Mikhail Dmitrievich Ryumin

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Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Ryumin ( Russian Михаил Дмитриевич Рюмин ; born September 1, 1913 in Kabanje, Perm Governorate , today Kurgan Oblast ; † July 22, 1954 ) was Deputy Minister for State Security under Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov . He was best known for the invention of the so-called doctors' conspiracy .

Life

Ryumin came from a farming family and joined the SMERSCH at an early age . In 1941 he was an inspector in Arkhangelsk ; 1945 deputy head of a SMERSCH division. In 1947 he was appointed Deputy Minister for State Security.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn , he personally tortured the detainees on remand in Sukhanovka . In The Gulag Archipelago , Solzhenitsyn reports that Ryumin had a tarpaulin spread over the carpet in his office so that it would not be stained with the blood of the tortured. He also tells of an "Alexander D." (probably Alexander Dolgun , one of the few inmates of the Sukhanovka who survived their pre-trial detention and did not lose their minds), whom Ryumin finally hit in the stomach with a baton, causing the abdominal wall to burst.

At the end of 1950, Ryumin sued Professor Jakow Etinger, who was of Jewish descent, with Viktor Semjonowitsch Abakumow . He is said to have deliberately mistreated some high-ranking officials, Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov and Alexander Shcherbakov , with the aim of killing them. Although Abakumov was present at an interrogation of Etinger (who died of exhaustion the next night during a similar interrogation), he did not believe the story. Ryumin then turned directly to Stalin , who used this for a large-scale anti-Semitic campaign against an alleged medical conspiracy in the Kremlin. This campaign was intended to both justify and distract attention from the large-scale purge and restructuring of the Soviet security forces that he was planning. Abakumov was removed from office and sentenced to death ; Ryumin succeeded him as Minister of State Security .

However, after Stalin's death on March 5, 1953, the following government quickly declared that the entire conspiracy had been fabricated. Ryumin was arrested when her initiator on March 17, was sentenced on July 7, 1954 to the death, and on July 22 shot .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ His first name is given in the 1955 American Jewish Yearbook , p. 408
  2. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (Rowohlt Verlag, 1992)
  3. Timothy Snyder : Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin . CH Beck, Munich 2011, p. 365 ff .; Matthias Vetter: Conspiracy of the Kremlin doctors . In: Wolfgang Benz (Ed.) Handbook of Antisemitism , Vol. 4: Events, Decrees, Controversies . de Gruyter Saur, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-598-24076-8 , p. 417 f. (accessed via De Gruyter Online).