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[edit] Edvard Radzinsky

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STALIN: The First In-Depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives, Translated from the Russian By H.T. Willetts, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1996.

{p. 534} At the beginning of the fifties the Boss had authorized Abakumov, the Minister of State Security, to arrest a large number of Georgians from Beria's native province, Mingrelia, people whom Beria had planted in important posts. When he began the operation the Boss had told Abakumov in so many words to 'look for the big Mingrel in the plot.' But progress was slow. Abakumov was obviously afraid to collect evidence against his overlord.

Abakumov was working at the time on the 'case of the Kremlin doctors.' Back in 1948 Lidia Timashuk, senior electrocardiographer at the Kremlin Clinic, had reported that Zhdanov was not receiving the appropriate treatment.

Professor Vovsi, one of the Kremlin doctors, was related to Mikhoels. This prompted the idea of a proliferating Jewish conspiracy utilizing the world's most humane profession.

{p. 535} The storyline Stalin concocted went as follows: the sinister Jewish organization Joint was bent on destroying the Russian people. It had probably begun operations in the days of Trotsky, Zinoviev, and Kamenev. Later, its agents, Mikhoels and other loyal instruments of Amencan imperialism, had infiltrated everywhere. ...

Pavel Sudoplatov also explains that the Jewish AntiFascist Committee (JAC) had alarmed Stalin by proposing a separate Jewish Republic be carved out of the USSR, in the Crimea ... backed by American Jewish capitalists. Stalin saw this as a threat to the unity of the USSR: hxxp://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/sudoplat.html

Zionists had infiltrated even the highest levels of the political elite. This was where Zhemchuzina came in. He had spared her, as he had once spared Zinoviev and Kamenev, for use in a public trial. She was the intermediary through whom Molotov had been recruited as an enemy agent. The Boss could go on from there to write group after group of conspirators into his story. In the early stages they would be destroyed by the Great Mingrel.

In Czechoslovakia Slansky, the First Secretary of the Communist Party, was put on trial, and several other senior officials were tried with him. They had one thing in common: all of them were Jews. Slansky was shot as an agent of international Zionism

{p. 536} Abakumov's hesitancy in dealing with Beria called for a decision. Abakumov, ...was consigned to oblivion. The decree stated that 'Chekists have lost their vigilance, they are working in white gloves.' That was enough. In the drive against the 'white-gloved' bngade, many heads of departments and branches in the Ministry of the Interior were arrested. Abakumov's, and so also Beria's, proteges were routed. ....The Boss appointed Ignatiev, a Party official unconnected with Beria, to the Ministry of State Security.

a large group of eminent Jewish doctors - Kogan, Feldman, Ettinger, Vovsi, Grinstein, Ginzburg, and others - had been arrested in readiness for the coming trial. ...he generously added his own doctor, Professor V. Vinogradov, to the list Stalin dispatched another old favorite of his to jail, commander of the Boss's bodyguard - Vlasik.

VLASIK'S TRIAL {p. 538} Stalin's death saved Vlasik. In 1955, Vlasik wrote a petition for a pardon, Vlasik tells us that he was originally interrogated by Beria in person. He was astonished to find that Beria knew details of private conversations between himself and the 'head of government' (Stalin) which he could have obtained only by 'eavesdropping.' 'Beria,' Vlasik wrote, 'must have known about the head of government's expressions of dissatisfaction with Beria after the war.'

Endless accusations of anti-Semitism were heard in the West, and the Cultural Committee's propagandists counterattacked with a collective letter from representatives of the Jewish community, persons eminent in science and the arts. They angrily condemned the 'murderers in white gowns,' and declared that anti-Semitism did not and could not exist in the USSR, the land of workers and peasants, but that well-deserved punishment awaited a miserable handful of bourgeois nationalists, agents of international Zionism.

p. 544} In the course of the meeting, Vyshinsky (who had ceased to be public prosecutor in 1940 and had served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1940 to 1949 and as Minister from 1949 to 1953) told Stalin about the

{p. 545} 'enormous' reaction in the West to the impending trial of the doctors. Vyshinsky was openly supported by some members of the Presidium. In reply Stalin savaged Vyshinsky, describing his statement as 'Menshevik,' and berated his comrades-in-arms, calling them 'blind kittens.' He concluded with this ominous sentence: 'We are afraid of no one, and if the imperialist gentlemen feel like going to war there is no more favorable moment for us than the present.' After which Stalin went off to his dacha, never again to leave it alive.

