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Stalin's great purge | The great terror (1932-1940)

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army. This was done through three show trials ...
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From Okhrana to KGB, how the Soviet secret police became a machine of terror and control

This episode traces the Soviet secret police from the Tsarist Okhrana to the Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, and finally the KGB, showing how a security apparatus evolved into a system built on surveillance, ...
Proto Thema

Stalin, the inhuman conditions of the Gulags and the incredible incident in the refugee Community of Kostas Loules in Florika (photos)

According to Golfo Alexopoulos and new evidence, the essential purpose of the Gulags was violent human exploitation. The system of exploitation during Stalin’s years was unchanging, punitive, and ...
Meduza

70 years ago, Khrushchev broke the USSR’s silence on Stalinism. Meduza explores what the ‘Secret Speech’ revealed about Soviet terror — and what it left unsaid.

On February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered what would become known as the “Secret Speech.” This ...