Word: yakir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said, the Party was stronger than ever. On this subject he came closer than anywhere in the speech to using strong language: "Some spokesmen of the foreign press have been telling idle tales that the purging of Soviet organizations of spies, assassins and wreckers like Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Yakir, Tukhachevsky, Rozengolts, Bukharin and other monsters has 'sapped the strength' of the Soviet system and caused 'demoralization.' This inane drivel is worth nothing but ridicule...
General lona Emmanuilovich Yakir, displaced two days earlier as commandant of the Ukraine district...