Zinoviev, Grigori Evseyevich (orig. Hirsch Apfelbaum; Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky)

1883 - Born in Russia; birth of the Russian Soviet politician and Communist revolutionary

1903 - joined Lenin in Switzerland

1905 - returned Russia during the Revolution

1908 - was imprisoned

1917 - became one of V. I.LENIN”S closet collaborators before the Bolshevik Revolution

- edited a number of communist newspapers

- returned to Russia with Lenin on the famous “Sealed train”

1919 - appointed as head grad of the Communist International (Comintern)

1920 - convened a congress of peoples of the East Baku and he urged delegates from various Asian countries to wage a “holy war” against British imperialism

1922 - allied with Stalin and Kamenev against Leon Trotsky but he disagreed with Stalin in ideologies so he got politically outflanked

1936 - was executed by Stalin with the false charge of organizing a “terrorist counterrevolutionary group allied with the Gestapo”