Vasil Tatirdz, chairman of the District Communist Executive Committee at Besaonkowitsch, was sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Virebsk court.
The Communist leader was found guilty of having ordered his subordinates to cut down trees in the Jewish cemetery to rebuild the communist community house which had burned down.
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