SOVIET ARMY PURGE
THE HIGH COMMAND general dismissed COMMANDANT AT* LENINGRAD (Received May 1, 8.40 p.m.) MOSCOW. May 1 Indicating the continuance of the "purge" of the Soviet high command, General Dibenkoff, who led the naval mutineers at Leningrad in 1917, greatly assisting the Bolsheviks in the seizure of power, and who was a member of the Court which in June of last year passed sentence of death upon Marshal Tukhachevskv and seven generals, has been dismissed from his post as commander of the Leningrad military district.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23026, 2 May 1938, Page 9
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87SOVIET ARMY PURGE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23026, 2 May 1938, Page 9
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