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If my grandfather had stayed in Baku, when Bagirov came to power at the end of the 1930s, he certainly would have been executed. Bagirov was the chief of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Caucasus in general and Baku in particular. Bagirov had subjected many of Grandfather’s friends to repressions. Grandfather had many friends, in particular a lawyer by the name of Mikhtibek, an Azeri. That Mikhtibek perished.
In Leningrad Iosif wasn’t touched by the repressions, because his life wasn’t interesting to anybody any more.
In Leningrad Iosif wasn’t touched by the repressions, because his life wasn’t interesting to anybody any more.
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Russia
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Galina Natarevich
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