Pavel Dybenko
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Pavel Efimovich Dybenko was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander. He was arrested, tortured and executed during the Great Purge and subsequently posthumously p
Dybenko with his wife Alexandra Kollontai during his service in the Ukrainian Soviet Army
Dybenko in 1930
Bust of Dybenko in Bryansk
Great Purge
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The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nik
Pavel Dybenko
…29 July 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a leading Soviet officer and military commander. He was arrested, tortured and executed during the Great Purge and subsequently posthumously politically rehabilitated during the Khrushchev Thaw. Pavel Dybenko was born in Lyudkovo village, Novozybkov uyezd…
Residents searching for relatives among the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943
Excerpt from NKVD Order No. 00447
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin and his daughter, Svetlana, in 1934
Bolshevik revolutionaries Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev