Tag #119039 - Interview #100488 (Leya Yatsovskaya )

It was the period of state anti-Semitism, which was spread from Moscow to the outskirts like a multi-headed sea serpent. The struggle against rootless cosmopolites [see Campaign against ‘cosmopolitans’] [18] was in full swing. The papers were full of articles about doctors being murderers [see Doctors’ Plot] [19]. My husband and I understood that we could become victims as well. That was the way it happened.