Olga Kameneva
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Olga Davidovna Kameneva was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. She was the sister of Leon Trotsky and the first wife of Lev Kamenev.
Kameneva in 1926
Kameneva in her office in 1927
Olga Kameneva (left) and Lidiya Seifullina, in 1927
Medvedev Forest massacre
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The Medvedev Forest massacre or Orel massacre was a mass execution in the Soviet Union carried out by the Soviet secret police NKVD on 11 September 1941. Less than three months after the German invasi
Olga Kameneva
…Trotsky) was attacked in Mexico City on 20 August 1940 and died the next day. In 1941, Kameneva was in Oryol Prison. She was shot on 11 September in the Medvedev forest outside Oryol together with Christian Rakovsky, Maria Spiridonova and 160 other prominent political prisoners in the Medvedev Forest massacre. This…
Monument to victims of political repressions in Oryol 1
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