Grigory Ordjonikidze

Grigory Konstantinovitch (Sergo) Ordjonikidze [[Cyrillic] ГригорийКонстантинович (Серго) Орджоникидзе and in Géorgien: გრიგოლ (სერგო) ორჯონიკიძე], born the October 24th 1886 in Georgia and dead the February 18th 1937 with Moscow, is a révolutonnaire and Soviet politician.

Like his/her large friend Stalin, Ordjonikidze is a géorgien. He is resulting from a famiile of land small holders. made L of the studies of medicine and binds with the mediums subversive of left. After having obtained its diploma, it is stopped for wearing of weapons. After its release, it is exiled in Germany then turns over in 1907 in Russia, with Bakou. It is there that he works with Stalin. L is stopped and sent in Siberia, which is then a place of appointment very attended by the Bolchevik S.L manages to escape and join the France from it.

Of return in Russia, it is stopped in 1912 with Saint-Pétersbourg and is sent in a camp of work. At the time of the revolution of February 1917, it is in Iakoutsk where the Bolsheviks seize the power. L turns over then at Stalin to Saint-Pétersbourg to live there the events of the Revolution of October. During the civil war, it is one of those which set up the capacity of the Soviets in the south of the country. Sergo was leading effective and popular.

In thanks of its collaboration, he becomes President of the Central Commission of Control of the party - which organizes the purgings within PCUS Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev and member of the Political office. *

But Stalin, who is somebody of being wary and who makes pass the interest of the proletarian State before even his own friendships, starts to suspect Ordjonikidze of wanting to be combined with some his adversaries, object of next the great purgings.

Perhaps Ordjonikidze, intended to call some at the Central committee at the time of the Plenum of February 1937. Always it is that it did not have the leisure of it, because one found it committed suicide before this session. By a singular and unhappy coincidence, the medical examiner, Doctor Kaminsky, who issued the attesting death certificate of the suicide of Sergo, itself was stopped and carried out little time after, which removed any possibility to him of reconsidering its testimony.

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