Word: kovienko
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...perturbation, the Soviet Council of Commissars soon issued a most singular communique, revealing that in Russia the quick-triggered OGPU sometimes get considerably ahead of the rest of the Communist mechanism of "class justice." Announced the Council: "It has been found possible to reduce the sentences of Stickling, Leonankoand Kovienko from death to ten years' imprisonment, but the others already have been shot." Since Stickling was the only German (the other convicted saboteurs being Soviet citizens), this satisfied Berlin...
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