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The Leningrad Affair ("Ленинградское дело" in Russian, or Leningradskoye delo), a series of "criminal" cases, fabricated in the late 1940s - early 1950s in order to accuse a number of prominent members of the CPSU of " treason" and "intention" to create an anti-Soviet organization out of the Leningrad party cell. As a result, in 1950, Nikolai Voznesensky , Mikhail Rodionov , Aleksei Kuznetsov , Pyotr Popkov , Ya.F.Kapustin and P.G.Lazutin were sentenced to death. The rest of the " accomplice s" were sentenced to different prison terms. Simultaneously, the Soviet authorities replaced party and administrative leadership in Leningrad.All of the accused would later be rehabilitate d, most of them - posthumously.
Soviet political repressions
