Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Pravda, January 13, 1953

http://hurryupharry.org/2010/06/14/from-the-vaults-pravda-january-13-1953/
In January 1953, Stalin invented a charge that a number of doctors,
most of them Jewish, were involved in a vast plot to kill Soviet
political and military leaders. I copy below an extract from an
article that appeared in the Russian newspaper Pravda  on January 13,
1953. The translation has been carried out by P.R. Wolfe and BINIE
staff. The full translated article can be seen on this website. While
the article was unsigned, J.A. Medvedev (Voprosy istorii  , 2003, No.
2, p.105) noted that most biographers of Stalin assign to him the
authorship of the text.
    Vicious Spies and Killers under the Mask of Academic Physicians
    Pravda, January 13, 1953, p.1.
    Today the TASS news agency reported the arrest of a group of
saboteur-doctors. This terrorist group, uncovered some time ago by
organs of state security, had as their goal shortening the lives of
leaders of the Soviet Union by means of medical sabotage.
    Investigation established that participants in the terrorist
group, exploiting their position as doctors and abusing the trust of
their patients, deliberately and viciously undermined their patients’
health by making incorrect diagnoses, and then killed them with bad
and incorrect treatments…..
    Killer doctors, by incorrect use of very powerful medicines and
prescription of harmful regimens, shortened the life of Comrade
Shcherbakov, leading to his death.
    In the first place, the criminals tried to undermine the health of
the Soviet military leadership cadres, to remove them from the power
structure and thereby weaken the defense of the county. The arrest of
the criminals disrupted these nefarious plans, preventing the
accomplishment of their monstrous goals.
    Whom did these monsters serve? Who directed the criminal,
terrorist, and harmful activity of these vicious traitors to the
Motherland? What goal did they want to achieve by the murders of
leading figures of the Soviet government?
    It has been determined that all participants of the terrorist
group of doctors were in the service of foreign intelligence; having
sold their bodies and souls, they appeared as hirelings, paid agents.
    The majority of the participants of the terrorist group … were
bought by American intelligence. They were recruited by a branch-
office of American intelligence — the international Jewish bourgeois-
nationalist organization called “Joint.” The filthy face of this
Zionist spy organization, covering up their vicious actions under the
mask of kindness, is now completely revealed.
    Relying upon a group of corrupt Jewish bourgeois nationalists, the
professional spies and terrorists of “Joint,” through assignments from
and under the direction of American intelligence, extended their
subversive activity even into the territory of the Soviet Union….
    Unmasking the gang of poisoner-doctors struck a blow against the
international Jewish Zionist organization. Now all can see what sort
of philanthropists and “friends of peace” hid beneath the sign-board
of “Joint”….
    Exposing the gang of poisoner-doctors struck a shattering blow to
the Anglo-American war mongers. Their agents were captured and
neutralized. Again the true face of the slaveholding cannibals of the
USA and England appears before the whole world.
    The Soviet people with anger and indignation denounce the criminal
band of killers and their foreign bosses. As for the despicable
hirelings, serving for dollars and sterling, the people crush them, as
loathsome reptiles. As for the instigators of these murderous
mercenaries, this they can be sure of: that retribution will not
forget about them and will find out the devious road that leads to
them, in order to speak its weighty word.
The idea was that the doctors would be tried and convicted of this
criminal act, but it was much more sinister than that. Mark
Clarfield,in an article for the BMJ, quotes  Louis Rapaport’s book,
Stalin’s war against the Jews: the Doctors’ Plot and the Soviet
solution, to explain what would happen after the trial:
    Then “incidents” would follow: attacks on Jews orchestrated by the
secret police, the publication of the statement by the prominent Jews,
and a flood of other letters demanding that action be taken. A three-
stage program of genocide would be followed. First, almost all Soviet
Jews . . . would be shipped to camps east of the Urals . . . Second,
the authorities would set Jewish leaders at all levels against one
another . . . Also the MGB [Secret Police] would start killing the
elites in the camps, just as they had killed the Yiddish writers . . .
the previous year. The . . . final stage would be to “get rid of the
rest.”
Before any of this could occur, Stalin died, the case was dismissed,
and Pravda published a short article saying that there had been no
legal grounds for the arrest of the doctors.
Of course, some might argue that this fabricated plot was purely anti-
Zionist and anyone who suggests that Stalin was anti-Semitic is a
racist Zionist apologist for the fascist, apartheid, neo-Nazi State of
Israel, and probably a genocidal murderer of Palestinian babies in
their spare time.

 political and military leaders
2 mesi dopo, Stalin moriva. la seduta è tolta.