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Start of the Kulak operation: mass arrests of those planned to be executed (so called 1st category). August 5 Instruction of the NKVD On implementation of Order 00447 in labor camps. Each camp received orders for the number of prisoners to be executed. The death sentences were to be proposed by the camp administrations and confirmed by NKVD ...
A distinctive feature of the Great Purge was that, for the first time, members of the ruling party were included on a massive scale as victims of the repression. In addition to ordinary citizens, prominent members of the Communist Party were also targets for the purges. [41] The purge of the Party was accompanied by the purge of the whole society.
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 ...
The geopolitical disposition of Europe in 1941, immediately before the start of Operation Barbarossa. The grey area represents Nazi Germany, its allies, and countries under its control. On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact in Moscow known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact . [ 64 ]
The Purge is an American anthology media franchise centered on a series of dystopian action horror films distributed by Universal Pictures and produced by Blumhouse Productions and Platinum Dunes, which are written and in some cases also directed by James DeMonaco, who was inspired by a Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Return of the Archons".
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 ...
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).
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