Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-08 | Page 3 | Communist Leader Commits Suicide

C COMMUNIST LEADER COMMITS SUICIDE MOSCOW July 8 The W-The IP The suicide of ot Nicolai former former for for- mer Important member of the Ukraine government and member of the he all powerful central committee of the he communist party of soviet Russia was announced toda today by the party central committee I The committee condemned nik's cowardly act and attributed it t to the fact that he fell into the hands of Ukrainian nal nationalistic counter revolutionaries who was 61 years old and andone andone andone one of the leaders of the older generation generation gen gen- erat on of bolsheviks was only lore re recently e removed from his post as commissar com com- nissar of education for tor the Ukraine for or man manifesting symptoms of rotten roUen liberalism toward elements ele ele- ments meats This however did not become become become be be- come publicly known until the announcement an an- of his suicide which took place yesterday probably in Khar Khar- kay kov cov where he made his home The announcement of death was carried by the principal newspapers within black borders 4