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Overall, national minorities targeted in these campaigns composed 36% [70] of the victims of the Great Purge, despite being only 1.6% [70] of the Soviet Union's population. 74% [70] of ethnic minorities arrested during the Great Purge were executed while those sentenced during the Kulak Operation had only a 50% chance of being executed, [70 ...
'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 ...
Purges of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union (Russian: "Чистка партийных рядов", chistka partiynykh ryadov, "cleansing of the party ranks") were Soviet political events, especially during the 1920s, [1] in which periodic reviews of members of the Communist Party were conducted by other members and the security organs to get rid of "undesirables". [2]
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 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.
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).
The Vinnytsia massacre was the mass execution of between 9,000 and 11,000 people in the Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD during the Great Purge in 1937–1938, which Nazi Germany discovered during its occupation of Ukraine in 1943. [3]
The constitution was presented as a personal triumph for Stalin, who on this occasion was described by Pravda as "genius of the new world, the wisest man of the epoch, the great leader of communism". [11] According to J. Arch Getty, "Many who lauded Stalin's Soviet Union as the most democratic country on earth lived to regret their words.