Khrushchev's Statements
In his 1956 "Secret Speech", Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stated that the Doctors Plot was "fabricated... set up by Stalin", but that Stalin did not "have the time in which to bring it to an end," which saved the doctors' lives. Khrushchev also told the session that Stalin called the judge in the case and, regarding the methods to be used, stated "beat, beat and, beat again." Stalin told his Minister of State Security "f you do not obtain confessions from the doctors we will shorten you by a head." Stalin told Politburo members "You are blind like young kittens. What will happen without me? The country will perish because you do not know how to recognize enemies." In fact, it has been suspected that Stalin's inner circle feared for their lives. And recently an article published by Miguel A. Faria Jr. M.D. in a peer-review medical publication Surgical Neurology International (SNI) provides evidence supporting the long-held suspicion that Stalin was indeed poisoned with the anticoagulant Warfarin that caused his stroke. This carried out by members of his own inner circle, most likely Lavrenti Beria, and perhaps even Khrushchev, all of whom feared for their lives at the time of Stalin's death.
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