True Communists

Origins

In October 1940, senior pupils of Jalal-Abad School No. 1 Ivan Yatsuk and Yuri Shokk founded a group called "True Communists," which was later joined by other ninth graders. The core of the organization: Ivan Yatsuk, Yuri Shokk, Alexander Elin, Shamil Gubaidulin and Kamil Salakhutdinov – saw the regime established in the Soviet Union by Stalin as

The five members were of different social origin: Ivan Yatsuk and Alexander Yelin were from the families of farmers; Shamil Gubaidulin and Kamil Salahutdinov - from

Activities

The group started to hold meetings, where they discussed certain actions of the

Verdict

• As the founders of the "counter-revolutionary" group, tenth graders Ivan Yatsuk and Yuri Shokk were each sentenced to ten years in prison with
  disenfranchisement
  for five years.
• Their friends - Alexander Yelin and Shamil Gubaidulin – were sentenced to eight years in prison each, with disenfranchisement for three years.
• Kamil Salakhutdinov was sentenced to six years in prison with disenfranchisement for two years.

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