The charge that Stalin attempted to blow up the “Jewish doctors’ plot” of January 1953 to major proportions and convert it into a huge anti-Semitic trial involving high Soviet officials was made by Nikita S. Khrushchev, head of the Soviet Communist Party in an address at the recent Communist Congress in Moscow, it was reported today as the contents of Khrushchev’s sensational anti-Stalin address became known through-diplomatic channels.
Khrushchev also charged Stalin with deliberately ordering the murder of two prominent Jewish generals of the Red Army, Gen. A. Yakir and Gen. Jan Gamarnik. The latter was a brother-in-law of the late Chaim Nachman Bialik, Jewish national poet. In stating that Stalin was personally responsible for the mass executions of Soviet army and navy officers and industrial managers the Soviet party chief declared that Stalin had attempted to blow up the “Jewish doctors” anti-Semitic plot to major proportions in order to move against Nicolai Bulganin, the present Premier, Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov and other highly placed Soviet officials.
After Stalin’s death and Lavrenti Beria’s execution by the present leaders of the USSR, it was announced that the “doctors’ plot” had been concocted by officials in Mr. Beria’s Ministry of State Security. The doctors, most of whom were Jews, were released at the same time that the government publicly announced their vindication.
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