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Adoption of plans for the mass repressions against the "social base" of the potential aggressors, start of purging the "opposition" from the "elites". July 1937 - October 1938 Mass repressions against " kulaks ", "dangerous" ethnic minorities, family members of opposition members, military officers, Saboteurs in agriculture and industry.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a Soviet Army officer who became a prisoner for a decade in the Gulag system) presents in The Gulag Archipelago his view of the timeline of all the Leninist and Stalinist purges (1918–1956), in which the 1936–1938 purge may have been simply the one that got the most attention from people in a position to record its ...
The Great Purge ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new chief Lavrentiy Beria, started a new purge that initially hit the People's Commissariat of Ammunition, People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry, and People's Commissariat of Armaments. High-level officials admitted guilt ...
From August 1937 to October 1938, 353,513 people were arrested and 247,157 were shot in the national operations of NKVD. It is estimated that this would make up 34% of the total victims of the Great Purge. [4] Polish Operation of the NKVD ~111,091 killed [5] NKVD Order No. 00485; German Operation of the NKVD ~41,898 killed [6]
The first critical inquiry into the Great Purge outside the Soviet Union had been made as early as 1937 by the Dewey Commission, which published its findings in the form of a 422-page book entitled Not Guilty (this title referred to the people who had been charged with various crimes by Joseph Stalin's government and therefore purged); the Dewey Commission found them not guilty.
The two-season Purge series takes place in the years between Anarchy and The Purge: Election Year. The show’s first season follows a group of Americans on Purge Night 2027 as they struggle to ...
Category:Graphical timelines. Uploaded images of timelines {{Include timeline}}, an easy way of including editable template-based horizontal or vertical graphical timelines. mw:Extension:EasyTimeline, editable code-based timelines using Erik Zachte's extension for MediaWiki, <timeline>
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