The KGB’s Failure in Ukraine
Chernigov, Ukraine – March 8, 1939. The dreaded knock on the door was heard in the home of the beloved rav of Chernigov, Rav Mendel Schneerson. As noted in the archives of the KGB: Citizen Mendel Levkovitch Schneerson, address: Chernigov, Chekova St., 7; arrested. His crime: A passion and mesiras nefesh in tending his flock, in his mission to bring a Jewish tomorrow to the Jews of Chernigov, against the odds of the Soviet propaganda machine. The official records call it ‘anti-Soviet propaganda’.
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