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The Great Terror 1937-1938 (Targets (Red army members (50% of the officer…
The Great Terror 1937-1938
Joseph Stalin
paranoia
mental illness
actions
irrationla
extreme
completely lost control
NKVD bosses
never attended the torture sessions or executions
Signed 357 lists in 1936 and 1938 to authorize executions
90% were shot
7.4% of those legally executed
Punishments
Denunciations
Expulsions
Trials
Executions
Gulags
over a million people sent there
NKVD interrogations
Targets
Political opponents
People who plotted with Trotsky
Kulaks
Red army members
50% of the officer corps
Some of the commanders
Ethnic minorities
Engineers & other industrial workers
The Fifth Column (enemy of the peole
Who was not the most important factor, but a certain number of people had to be killed
The Trial of the Seventeen
1937
17 communist leaders accused of plotting with Trotsky
Accused of:
Terrorist activities
Assassinations
Sabotage
Spying
13 leaders sentenced to death
The Trial of the Twenty-One
1938
The last and the biggest trial
18 were shot to death
21 communist leaders accused of a Trotskyist-Rightist Bloc
Foreign contribution
Germany
Hitler
Military re-armed
Nazis
Nazification
Threat to the Soviet Union
Consequences
Millions of people died (amount debatable)
Spirit of the people broken
Made people "loyal" to the state (terrified in reality)
Eliminated entire groups of citizens
Intellectuals, artists
Head of NKVD Yezhov relieved form his post
Purges continued until Stalin´s death in 1953