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Kameneva quickly lost her influence after Kamenev and Trotsky's defeat at the Communist Party Congress in December 1927. On 27 July 1935, the [[NKVD]] (Soviet secret police) Special Board banned her from [[Moscow]] and [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] for 5 years in connection with the [[Kremlin Case]].<ref>Conquest, Robert, op. cit., pg. 78.</ref> After Lev Kamenev's [[show trial]] and execution on 25 August 1936, she was arrested and imprisoned. Her former husband Kamenev was [[Moscow Trials|found guilty at trial]] and executed by firing squad on 25 August 1936. Her younger son, Yuri Lvovich Kamenev, was executed on 30 January 1938 at the age of 17. Her older son, Air Force officer Alexander Lvovich Kamenev, was executed on 15 July 1939 at the age of 33. Her famous brother Leon was attacked in Mexico City on 20 August 1940 and died the next day.
In 1941, she was in [[Oryol Prison]]. Olga Kameneva was shot on 11 September 1941 in the Medvedev forest outside [[Oryol|Orel]] together with [[Christian Rakovsky]], [[Maria Spiridonova]] and 160 other prominent political prisoners in the [[Medvedev Forest massacre]].<ref>Parrish, Michael; ''The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939-1953''; [https://books.google.com/books?id=NDgv5ognePgC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69 Chapter 3 The Orel Massacres, the Killings of Senior Military Officers]; p.69;Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996</ref> This execution was one of the many [[NKVD prisoner massacres
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