ABSTRACT
People unintentionally converged and collided with each other and with the authorities, causing countless conflicts. During and right after the war, the Soviet state and party institutions received an increasing number of reports on anti-Semitic incidents that took place in on the home front. The NKVD report on the anti-Semitic incidents just followed a collective letter signed by 20 “wives of military servicemen” sent on 11 June 1942, to Stalin and the Kirghiz Central Committee. The document ritualistically mentioned the almost overall joy and gratitude over liberation. The book was planned to become part of the Soviet anti–anti-Semitic propaganda in the home front, but by 1945, it lost its official timeliness. The appearance of the evacuees exacerbated the already severe food shortages. Especially in Siberian industrial cities, hunger became an everyday phenomenon. The evacuation alongside a massive migration of millions was also a story about the reproduction of Soviet hierarchy in the home front in an extreme situation.
