Go On Pretending: From Stalin’s Doctors Plot to Soviet Central Television

Josef Stalin’s Doctors Plot found him proclaiming that a secret cabal of medical professionals was conspiring to murder leading government and party officials. It began with the arrest of nine doctors – six of them Jews, continued with press accusations of the Soviet Union’s Jews being responsible for a variety of robberies and other crimes due to their status as “rootless cosmopolitans” and “Zionist agents” in cahoots with the American and British intelligence services.

TASS was authorized (ordered) to report that: 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 charity, is now completely revealed… 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.”

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