Grigory Jeremejewitsch Evdokimov

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Grigory Evdokimov

Grigori Jeremejewitsch Jewdokimow ( Russian: Григорий Еремеевич Евдокимов ; * October 1884 in Ujesd Pavlodar ; † August 25, 1936 in Moscow ) was a Soviet politician.

Evdokimov was one of Lenin's leading revolutionaries. He was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU and head of the main dairy administration of the People's Commissariat for the Food Industry.

He was arrested on December 8 or 9, 1934, a few days after Sergei Kirov was murdered . In the first Moscow trial , Evdokimov was charged with being a member of the so-called "Trotskyist-Zinovievist Terrorist Center". Stalin promised the defendants that their lives would be spared should they make a full confession. At the trial, Yevdokimov described himself and his co-defendants as “bandits, murderers, fascists, Gestapo agents” and stated that the fate of the working class was in the hands of Stalin, whom he described as a “brilliant and beloved leader”. However, according to a rehabilitation report commissioned in 1956, this confession did not correspond to the truth. The court sentenced him to death on August 24, 1936, along with all 15 other defendants in this trial. The convicts were shot immediately afterwards.

Individual evidence

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  2. Uwe Schultz . Big Trials: Law and Justice in History . CH Beck, 2001. ISBN 3406477119 . Page 334.
  3. Matthew E. Lenoe. The Kirov Murder and Soviet History . Yale University Press, 2010. ISBN 0300142420 . Chapter 9.
  4. Dmitri Volkogonov . LENIN. A new biography . Simon and Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0684847167 .
  5. Lars-Broder Keil . "Bandits, murderers, fascists" . The world. August 19, 2006. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  6. ^ Vadim Z. Rogovin . 1937: year of terror . MEHRING Verlag GmbH, 1998. ISBN 3886340716 . Page 93.
  7. Wladislaw Hedeler : Chronicle of the Moscow Show Trials in 1936, 1937 and 1938. Planning, staging and effect. With an essay by Steffen Dietzsch , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-05-003869-1 , p. 582 (life data) and p. 73–79 (about the process).