Word: yakir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Barmine received a letter from one of his twin sons in Russia: "Dear Papa, they read to us in school the sentence passed on the Trotskyist spies, Tukhachevsky, Yakir, Kork, Uborevich and Feldman. . . . Wasn't it Feldman who used to live in our apartment house?" It was. And Barmine soon became aware that he must pay the usual price for knowing a liquidated man. Soon his comrades in the legation tried to lure him aboard a Russian ship which had unexpectedly appeared in the Piraeus...
...Assistant Commander of the Kiev Military Area under General lona Emmanuilovich Yakir, who was shortly to be executed. In 1937 Timoshenko became Commander of the North Caucasus Military Area, succeeding General N. D. Kashirin, who was shortly to be executed. Later in the year Timoshenko became Commander of the Kharkov Military Area, succeeding General L. Dubovoy, who already had been executed. In 1938 General Timoshenko returned to the Kiev Area as full commander. While in this post, in the autumn of 1939, he directed the Red Army's occupation of eastern Poland...