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Ivan Smirnov (politician)

Ivan Smirnov

Ivan Nikitich Smirnov (Russian: Ива́н Ники́тич Смирно́в; 1881 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and Communist Party functionary. A prominent member of the Left Opposition, he led a secret Trotskyist opposition group in the Soviet Union during the Stalin period.[1] He was arrested in 1933 and shot during the Great Purge.

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