Lyushka Henry Samoilovich

Lyushka Henry Samoilovich (1900, Odessa - 19/8/1945, Dairen, China), one of the leaders of the State Security, the Commissioner of the State Security 3rd Rank (29.11.1935). The son of a tailor. Educated in the humanitarian and social institutions (1920). From 1916 worked as a clerk. In July 1917 joined RSDLP (b). In 1917, joined the Red Guard in Odessa. In 1918-19 on the underground work, arrested, escaped. In Feb.. 1919 joined the Red Army political commissar, beginning. the Political Brigade. In June 1920 moved to the bodies of the Cheka. He has held senior positions in Tiraspol, and from Nov.. 1920 - in the Odessa Cheka and the GPU. Since 1922 - in Kamenetz-Polish. From 1924 until early. Proskurov county GPU. 3/5/1930 Lyushka led the Secret Department, and 23.4.1931 - Secret-Political Department of the GPU of Ukraine. 17/8/1931, he transferred to the central apparatus of OGPU-NKVD, which has long been the deputy. early. important organs of the units - Secret-Political Department. Involved in most of the organized bodies of activities this time. After the arrival of the NKVD NI. Yezhov Lyushka 29/8/1936 deleted in the Azov-Black Sea region beginning. Office of the NKVD, and 31.7.1937 moved to the same post in the Far East Region. Since 1937 member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Receiving a call from Moscow, Lyushka to practice knowing that this will be followed the arrest, 13.06.1938 crossed the border and fled to Manchuria. Here he made a series of articles and interviews detailing the mass repressions in the USSR. Lyushka was the largest rank of the NKVD and the most informed person, who managed to flee the country. After that cooperated with the exploration of the Kwantung Army. Killed early. Dayrenskoy military mission in Japan, the body secretly cremated.