In the late 1940s, at the Moscow Medical Institute, Professor M. O. Gurevich gave a lecture on progressive paralysis:
This is an extremely serious disease that greatly weakens the mental abilities of the patient. Now we will show you a patient of a psychiatric clinic suffering from this disease.
The woman could not name her name, nor number, nor time of year, but when asked who brought her to the hospital, she replied with unexpectedly conscious anger: "Jews!"
Mikhail Osipovich turned to the audience and said:
You see how little wisdom is needed to become an anti-Semite.