And you’re completely right that zionism has been thorn in the back of communism in Russia literally since there even was communism in Russia, they constantly pushed to the right and tried to wreck party by drawing Jewish workers from it. So it might be so that USSR seen the chance to get rid of them.
Another possible reasons i can think of:
WW2 just ended and world was in outrage over fresh info about holocaust. Opposing creation of “Jewish state” would create instant outrage towards USSR. And Israel would have been created anyway, it was basically 95% on USA and UK anyway. Then USSR would be put into yet another nasty position of choosing between “Jews are running away from USSR” or “USSR is the prison for Jews”
Israel was iirc created based on UN charter, again USSR was invested in creation of UN, it wouldn’t wanted to torpedo it right at start. Also remember it was before the ultimate shift in 1949 that put an end to the illusion western powers are not hostile to USSR and that it is possible to maintain good will relations with them.
Ultimately they maybe hoped to maintain some control over it but alas.
Still i see this issue as choosing between bad or worse, it would be only avoidable by creating Jewish state in Germany, but western powers would absolutely never agree to that. As for creating it in USSR, the autonomous oblast existed back then already and still exist but zionist have zero interest in it.
Yes unfortunately there are only speculations.
And you’re completely right that zionism has been thorn in the back of communism in Russia literally since there even was communism in Russia, they constantly pushed to the right and tried to wreck party by drawing Jewish workers from it. So it might be so that USSR seen the chance to get rid of them.
Another possible reasons i can think of:
Ultimately they maybe hoped to maintain some control over it but alas.
Still i see this issue as choosing between bad or worse, it would be only avoidable by creating Jewish state in Germany, but western powers would absolutely never agree to that. As for creating it in USSR, the autonomous oblast existed back then already and still exist but zionist have zero interest in it.