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- 1995 Dec (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Yakov Etinger, relating to the arrest of Etinger and his father during the 'Doctor's plot', an anti-Semitic conspiracy against Jewish Doctors that had treated leading members of the Soviet Communist Party, Oct-Nov 1950; including anti-Semitism in the USSR, 1948-1953; the arrest of his father on suspicion of murder following the death of Aleksandr Sergeevich Shcherbakov, Commissar of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1945; the death of his father in Soviet custody, Mar 1951; Etinger's imprisonment in the Lubyanka prison, Moscow, USSR, 1950-1951; the pivotal role of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin during the 'Doctor's plot', 1950-1953; Etinger's sentence of ten years imprisonment in the Soviet Gulag slave labour camps, 1951, and subsequent release, 1954. 24pp
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