1953 The first message about the "doctors' case"

65 years ago, on January 13, 1953, Pravda published a TASS report "The Arrest of a Group of Pest Doctors." It said:

"Some time ago, the state security authorities uncovered a terrorist group of doctors who set themselves the goal of shortening the lives of active workers in the Soviet Union by means of sabotage treatment. Among the participants in this terrorist group were: Professor Vovsi M.S., general practitioner; Professor Vinogradov V. N., general practitioner; Professor M. B. Kogan, general practitioner; Professor B. B. Kogan, general practitioner; Professor P. I. Egorov, general practitioner; Professor A. I. Feldman, otolaryngologist Professor Etinger Ya.G., general practitioner Professor Grinshtein A.M., neuropathologist Mayorov G.I., general practitioner Documentary data, studies, medical hidden enemies of the people, carried out sabotage treatment of the sick and undermined their health.

The arrested were accused of "killing" the Secretary of the Central Committee Andrei Zhdanov and the head of the Political Directorate of the Red Army Alexander Shcherbakov, of trying to "undermine the health" of Marshals Vasilevsky, Govorov, Konev and a number of other military figures, as well as of having links with the Jewish "bourgeois-nationalist" organization "Joint". ".