Witness History: Witness Archive 2016 - Executed for Being Too Capitalist

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In 1961, in Kirghizia, in Soviet Central Asia, 21 managers and senior officials were executed for "serious economic crimes", after they introduced capitalist production methods. Dina Newman reports.

Photo: Russian shoppers queue at the GUM department store in Moscow, circa 1960; photo by Richard Harrington/Getty Images.

Published on Thursday, 14th April 2016.

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