“For years, the Justice Department has been working aggressively to counter Iran’s brazen and unrelenting efforts to retaliate against American public officials for the killing of Iranian General [Qassem] Soleimani,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said
They actually put this quote in the article. I guess if you are foaming at the mouth about Iran, this quote fills you with pride.
Stalin’s doctors are mentioned to refute the accusation that Stalin was antisemitic. The team of doctors treating him were mostly Jewish, it stayed that way up to his death.
In czarist Russia, doctors (especially Jewish ones) were scapegoated as the reason for royals dying. This was still somewhat true after Stalin’s death, but to a lesser extent.
I hope I am remembering that correctly. I’ll try to find some page numbers from the Losurdo book
Edit: Chapter "The Question of ‘Cosmopolitanism’ ", page 229 onwards