How to Pronounce Viktor Abakumov
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Apr 11, 1908 Moscow, Russia Died on 19 Dec 1954 (aged 46)
head of SMERSH, Russian Minister of State Security
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About Viktor Abakumov
- Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov (Russian: ?????? ????????? ????????; 24 April 1908 – 19 December 1954) was a high level Soviet security official from 1943 to 1946, the head of SMERSH in the USSR People's Commissariat of Defense, and from 1946 to 1951, Minister of State Security or MGB (ex-NKGB).
- He was removed from office and arrested in 1951 on fabricated charges of failing to investigate the Doctors' plot.
- After the death of Joseph Stalin, Abakumov was tried for fabricating the Leningrad Affair, sentenced to death and executed in 1954. Abakumov was a notoriously brutal official who personally tortured prisoners.
