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The Great Purge of 1936–1938 in the Soviet Union can be roughly divided into four periods: [1] October 1936 - February 1937 Reforming the security organizations, adopting official plans for purging the elites. March 1937 - June 1937 Purging the Elites; The higher powers then started to cut off heads of the poor.
Official figures put the total number of documentable executions during the years 1937 and 1938 at 681,692, [172] [173] in addition to 116,000 deaths in the Gulag, [1] and 2,000 unofficially killed in non-article 58 shootings; [1] whereas the total estimate of deaths brought about by Soviet repression during the Great Purge ranges from 950,000 ...
Joseph Stalin's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list includes some of the most prominent victims along with the date of their deaths. Except where otherwise stated, the date is that on which the individual was executed by shooting.
Timeline of the Great Purge; V. Vinnytsia massacre This page was last edited on 16 November 2024, at 09:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
1 September - Valery Legasov, Russian chemist (d. 1988) 21 September - Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (d. 2019) 8 October - Leonid Kuravlyov, Russian actor (d. 2022) 30 October Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005) Margarita Voites, Estonian soprano (d. 2024)
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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 ...
Red Army Soldiers watching a parade on May 1, 1936, at the Beginning of the Great Purge. As this process unfolded, Stalin consolidated near-absolute power by destroying the potential opposition. In 1936–1938, about three quarters of a million Soviets were executed, and more than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in harsh labour ...