In which trial was Kamenev a chief defendant in 1936?
Trial of the Twenty One
Moscow Trials
Trial of the Sixteen
None of the above
Answer
The Trial of the Sixteen was a series of show trials in the Soviet Union from January 19 to March 13, 1936. Kamenev was one of the chief defendants, along with Grigory Zinoviev, Karl Radek, and Nikolai Bukharin. The defendants were accused of treason and espionage, and they were all executed.
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