The Most Complete Account of the Tragedy of the Jews of Russia and the USSR STALIN'S POGROM WAS JUST ABOUT TO BEGIN? Arno Lustiger's book cannot be compared to any other on this subject. His knowledge includes everything that has been published until now, and from that material he reaches a new interpretation. More importantly, he has thoroughly mastered all the languages that are required to read the documents: Polish, Russian, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French and German. His book may finally compel the reader in the West to understand how the crimes Soviet communism committed against the Jews represented a different kind of Shoah. Two million Volga Germans, hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars, Chechens and Ingush, had already been transported to Siberia. Why shouldn't the same be done with the Jews? The Jewish Doctors' Plot?fabricated by the secret police?who supposedly wanted to poison the leadership of the party and of the entire state government, would have provided a perfect excuse to set in motion the Soviet version of the Final Solution. But then Stalin died on March 5. The Jews of the Soviet Union were temporarily saved.