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Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
Yuriy Tsurilo Nina Ruslanova Jüri Järvet Jr. Mikhail Dementyev Aleksandr Bashirov Natalya Lvova Ivan Matskevich Paulina Myasnikova Viktor Mikhaylov Nijolė Narmontaitė Olga Samoshina Genrietta Yanovskaya Evgeniy Vazhenin Galina Volkova Konstantin Vorobyov Natalya Ershova Aleksei Zharkov Andrei Kashker Veniamin Kleyner Elena Kraynyaya Aleksandr Lykov Yuriy Nifontov Viktor Pomortsev Edgar Figner Aleksandr Levit Anatoli Shvedersky Evgeniy Filatov Dmitriy Prigov Mark Geykhman Mikhail Trukhin Konstantin Khabenskiy Lactemir Dztiev Valeri Poroshin Boris Cherdyntsev Ella Vaulchikova Vladimir Mashchenko Valeriy Filonov Irina Osnovina Anton Zakharov Anna Ovsyannikova Gennadi Chetverikov Yuriy Ashikhmin Sergei Russkin Nikolay Dik Andrey Gorshnev Sergei Dyachkov Sergey Lanbamin Sergey Bryantsev Mikhail Silantyev Sergey Barkovsky Daniil Belykh Oleg Garkusha Svetlana Serval Sergey Pinegin Anton Makarov Roman Chora Pavel Kornakov Tatyana Kuznetsova Dmitriy Polyanskiy Yuriy Chirkovskiy Nikolay Ispolatov Sergey Evgranov Viktor Sukhorukov Vladimir Garin Valeri Kuzin Vladimir Rublev
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