He was not purged during the Great Terror , but he was shocked and saddened by the executions of close friends such as Stanislav Kosior , Vlas Chubar and Sukhomlin . Soon after the USSR celebrated its sixteenth birthday , he was interrogated by Joseph Stalin , who told him , " We shoot people like you but you will be spared " and then was excluded from the Communist Party and deprived of his dachas and apartments . After a year without a job , in 1940 he was made the director of the Revolution Museum of the USSR in Moscow and never returned to politics . During the Second World War , after the death of his son Leonid , he asked Stalin in a letter to release his imprisoned son Peter , but he was subsequently shot . Petrovsky died in 1958
Great Terror
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Grigory Petrovsky