Emanuel Yonovych Kwiring (Kviring) (russian: Эммануил Ионович Квиринг, uk, Емануіл Йонович Квірінг) (13 September 1888 – 26 November 1937) was a

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politician and statesman. Born into a German family in Friesenthal, in the Samara Governorate of the

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(present-day Novolipovka,

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), he became a socialist activist and politician (

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from 1906 to 1912, and Bolshevik Party beginning in 1912). After

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and the

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, he was a leader of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (October 1918 - March 1919, and April 1923 - March 1925). He was an opponent of the " Ukrainization" policy, so he had to leave

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. Then he worked as an economist in the State Planning Committee ( Gosplan). In 1937, he was arrested and executed by

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

. In 1956, Kwiring was posthumously rehabilitated by a decision of the USSR Supreme Court.http://www.annaberger-annalen.de/jahrbuch/1997/Annaberg%20Nr.5%20Kap2.pdf

References

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