Was Stalin an Antisemite?

   When a person is accused of antisemitism, of course, it is not implied that he is an ordinary, so-called everyday antisemite - for almost all non-Jews universally are such. And this is within the norm. Just as being a racist for a white person. For white people, racism is more an aesthetic problem than an ethical one.
   When we call someone an antisemite, we mean that he is either a pathological antisemite, like Voltaire, Wagner, or the Russian tsars, or an ideological antisemite, like Hitler or Shulgin.
   Stalin was never either of those. Until 1948, his antisemitism never went beyond the bounds of normal everyday antisemitism. And if he did not want his only daughter to marry a Jew, then who would?
   As someone from Odessa, it would be strange for me not to understand the nature of "Stalin's antisemitism" - after all, until the end of the 1930s, Odessa had a very diverse national population: Turks, Italians, French, Greeks, Germans... And then suddenly, bam, it turned out that besides Russians, Ukrainians, and Jews, there was no one else in the city.
   By that time, Stalin already had a clear fixation: people with a non-socialist homeland had no business in the European part of the USSR. He probably considered them a potential fifth column.
   And off all these unfortunate people went beyond the Urals. To Siberia, Kazakhstan, and other "resort" places.
   So in 1948, when Israel, which had emerged largely thanks to the Soviet Union and won the war with the Arabs also with the help of the Soviet Union, chose a bourgeois path of development, the far-sighted, attentive to the lessons of history Jews should have started packing warm clothes.
   Nothing personal - communist business! The same as the elimination, by Beria's hands, of the cream of the Georgian people, as the dekulakization, as the systematic clearing of the remnants of the Russian aristocracy.
   Nothing personal.
   Remember Babel's story "Froim Grach": "why is this person needed in the future society?".
   So, Stalin was never an ideological or zoological antisemite.
   He was a commie and a man-eater.