Georgy Safarov
Georgy Safarov Георгий Сафаров | |
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| Born | 1891 |
| Died | 27 July 1942 (aged 50–51) |
| Cause of death | Execution by shooting |
| Political party | RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1908–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1927, 1928–1934) |
Georgy Ivanovich Safarov (Russian: Георгий Иванович Сафаров) (1891 – 27 July 1942) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician who was a participant in the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, and in the executions of the Romanovs in Yekaterinburg and Alapayevsk.
He was later arrested for his association with the left opposition, and served as an NKVD informant in prison, and gave fabricated evidence against over a hundred of his former comrades, in spite of which, he was executed on 27 July 1942. He is one of only a few victims of Joseph Stalin's purges not posthumously rehabilitated or reinstated to the party after his death when the history of the 1930s was re-examined in the 1980s.