 the [[Subversive Activities Control Board]] (SACB) found that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, "advances positions...markedly pro-Soviet and...anti-United States Government...is a Communist-action organization which has as its primary purpose to advance the objectives of the world Communist movement under the [[hegemony]] of the Soviet Union; it has the policy to support and defend the Soviet Union under any and all circumstances...We conclude that the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., is substantially directed, dominated, and controlled by the Communist Party of the United States...and is primarily operated for the purpose of giving aid and support to...the Soviet Union, a Communist foreign government."</ref>

, Robeson spoke:<ref>Foner,Phillip.''Paul Robeson Speaks:The Negro and The Soviet Union'', 1978,pgs 237''</ref>:

, Robeson spoke:<ref>Foner,Phillip.''Paul Robeson Speaks:The Negro and The Soviet Union'', 1978,pgs 237''</ref>: