SOVIET EXECUTIONS
Careers Of The Victims
(Received December 21, 1.50 a.m.) London, December 20.
The Soviet executions caused a surprise, coming so soon after the elections. Nothing had been heard about the trial. M. Karakhan, aged 50, was an expert in Oriental languages and was regarded as Russia’s master spy in the East. He was one of the best-known and most outspoken of the Soviet diplomatists, fond of good clothes and tennis. He visite'd Wimbledon a few years ago. M. Shevaldicv was notorious for his merciless deportation of Kuban Cossacks in 1932 and his severity during the great famine of 193,3. M. Venukidzx) was formerly an old friend of M. Stalin.
M, Larin was a Jewish cripple, and an economic historian famous for his campaign against alcohol.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 74, 21 December 1937, Page 6
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