Maxim Stepanov dating history

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Maxim Osipovich Stepanov (August 1893 – 25 September 1945) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought for the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war. He received the Order of the Red Banner twice (1920, 1922). During the Great Purge, Stepanov's colleague division commissar Peter Maximovich Feldman (standing to his left in the group photo behind Alexander Yegorov) was executed on August 22, 1938. On November 28, 1938, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made the decision to dismiss Stepanov from the military, which was carried out the next day. He was arrested on December 9, 1938. He initially pleaded guilty to the charges he was accused of, but then withdrew his plea. He was convicted on May 31, 1939 and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He survived the Great Patriotic War, but did not participate in it. He died shortly after the end of the Soviet–Japanese War of 1945 in a prison camp in Arkhangelsk Oblast. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was posthumously rehabilitated on June 30, 1956.