Filipp Goloshchyokin
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Filipp Isayevich Goloshchyokin, born Shaya Itsikovich Goloshchyokin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and party functionary.
Filipp Goloshchyokin
1940–1942 Red Army purges
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Between October 1940 and February 1942, Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, ordered purges against the Red Army and associated military-related industries. Many of those who were purged wer
Filipp Goloshchyokin
…were evacuated there in connection with the approach of the Wehrmacht towards Moscow. He was one of 20 'especially dangerous' prisoners, who included 14 high-ranking military officers, who were executed by firing squad on 28 October 1941 on the direct orders of Lavrentiy Beria near the village of Barbysh and consigned to an unmarked…
Beria's proposal of 29 January 1942 to execute 46 generals. Stalin's resolution: "Shoot all named in the list. – J. St."