Logically, since these circumstances have been published, it is impossible to describe them as having been killed by the distribution of terror. However, Stalin could ignore the logic that even dead people must follow. You know, he once threatened Krupskányi that if she did not stop “treating him critically”, then the Party would declare that Mrs. Lenin was not her, but Yelena Stasová ……
“Yes, the Party can do what it wants!” This was Stalin’s explanation to Krupskany, who was too stunned to come back.
This was in no way a joke. The Party, that is, he, Stalin, could really do whatever he wanted. He could falsify and replace well-known facts with fiction, take out witnesses and put a false witness on the stand. More importantly, he had a knack for fabricating facts, and he could resort to force without hesitation. Stalin did have these skills, so he was able to clear all obstacles.
Yes, it is true that the government had announced a few years ago that Gubishev, Mininsky and Gorky died of natural causes. But what does it matter? Just show enough creativity to overturn those past announcements. It is also possible to prove that all these people died of murder. So what other people have ever gotten in the way of doing this? Were they the doctors who treated the dead? Did they dare to confront Stalin and the NKVD? Moreover, why not create a new myth that it was these doctors who murdered these famous patients on the secret orders of the head of the Trotskyist conspiracy?
This is the good plan set up by Stalin.
Gubishev, Mininsky and Gorky were treated by three famous doctors of the Time: the sixty-six-year-old Professor Pletnev, Levin, a senior advisor to the Kremlin sanatorium, and the famous Moscow doctor Kazakov.
Stalin and Yezhov decided to hand over all three men to the Ministry of Internal Affairs so that the interrogators could force them to confess that they had deliberately adopted a treatment plan wrong enough to cause the deaths of Gubishev, Mininsky and Gorky at the request of the head of the conspiracy.
Yerev took into account that all three famous doctors were not members of the Communist Party, that is, they had not yet learned to dialectically unite adherence to party discipline with lying and deceiving people. They still clung to bourgeois morality, and in their eyes, the golden rule of “don’t kill and don’t perjure yourself” was much more valuable than even the Politburo’s mandate. In any case, since they had not killed their patients, they would refuse to confess to this crime in court.
Out of this concern, Yezhov decided to destroy the resistance of one doctor first, and then use his confession to force the other two into line.
He chose Professor Pletnev as his breakthrough. The professor was the most famous cardiologist in the entire Soviet Union, and a number of hospitals and medical institutions in the country bore his name. In order to get the professor in the dust before the so-called detective work began, Yerev came up with a poisonous plan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs had a group of pornographic spies specifically designed to seduce foreign diplomats into falling for them. Yezhov ordered one of them, a beautiful young woman, to go to the old professor as a patient. The woman, after seeing the professor once or twice, went to the prosecutor’s office and complained out of thin air that three years ago, when Pletnikov was seeing her at Home, he went berserk and pinned her to the ground and sucked her nipples with his mouth.
Pletnikov could not imagine that the female patient had anything to do with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and he was puzzled: what could have made her use such despicable methods to discredit him? During the confrontation, the professor tried to get the woman to give even a single word of explanation for this nasty behavior, but she just kept on sticking to her accusations. Pletnev was unable to do anything but write to the party dignitaries who had seen him, as well as to the influential wives of high officials whose children he had saved, asking them to come forward and help find out the truth. However, no one reached out to him. Instead, the Ministry of Internal Affairs watched the old professor’s panicked behavior as if he were a dying rabbit for their experiments.
The case was brought to court, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a veteran to act as the presiding judge of the case. In court, Pletnev maintained his innocence and cited his more than 40 years of unimpeachable medical activity and scientific achievements. The court, however, was not interested in this, found him guilty, and sentenced him to a long prison term. In the past, the Soviet press never reported the details of “peach cases”, but this time it made an exception for “Pletnikov the Pervert”. Moreover, in June 1937, the newspapers published almost every day stern statements from the medical departments of various regions, which, in addition to the fact that they were clearing themselves from the “Soviet medical scum” Pletnikov, also scolded the professor. Many of the statements were signed by the professor’s friends and students, which the powerful Ministry of Internal Affairs wanted more than anything.
Pletnev was desperate and collapsed. In this state of mind, after being severely beaten and insulted. He was turned over to the NKVD investigators, and what awaited him, naturally, was an even more tragic end.
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