Holodomor: Skrypnyk's suicide (July 1933)

July 1933

Postyshev's campaign against "nationalist" mistakes ends with Mykola Skrypnyk, the Ukrainian Commissar for Education until February, shooting himself in Kharkiv.

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Circles show each 1932 oblast's total losses for 1932–34 (HURI); no month-by-month split per oblast is published. Borders and the cordon are approximate.

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1) Time range: 1933-02 … 1933-07-07
2) Human profile: Pavel Postyshev · Second Secretary of the CP(b)U CC
3) Decisions: Moved Mykola Skrypnyk from Education to Derzhplan (February 1933)
Accused him in June of "wrecking" schools and nationalist mistakes in language policy
Affected: Skrypnyk shot himself on 7 July 1933; the writer Mykola Khvylovy had killed himself on 13 May; Ukrainization was reversed

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