Mikhail Ivanovich Rodionov (; – 1 October 1950) was a

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statesman who, from 1946 to 1949, was the

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of the

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of the

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. He was purged during the

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. He created a proposal for a new state flag of the RSFSR, but it was rejected. It consisted of a traditional Russian tricolour flag with a hammer and sickle in the middle. Together with

Nikolai Voznesensky Nikolai Alekseevich Voznesensky (, – 1 October 1950) was a Soviet politician and economic planner who oversaw the running of Gosplan (the USSR's State Planning Committee) during the German–Soviet War of 1941–1945. A protégé of And ...

, he was sentenced to death in 1950 based on accusations of

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from the Soviet State budget for "unapproved business in Leningrad", which was labeled anti-Soviet treason, at the Leningrad Affair case. He was a close companion of

Alexei Kosygin Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (–18 December 1980) was a Soviet people, Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and, alongside General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, was one of its most ...

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