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How did Ordzhonikidze die?

  • Shot himself

  • Natural causes

  • In a war

  • Assassinated

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Ordzhonikidze, a high-ranking Soviet official and close ally of Joseph Stalin, committed suicide by shooting himself. The exact reasons for his decision remain uncertain, but it is believed to be linked to political conflicts and tensions within the Soviet leadership during the Great Purge, a period of intense repression and persecution in the late 1930s.
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