Kote Tsintsadze

Kote Tsintsadze (Georgian კოტე ცინცაძე, * 1887, † 1930) was a Georgian Bolshevik. He was the first permanent head of the Georgian Cheka. Under Stalin, he was persecuted as a member of the "Left Opposition" in the CPSU.

Life

He became in 1904 a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia ( RSDLP ), the Bolshevik faction joined. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he worked closely with the revolutionary Kamo, served in the armed wing of the party, who had specialized in expropriation and robbery.

While he was going recklessly against the anti - Soviet opposition in Georgia, at the same time he advocated greater independence of Georgia against the Moscow center. In 1922 he was involved in a sharp dispute with Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze, where the temperate Georgian Communists a " Great Russian chauvinism " accused. Those accused Tsintsadze " nationalist deviations" before. He was removed from his offices in the same year. He was succeeded by EA Kwantaliani which faced the Soviet centralism compliant.

In 1923 he joined the Left Opposition against Stalin. He was expelled from the party in 1927 and arrested in 1928. He died in 1930 in prison of tuberculosis.