Kremlin doctors

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Kremlin doctors were a group of predominantly Jewish physicians in the Soviet Union who were falsely accused in the early 1950s of conspiring to harm Soviet leaders, in what became known as the Doctors' Plot.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of physicians
victims of political repression
accusedOf conspiring to harm Soviet leaders
sabotage of medical treatment
terrorist activities
allegedAffiliation Western intelligence services NERFINISHED
Zionist organizations
associatedEvent Soviet antisemitism
postwar political trials in the USSR
chargeCharacterization fabricated conspiracy
false accusations
country Soviet Union
ethnicComposition predominantly Jewish
historicalInterpretation example of state-sponsored antisemitism in the USSR
historicalReputation innocent victims of show trial preparations
ideologicalUse tool for mobilizing public fear of internal enemies
impact heightened antisemitic sentiment in the USSR
increased fear among Soviet intelligentsia
languageOfWork Russian
legalOutcome posthumous rehabilitation of accused doctors
location Moscow
mediaCoverage Soviet press campaign in 1952–1953
notableMember Aleksei Vinogradov NERFINISHED
Boris Kogan NERFINISHED
Boris Shimeliovich NERFINISHED
Grigory Mayorov NERFINISHED
Mikhail Kogan NERFINISHED
Mikhail Vovsi NERFINISHED
Mikhail Yegorov NERFINISHED
Veniamin Egorov NERFINISHED
Yakov Etinger NERFINISHED
partOf Doctors' Plot NERFINISHED
politicalContext late Stalin era
profession physician
relatedTo Great Terror legacy NERFINISHED
Soviet show trials
specialization cardiology
internal medicine
surgery
timePeriod early 1950s
treated Joseph Stalin NERFINISHED
high-ranking Soviet officials
members of the Soviet Politburo
victimOf Stalinist purges NERFINISHED
antisemitic campaign
workedFor Kremlin leadership NERFINISHED
Soviet government NERFINISHED

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Doctors' Plot accusedGroup Kremlin doctors