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Biography
Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels was a Soviet actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during World War II. However, as Joseph Stalin pursued an increasingly anti-Jewish line after the War, Mikhoels's position as a leader of the Jewish community led to increasing persecution from the Soviet state. He was allegedly assassinated in Minsk in 1948 by order of Stalin or Lavrenti Beria.
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Awards & recognition
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Merited Artist of the RSFSR
- Order of Lenin
- People's Artist of the RSFSR
- People's Artist of the USSR
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- Stalin Prize