{Pavel Sudoplatov, Stalin's spymaster and a supporter of Beria (Beria was Jewish, and Sudoplatov had a Jewish wife), disputes the validity of those rumours:

"It is rumored now that a plan existed for deportation of Jews from Moscow on the eve of Stalin's death. I never heard of it; if such a plan existed it could be easily traced in the archives of state security and of the Moscow party committee, because it would have required large-scale preparations." (Special Tasks, p. 308)

anuary 13, 1953: Tass announced the discovery of a terrorist group of poisoning doctors (Radzinsky, p. 539).

February 8, 1953: Pravda published the names of Jewish saboteurs etc.

February 11, 1953: the USSR severed diplomatic relations with Israel (Yosef Govrin, Israeli-Soviet Relations 1953-1967, pp. 3-4).

End of February, 1953: rumors went around Moscow that the Jews were to be deported to Siberia (Radzinsky, p. 542), with March 5 rumoured to be the date when this would happen (p. 546}. Radzinsky claims that Stalin was inviting war with America, the home of Zionism and world finance, over this issue, because America was dominated by Zionist financiers (p. 543).

March 5, 1953: Stalin declared dead.

Lazar Kaganovich's account of the Murder of Stalin: kaganovich.html.

[edit] Peter Myers

The Death of Stalin: a Coup d'Etat - Peter Myers, March 26, 2002; update May 7, 2006.

On March 5, 1953, the Soviet media announced the death of Stalin.

There is overwhelming evidence that he was murdered. He died within 2 months of the Doctors' Plot being announced.

His murderers were in two factions: a Jewish one (Beria, Kaganovich, Molotov) and a "Russian" one (Khruschev).

The Jewish one seized power, but was overthrown a few months later, by Khruschev.

The fall of Beria was announced on 10 July, 1953: beria.html.

Voroshilov and Molotov were in the Jewish faction. In Special Tasks, Sudoplatov says that their wives were Jewish, p. 288 footnote 4: sudoplat.html.

On Beria's belonging to the Jewish faction, see Sudoplatov, pp. 287-8, 296, 298, 306. On Kaganovich being Jewish, see Sudoplatov, p. 300.

Mikoyan was also in the Jewish faction; he had been involved in the plan for a Jewish republic in the Crimea: Sudoplatov, p. 288 n4.

Stalin died within 2 months of the Doctors' Plot being announced. The successor Government, run by the Jewish faction, denounced the Doctors' Plot as bogus.

(1) Georges Bortoli, The Death of Stalin, tr. Raymond Rosenthal, Praegar Publishers, New York 1975. {p. 175} On March 9, Soviet newsreel cameramen filmed the funeral in all of its details. The results of their labors would never be seen. All of the cameramen's work was consigned to the film arehives, where it remains to this day, unavai]able for foreign or domestic consumption. For, before the film of the funeral was ready, the wind had changed and it was already time to forget Stalin.

Pravda remained Stalinist-tinged for about thirteen days: From the mourning issue of March 10, which was devoted entirely to the funeral ceremonies, to March 22 inclusive.

At the same time, the articles against Jews ceased. The last big anti-Semitic feature article- one of the most violent published- appeared in the March 20 issue of Krokodil. Vasily Ardamatsky, the author of this ill-timed article, would have the unpleasant experience of being shunned by his colleagues and of hearing himself nicknamed Vasya Timashuk, after the woman doctor who had denounced and caused the arrest of the "men in white."

On and after March 23, the word "vigilance" seemed to have been forgotten as all the commentators began discussing the "prosperity of the people." The plots of land given to the workers to grow potatoes became a subject of great concern to the organ of the Central Committee.

The Israeli delegation to the United Nations immediately made it known that it would bring the problem of anti-Semitism in the U.S.S.R. before the international organization. The entire Soviet press had begun to condemn "all propaganda for racial or national discrimination." It rehabilitated, posthumously but with special and warm emphasis, the actor Solomon Mikhoels, "this honest citizen, this great artist of the people of the U.S.S.R." The same person who, just two months before, had been labeled a paid agent of American Zionists.

what most struck the political class about the news of the freeing of the doctors was the signature: "Communique of the Ministry of the Interior." In other words, Beria.

The Death of Stalin: An Investigation by 'MONITOR', pub. Allen Wingate, London 1958.

January 13th 1953 The 'Doctors' Plot' Exposed - nine Kremlin physicians arrested.

March 4th " Moscow radio announces Stalin's illness.

March 5th " The death of Stalin. March 6th " Beria's tanks surround Moscow. March 9th " Stalin's funeral. March 20th " Malenkov released from his duties as Secretary General of the Communist Party. April 3rd " Kremlin doctors freed. July 10th " Beria dismissed from the Communist Party.

September 12th " Krushchev elected First Secretary of the Communist Party.

December 23rd " Beria tried, found guilty and shot. February 8th 1955 Malenkov released from his duties as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet. February 24th 1956 Krushchev's 'Secret' Speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party.

