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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...official communique said that Abakumov, "having been placed in the post of Minister of State Security by Beria, was a direct participant in the criminal subversive group that carried out Beria's orders." Abakumov, onetime chief of SMERSH, Russia's World War II counterespionage organization, was tried in Leningrad a fortnight ago before the military tribunal of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. The indictment accused Viktor Abakumov of having: 1) "framed up and falsified charges against individual workers of the party and Soviet government and representatives of the Soviet intelligentsia"; 2) "using methods of investigation prohibited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Anniversary Executions | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

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