In today’s world, why does the world community always focus on the merely one Holocaust committed by Hitler’s Germany, which was subjected to fervent interests and ideas on disposing “Enlightenment” policy of Nazi Germany amid the Hitler’ regime?!- But indeed, it is undeniable fact that a civil society in different periods observed far more anti-Semitist campaign against Jewish community with their own eyes along the history.
Hence, nefarious anti-Semitism not only did splash its venomous seeds onto merely Nazi Germany but also the Soviet Union during the Stalin’s regime. Basically, when it comes to interpret the anti-Semitist campaign against Jewish society, the most brutal and unbearable anti-Semitist policy after the Nazi Holocaust was the extreme state anti-Semitism which was imposed by Stalin in the shadow of the Soviet Union and caused the unending prosecution and then annihilation of hundreds of people, mainly some of Soviet Leaders and necessary Jewish physicians between 1948 and 1953.
The main conspiracy of state anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union was Doctors’ Plot (Doctors’ Affairs) had historically been scrutinized as the peak point of the nasty anti-Semitic campaign undertaken by Stalinist Russia that mainly premised on the anti-cosmopolitism and anti-Semitist thoughts and ideas. To a large extent, the severe culmination of the vicious anti-Semitic movement was undertaken by Stalin in the last years of his life. In the late periods of 1948, the animosity and anti-cosmopolitan thoughts and ideas against Jewish dwelled in the Soviet Union drastically increased.
The pivotal trigger for the inception of the diabolical plan so-called Doctors’ Plot was the death of Andrei Zhdanov in 1948. Prior to becoming Chief of Central Committee, he was the head of Leningrad party. In the late of 1952, Stalin accused a group of doctors with Jewish background along with Soviet leaders Viktor Abakumov, Ministry of Security and Nikolai Vlasik, head of Kremlin Guards of being in charge with the assassination of A. Zhdanov. The main evidence regarding that event was the letter written by Dr. Lidiia Timashuk who worked in Kremlin hospital cardio-graphic division ignited the mass hysteria and fear between Soviet Leaders and community. The letter written to Stalin alleged that the death of A. Zhdanov was an intentionally medical wrong treatment. Afterwards, a large number of doctors with a Jewish background, (among them Miron Vovsi, Chief internist) alleged in medical malpractice and wrongdoing treatment were committed to interrogation; some of them were arrested and exterminated. On the other hand, the cousin of Miron Vovsi, Solomon Mikhoels, who was the director of Moscow State Yiddish Theatre, was assassinated in 1948.
Apparently, they turned into the wrecked victims of Stalin’s evil Jewish conspiracy. Stalin had in mind to involve more and more people around the net of denunciations of multidimensional conspiracy. Thus, the severe condemnations came to include the prestigious Jewish physicians such as Yakov G. Etinger, Sophia Karpai were arrested. After that, Dr. Etinger died in the mysterious condition in prison amid the process of questioning and torture in 1951. In general, nearly 40 physicians with their wives were arrested between 1951 and 1953. As the “Plot” vastly extended, it did include other almost 20 Jews in 1953.
In fact, the Soviet Jewish conspiracy subjected to the implementation of anti-Semitic thoughts and anti-cosmopolitism against Jewish community revealed the internal and external fears and weaknesses of Soviet Union on its own and astounded its political and ideological walls.
The execution of Doctors’ Plot in Stalinist Russia stemmed from varied kinds of political and ideological factors. First and foremost, one of the crucial reasons why Soviet Jewish conspiracy was commenced is the inception of the Cold War with the West. Regarding the fact that although Stalin was characterized as a main rescuer of the Jewish community during the World War II because he defeated the Nazi Germany in the war and released the Concentration Camps in the Eastern Part of Europe from Nazis. Amid those times, Stalin tried to use the “Jewish” affair as a means of propaganda against the West. It is undeniable fact that prior to the commencement of Soviet Jewish conspiracy, Stalin at initial times supported the foundation of Israel State of Jewish. On the other hand, the major power of the Bolshevik Party was the Jewish leaders.
Thus, by 1948 there were weird fears in Stalin’s mind that Israel Jewish, Jewish community in the Soviet Union, in particular, Russian Jews, assumed as conspirators and enemies were a potential menace to the Soviet State and they were dealing with secret relations with the American and British intelligence, and other security organs in order to break down the political and ideological basis of Soviet Union. According to Stalin’s mind, they were in secret ties with the West and supporting the interests of Jewish solidarity – “International Jewry” Eventually, the initial inception of the anti-Cosmopolitan campaign against Jewish mainly concerned on those ideological episodes.
Another critical reason was the Stalin’s severe health particularly physical condition. Upon the World War II, some kind of physical collapse emerged in his health and that caused him to make weird assumptions against Jewish. In fact, he was drowning in the bizarre thoughts and fears regarding the Jewish solidarity with the State of Israel and the West in order to destroy the Soviet Union. Finally, Stalin’s prevailing aim was to focus on the flawless administration by his own power. Therefore, the main raison d’être why Soviet Jewish were undergone anti-Semitic campaign is based on the strengthening and recombining of Stalin’s regime in an appropriate way.
Stalin not only did want to remove potential political leaders but also sprinkle the fatal seeds of Great Terror and replicate it again. Throughout those periods, he wanted to execute far more multi-dimensional anti-Semitic campaign against Soviet Jewish and turned them into the victims of his final “ethnic purge” campaign.
The death of Stalin on 5th March 1953 caused the dissolution of Doctors’ Plot trials and his multi-dimensional “Day X” plan. Prior to his death what was Stalin’s severe campaign regarding Day X plan?!- The plan was subjected to mass deportations and ethnic cleansing of Jewish people to newly constructed Concentration camps in Asia. After his death, it was revealed that Stalin in his secret speech had ordered the involving of Politburo members in the list of trial and then elimination of them one by one. In fact, Stalin did not have in mind to see far more powerful leaders above him and strive to maintain his long-lasting authority in Soviet administration. It was apparent that Stalin was preparing for the large-scale trials and massive deportations of Jewish people and striving to complete the final questions to the Jewish issue but, his death caused to bring the trials and persecutions to the end.
Upon Stalin’s death Khrushchev, Malenkov, Beria, and other Politburo members were afraid of Stalin’s severe anti-Western policy and they strived to close the relations with the West. Afterwards, Khrushchev came to the power and condemned the Jewish conspiracy so-called Doctor’s Plot as a Stalin’s bogus policy and began to the de-Stalinization campaign in the Soviet Union and unlike Stalin he undertook the new openness strategy with the West. As a consequence, Doctors’ Plot was rejected by other Soviet authorities and doctors arrested were released from prison and rehabilitated. Eventually, Soviet authorities began to implement the process of rehabilitation and exoneration of the Jewish victims.
Up to date, Stalin’s final plan still remains mysterious and the campaign of animosity against Jews in the Soviet Union as an “abandoned Holocaust” engenders some suspicious cases and questions in terms of the plan of mass deportation of Jews from major Russian cities to other parts of the Soviet State. Thereby, this article mainly identifies that the execution against Jewish people is inadmissible that took many lives during the term of mass hysteria, in order that the Doctors’ Plot as a concrete evidence of the violation of human rights, confessed the persecution of many innocent people alleged in medical malpractice and after the Nazi Holocaust it was the second crystal evidence of Soviet’s Holocaust against mankind along the history.
