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ON AUGUST 21, 1937, the Soviet plenipotentiary representative (ambassador) to China, Dmitry Bogomolov, and the foreign minister of the Republic of China, Wang Chonghui,1 signed the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in a ceremony in Nanjing (Nanking). The pact was a great achievement for Soviet diplomacy. However, at the beginning of October, Bogomolov was recalled to Moscow and arrested. He was falsely charged with Trotskyism and "participation in an anti-Soviet terrorist organization." On May 7, 1938, he was executed.
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