Who pardoned Vavilov's death sentence retroactively?
Leonid Brezhnev
Alexei Kosygin
Boris Yeltsin
Nikita Khrushchev
Answer
Vavilov was sentenced to death by Joseph Stalin in 1942, and died in prison in 1943. In 1961, Nikita Khrushchev, who had succeeded Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union, posthumously pardoned Vavilov's death sentence.
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