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- Augusts Kirhenšteins Augusts Kirhenšteins Microbiologist who headed the puppet government chosen by the Soviet embassy in 1940 and requested Latvia’s incorporation into the USSR
- Avel Safronovich Yenukidze Авель Сафронович Енукидзе Stalin's close friend and the 17-year organizational backbone of the Soviet state, the first fall that opened the Great Purge
- Johannes Vares Johannes Vares Poet and doctor whom Zhdanov forced on Estonia as puppet prime minister in June 1940, and who led the petition to join the Soviet Union
- Alexander Grigoryevich Chervyakov Александр Григорьевич Червяков Architect of Byelorussian Soviet statehood who turned the gun on himself
- Mikhail Alekseyevich Yasnov Михаил Алексеевич Яснов The 20-year formal head of state of the Russian republic under Brezhnev
- Vitālijs Petrovich Rubenis Виталий Петрович Рубен The Latvian who chaired the Soviet of Nationalities for a decade under Brezhnev
- Yadgar Sadykovna Nasriddinova Ядгар Садыковна Насриддинова Uzbek SSR figure who chaired the Soviet of Nationalities
- Elmira Mikayil qızı Kafarova Elmira Qafarova A Soviet republican leader who asserted institutional authority in crisis
- Valentyna Semenivna Shevchenko Валентина Семенівна Шевченко Ukrainian SSR head of state during Chernobyl who pushed the evacuation of 526,000 children from Kyiv against Moscow's resistance