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<br />The '''Night of the Murdered Poets''' ({{lang-ru|Ночь казнённых поэтов}}) refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent [[Yiddish]] [[writer]]s, [[poet]]s, [[artist]]s, [[musician]]s and [[actor]]s of the [[Soviet Union]] were secretly executed on the orders from [[Joseph Stalin]] in the basement of the [[Lubyanka prison]] in [[Moscow]]. Ten "engineer saboteurs" from the Stalin automobile factory, all Jewish, were also executed the same night.<ref>[[Stéphane Courtois]], ''[[The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression]]'', [[Harvard University Press]], 1999, p. 248. ISBN 0-674-07608-7</ref>
The '''Night of the Murdered Poets''' ({{lang-ru|Ночь казнённых поэтов}}) refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent [[Yiddish]] [[writer]]s, [[poet]]s, [[artist]]s, [[musician]]s and [[actor]]s of the [[Soviet Union]] were secretly executed on the orders from [[Joseph Stalin]] in the basement of the [[Lubyanka prison]] in [[Moscow]]. Ten "engineer saboteurs" from the Stalin automobile factory, all Jewish, were also executed the same night.<ref>[[Stéphane Courtois]], ''[[The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression]]'', [[Harvard University Press]], 1999, p. 248. ISBN 0-674-07608-7</ref>


Among the victims were:
Among the victims were:

Revision as of 04:38, 5 February 2010

Overview

The Night of the Murdered Poets (Template:Lang-ru) refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent Yiddish writers, poets, artists, musicians and actors of the Soviet Union were secretly executed on the orders from Joseph Stalin in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. Ten "engineer saboteurs" from the Stalin automobile factory, all Jewish, were also executed the same night.[1]

Among the victims were:

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