1937. The murder of Ignatius Reiss

80 years ago, on September 4, 1937, on the road from Lausanne to Pully, the NKVD agents, led by Sergei Spieghels, was shot dead by the former NKVD intelligence resident in Paris Ignatius Reiss (Nathan Poretsky), who had previously announced the Trotsky camp and a break with Stalin. On July 17, he published an open letter in French newspapers, denouncing the Stalinist terror. The direct killer of Reiss was Boris Afanasyev (Atanasov). Suspicion of complicity fell on the husband of Marina Tsvetaeva Sergey Efron.