1883. Grigory Zinoviev was born
130 years ago, on September 23, 1883, Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev (Radomysolsky), one of the leaders of the Bolsheviks, the first chairman of the executive committee of the Comintern, was born for many years the closest ally and a friend of Lenin. During the Civil War, he actively carried out the Red Terror in Petrograd, being the head of the Petrograd labor commune, the Union of Communities of the Northern Region and the chairman of the revolutionary defense committee of Petrograd.