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I dont totally know the history here but just to be clear, the Red Army did this no more than the Western allies did correct?
My friend who brought me to the ML side of things (i still technically call myself a Luxembourgist but whatever, I'm effectively an ML at this point) told me that the thing with the Doctor's plot is that it was genuinly kind of a legitimate bad on Stalin's part, but it wasn't motivated by genuine antisemitism, just old man paranoia. But idk thats a sourceless claim from a third party I bet someone else will come along with something better.
Espresso Stalinist has their flaws, but they hosted an interesting write-up about it https://espressostalinist.com/2014/08/24/the-doctors-plot/
Riumin's actions seem really suspect throughout the events
edit: oh and here is Bill Bland's book on the topic. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bland/1991/10/doctors-case-death-stalin.pdf
I will say the "rootless cosmopolitanism" campaign is pretty tropey and gross
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That's similar to what I've heard, I hope someone can enlighten us a bit more