Mikhail Kalinin
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 until his resignation in 1946. From 1926 until h
Kalinin in 1940
Kalinin pictured in his hometown in 1922
Bubnov, Voroshilov, Trotsky, Kalinin and Frunze, October Revolution military parade, 1924
Kalinin's tomb in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Vyacheslav Molotov
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Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies and one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during
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…signatory of all decrees, while in reality he rarely took part in government business." On 5 March 1940, six members of the Politburo – Kalinin, Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov, and Anastas Mikoyan – signed an order to execute 25,700 Polish "nationalists and counterrevolutionaries" (Polish…
Molotov in c. 1947
Molotov's birth house in Sovetsk, Kirov Oblast.
Molotov in 1917
Molotov and the OGPU's first chief Felix Dzerzhinsky, 1924