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Leningrad affair
Series of criminal cases in the Soviet Union
Leningrad affair
The Leningrad affair, or Leningrad case (Russian: Ленинградское дело, tr. Leningradskoye delo), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Joseph Stalin in order to accuse a number of prominent Leningrad-based authority figures and members of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of treason. They were accused of attempting to create an anti-Soviet, Russian nationalist organization based in the city. This happened in the aftermath of the Siege of Leningrad in World War II. Following Soviet victory, the mayor, his deputies and others who kept Nazi German forces out of the city were venerated as heroes across the Soviet Union.
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