Chubar, who exclaimed: "I cherished this snake next to my heart. Provocateur!" Molotov justified Chubar's arrest, years afterwards, by claiming "He was with the rightists; we all knew it, we sensed it". Chubar was executed in February 1939. The Soviet government cleared Chubar of all charges during the first wave of destalinization in 1955. References External links Online biography at Encyclopedia of Ukraine 1880s births 1939 deaths People from Zaporizhzhia Oblast People from Alexandrovsky Uyezd (Yekaterinoslav Governorate) Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Old Bolsheviks Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet Ministers of Finance All-Russian Central Executive Committee members Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members First convocation members of the Soviet of the Union Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) members Chairpersons of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine Holodomor Great Purge victims from Ukraine Soviet rehabilitations People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union