... website. (2004) The term 'pogrom' is generally associated with attacks on Jews. Its origins can be found in Russia toward the end of the 19th Century following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by a young Polish student. "Under every kind of outrage they died, mostly at the door of their homes. They were babes, butchered at the breasts of their mothers. They were old men beaten down in the presence of their sons. They were delicate women violated and murdered in the sight of their own children". Reverend W. C. Stiles, preaching in Russia during a pogrom in 1903. The 'Doctor's Plot' Stalin accused nine doctors, six of them Jews, of plotting to poison and kill the Soviet leadership. The innocent men were arrested and, at Stalin's personal instruction, tortured in order to obtain confessions. "Beat, beat, and again beat," Stalin commanded the interrogators. The Jewish Visual Library. (2004). The Doctor's Plot was ...

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