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In what authorities of Belarus were 13 of the 15 first leaders shot?

During the first 30 years of the existence of the state security organs of the Byelorussian SSR (Cheka, GPU, NKVD), they were alternately headed by 15 people. Thirteen of them were subsequently shot, one died in prison, the fate of another after 1939 is not known for certain.

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