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Purges (part 2) 1934-38
- The NKVD
- Yezhov
- Highly regarded and powerful
- Stalin's 'right-hand man'
- Stalin's 'right-hand man'
- Shot for treason- knew too
much about Stalin and too
powerful
- Highly regarded and powerful
- Secret State Police
- Killed millions of people
- Most in Ezhovschina- great purge
- Most in Ezhovschina- great purge
- Tortured and threatened
accused for fake
confessions in show trials
- Yezhov
- The Gulags
- 1937: 18 million in labour camps
- Stayed there before being shot
- Important source of
labour: gold, timber, new
railways, new cities
- Worked in 5-year plans
- Worked in 5-year plans
- Very low life expectancy
- 1937: 18 million in labour camps
- End of the terror
- April 1939: Ezhov (mastermind of
purges) was arrested for treason
- 1940: shot
- 1940: shot
- Waves of arrests and executions soon stopped
- Quotas for arrests abandoned
- Thousands released from Gulags
- Had to focus more on WW2 now
- April 1939: Ezhov (mastermind of
purges) was arrested for treason
- Impacts of the purges
- Stalin gained total control over USSR
- Stalin's opponents were removed
- Terror and fear were common
(NKVD tortured people)
- Weakened army- bad for WW2
- Less population
- Stalin gained total control over USSR
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