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Events on Wednesday 2 March 1938 1
1938Trial of the Twenty-OneThe third Moscow show trialNikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda and eighteen other defendants were tried on invented charges of treason and conspiracy. Almost all were sentenced to death and shot. It was the last of the great Moscow show trials.