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There was another recollection from childhood. Father’s sister Liya and her husband Andrey Fomin were old Bolsheviks [25], members of the communist party since 1919. Since that time they had had personal weapon- Andrey had a pistol and Liya had a browning. With the outbreak of the repressions the weapon was taken from all Bolsheviks. Probably those who were about to be arrested either shot themselves or the NKVD agents [26], who came over to take them. In spite of that old Bolsheviks had the permits for weapons and all of them momentarily were disarmed.
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Russia
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Evgeniy Kotin
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