Three more Soviet Jews have been executed for alleged “economic crimes,” it became known here today from an article in Pravda Vostoka, organ of the Uzbekistan Communist Party, published in Tashkent.
The article, written by a woman Judge, named Sulaimanova, head of the Uzbekistan Supreme Court, reported that, having been convicted of embezzlement of large sums of money from a textile-habersdashery factory, the following five persons have been executed: G. Lvovsky, G. Lemeshev, B. Krentsel, A. Stolin and a man named Muratov. The first three are Jewish names. In addition, the report stated, Yosef Medelcleyev was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. That name, too, is Jewish.
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