The Great Terror (1 ene 1934 año – 1 ene 1938 año)
Descripción:
- Consolidate power
- Enforce Party discipline
- Created a series of PURGES to remove his
enemies and any opposition
- Period of SHOW TRIALS, arrests and interrogation, police surveillance and executions
- Show trials got rid of political opponents such as Kamenev, Zinoviev and Bukharin
- Many confessed to crimes they did not commit and executed after being tortured or family threatened
- Secret Police forced people to inform on their friends and family
- Many were killed/arrested/sent to labour camps (GULAGS) where they died from poor conditions
By 1937, around 40 million people have died
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fecha:
1 ene 1934 año
1 ene 1938 año
~ 4 years