Solomon Milshtein

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Solomon Rafailovich Milshtein ({{langx|ru|Соломон Рафаилович Мильштейн}}; 1899 – 14 January 1955) was a Soviet state security official.

Solomon Milshtein was born to a family of a Jewish roofer in Vilno, then in the Russian Empire.

Career

In 1920–1930, as a Bolshevik party apparatchik he worked in Georgia, where he became acquainted with Lavrentiy Beria, then head of the Georgian Communist Party . After Beria became head of NKVD in November 1938, Milshtein in December that year was appointed chief of the Investigative unit of NKVD.

He was arrested in July 1953, shortly after the arrest of Beria. He was tried and executed in January 1955.

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Category:1899 births

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Category:Commissars 3rd Class of State Security

Category:Executed Russian people

Category:Recipients of the Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Category:Recipients of the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin

Category:Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner

Category:Executed Lithuanian people

Category:Lithuanian Jews

Category:Soviet Jews

Category:Jewish socialists

Category:Jews executed by the Soviet Union

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