Who murdered Leontovych?
A local thief
A jealous competitor
A Soviet agent
An unknown assailant
Answer
A Soviet agent murdered Leontovych, a Ukrainian composer and conductor, in 1937. He was one of many victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, a period of political repression in the Soviet Union. Leontovych was accused of being a Ukrainian nationalist and was executed without trial.
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