1873 Christian Rakovsky was born

145 years ago, on August 13, 1873, Christian Rakovsky (Kristo Stanchev), the first head of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine, and later the trade representative and plenipotentiary of the USSR in France, was born in the Bulgarian town of Kotel.

Rakovsky was a supporter of Trotsky and was repeatedly expelled from the party. At the trial of the "anti-Soviet Right-Trotsky bloc" in 1938, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and espionage for Germany and Japan. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but already on September 11, 1941, he was shot in the Medvedev forest near Orel. Rehabilitated in 1988.