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  • Ordzhonikidze said about 60 people have been arrested in Georgia on suspicion of spying for Russia in the past six years.

    Georgia: Russia 'Spy Ring' Nabbed AP 2010

  • Ordzhonikidze said about 60 people have been arrested in Georgia on suspicion of spying for Russia in the past six years.

    Georgia: Russia 'Spy Ring' Nabbed AP 2010

  • Most of those functions had been transferred over the years to Lefortovo Prison to the east, as the KGB bureaucracy had grown, as all such bureaucracies grow, filling the vast building like an expanding balloon, as it claimed every room and corner until secretaries and file clerks occupied the (remodeled) spaces where Kamenev and Ordzhonikidze had been tortured under the eyes of Yagoda and Beriya.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

  • Ordzhonikidze, chairman Petrovsky of the Ukrainian Executive Committee, and others were publishing with the Mensheviks at Yakutsk a paper called The Social Democrat, in which they expounded the most vulgar and provincial sort of opportunism.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Trotsky accused Ordzhonikidze, Voroshilov and Kalinin of failing to understand the national question.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • I am against removing Stalin, and expelling Ordzhonikidze, and displacing Dzerzhinsky from the commissariat of transport.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • I have said before that Lenin, from his death-bed, was pre paring a blow at Stalin and his allies, Dzerzhinsky and Ordzhonikidze.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Lenin's offensive was directed not only against Stalin person ally, but against his entire staff, and, first of all, his assistants, Dzerzhinsky and Ordzhonikidze.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • As for Ordzhonikidze, Lenin wanted to expel him from the party for his ways of a governor-general.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • It turned out that Stalin had betrayed Lenin's confidence; in order to insure himself support in Georgia, acting behind Lenin's back and without the knowledge of the entire Central Committee, he had carried out, with the help of Ordzhonikidze and not without support from Dzerzhinsky, an organized coup d'dat there against the best section of the party, shielding himself falsely behind the authority of the Central Committee.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

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