first commanders of the cavalry corps. but a year later, on a false denunciation, he was taken to zhirnov's repressions, he got into the terror machine, and it seemed that he was doomed. in the thirty -seventh year, he was unexpectedly arrested and spent several years in prison, where they tried to get rid of him in every possible way. rakosovsky was brutally tortured, the head of the leningrad nkvd department, leonid zakovsky, took part in his interrogations, whose motto was the phrase: "we must destroy the enemy to the end, and we will destroy him." the trial was postponed because that all the witnesses who gave any testimony against him, according to the investigation, were dead by that time. in the end, in the end, he was released and... he was fully reinstated in all his ranks, he was treated for quite a long time, because during his imprisonment he was subjected to torture and physical abuse. during interrogations, rakosovsky had several of his front teeth knocked out, three ribs broken, his toes were hit with a hammer, his...