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...Timashuk Woman. Counting against all the old Politburocrats and Kremlin toadies was the party's and people's hatred of Stalin. All were guilty by association, and by the innumerable crimes they had committed at the dictator's direction, but Malenkov was closer to Stalin than any of the others. As Stalin lay ill, a letter reached him from a woman doctor called Timashuk, warning him of improper treatments being used by his doctors. The "sickly suspicious" Stalin ordered the top specialists of the Kremlin dispensary arrested, called in Security Boss Semyon D. Ignatiev* and told...
Khrushchev, telling of the episode in his famed secret speech to the 20th Party Congress in February 1956, said that the woman Timashuk was a professional provocateur ("an unofficial collaborator with the organs of state security") and that an unnamed "someone" had put her up to the job. Khrushchev left the identity of the "someone" open...
...also recall the affair of the doctor-plotters. Actually there was no affair outside the declaration of the woman doctor Timashuk, who was probably influenced or ordered by someone-after all, she was an unofficial collaborator of the organs of state security-to write Stalin a letter in which she declared that doctors were applying supposedly improper methods of medical treatment. Such a letter was sufficient for Stalin to reach an immediate conclusion that there are doctor plotters in the Soviet Union. He issued orders to arrest a group of eminent Soviet medical specialists. He personally issued advice...
Meanwhile, a small pyre must be built for those who had helped prepare the plot against the doctors. They, said Beria's communique, "have already been arrested and brought to criminal responsibility." Besides Ryumin and Ignatiev, there was another victim: Lidiya F. Timashuk, a grandmother and a physician. Lidiya Timashuk was decorated last January with the Order of Lenin,the Soviet Union's top order, "for exposing the doctor assassins." "She fought," said Pravda, "as one fights with enemies of the homeland-a life and death struggle." Last week Dr. Timashuk was stripped of her decoration because...
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