Word: velitchko
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during the World War, and Professor P. A. Palchinsky, professor at the Leningrad Mining Institute. Ended the official communiqué: "The death sentences have been carried...
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