After all, on 4 October 1994, within days of his storming of the Russian White House, Yeltsin issued a decree ordering the round-up and expulsion of "persons of Caucasian nationality" from Moscow, a diktat ominously reminiscent of Josef Stalin's anti-semitic actions at the time of the Doctors' Plot in 1952-53 when "persons of Jewish nationality" were incarcerated and, in many cases, eliminated.

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Four of the suspects detained in Britain's terror plot investigation have been identified as doctors, a profession few would have thought could harbor a terrorist.

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But don't think that a bunch of German doctors and lawyers had much say in casting and plot decisions.

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The defendants unnamed doctors, academics, lawyers and other professionals have been accused of building a secret network to plot the coup and raising money through real estate and other deals.

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