Timeline Saturday 27 January 1940

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Saturday 27 January 1940

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Events on Saturday 27 January 1940 1

1894 – 1940 Isaac Babel (1894-1940) Died 27 January 1940, aged 45 Soviet writer of "Red Cavalry" and "Odessa Stories". The NKVD arrested him in 1939 on invented charges of espionage and shot him in Moscow after a brief trial.

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