Wrecking (crime)
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Wrecking was a crime specified in the criminal code of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It is often translated as "sabotage"; however, "wrecking", "diversionist acts", and "counter-revolutionary sa
A 1930s Soviet poster showing GPU striking at a "counter-revolutionary wrecker"
Vladimir V. Tchernavin
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Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Tchernavin was a Russian-born ichthyologist who became famous as one of the first and few prisoners of the Soviet Gulag system to escape abroad.
Wrecking (crime)
…accused of wrecking on the railroad transport. He "confessed" in providing consultations which had led to actual wrecking. Executed in May 1929. 1931: Vladimir V. Tchernavin 1936: Nikolai Glebov-Avilov…
Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Tchernavin