Wikipedia readers turned to Doctors' plot at 283x the usual rate

What this article is

The "doctors' plot" was a Soviet state-sponsored anti-intellectual and antisemitic campaign based on a conspiracy theory that alleged an anti-Soviet cabal of prominent medical specialists, many of whom were ethnically Jewish, intended to murder leading government and Communist Party officials. It was also known as the case of saboteur doctors, doctor-poisoners or killer doctors.

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