1938 Execution of those convicted in the case of the "right-Trotskyist bloc"
80 years ago, on March 15, 1938, Nikolai Bukharin and Alexei Rykov, the former leaders of the "right deviation" in the CPSU (b), Nikolai Bukharin and Alexei Rykov, the former head of the NKVD, Genrikh Yagoda, and 15 other people sentenced to death on March 13 at the trial of the "anti-Soviet Right-Trotsky bloc. They were charged with trumped-up charges of treason, espionage, the murder of Kirov, Gorky, Menzhinsky and Kuibyshev, as well as a conspiracy against Lenin in 1918.