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Young Stalin sabotaged Rothschilds business: he got work at an oil refinery owned by the Rothschilds. In 1902, a fire broke out at the refinery, and it is strongly suspected Stalin was involved. The workers were entitled to a bonus for putting out the fire, but the manager suspected arson and refused to pay. In response, Stalin organized a series of strikes.
IT IS well known that Stalin’s last act, after initiating an anti-Semitic purge, was to organise a trial of mainly Jewish doctors, which was intended to culminate in a public execution in Moscow, followed by ‘spontaneous’ pogroms against Jews, and impassioned appeals from prominent Soviet Jews to the authorities to move their compatriots to the far east of the Soviet Union, for their own safety. This gruesome prospect was cut short by Stalin’s death on 5 March 1953.
The roots of Stalin’s anti-Semitism could be explained by emphasising a passage in his essay of 1912, Marxism and the National Question: 'A nation has the right to determine its fate freely. It has the right to live as it wishes.' (p. 5) As Stalin didn't think the Jews constituted a nation, it is logical for him to think that they were an object to be manipulated by those in power in accordance with their political goals. Stalin did said that the Jews "are something mystical, intangible and otherworldly". The Jews were an obvious target: the huge emigration during the last few decades of Tsarism meant that many Soviet Jews had family connections in the West, and especially the USA, which was very dangerous. the demonstrations at Moscow’s Main Synagogue in 1948 welcoming Golda Meir (Meyerson), Israel’s first envoy to the USSR, caused Stalin to recognize the power of Jewish nationalist sentiment. Furthermore, many prominent leaders, among them Viacheslav Molotov and Kliment Voroshilov, had Jewish wives, frequently with relatives in the United States or Israel. The potential disloyalty of Jews in a conflict with America was thus linked to the potential disloyalty of Stalin’s colleagues in government. American Ambassador George Kennan had been declared persona non grata in September 1952; in the wake of the announcement of the Doctors' Plot, Moscow severed diplomatic relations with Israel.