8h 19min, jan 1, 1936 y - THE GREAT PURGE / THE GREAT TERROR After Stalin rose to power in the Soviet Union, he felt threatened by the Bolsheviks and Lenin’s former reign and decided to silence his enemies. During this period, he sentenced around a million “traitors” to death.
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