Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko ( uk, Григорій Федорович Гринько; in Shtepivka – March 15, 1938) was a

Soviet Ukrainian The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

statesman who held high office in the government of the

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. 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

Borotbists The Borotbists (Fighters) (1918–1920) was a left-nationalist political party in Ukraine. It is not be associated with its Russian affiliated counterparts - the Ukrainian Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (Borbysts) and the Ukrainian Commu ...

, and joined to the

Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine ( uk, Комуністична Партія України ''Komunistychna Partiya Ukrayiny'', КПУ, ''KPU''; russian: Коммунистическая партия Украины) was the founding and ruling ...

when the Borotbists were dissolved by the Comintern. 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 Ukrainization (also spelled Ukrainisation), sometimes referred to as Ukrainianization (or Ukrainianisation) is a policy or practice of increasing the usage and facilitating the development of the Ukrainian language and promoting other elements of ...

and made Ukrainian Commissar of the State Planning Committee of Ukraine in 1925.Magocsi (1996), p 538. He later served as

finance minister A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ...

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

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secret ...

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 and nineteen other members of the so-called

Right Opposition The Right Opposition (, ''Pravaya oppozitsiya'') or Right Tendency (, ''Praviy uklon'') in the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was a conditional label formulated by Joseph Stalin in fall of 1928 in regards the opposition against certain me ...

. These were former Soviet leaders, actual or presumed political enemies of

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

, who were charged with opposing the policies of rapid industrialization, forced collectivization, and

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, 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 F ...

(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