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Sergo Ordzhonikidze (24 October 1886 – 18 February 1937) was a Georgian Bolshevik and Soviet politician. He joined the Bolsheviks at a young age, became an important figure and was arrested repeatedly. After the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917 he oversaw the invasions of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. He backed their union into the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1922, one of the original Soviet republics, and served as its First Secretary until 1926. He then oversaw Soviet economic production and led a massive overhaul; he implemented five-year plans, helped create the Stakhanovite movement and was named to the Politburo. He was reluctant to join the campaign against so-called wreckers and saboteurs in the early 1930s, causing friction with Joseph Stalin. Before a meeting where he was expected to denounce workers, Ordzhonikidze shot himself. He was posthumously honoured, and several towns and cities in the Soviet Union were named after him. (Full article...)
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Hi Kaiser matias and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:59, 28 June 2020 (UTC)