Yevgeny Savvich Ptukhin

Yevgeny Savvich Ptukhin was a Soviet Air Force officer who held a variety of commands during the Russian Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Winter War before his downfall shortly after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Arrested along with many other veterans of the Spanish Civil War on fabricated charges of being in an anti-Soviet conspiracy, he was eventually declared guilty of treason and shot without trial on orders of Lavrenty Beria in February 1942. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1954.