Tag #112735 - Interview #95578 ( Raisa Gertzevna Shulyakovskaya)

After Stalin’s death in 1953 nothing changed in my life. When the ‘Doctors’ Plot’ [24] occurred, we understood that it was a provocation. Matusovsky [a Soviet poet] wrote, ‘We trusted you so much, Comrade Stalin, as we may not have trusted ourselves.’ Almost everyone cried when he died. When Khrushchev [26] exposed him [27], I thought about what my neighbor told me, when I saw her off to the hospital, ‘Stalin and Hitler are the same.