Plotkin, Semyon Grigorievich

The party career of Semyon Plotkin developed unevenly. He was expelled from the party, checking the signal of his previous membership in the Komsomol - Trotskyists , but then restored again. In 1935, he was punished by “severe reprimand with the last warning” “for dulling class vigilance” due to the fact that a certain Grigory Schneider worked for six months in the city executive committee as technical secretary for someone else's party card ^[1] .

However, in 1936, Simon Plotkin was elected chairman of the Melitopol City Executive Committee. But already in 1937 he was removed from office ^[2] .

Plotkin was accused of embezzlement of public funds for the repair of apartments of enemies of the people and his own, failure to prepare for elections to the Supreme Soviet , ignoring the defense of the mass work in the city, cultivating bootstraps and accepting as a present "ever-writing pens and ink devices." In late December 1937, Plotkin was expelled from the party, and in February 1938 sentenced to 3 years in prison.

Soon, the Plotkin case was reviewed, and the sentence was commuted to a year of forced labor. Plotkin was reinstated in the party, but he was issued a new severe reprimand, which was later probably removed.

Freed from prison, Plotkin became deputy director of the plant to them. Thieves. In the summer of 1941, he organized the evacuation of the plant, and then went to the front.

March 8, 1942 he died in battle. According to the memoirs of M. P. Gorsky, this happened near Rostov-on-Don , where S. G. Plotkin commanded a tank company ^[1] .

• Kumok V.N., Volovnik S.V. Jews of Melitopol. - Melitopol: Ed. MGT House, 2012. - T. 1. - S. 336-337.