SOVIET PURGE
GENERAL DISMISSED FROM POSITION
SERVICE IN BOLSHEVIK CAUSE
(Received May 2, 12.15 a.m.)
MOSCOW, May 1
The purge continues. General Dibenko, who led the naval mutineers at Leningrad in 1917, greatly assisting the Bolsheviks in their seizure- of power, and who was also a member of the Court which sentenced General Tujthachevsky to death, has been dismissed from his position as commander of the Leningrad district.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22390, 2 May 1938, Page 9
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