Leningrad Affair
{'<entity_0>': 'Leningrad Affair', '<entity_1>': 'Soviet Union', '<entity_2>': 'Leningrad'}
[['Leningrad Affair', 'country', 'Soviet Union'], ['Leningrad Affair', 'named after', 'Leningrad']]
The <entity_0>, or <entity_2> case (Russian: Ленинградское дело, Leningradskoje delo), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s–early 1950s by Joseph Stalin in order to accuse a number of prominent politicians and members of the Communist Party of the <entity_1> of treason and intention to create an anti-Soviet organisation based in <entity_2>. Moscow and <entity_2> were two competing power centers in the <entity_1>. In January 1949 Pyotr Popkov, Alexey Kuznetsov and Nikolai Voznesensky organised a <entity_2> Trade Fair to boost the post-war economy and support the survivors of the Siege of <entity_2> with goods and services from other regions of the <entity_1>. The fair was attacked by official Soviet propaganda, and was falsely portrayed as a scheme to use the federal budget from Moscow for business development in <entity_2>, although the budget and economics of such a trade fair were normal and legitimate and approved by State Planning Commission and the government of the <entity_1>.
['affair', 'political scandal']