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re: Biden Regime Steps Up Persecution of J6 Protesters Ahead of Trump’s Return
Posted on 5/9/24 at 10:07 am to WPBTiger
Posted on 5/9/24 at 10:07 am to WPBTiger
10 Facts -- Stalin’s Great Purge: Over A Million Detained, More Than Half A Million Killed
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The Great Purge [ as a result of the Communist Revolution c.1917] officially lasted from 1936 to 1938, but its after-effects included such actions as the mass murders of political prisoners by the Soviet secret political police, the NKVD, in 1941..
....The Purge ...served to cause fear [and terror] among the population and break the will of anyone who posed a potential threat to Stalin’s leadership..The paranoid power hungry dictator often used false accusations, forged documents, and extorted confessions in order to achieve ultimate rule.. .
10. The Numbers
...An estimated death toll was hard to determine, for in those times people simply disappeared and the NKVD covered their tracks well...
9. The Targets
Stalin often used terms such as “saboteurs”, “subversives”, “fifth column”, “enemy of the people”, “reactionary” and “counter-revolutionary”. All these words were enough to land a person in jail or get them killed.
...Stalin initiated this large-scale paranoia in which everyone represented a potential suspect (except him, of course)...
The Soviet secret political police [also] had its eyes on the rich peasants, academics, artists, and scientists.
8. The Moscow Trials
....It was more than obvious that the defendants were forced to confess under torture or threats to their family members. Three trials were held, and all three confirmed Stalin’s position as the one and only leader of the Soviet Union.
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