Social:List of Soviet assassinations
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This is a list of people confirmed to have been assassinated by the government of the Soviet Union.[1] Some of the assassinations or targeted killings took place overseas.
Soviet assassinations
Target | Position | Date | City | Country | Killer | Method |
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Fyodor Kokoshkin | member of the First Russian State Duma | 1918-01-20 | Leningrad | Russian SFSR | Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee | |
Nikolay Vtorov | Russian industrialist | 1918-05-20 | Moscow | Bolsheviks | Unknown.[2] | |
Nicholas II | last Tsar of Russia | 1918-07-17 | Yekaterinburg | Cheka | Execution.[3] | |
Francis Cromie | British naval attaché | 1918-08-31 | Petrograd | Bolsheviks | Killed in combat. | |
Alexander Dutov | Russian Cossacks | 1921-02-07 | Suiding | China | Bolsheviks | |
Pyotr Wrangel | Russian White Army General | 1928-04-25 | Brussels | Belgium | Soviet agent | Poisoning. |
Alexander Kutepov | White Army General | 1930-01-26 | Paris | France | OGPU | |
Noe Ramishvili | former Prime Minister of Georgia | 1930-12-07 | ||||
Sergey Kirov | First Secretary of the Leningrad City Bolsheviks | 1934-12-01 | Leningrad | Soviet Union | NKVD | Shot by revolver. |
Juliet Stuart Poyntz | CPUSA member and soviet intelligence agent | 1937-06-03 | New York City | United States | Possible execution.[4] | |
Georges Agabekov | defected OGPU agent | 1937-08-?? | Pyrenees Mountains | Unsure French or Spanish side | ||
Ignace Reiss | Soviet spy | 1937-09-04 | Lausanne | Switzerland | Strangulation and/or machine gun. | |
Lev Sedov | Leon Trotsky's eldest son | 1938-02-16 | Paris | France | ||
Yevhen Konovalets | Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | 1938-05-23 | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Explosive hidden in box of chocolates. | |
Rudolf Klement | Senior official in the Fourth International and longtime confidant of Trotsky | 1938-07-13 | Paris | France | Unknown. Possible beheading. | |
Yevgeny Miller | General in the White Army | 1939-05-11 | Moscow | Soviet Union | Tortured and shot. | |
Zinaida Reich | Soviet actress | 1939-07-15 | Stabbing. | |||
Leon Trotsky | Soviet politician and Marxist revolutionary theorist | 1940-08-21 | Coyoacán | Mexico | Exsanguination from attack by ice pick. | |
Nikolai Koltsov | Soviet biologist | 1940-12-02 | Leningrad | Soviet Union | Poisoning. | |
Walter Krivitsky | defected Soviet intelligence officer | 1941-02-10 | Washington, D.C. | United States | Shot by revolver.[5] | |
Mairbek Sheripov | Chechen nationalist | 1942-11-07 | Chechnya | Soviet Union | Soviet security force | Soviet reprisal raid. |
Wilhelm Kube | Generalkommissar of Weissruthenien | 1943-09-22 | Minsk | Soviet Union | Yelena Mazanik | Timed explosive. |
Solomon Mikhoels | Soviet actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre. | 1948-01-13 | MGB | |||
Khasan Israilov | Chechen nationalist | 1944-12-29 | Chechnya | Soviet security force | ||
Konstantin Volkov | Soviet diplomat and NKVD officer | 1945-09-?? | Istanbul | Turkey | NKVD | Disappeared from his post. |
Leonid Karas | Belarusian writer and journalist for Radio Liberty | 1954-09-?? | Munich | West Germany | KGB | Drowning.[6] |
Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli | Defected Soviet army major; CIA agent and later chief of the Azerbaijani desk for Radio Liberty | 1954-11-22 | Strangulation. | |||
Lev Rebet | Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | 1957-10-10 | Poisoning with vapor gun. | |||
Imre Nagy | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary | 1958-06-16 | Budapest | Template:Country data Hungarian People's Republic | Soviet show trial | Execution. |
Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | 1959-10-15 | Munich | West Germany | KGB | Poisoning by cyanide gas. | |
Mohammed Daoud Khan | President of Afghanistan | 1978-04-28 | Kabul | Afghanistan | KGB / PDPA
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Georgi Markov | Bulgarian dissident journalist | 1978-09-11 | London | United Kingdom | KGB | Poisoning by ricin-filled pellet. (See Umbrella Murder) |
Hafizullah Amin | President of Afghanistan | 1979-12-27 | Kabul | Afghanistan | Targeted assault on the Tajbeg Palace (see: Operation Storm-333) | |
Sultan Ibraimov | Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan | 1980-12-04 | Cholpon Ata | Soviet Union | Shot twice in the head. | |
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 | 269 passengers and crew | 1983-09-01 | Sea of Japan
(near Moneron Island) |
Soviet Air Force | Downed by missile. |
See also
- List of assassinations in Europe § Russia/Soviet Union
- List of Russian assassinations
- List of assassinations by the United States
- List of Israeli assassinations
- List of journalists killed in Russia
- List of Second Chechen War assassinations
- List of Mossad operations
References
- ↑ Filipov, David (2017-03-23). "Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways" (in en-US). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/.
- ↑ "Nikolai Vtorov – the richest man of Russian history". 2016-01-17. https://beautifulrus.com/nikolai-vtorov-the-richest-man-of-russian-history/.
- ↑ "The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918". 2005. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nicholas.htm.
- ↑ Lynn, Denise (2019-06-13). "The Disappearance of Juliet Stuart Poyntz". https://nursingclio.org/2019/06/13/the-disappearance-of-juliet-stuart-poyntz/.
- ↑ Болтянская, Нателла (2010-01-02). "Заказчик убийства — Сталин (тайные убийства по команде Кремля)" (in ru). https://echo.msk.ru/programs/staliname/645178-echo/.
- ↑ "Leonid Karas" (in en). U.S. Agency for Global Media. https://pressfreedom.news/english/journalist/obituary/leonid-karas.html.
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