Career
In 1937, during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, he was arrested as an "enemy of the Belarusian people" and committed suicide in prison.
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In 1937, during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, he was arrested as an "enemy of the Belarusian people" and committed suicide in prison.
He was the first head of a Soviet government in Belarus, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia.