1. Akmal Ikramov was arrested and executed in 1938 as part of the Great Purge during the Stalin era.
11 Facts About Akmal Ikramov
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Meanwhile, Akmal Ikramov became involved in a power struggle among the Communists between those favoring a Pan-Turkist government like Turar Ryskulov, and those in favor of dividing the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic into smaller ethnic or regional units, such as Fayzulla Khodzhayev and Akmal Ikramov.
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Akmal Ikramov was the first ethnic Uzbek in this office, which he held until 1937.
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Akmal Ikramov led the forced introduction of collectivised agriculture in Uzbekistan, in line with the policy set in Moscow by Joseph Stalin, and implemented a decision to make Uzbekistan the main source of cotton in the USSR.
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Akmal Ikramov bore the most responsibility for designing the specifics of the design of anti-Islamic actions during the first five-year plan.
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In February 1937, near the start of the Great Purge, Akmal Ikramov took part in a plenum of the Central Committee which determined the fate of two leading Bolsheviks, Nikolai Bukharin and Alexei Rykov, who had led the opposition to forced collectivisation.
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Akmal Ikramov denounced them as "renegades", accused them of leading an "uprising against the party, against soviet power" and called for them to be put on trial.
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In March 1938, Akmal Ikramov was a defendant in the last of the great Moscow show trials, alongside Bukharin and Rykov, whom he had denounced as renegades a year earlier, and his old rivals Zelensky and Khodzhayev.
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Akmal Ikramov 'confessed' to having been a Trotskyite since 1923, a leader since 1928 of a secret nationalist movement plotting independence for Uzbekistan, and to having been recruited by Bukharin to the 'right opposition' in 1933.
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Akmal Ikramov 'confessed' that the waste that resulted from over ambitious targets for cotton production and uncompleted construction work had been sabotage, and that he was a British spy.
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Akmal Ikramov was the first defendant from any of the Stalinist show trials to be rehabilitated.