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Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky (Latvian: Leonīds Zakovskis; Russian: Леони́д Миха́йлович Зако́вский; originally named Henriks Štubis; 1894 – August 29, 1938) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and NKVD Commissar 1st Class of State Security (equivalent to the Soviet Red Army rank of Komandarm ...
Leonid Zakovsky, the man infamously responsible for hundreds of executions of the disabled in the USSR. Public Domain. The attitude to the disabled in the capitals is...
Dec 8, 2016 · Zakovsky was a legendary figure who collectivized Siberia with an iron hand and deported kulaks. He led the official investigation into the notorious murder of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov in 1934—even as many suspected that Kirov’s real killer was Stalin.
Dec 27, 2018 · Also included on Shalayev's list is Leonid Zakovsky, who headed the NKVD in Soviet Belarus and Leningrad, and later served as a deputy to Yagoda's ruthless successor, Nikolai Yezhov.
Aug 30, 2017 · The head of the Leningrad NKVD at the time was Leonid Zakovsky, who was himself executed in August 1938. "Zakovsky used to say, 'Why are you whining about your sick and your crippled? In...
Feb 27, 2009 · Leonid Mihajlovich Zakovsky (pseudonym for Henriks Ernestovich Stubis) (1894-1938 ) Soviet Union. Date: 27 February, 2009. Auteur: Nérard François-Xavier. Born in Latvia, Zakovsky became a Bolshevik in 1913 (the exact date of his membership however has been withheld by Petrov and Skorkin).
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Stalin 's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany ( Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list includes some of the most prominent victims along with the date of their deaths.
