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July 28, 1987 | WILLIAM J. EATON, Times Staff Writer
Fyodor Fedorenko, the first person to be deported from the United States to the Soviet Union to face charges that he committed Nazi war crimes, has been executed, the official news agency Tass reported Monday. Fedorenko, 79, was sentenced to death by a court in the Crimea in the Soviet Ukraine in June, 1986, on charges of treason and taking part in mass executions at the Treblinka death camp in Poland. The Tass account did not say when he was executed or provide any other details.
NEWS
October 7, 1988 | United Press International
The weekly Moscow News on Thursday printed a shocking description of mass executions conducted by Josef Stalin's secret police, describing how 100,000 Soviet citizens were systematically murdered in the southwestern Byelorussian republic before the 1941 Nazi invasion. Until now, Soviet historians have blamed the wholesale executions on German forces that occupied the area during World War II.
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April 13, 1989 | MICHAEL PARKS, Times Staff Writer
The skull and bones of Russia's last czar, previously believed to have been destroyed by acid in an attempt to prevent his veneration by loyal subjects, were found a decade ago by a Soviet writer who did not dare disclose the discovery until now, the weekly Moscow News reported Wednesday. Czar Nicholas II was summarily executed along with his wife, Alexandra, their five children and four servants by the Bolsheviks in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg, now called Sverdlosk, on July 16, 1918, but their bodies were never found.
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February 15, 1988 | United Press International
Soviet readers were told for the first time Sunday that dictator Joseph Stalin's infamous secret police chief Nikolai I. Yezhov was executed almost 48 years ago. Yezhov, who headed the secret police, known as the NKVD, from 1936 to 1938 at the height of the great purges, was removed by Stalin in July, 1938, to signify an end to the Stalinist terror in which millions perished. From police chief, Yezhov went on to lead the Commission of Water Transport--thought to be a joke by Stalin.
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October 3, 1990 | MICHAEL PARKS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Russian Orthodox Church is planning to build a shrine to the "martyrs" of the Bolshevik Revolution on the site where Nicholas II, Russia's last czar, was executed by the Communists in 1918. Nikolai P. Kalinin, warden of St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Sverdlovsk, said Tuesday that a large chapel will be built and regular services held to honor Nicholas, his family and servants, and other "martyrs unjustly executed" in the past seven decades of Communist rule.
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April 11, 1987 | MICHAEL WINES and RONALD J. OSTROW, Times Staff Writers
At least six Russian citizens working secretly for U.S. intelligence agencies within the Soviet Union have been arrested and executed since late 1985, apparently because of security compromises at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, government sources said Friday. The deaths, which American officials say they learned about during the course of more than a year, effectively ended some of the United States' most productive and well-placed intelligence operations inside Soviet borders, those sources said.