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Say to 1955, or 1956?

A lot of people reckon that the Doctor's Plot was an excuse to indulge in yet another purge, and this would have happened if Stalin hadn't conveniently dropped dead before it could be launched. If this is true, how would the Soviet Union be affected if Stalin had had another purge in the mid-1950s? Would people who in OTL went on to be future leaders - maybe even Krushchev himself - fall victim to it?

(I know the initial persecution was specifically against Jews, but it could well have expanded to anyone he felt like by using the 'bourgeois nationalist' angle...)
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