Mykola Skrypnyk
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Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk, was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and later led the cultural Ukrainization effort
Skrypnyk Mykola
Front row: Rykov, Skrypnyk and Stalin voting at the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Pavel Postyshev
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Pavel Petrovich Postyshev was a Soviet politician, state and Communist Party official and party publicist. He was a member of Joseph Stalin's inner circle, before falling victim to the Great Purge.
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…executive committee organizing the Communist International, as well as leading the CP(b)U's delegation to the Comintern. In January 1933, Stalin sent Pavel Postyshev to Ukraine, with free rein to centralize the power of Moscow. Postyshev, with the help of thousands of officials brought from Russia, oversaw the violent…
Postyshev in 1935
Postyshev speaks at the House of the Unions on 5 September 1931
Lev Mekhlis letter to Zhdanov: "Postyshev searches enemies not where they really are"