Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko ( uk, Григорій Федорович Гринько; in Shtepivka – March 15, 1938) was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. Initially he was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party of Ukraine. After the

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Hrynko became a leader of the Ukrainian

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, and joined to the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine when the Borotbists were dissolved by the

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. As former member of the defunct pro-independence party he was purged in 1922 for "nationalist deviation", but regained favour during the effort for Ukrainization and made Ukrainian Commissar of the State Planning Committee of Ukraine in 1925.Magocsi (1996), p 538. He later served as finance minister of the Soviet Union in Moscow, from 1930 to 1937, replacing

Nikolai Bryukhanov Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov; sometimes transliterated as ''Briukhanov''. (party aliases Andrey and Andrey Simbirsky; literary alias N. Pavlov; December 28, 1878 - September 1, 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik, Soviet statesman and political figure w ...

. He was executed during the

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in March 1938. He was allegedly forced to publicly confess to his "nefarious" activities during the period of Ukrainization at

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with

Christian Rakovsky Christian Georgievich Rakovsky (russian: Христиа́н Гео́ргиевич Рако́вский; bg, Кръстьо Георги́ев Рако́вски; – September 11, 1941) was a Bulgarian-born socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevi ...

and nineteen other members of the so-called Right Opposition. These were former Soviet leaders, actual or presumed political enemies of

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, who were charged with opposing the policies of rapid

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, forced collectivization, and central planning, as well as international espionage, attempted overthrow of the Soviet Union, and planning to eliminate the Soviet leadership. He was sentenced to death and shot on March 15, 1938. He was 47 years old. He was rehabilitated in 1959.

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Magocsi, Paul Robert Paul Robert Magocsi (born January 26, 1945 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American professor of history, political science, and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has been with the university since 1980, and became a Fe ...

(1996). ''A History of Ukraine''. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. . * ''Report of Court Proceedings in the Case of the Anti-Soviet ‘Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites’ Heard before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, Moscow, March 2–13, 1938: Verbatim Report'' (Moscow 1938), pp 67–71, 718–721. Cited in Magocsi (1996), p 568–70. 1890 births 1938 deaths People from Sumy Oblast People from Kharkov Governorate Borotbists Bolsheviks Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members Directors of the State Planning Committee of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Ministers of Finance Mayors of Kyiv Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites" Great Purge victims from Ukraine Soviet rehabilitations National University of Kharkiv alumni {{Ukraine-mayor-stub