February 29th " Krushchev appointed Chairman of the newly created Bureau of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party for the affairs of the Russian Federal Republic.

June 2nd 1957 Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich disgraced. August 16th 1958 Bulganin exiled from Moscow.

On February 6th, Pravda announccd the arrest of four Russians for spying for foreign powers.

Three days later, the main offices of the Soviet Legation at Tel Aviv were wrecked by a bomb thrown through a window, and the Minister's wife and two members of the legation staff were injured. As a result of this outrage, a note was sent from Moscow severing diplomatic relations with Israel. The note declared that the bomb explosion had been engineered with the obvious connivance of the Israeli police, and that, in spite of the Israeli Government's condemnation of the outrage, 'the participation of Israeli Government members in the systematic fannling of hatred and enmity towards the Soviet Union and in incitement to hostile actions against the Soviet Union, is universally known and indisputable'.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the decision to break off diplomatic relations was the culminatioll of a campaign of 'open animosity and poisonous slander by the USSR against Israel, Zionist organisations, and the Jews which had been carried on by the Soviet bloc for a long time, and had increased during the past two months, the real aim of which is to isolate and frighten the Jews in Soviet Russia, whose fate arouses dcep concern'.

On February 13th, the day following the incident at Tel Aviv, Moscow Radio reported the death 'after a long and serious illness' of Lev Zaharovich Mekhlis, one of the

{p. 4} two Jewish members of the Communist Central Committee.

On February 21st, the invitations issued for the Soviet Army Day reception revealed that Marshal Sokolovsky had replaced General Shetemenko as Chief of Staff to the Army. The latter was one of those whom the 'doctor-plotters' had allegedly 'tried to disable'.

In the early hours of March 4th, Moscow Radio broadcast the news that Stalin had been elected to the Moscow City Soviet. That morning, the usual light music programme was replaced by a women's choir and a Beethoven concert. Pravda and the other newspapers were four hours late. At 8 a.m. (Moscow time) the following announcement was made over the radio:- 'The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union notify the misfortune which has overtaken our Party and our people - the serious illness of Comrade J. V. Stalin.

{p. 62} significance to our investigation. On April 3rd, the Soviet Press published a communique issued by Lavrenti Beria's Ministry of Internal Affairs, which read:

'The Ministry has made a thorough investigation of all the materials of the preliminary investigation and other data in the case of a group of physicians accused of wrecking, espionage and terrorist activities against leaders of the Soviet State.

'As a result of verification it has been established that Professors M. S. Vovsi, V. N. Vinogadov, M. B. Kogan, B. B. Kogan, P. I. Egorov, A. I. Feldman, Y. G. Etinger, V. H. Vasilenko, A. M. Grinstein, V. F. Zelenin, B. S. Preobrazhensky, N. A. Popova, V. V. Zakusov, N. A. Shereshevsky and Doctor G. I. Mayorov implicated in this case were wrongly arrested by the former Ministry of State Security of the USSR through the use of methods of investigation which are inadmissible and most strictly forbidden by Soviet law.

'On the basis ofthe finding ofthe investigation commission specially set up by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR to verify the case, the above-mentioned and others implicated in this case have been fully cleared of the charges preferred against them and, in conformity with Article 4, Point 5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the RSFSR, have been released from custody.

'The persons guilty of the improper conduct of the investigation have been arrested and are criminally held responsible.' The communique also stated that the award of the Order of Lenin to Doctor Lidya Timashuk, the woman doctor who had accused the physicians, had been annulled. inspired Pravda to publish a leader headed 'Soviet Socialist Law Is Inviolable'. In this the onus of the scandal was laid on 'the former leaders of the Ministry of State Security', amongst them Ignatyev and Ryumin. The former was dismissed from the Secretariat of the Central Committee, while the latter, who had been Deputy Minister and Chief of the Investigation Section of the Ministry, was arrested.

Pravda denounccd Ryumin as 'a contemptible adventurer' who had framed the Kremlin physicians, and then went on to declare that the new regime's courage in unmasking such villains was proof of its internal unity and strength.

From having been "hired assassins of JOINT, 'spies', and 'saboteurs', the released doctors were once more 'honest Soviet citizens' and 'eminent scientists", the 'victims of criminals who dared to ride rough-shod over the inalienable rights of Soviet citizens inscribed in our Constitution'.

Yet, the 'Doctors' Plot' which was the spark that set alight the new purge that threatened the lives of countless numbers of Russians, is a mystery and is likely to remain such for generations.

Let us recall the "Affair of the Doctor-Plotters",'* he said. 'Actually, there was no "affair" outside the declaration of the woman doctor, Timashuk, who was probably influenced or ordered by someone to write Stalin a letter in which she declared that the doctors were applying supposedly improper methods of medical treatmcnt.'