Gustav Klinger ( 1876 – 1937 ? or 1943 ) was a Russian Bolshevik politician . Klinger joined the Party in 1917 in time for the revolution and was leader of the Volga German Soviet government 1918 . He became business manager for the newly founded Communist International in 1919 , and was elected to the Comintern Executive Committee in 1920 . Klinger held various governmental posts in the Soviet Union during the 1920s . He was eventually killed during the Stalinist purges , probably in 1937
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Gustav Klinger