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According to Robert Conquest in his 1968 book The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, with respect to the trials of former leaders, some Western observers were unintentionally or intentionally ignorant of the fraudulent nature of the charges and evidence, notably Walter Duranty of The New York Times, a Russian speaker; the American ...
Order of the NKVD on Anti-Soviet Turkic-Tatarian Nationalist Organizations. The order states that terrorist nationalists took the leading positions in Azerbaijan, Crimea, Tatarstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan, and requires a step-up of arrests there June 11 Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization is heard by the Supreme ...
'About operation to repress former kulaks, criminals, and other anti-Soviet elements') was signed by Nikolai Yezhov and approved by the Politburo during the Great Purge. [1] To execute this order, numerous NKVD troikas were created on republican and various regional levels (krai and oblast). Investigation was to be performed by operative groups ...
Dig up and purge this Polish espionage mud in the future as well. Destroy it in the interest of the USSR.." [14] First page of one of the copies of the Order No. 00485, archived by the Kharkov branch of the NKVD. The "Order" adopted the simplified so-called "album procedure" (as it was called in NKVD circles).
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 Great Purge (Russian: Большой террор, transliterated Bolshoy terror, The Great Terror) was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in 1937–1938.
During the Great Purge, 1937–38, there was a directive to rid the Soviet lands of all those with outside (non-Soviet) ties or connections. Members of the Agro-Joint, as well as foreign colonies and national diasporas such as the settlements they established, fell squarely within those parameters. [ 14 ]
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.