The article discusses the killing of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and draws parallels to political assassinations during the Soviet era, particularly under Stalin, highlighting the current theatrics of terror in Putin's regime.

On August 12, 1952, 13 Jewish writers, artists, journalists, and scientists were executed in Moscow's Lubyanka prison by firing squad, a crime known as the Night of the Murdered Poets.

The article discusses the Soviet-Jewish experience through the lens of artists and intellectuals who faced betrayal and persecution under Stalin's regime.