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Purges Stuff
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NKVD
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Informant were used: children were encouraged to denounce their parents. and neighbours informed on each other
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Show trials and Gulag
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12 million died from cold, hunger and ill treatment
People feared being sent to them almost as much as being shot. One such camp employed 250k prisoners building the Belomor Canal to link the White Sea to the Baltic
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There were Women and children camps. USSR needed millions of people to work on the 5 year plans.. Secret Police set up a network of labour camps across the USSR, organised by a government department called Gulag.
Work of Yezhov
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On April 29th, 1933 he was named a member of the newly made central Purge Commission which conducted bloodless purge that ejected more than a million members from the party. September 26th 1936 he became chief of NKVD
In these roles he perpetrated the grand excesses known as the Yezovshchina, cruel elimination/repression of Stalin's alleged en ememies in the Great Purge. From party leaders to general population
By Summer 19387, Yezhov became the object of Stalin's suspicions. In December Beria replaced huim as the head of NKVD and Yezhov was arrested in April 1939. During Interrogation, he denounced lots of family members and others and 100's were killed in the purge. In February 1940, Yezhov became a victim of the trial he helped to create
Purge of the people.
Operation odrer 00447 provided a list of 250,000 people to be arrested.
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