https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_famine_of_1931%E2%80%931933
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipp_Goloshchyokin
>Unlike most prominent Old Bolsheviks, he survived the Great Purge unscathed for as long as Nikolai Yezhov was the head of the NKVD; but when Yezhov was arrested in 1939, he made a detailed confession to his interrogators, including the information that he had lived in Goloshchyokin's apartment in Kzyl-Orda, then the capital of the Kazakh ASSR, in the latter half of 1925, and that during those months, they were homosexual lovers.
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