 When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to recant his policies in a show trial.He also was the Head of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat, the post of the today's Prime-Minister.Skrypnyk was born in the village Yasynuvata of Bakhmut uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire in family of a railway serviceman.