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Nikolai Mikhailovich Yanson Николай Михайлович Янсон Estonian Bolshevik and Soviet People's Commissar of Justice who helped design the Gulag camp system Law and justice · Soviet Union 1882–1938
August Ivanovich Kork Август Иванович Корк Imperial staff officer who rose to the top of the Red Army command Military command · Soviet Union 1887–1937
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 Legislature and state representation · Soviet Union 1890–1946
Voldemar Avgustovich Ulmer Вольдемар Августович Ульмер Operational secretary of the GUGB whose 'certified' signature closes the Great Terror's operational orders Security, intelligence and policing · Soviet Union 1896–1945
Nikolai Karotamm Nikolai Karotamm First Secretary of the Estonian Communist Party in 1944–1950, removed in 1950 for allegedly shielding “bourgeois nationalists” Political and party leadership · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1901–1969
Lembit Annus Lembit Annus An Estonian communist leader who chose to preserve the Soviet Union Political and party leadership · Soviet Union 1941–2018