The human costs of Stalin’s anti-Semitic campaigns.

[professor rat]

" . . . he may have “used or acquiesced in” anti-Semitic prejudice in his assault on “cosmopolitanism”. He omits to mention that at least six of the nine physicians accused in the so-called “doctors’ plot” of 1951-53 were Jewish, while on the Night of the Murdered Poets on 12 August 1952, all 13 of the anti-fascist writers, actors and doctors executed by firing squad in Moscow’s Lubyanka prison were Jews. . . "

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2022/03/the-cult-of-stalin-the-intellectual