Martin Latsis

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Martin Ivanovich Latsis (Russian: Мартын Иванович Лацис Latvian: Mārtiņš Lācis, born Jāns Sudrabs) (December 14, 1888—February 11, 1938) was Soviet politician, member of the Bolshevik Party since 1905 ("Old Bolshevik"), active participant of the Russian Revolutions of 1905-107 and 1917, member of the Military Revolutionary Committee, member of the Collegium of the All-Russia Cheka (1918-1921) and Chairman of the Ukrainian Cheka (1919), member of VTsIK. He was among the adherents of the most harsh repressive policy in Cheka.^[1]

He was arrested in 1937, accused of belonging to a "counter-revolutionary nationalist organization", and shot in 1938. Rehabilitated in 1956.^[1]

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