Only second raters, like Putin, arrest weapon developers for treason; Putin deflecting as his Ukraine invasion fails: 1950s Doctors Plot redux ?
Let us take a trip down memory lane: Lets see how physicians were tortured into BOGUS confessions. And after Stalin DIED, EVERY single DOCTOR was exonerated by the Post Stalin government. I.e. this looks like a failure on the part of the USSR to have its way in Korea, and so Stalin wanted a little bit of pre canned "entertainment".
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On Jan. 13, 1953, the newspapers?Pravda?and?Izvestiya?announced that nine doctors, who had attended major Soviet leaders, had been arrested. They were charged with poisoning Andrey A.?Zhdanov ,?Central Committee ?secretary, who had died in 1948, and?Alexander S. Shcherbakov (d. 1945), who had been head of the Main Political Administration of the Soviet army, and with attempting to murder several marshals of the Soviet army. The doctors, at least six of whom were Jewish, also were accused of being in the employ of U.S. and British intelligence services, as well as of serving the interests of international Jewry. The Soviet press reported that all of the doctors had confessed their guilt.
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I.e. wow, and you know lets see what Putin did in 2023
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Once touted as unstoppable, the program faces growing domestic fallout from treason charges against three scientists who worked on the technology, just as?Kyiv?claims its U.S.-supplied air defense systems have been able to shoot many of the missiles down.
The Kremlin said Wednesday that the scientists face “very serious accusations” after a rare public outcry over a wartime crackdown that has fueled a growing sense of unease across Russian society.
In an open letter criticizing the arrests published Monday, colleagues of the three academics in hypersonic technology warned that Russia’s research on the subject faces “impending collapse.”?
The three scientists — Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk and Valery Zvegintsev — were employees of the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. They were all detained on suspicion of high treason over the past year,?according to the letter published ?on the institute’s website
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I do not know if Putin got the memo that Every single one of the accused doctors were PUBLICALLY exonerated by the post Stalin USSR cabinet of ministers within a month of Stalin's death.
It gets better because Putin is using the same tried and true formula of looking for scapegoats Stalin used, and of course when you do that, you shoot yourself in the foot.
BTW the only case that there was any coercion which ever worked in weapons developments was when Beria, of the USSR secret police, took over the Russian Atomic bomb project.
Scientists whom did not perform were SHOT. Sweet
Well at least Beria did not hound his atomic scientists in show trials ! Unlike PUTIN
The shock waves of this one will insure that no one wants to work on weapons development in Russia anymore.
Way to go, ******* . Outstanding.
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Doctors’ Plot
alleged conspiracy, Soviet Union [1953]
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Date:?c.?1945 -?c.?1953
Location:?Soviet Union Key People:?Joseph Stalin ?Andrey Aleksandrovich Zhdanov
Doctors’ Plot, (1953),?alleged ?conspiracy ?of prominent Soviet medical specialists to?murder ?leading government and party officials; the prevailing opinion of many scholars outside the?Soviet Union ?is that?Joseph Stalin ?intended to use the resulting doctors’ trial to launch a massive party purge.
On Jan. 13, 1953, the newspapers?Pravda?and?Izvestiya?announced that nine doctors, who had attended major Soviet leaders, had been arrested. They were charged with poisoning Andrey A.?Zhdanov ,?Central Committee ?secretary, who had died in 1948, and?Alexander S. Shcherbakov (d. 1945), who had been head of the Main Political Administration of the Soviet army, and with attempting to murder several marshals of the Soviet army. The doctors, at least six of whom were Jewish, also were accused of being in the employ of U.S. and British intelligence services, as well as of serving the interests of international Jewry. The Soviet press reported that all of the doctors had confessed their guilt.
The trial and the rumoured purge that was to follow did not occur because the death of Stalin (March 5, 1953) intervened. In April?Pravda?announced that a reexamination of the case showed the charges against the doctors to be false and their confessions to have been obtained by torture. The doctors (except for two who had died during the course of the investigation) were?exonerated . In 1954 an official in the Ministry of State Security and some police officers were executed for their participation in fabricating the cases against the doctors.
In his secret speech at the 20th Party Congress (February 1956), Nikita S.?Khrushchev ?asserted that Stalin had personally ordered that the cases be developed and confessions elicited, the “doctors’ plot” then to signal the beginning of a new purge. Khrushchev revealed that Stalin had intended to include members of the?Politburo ?in the list of victims of the planned purge.
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And here we go again!!!! Ten four !!!!
