Soviet poet Yegveny Yevtushenko said today in an interview that the late Joseph Stalin’s campaign in the “doctors’ affair,” in February 1953, was 50 well done that he believed the Jewish physicians to be guilty. The poet, in the interview with the French weekly, France Observateur, added that he realized then that the trial of the doctors “was being used to launch an anti-Semitic campaign.” His wife, however, said that she never believed that the accused doctors were guilty of the charges that they were responsible for the deaths of some of Stalin’s associates.
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