Re: Stalin. His death was a marker after which communism mellowed. Millions of people got released from prisons, some yidden who kept Polish citizenship were able to escape. Did any of the mentioned gedolim claimed thier share? I know of one Rav – R Yitzhok Zilber who claims some credit: he was in the Siberian labor camp and he writes that when he heard the rumor that Stalin was sick, he says “I dropped everything and starting saying tehilim so that the rasha dies, and did not stop until I was told that he did”.
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