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.
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"
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
Pavel Postyshev
…nationalists. The university courses were closed down in January 1933, and in June, Postyshev accused the Ukraine People's Commissar for Education Mykola Skrypnyk of "wrecking" the schools and universities by allowing "Petliurite swine" to gain control – "and you often defended them". Skrypnyk committed suicide…
Skrypnyk Mykola
Front row: Rykov, Skrypnyk and Stalin voting at the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)