Prokopy Zubarev

{{Short description|Soviet politician (1886–1938)}}

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| order1 = Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture

| term_start1 = 1934

| term_end1 = March 1937

| birth_date = February 1886

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| death_place = Moscow

| death_cause = Execution

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Prokopy Timofeevich Zubarev ({{langx|ru|Проко́пий Тимофе́евич Зу́барев}}; February 1886 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet politician and statesman. He was arrested, given a show trial, and executed as part of Stalin’s Great Purge.

Biography

Zubarev was born in to a peasant family of Russian Open list [https://ru.openlist.wiki/%D0%97%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A2%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_(1886)] ethnicity and was a Bolshevik from 1904. From 1915 to 1917, he served in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I. He served in the Soviet of the Ufa Governorate in 1922.{{cite book |last1=Hyde |first1=Harford Montgomery |title=Stalin, the History of a Dictator |date=1971 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=0306801671 |page=371ccc}} In 1929, he served in the Northern Krai Soviet.

Prokopy Zubarev was one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites" of 2-13 March 1938. He was accused of disrupting the food supply and having been a member of the czarist secret police.{{cite book |last1=Trotsky |first1=Leon |last2=Allen |first2=Naomi |last3=Breitman |first3=George |title=Writings of Leon Trotsky, Volume 10 |date=1976 |publisher=Pathfinder Press |isbn=0873484681 |page=479 |edition=2nd}} On 13 March he was sentenced to death and was executed by NKVD firing squad two days later.{{cite web |last1=Adams |first1=Alexander |title=The vanished and the defaced |url=https://www.spiked-online.com/2014/06/13/the-vanished-and-the-defaced/ |website=www.spiked-online.com |accessdate=23 August 2019 |language=en |date=June 13, 2014}} He was rehabilitated in 1965.

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