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Russian hypersonic missile scientists are arrested on treason charges
The Kremlin said Wednesday that three scientists face “very serious accusations” after a rare public outcry that comes as Ukraine claimed it had shot many of the missiles down.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko inspects a Russian hypersonic missile shot down by Ukrainian air defenses last week. Kyiv's apparent ability to stop the missiles has dealt another blow to the Kremlin's war effort.Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters via Redux
May 18, 2023, 9:18 AM EDT
Russia ’s hypersonic missiles have taken a dual hit this week from Patriots fired by?Ukraine ?and “patriots” arrested at home.
Once touted as unstoppable, the program faces growing domestic fallout from treason charges against three scientists who worked on the technology, just as?Kyiv?claims its U.S.-supplied air defense systems have been able to shoot many of the missiles down.
The Kremlin said Wednesday that the scientists face “very serious accusations” after a rare public outcry over a wartime crackdown that has fueled a growing sense of unease across Russian society.
In an open letter criticizing the arrests published Monday, colleagues of the three academics in hypersonic technology warned that Russia’s research on the subject faces “impending collapse.”?
The three scientists — Anatoly Maslov, Alexander Shiplyuk and Valery Zvegintsev — were employees of the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. They were all detained on suspicion of high treason over the past year,?according to the letter published ?on the institute’s website.?
The letter professes the men’s innocence and praises their academic achievements, adding that all three chose to stay in Russia rather than accept highly paid and prestigious work abroad.?
“We know each of them as a patriot and a decent person who is not capable of doing what the investigating authorities suspect them of,” it said.?
It is rare and risky in modern Russia to speak out in defense of people charged with treason, especially after a bill was adopted last month increasing the maximum sentence for the crime to life in jail.?
The Russian state media agency Tass reported on the arrests of Maslov and Shiplyuk?last summer ?and on Zvegintsev’s?this week . It said Zvegintsev was detained about three weeks ago and is under house arrest. NBC News could not verify those details.?
Shiplyuk was?in charge ?of the laboratory of hypersonic technologies at the institute, which has “unique hypersonic aerodynamic installations designed to study the fundamental and applied problems of hypersonic flight,” according to his bio on the website. Maslov is a renowned expert in the field of aerogasdynamics,?it said .?
The institute released an?open letter ?in support of Maslov after he was arrested in June for what it said was “high treason,” saying his colleagues were “shocked” by his detention. It was also raising money on behalf of the families of Maslov and Shiplyuk to cover their legal expenses.?
Tass reported ?this week that the materials in Maslov’s case are classified and have been handed over to a judge in a St. Petersburg court. The agency said Maslov’s case was investigated by the FSB, Russia’s secret service.?
While the details of their cases have not been made public, the open letter by their colleagues said the three men could have been arrested for simply doing their jobs, including making presentations at global conferences and taking part in international scientific projects. Their work was also repeatedly checked by the institute’s expert commission to ensure it did not include “restricted information,” the letter said.
“In this situation, we are not only afraid for the fate of our colleagues. We just do not understand how to continue to do our job,” it added, raising concerns about “a rapid decline in the level of research” if employees are too afraid to do their work.?
Such cases are dissuading young Russian scientists from staying in the field, the letter said, and they could bring Russian science to a brink it last faced after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which?was characterized by a massive brain drain from the country. “Domestic science may not endure the second such blow,” the letter added.?
The letter also mentioned the controversial case of another Russian scientist, Dmitry Kolker, who was arrested last year on suspicion of treason even though he suffered from an advanced form of cancer. He was flown to Moscow for detention and died several days later.?
The Kremlin said it was aware of the letter in defense of the academics, but spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was a matter for Russian special services, the state media agency RIA reported. “This is a very serious accusation,” he said, according to the agency.
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But the scientists are not the only patriots seemingly bedeviling the Kremlin.
A wave of the hypersonic missiles — which Russian President Vladimir Putin once?boasted were all but unstoppable — were seemingly shot down by Ukraine this week.?
Kyiv claimed Tuesday that it had shot down six Russian Kinzhal missiles in a single night, a statement Moscow disputed.
Russia considered the air-launched ballistic missiles to be next-generation technology, and Putin praised them in a?highly publicized speech ?in early 2018, when he said they are “invulnerable” to existing missile and air defense systems, which “simply cannot catch up with them.”
The apparent vulnerability of the missiles “is likely a surprise and an embarrassment for Russia,” the?British Defense Ministry said ?in its daily dispatch Wednesday.?
The?Russian Defense Ministry said ?one of its Kinzhal missiles “struck and completely destroyed” a U.S.-built Patriot surface-to-air missile defense system in Kyiv on Tuesday, citing what it called “reliable data.” But two U.S. officials confirmed that the Patriot battery had incurred some damage but was still operational.??
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