Members of the Zionist youth movements had a major advantage over adults: they were young. Therefore, they were able to respond to totalitarianism without excessive fear and terror of the consequences. They knew what had to be done. They were not afraid of anything. Those of them who survived usually left after the war to build their dream state.
For those of them who failed to emigrate in time, the post-war totalitarian regime liked to remind them of their Zionist past. In the Russian and communist world, the Stalinist thesis that every Jew who survived the war must have been a Gestapo collaborator still holds true today. Communist propaganda proclaims that the Zionists organized the Holocaust together with the Nazis. In the Bolshevik optic, every Jew is a Zionist, and every Zionist is a spy attempting to subvert the Republic and commit treason.
Tribuna, weekly for ideology and politics of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, issue 28, 1982.
Why do you think the communist totalitarian regime recycled the Nazi image of the Jewish enemy for its own purposes, only replacing the word "Jew" with "Zionist"?