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Grigory Sokolnikov
Grigory Sokolnikov (1888 - 1939) was a Bolshevik, and a friend of Leon Trotsky.
He served as the Commissar of Finance, as well as Soviet ambassador to England. He was a member of the left opposition, creator of the first stable Soviet currency, a member of the delegation that signed the Brest-Litovsk treaty in 1918, and was killed during the great purge under Stalin.
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