Stanislav Kosior

Politician

1889 – 1939

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Who was Stanislav Kosior?

Stanislav Vikentyevich Kosior, sometimes spelled Kossior was one of three Kosior brothers, Polish-born Soviet politicians. He was General Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party, deputy prime minister of the USSR and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He is considered one of the principal so-called architects of the Ukrainian famine of 1932 to 1933, known as the Holodomor in Ukraine. He was executed during the Great Purge.

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Born
Nov 18, 1889
Węgrów
Nationality
  • Hungary
Died
Feb 26, 1939
Moscow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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