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Terentii Shtykov
Terentii Shtykov (1907–1964) was a Soviet colonel general and party official who directed the Soviet occupation of northern Korea from 1945. As the senior political officer of the occupying forces he supervised the Soviet Civil Administration, the rise of Kim Il Sung and the building of a communist state. He became the first Soviet ambassador to North Korea in 1948 and was involved in the preparations for the invasion of the South in 1950.
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