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Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko (November 18, 1890 [N.S. November 30] - March 15, 1938; ; ) was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union
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Hrynko was a leader of the Ukrainian Borotbists
, and joined to the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine 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
and made Ukrainian Commissar of State Planning in 1925.
He later served as finance minister of the Soviet Union in Moscow, from 1930 to 1937, replacing Nikolai Bryukhanov
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He was executed during the Great Purge
in March 1938. He was allegedly forced to publicly confess to his "nefarious" activities during the period of Ukrainization at Trial of the Twenty One
with Christian Rakovsky
and nineteen other members of the so-called Right Opposition
. These were former Soviet leaders, actual or presumed political enemies of Joseph Stalin
, who were charged with opposing the policies of rapid industrialization, forced collectivization
, and central planning, as well as international espionage, attempted overthrow of the Soviet Union, and planning to eliminate the Soviet leadership.
The Russians were so pleased with Hrynko's outline of the so-called dangers of Ukrainian nationalism to the Soviet Union that his testimony was translated and published in English. He was sentenced to death and shot.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
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Hrynko was a leader of the Ukrainian Borotbists
Borotbists
The Borotba Party was a peasant based left-nationalist political party in Ukraine. It arose in May 1918 after the split in the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party on the basis of supporting Soviet power in Ukraine. Similar to Russian Left-SR it got its name from the central organ of the...
, and joined to the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine when the Borotbists were dissolved by the Comintern
Comintern
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern, also known as the Third International, was an international communist organization initiated in Moscow during March 1919...
. 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
Ukrainization is a policy of increasing the usage and facilitating the development of the Ukrainian language and promoting other elements of Ukrainian culture, in various spheres of public life such as education, publishing, government and religion.The term is used, most prominently, for the...
and made Ukrainian Commissar of State Planning in 1925.
He later served as finance minister of the Soviet Union in Moscow, from 1930 to 1937, replacing Nikolai Bryukhanov
Nikolai Bryukhanov
Nikolai Pavlovich Bryukhanov was a Soviet statesman and political figure who served as People's Commissar of Finance between 1926 and 1930...
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He was executed during the Great Purge
Great Purge
The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1938...
in March 1938. He was allegedly forced to publicly confess to his "nefarious" activities during the period of Ukrainization at Trial of the Twenty One
Trial of the Twenty One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was the last of the Moscow Trials, show trials of prominent Bolsheviks, including the Old Bolsheviks. The Trial of the Twenty-One took place in Moscow in March 1938, towards the end of Stalin's Great Purge.-The Trial:...
with Christian Rakovsky
Christian Rakovsky
Christian Rakovsky was a Bulgarian socialist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and Soviet diplomat; he was also noted as a journalist, physician, and essayist...
and nineteen other members of the so-called Right Opposition
Right Opposition
The Right Opposition was the name given to the tendency made up of Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Mikhail Tomsky and their supporters within the Soviet Union in the late 1920s...
. These were former Soviet leaders, actual or presumed political enemies of Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
, who were charged with opposing the policies of rapid industrialization, forced collectivization
Collectivisation in the USSR
Collectivization in the Soviet Union was a policy pursued under Stalin between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms...
, and central planning, as well as international espionage, attempted overthrow of the Soviet Union, and planning to eliminate the Soviet leadership.
The Russians were so pleased with Hrynko's outline of the so-called dangers of Ukrainian nationalism to the Soviet Union that his testimony was translated and published in English. He was sentenced to death and shot.