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Fonte:O Grande Terror de Stalin - 1936-1937
Meanwhile, under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), the Soviet Union had begun the Great Terror.
The Soviet regime had always been ruthless toward those it defined as enemies—for example, peasants who resisted
collective agriculture (see 1930) — but now the unbridled power of the secret police was turned against the
leadership of the Soviet armed forces, and of the ruling party itself.
The process began in 1936, with the arrest, trial, and execution of “Old Bolsheviks” — men who had participated
in the 1917 Revolution. While arrests of Old Bolsheviks continued through 1937, other people also came under
suspicion.
Between 1937 and 1939 almost half the senior army commanders were executed, imprisoned, or fired.
Although the fate of the Soviet elite attracted most attention, Stalin’s reign of terror spread
through the entire population.
At least 680,000 people were killed during the Great Purge, and some historians believe the real
figure could even be closer to 2 million.
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