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Article: Killers in White Gowns; Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
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- October 17, 2003
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Kassow, Samuel
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10-17-2003
Samuel Kassow is Charles Northam professor of history at Trinity College.
On January 13, 1953, just six weeks before Stalin died, an ominous article
appeared in Pravda: The ever-vigilant Soviet authorities had "discovered"
that several Kremlin doctors, mostly Jews, were in fact killers sent by
American intelligence to destroy the nation's leaders. For Soviet Jews,
this terse disclosure about the "killers in white gowns" ushered in a
period of fear and terror unusual even in a society where arbitrary
arrests, denunciations and executions had become routine.
During that terrible winter, Jewish children came home from school bruised
and beaten. Jews were assaulted on ...
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